VO: It's the nation's favorite antiques experts, with £200 each, a classic car and a goal to scour Britain for antiques.

That hurts.

(SHE CHUCKLES) VO: The aim?

To make the biggest profit at auction, but it's no mean feat.

There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.

So much!

VO: So will it be the high road to glory or the slow road to disaster?

(SHE CHUCKLES) VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip!

Yeah!

It's the fourth leg of our Antiques Road Trip, with best of buddies David Barby and Margie Cooper in their open top 1979 Mercedes 350SL.

They've both done well so far, but with three victories in a row, David has some words of comfort for his rival.

DAVID (DB): Oh I'm sure you're going to be quite adventurous now you've got some money to spend.

MARGIE (MC): I'm gonna keep trying and I am gonna... keep hopeful.

(CHUCKLES) And I am going to burst into tears in a minute.

VO: David has a certain charm when it comes to buying.

That's the best bit.

VO: And uses it to full advantage.

MC: (LAUGHS) VO: Margie on the other hand prefers to laugh her way to a bargain.

I always laugh.

This is serious.

You're amazing, you know, absolutely amazing.

I know.

VO: Over the last three auctions, Margie has increased her spending power to a considerable £373.80 which is certainly not to be laughed at!

VO: David on the other hand has more than trebled his original £200 budget to an impressive £623.44 to spend on today's road trip.

DB: He-he-he.

I could afford to buy five objects at a hundred pounds each!

VO: The route for the week takes our intrepid travelers from Alnwick in Northumberland, down the North East coast and onto the final destination of Lincoln.

But today's trip begins in Sheffield and finishes at auction in Nottingham.

VO: Sheffield, home of the three S's: snooker, steel and... sunshine.

DB: Ooh, this looks exciting.

MC: On this glorious day.

DB: Oh there's The Emporium over there.

I'm fancying that one.

Which, The Emporium?

Yeah!

Am I allowed seeing as like I'm losing?

Well, lady's prerogative, isn't it really?

Best of luck.

See you later.

Mwah.

VO: Mwah!

The first stop for David is the Sheffield Antique Centre, where owner Danny is waiting.

DANNY: Hello, good morning, David.

My word, what a treasure trove.

VO: Word soon spreads among the dealers that David Barby is in the building and he's in demand with the ladies.

But who can resist the charms of the old fraud?

DB: Hello.

DEALER: Hello.

What have you got to show me then?

VO: Easy tiger!

Vanity Fair prints.

There is a set of three.

I can do you a good price if you are interested.

How... what is a good price?

Well, make me an offer.

They're marked up for £68.

Ah!

Where's the smelling salts?

That's not too bad, they're good stuff.

They're all the Spy section.

VO: Spy cartoons were drawn by portrait artist Sir Leslie Ward.

Between 1873 and 1911, he caricaturized over 1,300 popular public figures for the Vanity Fair magazine.

DB: They've got to be very, very, very, very reasonable.

I'll do them half price for you, seeing as how you're good looking.

You've spoken one truthful word, yes.

VO: Shameless!

I'll drop another tenner if you give us a kiss.

VO: Ooh.

You know you want to.

That brings it down to how much?

What were we on?

Say £60... That's £20.

Probably about £25 now.

£25... two kisses will reduce it to... £5.

Not that bloody good!

Right, so you're offering me these at about £18 aren't you?

I am really when you do the sums right, yes.

Remember the kisses...

They're a bonus by the way... not a punishment... £15.

Deal.

VO: Come on then, pucker up!

Two you said.

That's the best bit.

VO: Sealed with a kisses, a deal done at £15!

Oh gosh!

What have I done?

What have I done is what I'm worried about!

OK. Shall I continue looking whilst I am here?

VO: Cartoons and kisses under his belt, David is left wanting more... Well this is, erm... purports to be a charcoal drawing.

And this is the sort of image that you would have had drawn for Punch magazine by Gunning King.

I'm interested in that one.

I've bought the spy prints and I think that could go with the spy prints.

I have got cartoons of round about the same period.

That would have been Vanity Fair and that is probably Punch or some ecclesiastical magazine or something like that.

That's £23, it's a little on the top side, it's no frame and it's badly stained.

What's the best you'd do on that?

VO: Is that with or without more kisses, David?

£18 for you, sir.

DB: 18?

DANNY: Yes.

OK, so that's £18 and £15 on those.

Super.

Can I settle up in a... Do you want to take that down and I'll settle up down there?

Shall I settle up with you here now?

I have got to give you the money.

Penny, are you going to take the money for me?

There's five, 10 and that's £15.

Right, I think I ought to have those wrapped up.

David, crisis!

What?

As we put them back down again, one of the frames broke.

DEALER: Sorry.

DB: Oh!

I know, we were being so careful... DB: (SIGHS) What do you think?

Can you make some allowance please?

You've had kisses.

I know... Can you let me have the three at a tenner then?

Yeah, deal... Penny, money back.

Give the gentleman £5 back.

Thank you very much indeed.

Alright.

OK, I do appreciate that, thank you.

VO: Over at the Antiques Emporium, Margie isn't doing quite as well.

I haven't got a clue, it's not like going to fish shop and buying... shall I have plaice or haddock, is it?

You don't know what is... You can't say, "Today I'm going to buy "a silver Queen jug, Georgian."

You might not find it.

That's why it's so difficult... VO: Come on Margie, David manages!

MC: Oh he manages.

I will at the end of the day, but it's a little bit sort of... just a bit sort of trinkety here, a bit trinket.

That's a nice piece of furniture, it's a Georgian corner cupboard.

Very plain, very simple, probably round about 1760, 1780.

I think it's probably been altered with regards to shelves.

As you can see one shelf's been removed.

You see that?

So it has been altered in its time.

£145 for that one.

VO: Well, he won't want to pay THAT!

VO: Anything else?

DB: Not bad.

Oh, that's nice.

Have you just done that up?

I just brought that one in, yes.

What's that?

Ee... it's been restored on that corner hasn't it there?

It has, it's been split... And what's the price on that one?

£65?

45 to you.

VO: But David's noticed the table is a marriage - where two pieces of different furniture have been combined.

DB: How much did you say?

DEALER: £45.

That's a marriage.

DEALER: (CHUCKLES) 35.

DEALER: 40.

DB: 35.

Mm... go on then.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, thank you very much.

Right... ah!

I feel...

I'm shaking all over!

VO: What, at the thought of parting with some cash?

DB: Right, let's have a look at these corner cupboards now.

DEALER: I'll do that one for £75.

And that's your best on that?

Has to be £60.

It's got to be worth £60.

Missing shelf inside.

£55!

Got be about £55.

Got to be 50.

It's got to be 55.

50, sir.

I've already bought one object from you.

Go on then, cuz things are so bad I'll take it, yeah.

(CHUCKLES) Right, OK.

Thank you very much.

DEALER: Thank you.

DB: So I owe you how much?

Erm... eighty... DEALER: 85.

DB: £85 right.

Oh that's good.

I've bought three objects at this establishment so I'm quite happy.

VO: Margie hasn't been quite so lucky.

Empty-handed, she's itching to get into the Antiques Centre.

I think there's something going on down there, which means I can't go in the shop because he's bought something and they're trying to smuggle it out without me seeing it.

Panic stations.

Oh God.

Where is he, holding me up?

How are you getting on?

Hello, I'm fine.

MC: What's been going on?

DB: Well, it's...

I have been held up.

I haven't been able to come into this place.

Why not?

Because something's going on.

No!

I'm going on a visit now.

Have a lovely lunch.

See, he's getting out of it!

He's not telling me!

(CHUCKLES) MC: See you later!

DB: Bye-bye!

Have fun!

Bye.

Well that was a one-sided conversation, wasn't it?

He had no intention of telling me anything!

VO: Lagging behind, Margie makes a beeline for what she knows best - the silver.

There's some hatpins.

I like hatpins.

Now then... Ah.

Oh that's a Charles Horner, they're nice, very collectable.

VO: Charles Horner of Halifax made his fortune making thimbles in the 19th century, allowing him to invest in more decorative silverware such as hatpins.

I've been having a long root in your cupboard.

DEALER: Right.

MC: You've got some very nice things.

So, the dreaded... chat.

DEALER: How much have I got...?

MC: If I bought all three... Yeah.

You've got £30 on each - could you talk £70 for those?

I'm not making anything!

Oh dear.

£25 each is the bottom line.

Getting tough with me now?

Yeah.

I don't blame you.

So we're saying, £75, yes?

MC: For the three?

BOTH: Thank you very much.

MC: I'm going to pay you.

I'm going to put them down for a moment.

Go into my pocket.

Here we go, 20... VO: Once she starts spending, there's no stopping her!

And it doesn't take long before something else catches her eye.

Oh my goodness, what is that?

If that was refurbed, I could see that fetching really strong money.

MC: Really?

DEALER: I could, yeah.

MC: You do surprise me.

Well I think it's a definite future as they say.

MC: (LAUGHS) It definitely looks antique.

Yes.

It's got a fantastic look about it.

Yeah.

How much is it?

£25.

£25 and I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised.

MC: (LAUGHS) Oh gosh.

Well I must admit, I quite like it.

DEALER: (CHUCKLES) Oh God, I quite like those as well.

These are really interesting actually.

They were full of acetate diagrams and... of machinery.

MC: Yeah.

DEALER: And railway signs.

They're just boxes now?

They're just boxes.

Right, and I see those, I see the whole package at... (CHUCKLES) I always laugh.

This is serious.

I see the whole package at 65.

I can't, I just can't do it.

No.

£85 for the boxes and the fan.

VO: While Margie splashes the cash, David has jumped in the jalopy and is heading 30 miles to Buxton.

It's unbelievable, we've just left Sheffield and yet we're almost in the Peak District!

Beautiful countryside.

What a lovely spot isn't it really?

VO: David has traveled to the Buxton Museum to meet curator Ros Westwood, to find out all about the Douglas Collection, and the man behind it.

DB: Hello.

ROS: Hello I'm Ros.

Hello, David Barby.

I've come to see something rather special.

You've come here to something which isn't normally on show.

Oh right.

And, er... which is very popular and we're the only museum I think in the country with Houdini material.

Houdini material.

VO: Hungarian-born, but American-raised, Erik Weisz was a global phenomenon.

Better known as Harry Houdini, he became the greatest illusionist of the 20th century.

DB: And how did you get a hold of this?

It comes to us from Randolph and Hetty Douglas.

VO: Local lad Randolph Douglas loved locks!

The son of a silversmith, he had a fascination with the mechanics of keys, padlocks and escapology.

His life was to change at the age of nine years old, after meeting Houdini at the Sheffield Empire in 1904.

Randolph Douglas went to the stage door and said, "I think I know how your trick worked."

Oh really?

And Houdini thought, "Mm, better check this out..." And he went round to the house for supper... DB: Yes?

ROS: And...

He knew the trick.

Randolph had worked out the trick.

Goodness me.

And in honor of his hero, he called himself Randini.

It's said that if Houdini was playing in England, Douglas was behind stage.

VO: From that initial meeting, the pair became lifelong friends.

Houdini would send Douglas postcards and artifacts from all over the world which later formed his collection, now preserved in the vaults of the museum.

DB: Is this Houdini all... ROS: This is Houdini as a young man, but you can see... "Best wishes..." erm... "Your friend, Houdini."

And dated - 1920 that one is... DB: Oh that is lovely.

What an elegant guy.

ROS: He was quite a stunner.

DB: Yeah.

VO: Inspired by his handsome hero, Douglas would practice great tricks of his own, under the guise of his alter ego, The Great Randini.

ROS: This is Randini.

DB: Ooh.

ROS: 1913.

DB: That's him in a suitcase or box.

ROS: Turn it over... and try and read.

"Endurance test.

Remained in steel trunk "in upside-down position - three hours and 10 minutes.

"The only means of getting air "through the hinge gaps in the trunk," um... "rather cramped but no worse for my siege."

Imagine... three hours, 10 minutes just doing nothing.

(SHE CHUCKLES) Oh dear, I find that quite uncomfortable.

Not from the point of view of being in a trunk but being incarcerated in something like that.

Mm.

VO: Douglas designed many tricks of his own and whenever he met Houdini, they would exchange ideas.

But there was one in particular, Douglas created especially for the great illusionist.

ROS: On one occasion, Douglas invites Houdini back to the house and demonstrates the hanging upside down and getting out of a straitjacket trick.

Within two years Houdini has perfected that and is doing it on the bridges in America to rave crowds watching it.

DB: Oh, there he is upside down.

ROS: And this is the upside down trick on which... which is based on Randini's design.

DB: Ideas.

ROS: Ideas.

VO: Sadly Douglas never made it as a performer but he lived his dreams through Houdini and his collection of press cuttings.

ROS: And so the pages go on.

Until we get to a whole pile of blank pages.

And the blank pages go on and on and on, until all of a sudden you get the news, November 14th 1926... ..and the death of Houdini.

And you sort of... just that, those empty pages, you can feel Douglas getting real hit in the stomach at the loss of his friend.

But why the empty pages?

Probably because he had the cuttings... ..and he would have done it later, but then all of a sudden... ..the news comes through and those have to be put in first and he loses... You know, his friend has gone.

And you just sort of...

I always get very sad when I get to this and it's just four pages and that's it.

Ros, I don't really know what to say because... there's overwhelming sadness.

You've shown me two lives intertwined, Houdini and then his adoring fan, Randini, or Mr Douglas, and they're so close and such a relationship developed between the two of them that I feel it's so poignant.

And what's wonderful about any museum, and this particular, that they can come... people can come and study... look at the archives, and this is the beauty of a museum, that it educates.

Thank you very much indeed.

It's been absolutely fascinating.

VO: Back on the road, Margie has made a quick escape of her own to carry on shopping in Chesterfield.

Come on, Margie, last shop of day!

Chop chop, girl!

Ooh... IAN: Hello!

MC: Ian!

Hi, I'm Margie.

IAN: Hello, how are you?

MC: I'm very well indeed.

Right, it all looks very, very interesting.

Ah!

Aha-ha!

What are these?

Ah!

These look nice.

Four... silver... salts!

Normally you have a salt... a little salt spoon.

Everybody can have one can't they?

Rather than keep offering the salt pot around.

So they're £135, which is just a little bit... too much for me.

So what can you do for me?

Well I can do you those for 75.

Yeah, 75.

Right, bearing in mind.. To give you a chance.

Bearing in mind we've got to sell them at auction mighty quick.

Yes, exactly.

A teeny bit more?

Erm... 70?

I was thinking 65.

OK. Yeah go on.

Ah, that's fantastic.

Give you a chance.

That gives me a chance.

Thank you very much!

Right!

I'm going to pay you.

Lovely!

That's what I like to hear.

Pay you some money.

One, two, three, four... MC: That's 80 and no change... IAN: So you want, er, £15.

I do.

That makes all the difference to me.

That's, er...

Thank you very much.

MC: Oh thank you.

IAN: Thank you.

That's marvelous, terrific.

Shake hands.

Bye, thank you!

So David says I'm good at buying silver, well that's what I've done and I'm very pleased!

VO: Let's hope she's still smiling when it gets to auction.

Night-night you two.

VO: The sun is shining as our experts head out in their classic car for another day of vintage shopping.

So far, David has spent £113 on three lots - a set of Vanity Fair prints and a Punch cartoon, a George III oak table - well, sort of.

And a George III oak corner cupboard.

Which leaves him with £510.44 left to spend.

Margie, meanwhile, has spent £225 on four items - an early electric fan, a set of storage boxes, three Charles Horner hatpins, and a set of silver salt cellars - leaving her with £148.80 in hand.

It might be early in the day, but David is driving Margie to drink... at the Yew Tree Inn in Cauldon, one of the most unusual pubs in Staffordshire.

MC: OK David?

DB: Shall I come in for a pint?

No you will not, this is my visit, and you've got lots of shopping to do.

That's true, I must get my star buy.

And I'm sure you will.

Oh, look at the lovely yew tree.

Gorgeous.

That's why it's called the Yew Tree Inn.

Oh, yeah.

VO: Aw, goodness' sake.

This is a lively traditional pub, full of regulars, atmosphere, and, er, antiques.

Indeed there are curios here of all shapes and sizes, and they all belong to the landlord, Alan East.

ALAN: Hello.

MC: Alan.

ALAN: Nice to meet you.

I'm Margie, and I was told I was going to come to a pub with a bit of a difference.

A big difference, I suppose.

It is, isn't it?

Collecting people's rubbish they threw out years ago.

Really?

And how long has all this been... ?

Well, we've been here around the 51st year.

Good gracious me.

Which is quite a long time for a publican nowadays.

Yeah.

VO: The pub is a living museum with exhibits you can play, touch, and even sit on.

Alan's collection contains everything from Queen Victoria's stockings to an antique dog carrier - but he has a particular love of all things clockwork, including a polyphon.

So what is a polyphon, then?

Well, it's a disk machine.

They called them polyphon but the second one is a symphonion.

Right, oh... And the third one is a Lochmann.

So what's the difference?

Not a lot, just a different firm that made them.

They are works of art, aren't they?

Yes, and made in Leipzig in Germany.

I'll drop a coin in this one, and then we'll give you an idea what they sound like.

Still in working order?

Yeah.

(MUSIC PLAYS) VO: At the end of the 19th century, these early jukeboxes were often found in train stations and amusement parks, but they didn't last long, with the advent of the smaller and more portable gramophone.

Is that... do you change your disks every now and then?

Oh yes, yes, yes, in the base, that's what the bins are for there.

Have you got faster ones?

Just one tune on one disk.

And it came with all these disks, did it?

Yes, some of them are for other machines, but... Amazing.

It's amazing how they do them, amazing.

You see these at auction, don't you?

Yeah, that's true, yeah.

But you've got enough!

Don't buy any more!

(CHUCKLES) VO: Yes, there's more than enough!

In fact over 20 clocks, 30 music boxes, and several gramophones.

But if you prefer more modern music, there's always one of Alan's four pianolas - a self-playing piano which runs on pedal power.

Go for it, Margie!

MC: I don't... ALAN: It's good exercise.

I don't play, you know.

(CHUCKLES) It's good exercise for your feet.

So right, is it the Beatles?

Just put your feet on the pedals.

Yeah.

And pedal away.

Right, get cracking.

(MUSIC PLAYS) Yeah!

VO: As Margie stops for a swift half, David is off for a leak...

I mean, to Leek.

It's his age, you know.

Look at that stunning view, that really is lovely.

VO: Only joking.

Following the Industrial Revolution, Leek became a major producer of textiles and silk.

Now many of the town's mills have been converted into flats, and even antiques shops - like this one.

Hello, David Barby.

Hello David, how are you?

Oh, I'm fine, and your name's...?

John.

John, pleased to meet you, John.

VO: Thanks, John.

This emporium covers 40,000 square feet - wow!

Better get a shift on, David!

Look at that barometer.

My colleague, Marge, she had one that she bought very, very cheap, and everybody thought it was going to make a profit, but it didn't, it failed.

..we go.

£25.

MC: Oh.

DB: You just lost £10, and that's not much.

I shouldn't have bought it, really.

I'm a bit disappointed.

JOHN: This is a nice barometer.

This one here's a beauty.

And in fact, there is a picture with that, I'll go and get it.

VO: So despite Margie's disaster, it seems David's warming to the barometer.

Right David, actually this came from the same house.

And I believe they came together.

Oh, I can see the association now.

The sailors and the anchor.

Yep.

Lovely, isn't it?

Nice oval mount.

Erm... And what's the price on that?

If you'd like to give me say £30 for the barometer, I'll throw the picture in, cuz I'd like to keep them together.

£30?

I've just looked at the face, and it's a paper face.

Oh, God!

25 for the two pieces, that's the best I can do.

Hm.

You've twisted my arm.

You've broken mine!

(THEY CHUCKLE) Oh dear.

With the clock ticking, David still needs to find that star buy.

Could it be here?

Hello.

It's David Barby, and you're... ?

Robert.

I have a limited time to find a bargain.

I'm sure you'll find one in there somewhere.

Are you gonna help me?

DEALER: I will.

DB: Come on then.

VO: Hot on David's heels, look who's rolled into town.

Wow!

What a massive place.

VO: Tick tock, Margie.

No time to hang about, darling!

Well this is quite an interesting piece of furniture, although it has been altered in its day.

It dates from probably the beginning of the 20th century, round about sort of 1910, 1915, before the First World War, and it smacks of a sort of style that we know as Vienna Secessionist, and this was a group of artists that broke away from the mainstream art style, which was art nouveau.

The one thing that worries me, very much, is that it's not in its original state.

Lot of brasswork.

Yeah, we've got one, two, three, four original sections missing, haven't we?

And they would have been projecting hooks there and there, and probably larger ones for hats, so that all is... a replacement, added lot, yeah, which would be for hats or coats and things.

It's wonderful what you can pick up at these French flea markets for 20 quid!

VO: Cheeky!

Old drain cover.

VO: Looks like Margie's found the... outdoors section.

That's... That's a genuine one.

He's had it a long time.

75 quid?

Ooh!

That weighs...

It's got that nice little fleurs de lys there... ..which has broken off there.

VO: These Victorian hoppers were part of a household guttering system.

I think I'll just have a word with that chap downstairs.

VO: Both decorative and functional, they would have funneled rainwater into the downpipes - interesting, hey?

MC: I just thought it was quite interesting.

That's lovely.

Yeah.

And a very faded ticket.

Is it?

Says...

The faded owner says... £40.

£40?

Is there another bit more... ?

Does 38 sound better?

Shall we go for 35?

No!

(THEY CHUCKLE) Oh, God, she's beating me up, I've got to... 35.

Fantastic.

Thanks mate, very much.

How much did you say?

275.

Is that your very best on that?

Your very best?

I'll strike a deal with you.

If it'll help you, I'll do it at 225.

Let's have a look at it from a distance there.

Pull it round.

It is a monster.

Could you do it at 200?

Give me a margin.

I'll go 210.

210.

£210.

We all have to take a gamble from time to time.

I know, I know, I know.

Alright, 210.

Oh my God, what have I done?

£210.

Every time I make a big, big purchase... ..it goes backside upwards!

(CHUCKLES) Backside up is the polite way of putting it.

Absolutely.

Oh my God, he's smiling too much!

Rob, thank you very much indeed.

Appreciate that.

David, thank you, sir.

OK. Let me settle up with you now.

Dear oh dear.

VO: Crikey, so David gets his star buy, but at £210, could it go... backside up?

..80, 200.

I haven't got a 10, have you got some change?

I'm sure I can fix you up with some.

DB: Dammit!

(LAUGHS) I'll go and get you a 10 for that.

Thank you very much, sir.

And thank you.

I'm sure you'll do well with it.

Oh!

VO: What's up, David?

Surely you haven't made a big Barby boo boo?

Ah, look who's here!

Have you done well, love?

You'll never guess what I've bought.

Really?

Did I miss something in there?

I think you did.

Tell me, what did you buy, what did you buy?

Well, you'll have to find out, won't you?

It's for me to know and you to find out!

VO: All shopped out, David and Margie finally get to see each other's items, and with the sun splitting the sky, they're meeting up on the roof.

I hope you don't mind me wearing this, but it's so hot, and my little bonce is burning.

DB: Oh, it really hurts.

MC: Very trendy.

DB: Is it really?

MC: It is, it's a new look.

Let's have a look then.

Right, OK, are you ready?

Oh, how interesting.

Are the blocks what you bought?

These had acetate diagrams in them.

Rolled up, you know, architectural, or engineering... Oh I know, I know.

So I just thought somebody might want to sort of put them in their house and have them as sort of like a table or something like that.

They're clever, they're clever.

How much did you pay for those?

I paid £60, which I thought was quite a lot.

Right, you've got such unusual things.

What I have seen already, the Charles Horner hatpins... Yeah, well these are nice, aren't they?

Yeah, how much did you pay for those?

I paid £25 each.

I think those are lovely.

Thank you.

Tell me, why did you buy the hoppers?

I love the one with the date on it.

Yeah, well, the chap was very nice, I bought that, £35.

Noticed the damage, he was a really nice chap and so he threw another one in as well.

I think that's most intriguing.

Is it my time to reveal now?

It is.

And you're going to scream, because you're going to see something there.

MC: Oh!

(THEY CHUCKLE) A barometer, you brave man!

I know, I know, I know.

Ah, I love your table.

That is so sweet.

There are certain problems with it, really.

I think that block has been taken from another piece of furniture, but what I like, it was so delicate.

It is.

DB: And for £35... MC: Oh, that's great ..it's a nice little table that somebody can buy, take it away, use as a wine table, cuz nothing's going to fall over the edge.

Good, like it.

VO: And talking of furniture, what's happened to David's star buy?

Follow me, follow me, careful as you go.

Right, stand here and look over there.

MC: What is it, a wash...?

DB: It's a hall stand.

A hall stand.

And how much?

Oh, that's it.

I paid 210 for it.

MC: Did you?

DB: Yeah.

I hope it pays up for you, dear.

DB: Well, £210... MC: Well, not too much.

(CHUCKLES) Maybe £20 or so.

VO: Come on Margie, spill the beans.

Tell us what you really think!

I'm really surprised at what he bought this time.

The table, that'll scrape a profit.

And as for his hall stand that he's so excited about, interesting item, but is that gonna make the money?

And he spent over £200 on it.

Bit of a worry for him I think.

So have I got a chance?

Maybe.

I've got some quirky items there.

I think she's chosen exceedingly well, and quite varied.

She bought those... what I thought rather uninteresting hatpins for £75, which was an absolute gift, and I can see those going for over £100.

Well, the things I'm worried about is my biggest expenditure, which is the Secessionist hall stand.

It was exciting to spend over £200.

Whether in fact I shall be excited at the auction, I don't know.

VO: It's been a busy old trip from Sheffield via Buxton, Chesterfield, Cauldon and Leek, and there's just one last jaunt - on to the auction in Nottingham.

DB: Hey do you realize, this is the last but one, it's our penultimate auction.

And it's going to be your day, Margie.

MC: Feeling a bit confident... DB: Are you really?

MC: Yeah, I am.

DB: Oh that's good.

VO: Today our experts are doing battle at Mellors & Kirk.

Let's see if auctioneer Nigel Kirk is as impressed with their items as they are!

It's a strange selection really.

Hmm.

Not a lot one can say about them because they're rather depressing, I think.

I think my least favorite item is the electric fan, which is really rather rusty and just horrid and I think it might only make five or 10 pounds.

The hallstand, it sort of has the look but doesn't quite get there.

Although the workmanship is good it's probably worth under £100 I'm afraid.

I think it could be summed up with the words "could do better".

VO: Oh dear!

Nigel's taking no prisoners then.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

David began today's road trip with a mighty £623.44 and has spent £348 on five lots, leaving him with a cash stash of £275.44.

Margie started out with £373.80 and has also bought five lots costing £260, leaving her with a reserve of £113.80.

(LOUD BANG) MC: Ooh!

DB: Here we are.

VO: Kicking off the auction, it's Margie's well seasoned Edwardian salt cellars.

At £50 for these please.

30?

30 I am bid, thank you.

30, five, five, 40.

40.

45, 45, 50.

£45.

Oh you are... Oh you are joking.

60.

£55 I sell.

Oh golly gee!

That is a shock.

VO: Forget the table salt, it's smelling salts that Margie needs after that loss.

Shall I lodge a complaint?

£10... oh.

VO: Can David do any better with his first item, the George III corner cupboard?

20.

20 I am bid.

£20 and five.

30?

30.

35.

NIGEL: £30 and I shall sell it.

DB: Oh!

35.

40?

£35.

That is so stupid.

Don't you think that that is ridiculous?

VO: Oh dear, a loss for David too.

That is terrible.

It is terrible.

That's 15.

Oh God.

Oh dear dear.

VO: So can Margie's silver hatpins hold it together?

I like these.

30 bid, thank you.

30, 40, 50, 50, 60, 60 for you?

60 in the corner.

70.

70 now.

80, 90.

£90, £80 rather, it's my bid, here at £80.

You're quite sure at the back at 80?

Well at least they made a profit.

VO: Hooray, the first profit.

£5 for Margie.

So... shall we have an early lunch?

(CHUCKLES) Don't worry, mine's next.

VO: Yep, the pressure is on David.

It's his oak barometer and sailor picture next.

£20 for it please.

20 I am bid, thank you at 20 and five, five.

30, 30, 35.

£30.

Five anywhere?

£30 all done.

That's good.

That's wiped out on the commission.

VO: Ha.

A small ray of sunshine and a small profit but not enough to get David out of the red!

Well you couldn't expect any more, could you?

What was it, 35?

No, 30!

Oh, is that all?!

MC: Yeah.

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: Next up for Margie, it's the pair of cast iron rain hoppers.

£30 for them please.

30, 30 I am bid here on the book.

30, 35.

40 for them?

40, 45, 50, 55, 60.

£60 against the room.

With me, the bid and selling on the book at £60.

That is good!

Actually made a profit!

VO: At last, she's broken the downward trend.

Hallelujah!

The dinner's on me.

MC: (CHUCKLES) A bag of chips each?

VO: David's prospects are looking sketchy - but can he boost his piggy bank with the cartoon collection?

£30 for these please.

30.

£20.

20 I am bid, thank you.

20, 25 madam, 30 sir?

30, 35, £30 only bid.

I can't believe this.

I can't believe this.

45.

50?

£45.

All done at £45.

492.

That was OK, wasn't it?

VO: At last, something for David to smile about - or maybe not.

That cartoon should have done 60 in its own right.

VO: Margie's storage boxes are up next but will they prove to be a draw in the quiet auction room?

£20 asked for them.

20, 30, 40, 40, 50 for them?

£40.

£50.

60.

£50 back of the room.

Selling, £50.

I only lost a tenner!

That's not as bad as you thought!

Oh thank you so much.

VO: What is going on?

Another loss.

Perhaps the boxes should have been consigned to the archive... Well it's over for me.

You could still be the winner... honestly.

VO: Come on, David, you've got some catching up to do... with the pretty little oak table.

£20 please.

20 I am bid, at 20, five, 30, 30, 35, 40, 45... VO: Oops seems to have cleared the auction room.

..back of the room, selling at £45.

Should have done better than that!

Yes, it should have done!

VO: With such small profits and so many losses, this auction could go either way for our experts.

MC: It's lean times today, isn't it?

DB: I do not have any hope.

VO: Can Margie's vintage fan create a stir?

£20 for it please.

20?

20 I am bid thank you.

20 and five, 30, 35, £30 in the front row.

Any more?

£30 I shall sell it.

Oh!

Another fiver, all we're capable of is fivers!

VO: Oh dear.

A cool response to the electric fan but every fiver helps!

It was hardly worth carrying it out of the shop - it weighs a ton!

VO: Now David's star buy - the oak hall stand.

£50 for it please.

50 I am bid.

At 50, 60, 70, 80, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150.

140... DB: Oh!

NIGEL: 150 for it?

Oh no!

£140.

Oh no!

VO: A gob-smacking loss on David's most expensive item, which can only mean one thing.

Congratulations!

You've won today.

MC: Sorry for your loss.

DB: But I'm still in the lead!

MC: (LAUGHS) Come on, I'll buy you a cup of tea.

I think you need to release all that tension as well.

VO: David started out with £623.44 but after auction costs he's made a loss of £106.10, decreasing his stash of cash to £517.34.

Margie started with £373.80 and after auction costs she's also made a loss... of £34.50, decreasing her spending power to £339.30.

Well, Margie, well done!

Well done, you've won an auction!

Yeah great!

How do you feel?

Well it was a funny old day, wasn't it?

It was, but don't you feel elated?

VO: She does, she does.

Margie finally claims her first victory.

Yippee!

But who will win at the final auction?

Yikes.

DB: ..which is in Lincoln!

Right... are you ready?

Yeah.

VO: Next time on the Antiques Road Trip, David lets the train take the strain.

That's the train leaving King Cross.

(HORN TOOTS) Ooh!

There we are!

VO: And Margie aims for a big finish... MC: I'm gonna run in first.

DB: I'm gonna get there... (THEY CHUCKLE) I'm first!

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