VOICEOVER (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts... Alright, fair enough.

It's a really cute subject.

VO: ..behind the wheel of a classic car.

NATASHA: Make it so.

MARGIE: Here we go.

VO: And a goal to scour Britain for antiques.

Frankly terrifying.

VO: The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction.

But it's no mean feat.

I've lost money!

VO: There'll be worthy winners... Get in there!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

Could have been worse.

VO: Will it be the high road to glory?

Ooh.

VO: Or the slow road to disaster?

Ugh!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip!

Ah-ha!

VO: Welcome to a sparkling new Road Trip.

Oh, yes.

Driving quite fast.

(HONKS HORN) VO: Whipping it up in the leafy lanes of Sussex we have a couple of sassy ladies with plenty of pizzazz.

Auctioneers and jewelry experts Catherine Southon and Izzie Balmer.

Two girls on tour, Izzie.

This is very exciting!

IZZIE: Girls on tour?

CATHERINE (CS): Girls on tour.

Our Road Trip is going to be spontaneous.

Yes.

Living life on the wild side.

CS: Absolutely.

IZZIE: Impulse shopping.

Impulse buying, absolutely.

VO: Ooh!

Hold on tight.

Here we go.

Izzie, from Derbyshire, has a lust for sparkling gems, and is just giddy for antiques.

Oh...!

It's... OK.

Better not lean back.

VO: While Surrey auctioneer and silver expert Catherine likes getting her hands dirty.

Cheap deal to be done.

There is a lot of dust.

Do you dye your hair?

Yes, can you tell?

Sorry, what is your natural color, then?

It's a very dull blonde, like a mousy blonde.

CS: So not red at all?

IZZIE: No.

This is really bizarre.

We're on a Road Trip, and I have never spoken to anyone about dying hair, like...

This is what happens when you put two women in a car.

I know.

But what a car!

VO: With £200 each, our glamorous girls have this nifty 1976 Alfa Romeo Spider to play with.

In lipstick red.

Nice!

CS: Let's think of some other famous girl partnerships.

Female duos.

There's got to be loads.

Thelma and Louise, obviously.

French and Saunders.

CS: Cagney and Lacey.

IZZIE: Who?

Cagney and Lacey.

You're far too young.

VO: Southon and Balmer has a nice ring to it.

They begin their adventure in Storrington, visiting the emporiums of the sunny south coast.

They will then head further southwest, scamper round the Cornish coast and finish their quest in Bristol.

Today, the experts are sending their lovely purchases to an auction in Broughton Astley, which is handy.

Ha!

Oh, Izzie, this is where I say goodbye!

Have fun!

Bye.

Have fun.

See you later.

I can't get out the car.

Pull it down.

Down?

No?

Try it again.

No, I... Oh, Izzie, just jump, dear.

Go on, out you go.

Really?

Yes.

You're very athletic.

Oh my goodness me.

I'm glad that's you.

Get the legs over.

Right.

Have a lovely day.

See you soon.

VO: Cor, she's nimble!

Nicely done, girl.

Now, let's get to that shop.

Hello.

Hello Izzie.

IZZIE: You must be Ian.

IAN: I am.

Lovely to meet you.

Welcome to Stable Antiques.

You have a beautiful shop here.

We've been here 27 years waiting for you to come in.

Charmer!

VO: Yeah, oldest line in the book, that.

Yes, until 1993, this place really was still a stable.

So, giddy-up.

Everyone's always looking for, like, the Chinese vase that's worth tens of thousands, millions of pounds.

This one here is called Famille Rose.

So that's this beautiful floral pattern with the green foliate design, and then you've got these pink Chinese roses in here.

And so this is a very, very common design.

So I won't be getting it.

But it's... it's always...

I mean, that's what everyone's always looking for.

So, it's out there.

I just need to find one.

VO: On that determined note, let's catch up with Catherine.

Just arrived in the nearby town of Arundel, where locals are known as Mullets, thanks to the fish in the river Arun.

Plus, there's Arundel Bridge Antiques, where our highly motivated expert is about to get to work.

Look at her go, such strides!

Such power, such confidence.

It's lovely and warm.

You could just get a little sofa and sit down and just look at the antiques.

VO: Now there's an idea.

Ha!

Right, OK. Shopping.

What are we going to buy?

VO: Well, it just so happens that dealer Brian, has a suggestion.

Oh, good morning.

What do you think?

A toilet!

Yes.

Oh, my goodness me.

Did people really have toilets like this in their bathroom?

I mean, I just can't even begin to think.

VO: It could make quite a quirky garden planter... CS: How heavy is it?

BRIAN: Not too bad.

VO: ..in the bog garden, perhaps.

You obviously work out.

No, I really don't.

I mean, I don't know.

What would this be?

1900, 19...

I'm talking like I know about the history of toilets.

I know nothing about toilets.

VO: I tell you, the person to talk to was Thomas Crapper.

He knew everything about 'em!

How much do you want to sell it for?

I've got 68 on it.

(SHE GASPS) Do you really think that this has genuine age as a toilet?

Yeah, I do.

I can't believe I'm looking at a toilet.

I do because it took me ages to clean it.

VO: It has a sort of odeur.

CS: What is the very best you could do on it?

I think 35 is my rock bottom.

CS: I like that - rock bottom.

VO: Yes.

Unfortunate turn of phrase, that.

30 quid, and that gives me a little bit of profit.

A tiny profit.

And I think you'll do very well on it.

Here I am shaking your hand on £30.

BRIAN: Congratulations.

CS: Thank you.

BRIAN: My pleasure.

CS: Thank you.

BRIAN: All the best.

CS: Right, follow you.

Do you want a hand?

No, no.

No, that's good.

I'm used to carrying toilets.

VO: So with one deal in the can... Ooh!

..let's get back to that Storrington stable, where Izzie's enlisted Ian in her search.

Do you know what I've just seen in here that I wouldn't mind a closer look at?

I'm not sure if it's a button or a brooch or what it is.

Hmm.

I think it's a reverse-painted intaglio, isn't it?

The intaglio being that they've carved the dog into the glass.

But, quite cheaply done, which is obviously reflected in the price.

But what I like is that he's a dog.

People like dogs.

And he's cheap.

I kind of want to find something... IAN: Dog corkscrew.

Corkscrews are popular, novelty corkscrews in particular.

I want him to be Black Forest, and he isn't.

IAN: No, he's not Black Forest.

He's a copy of a Black Forest.

Yeah.

I would have thought he was 1920s, 1930s.

Yeah, he probably is, isn't he?

VO: I think we're seeing a theme emerge.

IZZIE: Oh, what's this?

"Black Forest dog."

Is he now?

Black Forest items are mistakenly thought to be from Bavaria and Germany, but actually, they originated in Switzerland.

They use a very particular wood, which is very lightweight.

And usually you'll see animals depicted in them.

So it can be small items, it can be great big mantle clocks.

Ian, what do you reckon?

I don't think he's typical of what's Black Forest.

He's not, is he?

VO: So, which little doggie from the window will it be?

So, we've got our dog corkscrew.

I'm going to call him Doggo.

Mm-hm.

The dog brooch.

VO: Shall we call him Broochy?

And we've got the dog...thing.

Dog figure.

VO: Could be a dog at auction.

I'm quite liking the corkscrew, which maybe is a reflection of my love of wine as well.

Well, he's priced at £15.

Mm-hm.

Which is nice and cheap, isn't it, really?

But he's just got such a lovely little cute face.

And he's older than me, so that's ancient in my opinion.

I would like to pay you £15, please, for this corkscrew.

That's a deal.

Thank you very much.

VO: Jolly good.

Now, time to take Doggo for his very first walkies and return to Arundel.

Where Catherine, flushed with her first purchase, has something a bit more conventional in mind.

That's nice.

This is a rather nice pendant, sort of art nouveau, but I would say it's probably slightly later, maybe 1910, 1920s.

Enamel and silver, probably.

Let's check.

Yep, marked silver on the back.

There are makers' initials on that.

It looks like it's by Murrle Bennett, a very popular designer of enameled jewelry, 20th century.

VO: This could be interesting.

Murrle Bennett and Co were an exclusive art nouveau manufacturer.

CS: The enamel is lovely, it's not chipped at all.

It's perfect.

It's got £22 on.

Now, that, to me, seems quite reasonable.

VO: Yeah.

CS: They're quite nice as well.

Green earrings.

But are they glass or are they plastic?

If you put them...bite them, you can feel straight away that they're glass rather than the plastic, which would be almost like a slightly stickier, softer touch.

They probably date from the '30s, I think.

Anyway, they're quite attractive.

What do you think?

VO: Oh, they suit you, madam!

£38, please.

CS: I think I'm tempted to go and find out a little bit more on these.

The green crystal earrings and the Murrle Bennett pendant.

Better shut this.

VO: Time to talk to Jane, methinks.

What's the best price you can do on these?

That one I can do for 10.

OK. And these earrings, I can do for... 23.

So that's 33 altogether.

33.

Can we do 30 on both of them?

If I take them both?

JANE: Yeah.

CS: And a toilet?

And a toilet, yes.

VO: Yeah, that's it.

Making £60 in total.

And, so, with £140 left in the kitty and the loo in the front seat, she's off.

Not quite the antique I was looking for.

But it's different.

VO: Carefully how you go, Catherine.

You've got a valuable cargo.

Meanwhile, just a few miles away, although it feels an awful lot further...

In fact, it looks like Izzie's done a bit of time traveling.

IZZIE: Hello.

VO: Baa!

VO: Having made her way into the South Downs to Butser Ancient Farm, near Chalton.

Where they believe that only by actually living as our ancestors did can we hope to understand more about them.

Archaeologist Claire Walton explains.

CLAIRE: Everything on this site is really an attempt to explore the past through what we call experimental archaeology.

So that means trying to reconstruct buildings, for example, based on archaeological evidence, or looking at things we found like tools and recreating those tools and trying to use them.

Or looking at evidence of weaving and trying to recreate clothes, anything to do with daily life.

VO: Conventional archaeology gathers evidence which is, of course, incomplete, fragmentary.

Butser was established almost 50 years ago by Dr Peter Reynolds, a pioneer in experimental archaeology.

He used this site as a vast open-air laboratory to better understand the remote past of the iron age.

CLAIRE: One of the big mysteries in the iron age was all these bell-shaped pits that archaeologists found.

And Peter Reynolds was able to definitively solve this mystery by demonstrating that these bell-shaped pits were for storing grain.

VO: The only way to prove this theory was for Dr Reynolds to build the pits and store the grain here at Butser.

CLAIRE: They would have been keeping that in a pit sealed with clay over the winter, and the following year you'd be able to get it out and it hadn't rotted away.

It had remained in an anaerobic state inside that pit and you could use it to sow your crops the following year.

That's cool.

VO: So successful has been the work done at Butser that the site is now open to the public.

But if you visit, do be prepared to have your assumptions about the lives of our ancestors undermined.

People assume that because we have chimneys in houses now, that there must need to be a hole for the smoke and the sparks to go out of.

But actually we've shown at Butser that if you have a hole, the roof goes on fire because so much oxygen is drawn through the building that the sparks from the fire set fire to the roof.

So when you put a cap on the roof so you have no hole, we know the smoke must go somewhere and the smoke can drift through the small cracks in the thatch.

So we're pretty confident that you didn't need a hole in the roof.

VO: Well!

One of the many trials here is discovering just how the ancient Britons went about insulating their home.

CLAIRE: This is one of my favorite activities here, it's called daubing.

It's the process of applying a mixture to the walls.

It's like ancient plaster.

And the key ingredients of this daub mixture are soil, water, and then you also need a nice binding agent like some chopped straw.

Uh-huh.

And then the key, and my favorite ingredient, is the cow poo that we need to put in here because it's lovely and it makes it all stretchy and sticky.

VO: The go-to tool for all this is a cow's shoulder blade.

If I pour some water in here.

Yep.

You can mix with that scapula.

And if I also add some chopped straw, then we can mix it all in.

So what... What does the straw do?

That's binding it?

It kind of binds it and holds it all together.

I have a feeling I'm going to be getting my hands dirty, aren't I?

I better take my rings off, then, in preparation.

You've not bothered with yours, have you?

No.

But I've had many years of doing this.

I've given up.

VO: Looks like fun.

It feels really nice.

OK. No it doesn't.

(BOTH LAUGH) It feels cold and wet and slimy.

Have you got a nail brush?

(BOTH LAUGH) It takes more than a nail brush to get rid of it.

No!

CLAIRE: We've found evidence of child-sized lumps of daub in the archaeology, so I think it's a task for all the family.

IZZIE: It's actually quite fun.

I'm going to go so far as to say it's addictive, and you'll find it hard to stop once you get going.

Sticking my hands in poo?

Yes.

Who'd have thought?

Who'd have thought?

VO: Oh, nice shot.

He-he!

For nearly 50 years, Butser has conducted continuous archaeological experiments, and in so doing has made a major contribution to our understanding of the iron age.

Not bad, eh?

Right, let's see what Catherine thinks of her shiny new antiques buddy.

We're going to have so much fun together.

I fear we may be giggling a lot.

VO: She's not talking to the loo, is she?

No.

It's Catherine's last chance today to snap up some antique brilliance.

She's zipping over to the fishing village of Emsworth in East Hampshire.

Lovely.

Ahoy, Chalcrafts Antiques!

Our Catherine is on the mooch for some shiny treasure.

At least that door works!

And owner Martin, get ready, here she comes.

CS: Lovely little shop!

MARTIN: Very small.

Very small, but perfectly formed!

That's right, exactly.

CS: Wonderful.

MARTIN: We do pack a lot in.

VO: It may be bijou, but it's stuffed to the brim with all sorts.

And with £140 in her purse, she's got money to splash!

After being sort of running round and sort of being quite stressed in the last shop, I feel sort of quite calm.

VO: Glad you're feeling so zen, Catherine.

I wonder what will tickle her fancy in here.

CS: I'm looking at this, the terracotta jug.

MARTIN: Yes.

It's a nice, crusty original... CS: Really crusty!

MARTIN: ..terracotta pot.

Really dirty.

Ugh.

Really dirty.

Filthy.

MARTIN: With free spiders.

I thought that was, yeah, free spiders.

I thought that was a worm inside there as well.

I mean, it's really hard to date something like this, isn't it, that's really weathered?

It is, yeah, yeah.

I would say that it probably dates to, what, 1900, 1910?

I would have thought so.

I'm going to have to put it down because it is too heavy for me.

It'd look quite nice in a garden.

It would.

I wouldn't touch it.

I wouldn't scrub it up.

No, no, leave it exactly as it is.

Just leave it as is.

With some nice geraniums or something in it.

That's a nice...nice piece.

How much is the jug?

It's got 28 on that.

I could do that, if you don't want any more off, 20.

20?

OK.

I think there's a good chance with that.

VO: Anything else?

CS: Historically, I haven't done that well with inkwells, but I do think that this is actually quite a nice example.

Hexagonal in shape, and just really quite nice and heavy.

It's got a good weight to it.

It hasn't got its sort of innards, which I'm sure it once would have had.

The hinge is working quite well.

There's a tiny little nibble on it.

He's put what, 1880?

Yeah, that's probably about right.

Could this be 20?

MARTIN: Yes.

OK, I'm going to go for this.

Good.

And I'm going to take your lovely terracotta jug as well.

VO: £20 each for the hulking big terracotta jug and the weighty Victorian inkwell.

Next time I'm going to buy something light!

Good idea.

Thanks, Martin.

Bye bye.

Bye.

Bye.

VO: Shopping over for today, Catherine and Izzie are reunited and headed for some much-needed R and R. Standby, girl talk!

It's just nice to have somebody here to talk about proper things, and not a man going, "Meh, meh, you're not in first gear, you need to go in second gear!"

And you know, let's just enjoy it!

Do you want some lippy?

(BOTH LAUGH) VO: Nighty night.

VO: Wakey-wakey!

It's a glorious new day.

Nice shot.

Nice car!

I absolutely love, love, love the car!

It's a she.

She drives beautifully.

VO: OK, Izzie is up and at 'em!

But where's Catherine?

No?!

Ha-ha!

(HONKS HORN) Ah, hello!

Hello!

Izzie, you look the business in that car.

Thanks!

Ah!

Catherine, I've got breakfast!

Oh, amazing.

VO: Oh, nice.

I'll have a boiled egg, please, and soldiers, with some Marmite.

As long as it's not one of theirs!

Ha!

What do you think about the new wheels?

I love the car!

No, not the car.

Oh!

Look at mine!

I didn't even notice.

You didn't even notice!

VO: It's not exactly small, Izzie.

Gold star for taking the healthy option, Catherine.

Are these your coffee cup holders?

I've hung up the heels and I've gone for the trainers.

VO: Enough about the footwear.

Time for a spot of show-and-tell.

IZZIE: I've only got this wee little thing here.

That is adorable.

Oh, he's gorgeous.

Yeah, I would have bought that.

What did you pay for him?

15.

VO: Which gives Izzie a whopping £185 to spend today.

Just charming.

Absolutely charming.

VO: Meanwhile, Catherine only has £100 left after splurging her cash on the terracotta jug, a Victorian inkwell and a large lav.

I'm talking like I know about the history of toilets.

I know nothing about toilets!

VO: And a pair of earrings, and the art nouveau Murrle Bennett pendant.

Oh, my goodness me.

How much did you pay for it?

With these earrings, I paid £30 for a deal... Yeah.

£30?

With some earrings?

Yeah.

I mean, that's going to make 80 to 120, isn't it?

It should.

Well, I was hoping you might say a bit more than that.

IZZIE: It is... No, it's really, really lovely.

VO: Let's split, then, ladies.

Today, you'll be going your own merry way.

Have a great day anyway.

I'll see you later.

CS: Thank you!

IZZIE: Bye!

Whoa!

VO: Whoopsie-daisy.

Lordy.

After that breakfast powwow, let's get the wheels on the move.

CS: Tour de France, bring it on!

(ENGINE REVS) Ooh!

Wrong gear.

VO: The experts will be sending their wares to an auction in Broughton Astley.

But first, Izzie is shopping in Farnham.

With a history stretching back to the Mesolithic period, I'm certain she can hunt down something for her antiques plunder.

Bourne Mill Antique Centre is where she's headed, and very, very nice too.

Izzie's got £185 to spend in here, and because the auction at the end of this Trip will be online only, she needs to look for items that can be easily shipped around the globe.

Oh, mind your head!

IZZIE: Bend and duck!

This is quite sweet.

It's a Victorian brooch, and it's just a bit of costume jewelry.

So just a base metal that's been gilt to make it look like gold.

But it's a micro mosaic.

There was a revival of sort of mosaic jewelry in the Victorian period.

It was really popular.

So people would go on the Grand Tour and go to the Great Exhibition, and this was reflected in the jewelry with these micro mosaics.

VO: Indeed.

Rome was a popular destination for tourists in the 19th century with its magnificent heritage.

And micro mosaics could be bought and worn as souvenirs, and sent home as gifts.

It's got all the trappings of a Victorian brooch.

It's got this beadwork, which is sometimes called granulation, along the edge here.

And that's a little bit Etruscan in its style.

And you've got this hinged pin and simple loop brooch fitting at the back.

Brooches are not that popular at the moment and I don't have much success with brooches.

However, I just think it's really pretty, and it's £15, and part of me thinks, "Surely you can't go wrong at £15?"

VO: Lee is one of the dealers on duty today.

Hello.

So, I have found a little brooch.

LEE: Yes.

IZZIE: It's £15.

I'm very happy to pay you the full £15 for this.

Yeah?

Feel free to give me any money you want!

10... VO: Ha-ha!

A cheap and cheerful £15, then, for the mosaic brooch.

Have a lovely day.

LEE: And you!

IZZIE: Bye bye!

Bye.

VO: Izzie is definitely taking her time splashing the cash.

Catherine is sitting pretty with her purchases, so she's fancy free, and getting to grips with her trusty push-bike.

Breathing in the country air.

(INHALES) # Lah!

# Makes you feel good inside.

Healthy!

Mind the poo!

VO: The perils of country living, Catherine.

Huh!

She's headed for the village of Grayshott, near the northeast Hampshire-Surrey border.

It's here that Catherine is meeting one of the few remaining nettle weavers in Britain.

Brigitte Kaltenbacher is working to champion and revive this botanic with a bite as a sustainable fabric of the future.

Brigitte!

Lovely to meet you.

Hi, Catherine.

What are you doing there?

I'm gathering nettles.

As a child, I fell into a huge bush of nettles, and I was stung from head to toe.

So these just look awful to me.

How anybody would want to get close to them is beyond me!

But tell me, what's their appeal?

You might be surprised to learn that the fiber is very, very fine.

And it can be processed to silk-like quality.

VO: These silk-like fabrics were a valuable commodity traded throughout Europe.

The emergence of cotton in the 16th century meant nettle weaving fell from favor.

But, thankfully, Brigitte still knows its secrets.

You learn something every day.

I'm looking at the tallest variety.

The tallest variety is called Urtica dioica L. L is for large, and it's commonly called the European stinging nettle.

It is the stem I'm interested in, even though you can use the whole plant.

So, in spring, you can eat the tops.

It's as nutritious as spinach.

You'd cook it the same way.

You can use the leaves for dyeing.

It makes a nice green.

Really?

There is so many uses for nettles.

VO: Nettles proved invaluable during both world wars.

In 1915, due to a cotton shortage, the fibers were used for German uniforms.

And at the beginning of World War II, the British government used 100 tonnes of nettles to make a dye for camouflage colors.

But with some rubber gloves as protection, it's time to face your fears, Catherine.

Go, girl!

So about four inches from the bottom... CS: Yeah.

BRIGITTE: ..and then... Cut?

Cut.

Oh, crikey.

Oh!

And pull it out.

Da-da!

So I just go now... And take the leaves off, and leave the seeds and the leaves here.

That means that the leaves and the seeds fertilize the area.

And this now actually pops all the little stinging hairs.

Lovely.

I feel like I'm doing my bit for nature here.

VO: The next stage is called dew retting.

This is a process where the stalks are left outside and the dew helps separate the fiber from the outer skin.

So this is retted for a couple of days.

OK.

So now we're going to split it.

Trusty butter knife.

So you're going to split the stalk.

OK.

I'm going to follow your lead.

And...

So we're going upwards?

We're going upwards.

I split it so it's flat.

Oh, yes, that's flat.

Is it flat enough?

Exactly.

Yes, that should be fine.

And then we carry on.

Just think of it like curling a ribbon, it's that motion.

OK, yeah, I get you.

And that will kind of separate it.

That should be easy.

Yeah.

Once you do this, the fiber actually comes out quite quickly.

But to get it to the final silky stage, that actually takes a long time.

That takes a long time?

And then what happens?

If you scrape long enough, and give it a little bit of a wash, you might end up with something like this.

Oh, wow!

That's what got me hooked, when I saw this sample.

I can imagine.

The idea that you could do this from nettle is just quite amazing.

CS: Yeah.

VO: From this silky yarn luxurious items like ladies' shawls can be produced.

Here's one Brigitte made earlier.

It's been wonderful just learning about something that, to me, initially, was just so menacing and so awful, and now to get something like this, it's wonderful.

Do you mind if I keep this on while I go and try and find my bike?

I don't know where I've left it.

I'm delighted you're enjoying it.

Thank you very much.

CS: Thank you very much.

BRIGITTE: Pleasure.

Thanks, Brigitte.

VO: Remember, you do have to give it back, Catherine.

The ancient craft of nettle weaving is a long-forgotten skill, but with artisans like Brigitte, hopefully it will be plucked from obscurity.

Let's check in with Izzie and the Alfa Romeo.

I would very, very happily do all the driving from now on.

I can be Catherine's chauffeur, and drive her around.

VO: Driving Miss Southon might be the safest option!

Hm!

Izzie's final shopping rendezvous is in the rural idyll of Hartford Bridge in Hampshire where hurricanes hardly ever happen.

Ha!

White Lion Antiques is a former Georgian coaching inn.

The area here was once a busy London stagecoach route where highwaymen plied their trade.

But today, Izzie needs to fill her swag bag.

She's got £170 and only two items.

Come on, Iz!

Start spending the moolah!

IZZIE: I really like that little bronze French bulldog.

He just looks so grumpy.

Look at that little face.

He's beautifully modeled.

I would say that he's...

I mean, I would have thought the first half of the 20th century.

Dog-related items just always seem to sell well at auction.

I'm trying to decide if he's too expensive at £85.

VO: OK, that one's a possible, then.

What's next?

I think I've got a bit of a dog theme going on today.

I keep picking up doggos.

But this is...

It's an Edwardian brass doorknocker, and it's in the form of...

I don't know what it is.

I think it's another pug.

VO: She's quite the antiques dog-whisperer, you know.

There's some nice patina to him, and you have got the years here of him being knocked on the back there.

I also really like that it's only £30.

So with a little bit of negotiation, there could be a little bit of a profit in that.

You know, a couple of pounds here and there.

That's what I need.

Try and get ahead of Catherine.

VO: Yeah, that's the spirit.

Oh, speak of the devil... Maybe Catherine's arrival will give Izzie the incentive to just get on with it and buy something!

IZZIE: Ooh, croquet!

VO: Apparently not.

Oops!

I saw that!

Nice shot!

Catherine!

Come on, then, send it back!

See if you can do any better.

Ready?

Right, that's enough tomfoolery.

I've got work to do.

VO: Well, you're better placed than Izzie, with four items in the old bag, and £100 left to splash.

This place is enormous.

It's got three floors.

And, really, I don't know where to start, and I don't know what to buy.

VO: Keep exploring, Catherine!

Any more possibles, Izzie?

Ooh!

Now... Now I do like this.

It's a little side table, and you've got these lovely art nouveau tiles along the top there.

I do like that they all match and that they're all in pretty good condition, really.

And you've got this typical tulip design, so the art nouveau period.

It's sort of like 1900 to 1915-ish.

It's £60.

That's not too bad.

I really like it.

I really like it, actually.

VO: Oh?

I suppose it is quite pretty.

Why don't you take it along with the bronze bulldog and the pug doorknocker to Petra, the lady in charge, and make her day?

IZZIE: Let's start with the table.

It's priced at 60, but what can this one be?

We normally do 10% for cash, but I can speak to the dealer.

Would you mind?

Yeah, of course.

That would be amazing.

VO: Oh, I love a phone deal!

Fingers crossed.

VO: Cross everything, love.

£40.

I will shake his hand on that.

Yes, please.

Brilliant, we will take it.

Thank you very much.

VO: It's phone-the-dealer time also for the little bronze bulldog priced at £85.

Can we get it to 60?

Would you do 60?

Yes?

Yes.

She seems very happy, Rob.

You've made her day.

Yes!

Thank you!

VO: And the puggy-wug doorknocker costing 30?

25 best for you.

Thanks.

Bye.

Oh, do you know what?

I'll go for it.

PETRA: Yeah?

IZZIE: Yeah.

VO: At the last puff, Izzie's found her buying prowess.

£40 for the bamboo side table, 60 for the bronze bulldog and 25 for the little pug doorknocker.

Sweet.

Thank you.

See you soon.

Thank you for all of your help.

PETRA: Bye bye.

IZZIE: See you later!

Bye.

VO: Success at last for Izzie.

Oh, I'm proper chuffed.

VO: Now, what of Catherine?

CS: A Victorian cast-iron doorknocker.

With a nice registration mark.

That's really nice, to have a nice registration mark on the back.

£35.

That's probably about what it's worth, though, isn't it, really?

And like it or hate it, it has a purpose.

VO: Let's go and see what Petra can do on price.

Is it possible that you could get hold of the dealer and see what sort of price he could do on it?

I mean, ideally, I'd love to pay around the £20 mark.

About £20?

I'm not sure he'll go that low, but I'll give him a call for you.

Would you give him a... Will you give him a call?

That would be lovely.

VO: Crumbs.

Petra's phone bill will be sky-high!

Yeah?

Brilliant.

I'll let her know.

She'll be very happy.

He's happy to take 20.

That is brilliant!

VO: The £20 Victorian doorknocker marks the end of our shopping bonanza.

CS: Thanks very much.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Bye bye.

VO: How about a tête-à-tête outside?

I went in to the center, thinking I was going to come out with something completely different, and I've come out with a knocker!

Do you know what?

It must be something to do with that place, then, because I also... Oh, you've got a knocker!

..have bought a knocker!

Knocker challenge!

Battle of the knockers!

VO: Ooh, Matron!

Why don't you pair just go and get some shuteye, eh?

VO: Catherine and Izzie are sending their hard-earned antiques to be sold in Broughton Astley in Leicestershire.

Looks like a nice sort of place.

Sutton Hill Farm Country Auctions is holding a closed-door sale, selling to phone, online, and absentee bidders only.

In command of the rostrum today is auctioneer James Moulds.

Make no mistake, it goes and sells, then.

VO: Let's see what he thinks of Izzie's five lots, costing £155.

JAMES: The antique bamboo table set with the tiles, a little bit out of vogue at the moment, but you never know.

This could shock you how much it might make.

VO: Catherine spent a more frugal £120 on her five lots.

Thoughts, please, James.

The art nouveau pendant, this is by Murrle Bennett.

Very collectable.

There's lots of interest in the auction for it, and it is one of the favorite lots we have.

VO: Izzie and Catherine have motored further west to the breathtaking beauty of the Quantocks in West Somerset, home to some wild Exmoor ponies.

Yee-ha!

Time to pull over and park up.

And find out what bidders from across the globe think of their lots.

I feel like saying good luck, Catherine.

Yeah, say good luck!

VO: And we're off!

Izzie's micro mosaic brooch is up first.

I have yet to buy a brooch that makes a profit.

No!

But I am hoping and crossing my fingers!

A UK bid of £20.

IZZIE: Yes!

You've made your profit!

I have made it!

I've made a profit on a brooch!

JAMES: At £20... DEB: 25 JAMES: 25 with Deb.

25, at 30.

Yes!

At £25... VO: Nearly doubled your money.

Splendid start, Izzie.

I'm going to now be buying brooches here, there and everywhere.

CS: Yes.

VO: Catherine's turn next with the weighty inkwell.

I'm drawn to inkwells.

I don't know why, because they never make any money.

JAMES: £20 bid.

CS: £20.

Come on!

That's OK. At £20.

Only bid.

And I'm going to sell... Oh, no, come on.

20 only... VO: It's early days, Catherine.

Plenty of time yet.

That's probably my most boring lot so I'm not too bothered.

VO: Izzie's bamboo side table is under the gavel next.

CS: I have to say, out of all your pieces, this is probably my favorite piece.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

It's a really nice thing.

£20 on commission.

25.

25.

At 30?

At 30.

Come on!

DEB: 35.

JAMES: 35 bid.

Come on!

At 35... VO: Someone's got a corker of a buy there!

Small loss for Izzie, though.

Oh, well.

Never mind!

VO: Big terracotta jug, tailor made for a giant's dinner table is next for Catherine.

I just thought it was beautiful.

I thought it was a really attractive piece.

The internet races away at £20 bid.

25.

25.

At 30.

30 in the UK.

Profit!

JAMES: The large jug, then, for £30 only... VO: Tidy little profit.

Maybe jumbo-sized items are the way forward.

A few pounds in it, Izzie.

I'm happy with that.

VO: Izzie's next with her weighty bronze bulldog.

Will it be a faithful friend?

This was my big spend, and I think probably my favorite purchase as well.

JAMES: I have 20 on commission.

DEB: 25.

25.

30?

DEB: 35.

JAMES: 35.

I'm not watching, Catherine.

35.

DEB: 40 JAMES: 40 bid.

40!

It's going up.

45 anywhere?

45 now.

This is disastrous.

And it sells very cheaply at £45.

VO: Oh, Woofles is in the doghouse.

Bringing home another loss for Izzie.

We should abandon buying doggies and move onto horses.

VO: Bring on the battle of the knockers, eh?

Izzie's dainty pug version is first.

You will do well with that because it's novelty.

JAMES: I have £10.

DEB: 12.

£12.

Thank you.

DEB: 14.

JAMES: 14 bid.

CS: Yeah.

IZZIE: Ohh!

JAMES: 16 bid, thank you.

DEB: 18.

At 18 bid.

20?

Commissions are out.

DEB: 20.

JAMES: 20 bid.

Thank you.

I did think you'd get more than that.

Selling at 20 only... VO: Oh, what a pity.

That's not the result we wanted.

Disappointed?

Yes!

It's Catherine's turn with the hefty Victorian knocker.

I'm really upset that you bought your bigger, older, knocker for less money than mine.

£20 in the UK.

Oh, that's very cheap.

DEB: 25.

JAMES: Thank you.

25.

Can we come back on the internet?

DEB: 30.

JAMES: £30.

Thank you.

Oh, thank the Lord!

At £30.

VO: Catherine is the knocker champ extraordinaire.

Well done!

Knocker challenge!

You have won the battle of the knockers.

VO: Catherine's gamble buy next.

It's the thunder box.

I went with the idea of putting it in your garden, having the most amazing fern tree in it.

40 bid, thank you.

On commission.

CS: 40?

IZZIE: 40!

CS: OK. IZZIE: That's a profit.

I thought this would make a lot more than this.

I thought it'd make a lot more.

£40.

40 only.

VO: A fresh profit from the number one gamble.

Had your hopes and dreams flushed away?

VO: Izzie's cutesy doggy corkscrew is up for grabs next.

It was cute, wasn't it?

Definitely.

I would've bought him.

We have £20 only bid.

CS: That's profit.

IZZIE: A start.

25 still with the UK.

Yes, 25!

30.

£30 now with Deb.

IZZIE: Yes, yes, yes.

DEB: 35.

35 bid.

At 40 now.

This is brilliant!

At £40 only.

(BOTH CHEER) VO: This little fella has more than doubled your money, Izzie.

That's more like it.

I'm really pleased with that cos I really did like it.

Yes, it's wonderful.

Well done.

VO: It's the final lot of the day, Catherine's earrings and art nouveau pendant.

I just don't think you can go wrong with this.

I'm so, so excited for you.

Thank you.

And the internet is now at £220 bid.

CS: Yes!

IZZIE: No way!

That's brilliant!

Yes!

Oh, wonderful.

Yes.

Thank you.

240 bid.

260.

Thank you.

260.

I would be happy with 120.

I would have been over the moon with 120!

MAN: Yeah.

JAMES: 280 bid.

280!

Oh, my goodness.

At £280... CS: Oh my goodness!

IZZIE: Yay!

Oh, thank you, Izzie.

Thank you!

That's amazing.

VO: You played a blinder there.

The Murrle Bennett pendant has blasted your profits through the roof.

What a way to end.

I'm trying to think how much...yes, how many times you've sold it.

Maths was never my strong point, Izzie.

VO: Uh-uh.

It's nearly 10 times your purchase price, girl.

And let me tell you the other sums.

Well, that was a roller-coaster!

Izzie's fortunes took a bit of a tumble.

After auction costs, she has £180.30 in her piggy.

Catherine, however, has done very nicely indeed, and after saleroom fees is declared our winner this time with a piggy full of £408.

What a result!

That was impressive.

Thank you.

I'm going to have a little crown on, and all sorts, and a little rosette!

VO: Success has gone to her head.

I loved today!

See you later!

Well done!

Bye!

VO: Au revoir, ladies.

CS: Bye!

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