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

VO: ..with £200 each, a classic car, and a goal - to scour Britain for antiques.

I'm on fire - yes!

Sold - going, going, gone.

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

But it's no mean feat.

50p!

VO: There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.

Be a good profit.

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

Ooh!

Oh!

Yes!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

VO: It's the third leg of the road trip for James Braxton and newcomer Helen Hall.

JAMES (JB): Helen, you're fast approaching me.

HELEN (HH): I am, I've closed the gap a little bit... Closed the gap.

..in the auction, haven't I?

VO: Helen isn't shy of getting into precarious situations to find a bargain.

Whoa!

VO: Whereas Road Trip veteran James is prepared to work up a sweat for a good deal.

Hoi!

Urgh!

VO: Oh dear.

They're traveling in the trusty 1974 E Type Jaguar.

The car is feeling very good!

VO: Helen lost the first auction, and although triumphant on the second leg... Well done.

Yay!

You needed that, Helen.

Well done.

I did.

VO: Old hand James still has an overall lead.

Thank the lord.

VO: James started the trip with £200 and after the two auctions saw his money grow to £218.28.

VO: Helen started her first road trip with the same amount but has seen her profits shrink to just £184.

VO: Our compadres are cruising over 500 miles from Oswestry in Shropshire, through Wales and southern England, before ending their road trip in the county town of Lewes in East Sussex.

On this third leg of the trip they're starting in the city of Bristol before heading to auction in Swindon in Wiltshire.

It's a very good looking city Bristol, isn't it?

It is very pretty.

I like all the fripperies, the follies, the architecture.

VO: Bristol has been a major trading port for many centuries.

Renowned engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed one of its most famous landmarks, the mighty Clifton Suspension Bridge.

But there's no bridge too far for our duo when it comes to finding a bargain.

Here we are.

A day of buying.

Now who's gonna buy the better items today, eh?

Well I'm feeling the pressure to close that gap even more, James.

Try and close the gap... Buy some goodies.

But I'm going to try to expand it.

Right, I am feeling the pressure.

JB: Bye.

HH: Have a good one.

VO: Cor they're really competitive today.

And they're actually shopping next door to one another.

Whilst Helen visits Rachel's Antiques James is off to Michael's Antiques.

Ha!

JB: James... Braxton.

DEALER: Ah!

Michael.

Very nice to meet you Michael.

Nice to meet you.

Now what have you got new in?

What do you think I might be interested in?

I don't know what your taste is.

Something's winking at me, that green stuff!

Yeah, yeah, it's in that clock.

VO: That green stuff, as James so eloquently puts it, is a mineral called malachite.

It was mined extensively in Russia's Ural Mountains.

I like that.

You spotted it.

I like that clock.

Yeah, keeps good time.

Does it?

It hasn't worked since I've had it but it's right twice a day.

It's right twice... That's all you need, isn't it?

VO: Cor, he's a live one, this one, isn't he!

And we've got a bit of a cracked dial there haven't we?

Oh no, it's not cracked - it's just scratched.

I can feel it.

DEALER: It's just a mark on it.

Do you find you get to an age where you've got... DEALER: You gotta feel things.

JB: You've got to feel things.

JB: I feel everything.

DEALER: Yeah, I know.

Your fingers never lie do they?

You've got to be very careful... VO: I feel James is quite keen on that.

I know, I know.

So we've got the malachite, the green here and we've got the bell and that should attach to the movement somewhere and there is a striker, there is the gong so it would be like that, a bit of soldering going on on that arm there.

Well, it's well over 100 years old so it's got to have a little bit.

If you was 100 years old they'd be soldering you up a little bit.

Yeah I'd be on the repair wouldn't I?

Yeah, you would do.

VO: I think Michael has the measure of you James!

Here you've got some... That's a possibility, I like that Michael.

VO: First one to consider maybe?

Helen's getting on with the serious business of finding a bargain over at Rachel's Antiques.

Well I changed my tactics for the last leg.

For the first leg I went more vintage, slightly more 20th century, but then I realized that I needed to go more antique, more specialized, a bit more age so I think the tactic on the last leg worked well.

Might buy some silver again, you know, some nice early silver.

VO: Doesn't look like there's much silver here, dearie, but this place is packed to the gunwales with all manner of things and Helen's now searching high and low for a bargain.

Largely high.

HH: Whoa.

VO: Whoa.

Lordy!

Perhaps it's best to keep your feet on the floor then Helen!

I wonder how James is getting on over at Michael's.

Come here.

Oh!

Oh, that's a Wurzel hat.

That's a Wurzel hat, right.

That's a Wurzel hat.

A Wurzel hat, do I have to wear this?

# Drink up thy cider George # Thee's been going far... # That is a proper Worzel hat.

That is a Worzel hat.

Ange Cotter gave me that in 1962.

VO: I don't know, I leave him for five minutes...

So we've got here, we've got an interesting carved wood profile and it's a very tight-grained hardwood, looks like mahogany here.

Somebody's written, "In the manner of E Gill".

VO: Eric Gill was an influential sculptor and designer most active in the 1920s and '30s.

The person who made this has clearly been inspired by him.

It's got a great look about it, it's got that very strong stylish, you know 1910, 1920s look about it with that very strong bob, very strong aristocratic nose, very good jaw line.

It's a great item but it is a very unusual thing, you know, wooden profile, beautifully done.

Unfortunately it is slightly damaged.

It has got the old antique juices going this one, I like it.

VO: But do you like it enough to buy it James?

This is rather fun.

This is a stand, a mirrored stand so you could have put it on the wall, there you are, a little hook or you could have stood it on a table and they make great things for displaying things so if you imagine you put it on something, something like that and then you can display a nice object, slightly out of proportion but you can display fun things.

People use them, they are sort of retailer's aid and they're rather fun with these lovely little convex bubbles.

It's got a band of bubbles.

Yeah.

Interesting to see what this would do in auction.

VO: I think he's quite keen on that too.

Time to talk to Michael about money.

So, give us your worst.

Give us your worst.

Let me think.

Oh, this is... 150 and that is for the three of them.

I know, Michael, you're being very kind.

VO: I sense there's a "but" coming!

I think...

I think you could be kinder.

130, Michael.

Can you do it for 130?

I tell you what, 135 and we've got a deal.

135 - I'm going to find that hand.

That was too quick.

Michael, it's been an absolute pleasure, really lovely.

VO: Every fiver counts!

£135 on the mantle clock, a mahogany portrait and the mirrored stand.

Michael, what is the secret of your eternal youth?

Fitness.

So I just go like that.

That's one.

That builds up the old core strength?

Well no, it stops the knees from seizing.

OK, OK, so I'll limber up for it... You've got to go like that.

VO: Do you really want to try this James?

Hoi!

Urgh!

Oh!

Thought he was gone!

(THEY CHUCKLE) At least I got it up.

Anyway, thank you Michael.

Not only have I... Not only have I been fleeced, but I've also been physically damaged by you!

VO: I'm exhausted just watching you!

Whilst he catches his breath Helen has found some nice glassware she seems to like.

It's a nice piece of, erm, opaque glass, no mark or anything but it's very '30s in style.

Very much in the slight manner of Lalique and all those glass artists working in the sort of art nouveau and art deco periods.

VO: Rene Lalique was a French designer who created exquisite art nouveau glassware in the late 19th and early 20th century.

I think it's pretty.

OK. VO: But does it have a pretty price tag to match?

Time to chat to dealer Rachel.

Erm, I rather like this sort of art nouveau-style green glass dish, I like to think it's '30s.

And I thought it might have been for flowers.

Erm... Yeah.

A short flower vase or maybe a bonbon dish, something like that.

DEALER: Yeah.

HH: I do like it.

Erm...

I'd like to offer you a tenner for it.

Where are you at with...?

That seems about right because normally I'd sell that for probably about 15.

OK, a tenner, done.

Thank you very much.

VO: Whilst James has gone all out on his first shop, Helen's been more cautious, picking up a nice piece of glass for just £10.

It is hot here.

I must say the temperature is about 28 degrees.

I have been on colder foreign holidays, but, er, I'm going to buy one item here and then I'm going to go for a jolly nice swim in the River Avon!

VO: That sounds like more exercise, James.

His next shop is called Odds And Todds and I presume this man is in charge!

It's a hottie isn't it?

James.

Hello.

Nice to meet you.

Very good.

What's your name?

Les.

Les.

Good to meet you, Les.

Can I leave that jacket there?

LES: Yes.

JB: Is that a bugle?

I think it's a cornet.

That looks like a cornet doesn't it?

Cuz it has stops and things.

Hello, here we are.

(STRAINED PARPS) See, I haven't got any puff.

VO: Helen meanwhile is taking time out to discover more about one of Bristol's most famous sons - Banksy.

Banksy is an artist who uses a pseudonym to remain anonymous.

He's become a global phenomenon and his work is bought by movie stars and canny amateur collectors alike.

Controversially, walls on which he has painted have been taken down to sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds at auction.

Helen's meeting Tim Corum, curator of the Bristol Museum of Art, for a guided tour of Banksy's early work.

HH: Hi, are you Tim?

TIM: Yes, hi.

Hi Tim, Helen.

Nice to meet you.

Hi Helen, nice to meet you.

So here we are in Bristol, home of Banksy...

Yes.

Er, well we think it is the home of Banksy.

Well you can never be sure, can you?

Oh no.

That's part of the allure and the mystery isn't it?

The mystique.

VO: Banksy's street art is now found all over the world and combines humor with graffiti in a distinctive stenciling technique.

Banksy started working in Bristol in the sort of early to mid '90s.

HH: Mm-hm.

And he was really part of a huge movement in Bristol that grew out of 1980s and 19...

Early 1990s hip-hop culture which was brought over here from New York.

And then Banksy comes on the wave of that, a little bit after that initial wave and he just, just by his...

I suppose his wit and his skill and his brilliance in placing the right thing in the right place at the right time he just becomes incredibly well known in Bristol and beyond.

HH: Yep.

So what's this one been called?

TIM: This is The Grim Reaper and it's, er...

It's here on harborside in Bristol.

Banksy came down here and tagged the Thekla, which is the ship over here and then raced away in a rowing boat we are told.

Brilliant, shall we pop off to the next one?

VO: Banksy's work often features a satirical message, such as this one in Stokes Croft, Bristol's cultural quarter.

TIM: This arrived here in the late '90s and it was time when everybody was going to free parties and... Those were the days.

Yeah, exactly, those were the days.

There was a lot of kind of dance music, a great scene going on but of course there was also quite a backlash from authority about that.

I don't know for sure but I often look at this piece and wonder if there is something in it about the kind of cuddly and friendliness of the party people not putting up with the anti-authoritarianism of the forces of law and order.

VO: Banksy really has made a connection with the people of Bristol.

In 2006, when this image appeared, the city council asked residents if they wanted it to stay.

The overwhelming response was yes.

So what date was this piece executed?

Executed is a good word, this is called The Hanging Man.

HH: (CHUCKLES) Yeah.

And, erm, 2006 it appeared.

Yep.

The story is, is that Banksy arranged for scaffolding to be erected here... OK. And worked behind it for a couple of days... HH: Wow!

TIM: ..as people walked past and then had the scaffolding taken away and low and behold this trompe l'oeil piece... Yeah.

..was left there and it is probably one of the most photographed and famous, you get coachloads of people.

VO: In 2009 the city museum had an exhibition of Banksy's work.

That's quite tricky to curate when the artist wishes to remain unknown.

A piece from the exhibition still remains at the museum.

One of our most popular exhibits.

Wow, is it really?

Yes, it's the thing that people come to see so we have got this place full of arts from all over the world.

And from all sorts of incredible artists.

And Banksy is right up there amongst them as being one of the most popular pieces in the collection.

And that is nice because he is a local artist and he should be celebrated in his hometown, shouldn't he?

Yeah, he is local and he is also, let's face it, possibly one of the biggest artists alive today as well so... What I think is great about Banksy is the legacy that he has left certainly in the art museum but also in the art world in general, you know, he has shifted perception of graffiti artists and hopefully that is forever.

You know, that perception has change for the good and for the future so that is great to see.

Brilliant, thank you so much for having me.

Thank you...

Thanks for coming along.

And take care.

Alright.

Bye-bye.

VO: The next time you have some graffiti removed it might be worth checking - because it could be worth thousands.

James is still at Odds and Todds and seems rather relaxed.

I can afford to be choosy, I'm doing quite well, I've bought three good items.

One very speculative item, a bit of a banker, the little mirrored stand and the malachite fellow.

I have done quite well with clocks recently.

You know, black slate - wouldn't have bought it.

But with the malachite panels I was in there but, you know, I can afford to be choosy.

VO: You're always choosy James, no change there then.

Got a three legged tray here.

Look at that.

That is a huge piece of pottery.

There isn't a lot interesting bar the fact that it has three legs.

It is a very rare tray.

VO: It's supposed to have four legs.

I mean, only having three bobbles.

But the interesting thing is that is one sheet of pottery and that is quite an achievement.

Imagine putting that in the kiln, a flat piece is quite difficult to fire.

You know, that is why tiles come in quite small sizes.

It is quite a difficult thing.

This is, what is it, a 1920s, '30s maybe.

Residual value, zero.

But technically quite clever.

Les... VO: Well the pussy doesn't look impressed by it.

There's no maker's name on it, but it looks like it could be early 20th century.

Give you a fiver for your three-legged tray.

I thought it had the four legs but I see there...

But it obviously hasn't.

You are wonky, mate.

You're wonky.

Wonky donkey.

You're going to say two, aren't you?

I know you.

LES: (CHUCKLES) A tenner.

Tenner.

Five... Fiver's me offer, mate.

Fiver.

He's a hard man, in't he?

£5.

I am doing you a favor, mate.

It's not a proper job is it, it's only got three legs.

I don't know where the other leg has gone then.

Where's that leg gone?

Go on, Les, you find me the leg and I'll give you a tenner.

If you can't find it I'll give you a fiver.

It's a nice thing though isn't it really?

It's a nice thing.

Is it, three legged tray?

£8.

Five is all I have got, mate.

VO: Come off it James, you've got £85 left!

Go on, boss.

He's happy with it, aren't you?

You are happy with it, well done Les.

Go on.

VO: A three legged tray eh?

James thinks it will do well, and at just £5 he might be right.

There you are Les, there's a fiver, mate.

I'll get rich on that.

Thank you very much.

You'll get rich on that.

Ice creams all round.

VO: Someone's not amused!

JB: Thanks a lot.

LES: Bye then.

Cheers then.

VO: It's been a busy day.

Time to turn in.

Night-night, you lot.

VO: And it's day two of the road trip.

So how did you get on yesterday, Helen?

I just bought one thing yesterday.

Right.

A little cheap thing.

A cheapo.

A cheap thing that I still probably paid too much for.

Oh, no, no.

Even though it was still cheap and it was really nice and I liked it.

Is it doll two or not?

No, I am avoiding all dolls.

VO: You're avoiding just about everything it seems because yesterday Helen spent a paltry £10 on a green vase, leaving £174 seemingly not burning a hole in her pocket.

James meanwhile spent an impressive £140 on a slate and malachite clock, carved portrait, glass stand and porcelain tray, leaving him £78.28 today.

James is in the driving seat and he's dropping Helen off in the historic market town of Corsham in Wiltshire.

Corsham is one of the most picturesque towns in England.

It owes much of its early prosperity to the wool trade.

I don't think the traders will be able to pull the wool over Helen's eyes much, who's hopefully in a buying mood today.

Thank you James, have a good day.

OK.

Same to you.

See you later.

Bye.

VO: Helen's first stop of the day is Harley Antiques.

This shop is set in a Georgian country house, perhaps the ideal setting to pick up something special.

Yeah, I had an idea that I was going to buy sort of slightly more contemporary pieces today, but only because I was inspired by Banksy yesterday but, erm, yeah, this shop has got some beautiful things.

I could spend a fortune if I had a fortune to spend.

VO: Helen seems really focused on buying the right thing.

She's got £174 left, not quite a fortune, but enough to buy something enticing.

These are nice, nice little matchstick holders.

They are Asprey silver so, you know, a nice decent quality make.

VO: Asprey is a British company founded in 1781 that provides luxury and bespoke items.

It's hallmarked 1960.

I'd want to make a bit of an offer on it.

VO: Yesterday Helen said she was looking for some silverware, might this be what she's after?

HH: Lee?

LEE: Yes.

I am going to make you a really cheeky offer.

Fire away.

Would you consider - because you've got a couple of them - maybe a few more hanging around... That's it, I'm afraid.

Is it?

Aw, there goes my theory.

VO: Whoops!

I'm going to make a really cheeky offer and start at 20 quid.

Not possible I am afraid, no.

You do get the matches with this one.

VO: A bargain then!

What would you go to on it?

It's 69.

LEE: So the trade is 60.

HH: Mm.

The death would be 45.

Right.

OK. OK, will you go 35?

I will meet you in the middle - 40, it is an absolute death and that's...

Right, OK.

I think I'm going to decline then.

OK. Alright.

Yeah, I think I will leave it then, thank you.

VO: You could just buy the matches!

Yeah, I think I have just got to buy a little bit lower because otherwise my profit is going to go out the window and then I am going to be left with nothing for the rest of the trip.

I am trying not to let my emotions rule my purchases.

VO: £174 is hardly nothing, but I think Helen's really determined to beat James!

Don't worry Helen - there's still another shop to go.

I'm feeling the pressure, I'm feeling the pressure.

This shop better be cheap.

VO: James doesn't seem to be feeling any pressure though, and has made his way over to Bradford Upon Avon in Wiltshire.

In 1908 recently qualified pharmacist Richard Christopher bought a chemist's shop in Silver Street.

The shop remained in the family for nearly 80 years, and throughout that time hardly changed.

When it closed locals wanted to keep it, so the entire contents were transferred to the new museum.

James is meeting local historian Ivor Slocambe to find out more.

This is marvelous, look at this.

This is the recreated shopfront.

Yep.

Somewhat smaller than it was in reality.

Yep.

But it's got all the essential elements and the first thing which always greets you are these four big bottles.

They're called carboys, colored water, nothing else, and they should be blue, green, red and yellow but they lose their color very badly apparently and they simply are a symbol of a chemist shop like the barber's pole or the three balls for a pawn broker.

Really, and just that - do the colors represent anything?

The four basic elements are fire, air, earth, and water... Ah!

..which is that mystical chemistry, you know, where you go back to the Middle Ages and alchemy and all the rest of it.

VO: Everything was painstakingly removed from the shop, including the original flooring.

Right, come on in then James and you can see our shop recreated exactly as it was when it closed in 1986.

But hadn't changed for 80 years it seemed to be, so it is exactly as a Victorian chemist shop would have been.

It is exactly as it was, every item is as it was on the shelf when it closed.

We haven't imported things from outside.

That is fabulous.

Now, Ivor, I'm a 19th century gentleman, I have come in here, I'm feeling a little liverish, a bit below par, I've probably had too many glasses of claret last night.

What would our man prepare for me?

Well, let's assume you've gone to the doctor because you're ill... OK. ..whatever the cause of it and he would give you a prescription.

Now, in those days it looked like a cooking recipe.

Right.

It would have a list of chemicals, abbreviated Latin, using apothecary weights, almost unintelligible.

Right.

And you would bring this to this Mr Christopher.

JB: So a secret code... IVOR: Absolutely.

..between doctor and pharmacist.

VO: Nowadays most pharmaceutical drugs are ready made.

In the Victorian era chemists would have to physically make the pills using raw ingredients.

The chemist would mix the recipe as prescribed by the doctor with a glucose substance into a long putty-like form before cutting.

You take this machine, you roll it out into a kind of sausage.

Yep.

You then grip each side firmly.

OK.

Grip each side.

And pull it straight down over, very firmly down over.

Right.

And lift it off.

Now, you have got something which is almost a pill... JB: Pill-like.

IVOR: ..but not quite round.

Looks like a bead necklace doesn't it?

So you take that one... Yep.

And you take that and you roll it round... until you get a perfectly round pill.

So...

Very lightly.

JB: There was enormous...

BOTH: Very lightly.

This was half a day's work to pick up your medicine, was it?

Absolutely.

While I'm preparing these immaculate pills the poor chap could be dead couldn't he?

Packaging is a fascinating thing.

So I put my pills in there.

IVOR: Put your pills in there, your customer has been sitting on that chair over there.

Seeing his preparation.

Anxiously waiting.

And then how much would I charge him for this?

Probably two and sixpence.

Two and sixpence.

So two shillings and sixpence.

So I...

Which you would then ring up on the till.

I go over to the till here, I would see red's for the shillings...

Yes.

Er, two shillings and sixpence.

Right.

OK, so I ring it up.

Just a moment.

So you are a little bit near.

I'm a bit...

Right now...

So it could catch the unwary.

Two shillings and sixpence.

There we are and out it hops.

It was a bit close, wasn't it?

I could have been in need of an ointment if I'd been a little closer couldn't I?

IVOR: (CHUCKLES) Thank you, Ivor, it's been really fascinating.

Thank you very much.

JB: Thank you very much indeed.

IVOR: Hope you've enjoyed it.

VO: Speaking of tills, there's not long till the shops close, so time to pick up Helen and head to Devizes in Wiltshire.

VO: Despite being a small town, Devizes has nearly 500 listed buildings, one of the highest concentrations anywhere in England.

They're both shopping at Crowman Antiques, and whilst James parks up Helen's getting a head start.

HH: Are you John?

JOHN: I am indeed.

Hiya, I'm Helen.

Nice to meet you.

VO: Helen's only bought one item so far on this leg of the trip.

She seems to be keeping her powder dry for the right things, but time is running out.

Great car horn.

(HORN PARPS) Yeah, nice.

Very nice.

That would look great on the E Type.

(CHUCKLES) Very tempting.

VO: Yes but not tempting enough to buy, Helen, eh?

Still feeling the heat, here comes James!

Oh hello!

Hi Helen.

How're you?

VO: He's worried you've found a bargain before him.

Right, so erm, I've got things to do.

Helen, do you want... Do you know what I mean?

JB: I'll give you some space.

HH: Thank you.

Thank you.

You get on.

If you go to the kitchen, it's the coolest place.

I will go to the kitchen, thank you.

Yeah.

Go through there and get some fresh air.

VO: There are three floors of goodies to choose from here, so just enough room for the two of them.

It's World War I commemorative beaker.

JOHN: Slightly just after, isn't it?

I like it actually with the peace and the dove, you know, truly celebrating the end of World War I, it's quite nice.

Peace celebration 1919, presented by the lord mayor, aldermen and citizens to the city of Manchester.

VO: She seems keen, but is it worth the £48 ticket price?

I'd want to offer something like 25 quid on it.

I'll go 28 on it.

Right, OK.

I'll give that some thought and we'll have a look upstairs if that's alright?

Yep.

Brilliant, thank you.

VO: D'you know, I wonder if Helen's going to buy anything today.

Fresh from his pharmacy visit, James is in the next door room.

Oh Lordy, what is he doing?

Poor chap.

Right, so what have we got?

These are the unction bottles.

So these are the sort of skin ointments, these are the things you would have rubbed on your skin so "unction simple" so that is a simple unction so that would've been a pharmacy.

That is a nice looking bottle as well.

VO: Quite James, but maybe you should get down from there before you break something!

Ow, my knees.

VO: You could need some unction for that, otherwise known as ointment!

Ha!

It seems like he's quite interested in these.

You know, these two at a tenner apiece, £20, I'd be very pleased but he might delight me, he might say, "James, I like the cut of your jib, "I know you're hot, I know you're sweaty "and I will give you fiver each for them."

VO: Always the optimist!

I wonder if Helen's found anything else she likes.

That's a nice little writing box.

You know, ladies would sit at their desk and have this sloping lid here for writing letters on and then you keep your pens in here.

You know, they are nice, they're nice... Often the writing slope isn't intact or is totally broken inside and often these bits are missing so it is kind of nice, I like it.

VO: But do you like it enough to buy it?

Hiya.

How much are you asking for your writing box?

Er... £40.

Would you take 25 for it?

Er, that's a little bit cheeky.

Erm, 32.

Would you meet me in the middle and say 30?

I'll do 31.

31, OK. That alright?

You drive a hard bargain.

Alright, OK, I will take that for 31.

Brilliant.

Brilliant.

OK. VO: After being so indecisive earlier, Helen's finally bought something!

Quickly, get to the till before she changes her mind again!

And I am going to take the World War I beaker - how much did we say on that again?

We said 28 on that.

Sure?

I think so, yes, squeezed to the limits.

Alright, OK, I'm going to take that as well.

JOHN: OK. HH: Oh, thank you.

And I think the car horn is fun.

JOHN: Right.

Erm, what have you got on that?

Let's have a look at what I have got on it.

Erm, 35.

Shall we say 28?

28.

OK.

I want to say 22.

22?

I think 26 will give you JOHN: a little bit of profit.

HH: Go on!

Ah.

26.

25.

25?

Yeah, alright, we'll do 25.

Oh, you drive a... You can tell you are a dealer.

VO: It's like waiting for a bus - you hang about all day then three come along at once!

She's spent £84 on the writing box, china beaker and horn.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Take care now.

Bye-bye.

VO: James meanwhile has had another look around but is still very keen on the ointment bottles.

John, I have found two items.

You know I said this morning I'd been round a pharmacy?

And what sort of price are you looking for on this, John?

The white one's going to have to be £80.

JB: £80?!

JOHN: Yep.

Now, look, John, that bottle there... Yep.

..if I can identify it can I have it for a tenner?

No.

So what do you want for that one?

JOHN: 30 quid.

JB: 30 quid.

John, my final offer - could you do that for 20 please?

25, you've got a good deal.

22.

Erm... 23.

23, go on, I...

It would be unseemly to haggle any further John.

There we are.

That would be really great.

Thank you.

Brilliant.

Very happy with that.

Fifth and final.

Wa-hey!

VO: I thought you were never going to agree!

Helen meanwhile isn't so sure she's finished her shopping.

So, I am a bit nervous now because I've only got four items.

I don't want to turn up to the reveal with just four so I think I'm going to call Lee... ..and I really want the silver matchbox cover now.

VO: Let's hope Lee hasn't already sold it then!

OK, here goes.

Hi, is that Lee?

Hi Lee, it's Helen Hall here.

How are you?

I was wondering if I could have the Asprey silver, erm, matchbox cover from you.

Can we do that?

Oh good, you've still got it, good.

Thank goodness.

So, erm, did we say £40 on it?

Yeah, alright.

OK, brilliant.

Thanks so much.

Alright, speak to you again.

Bye-bye.

VO: Cor, that was lucky, wasn't it?

Thankfully Lee was able to send it round straightaway, so let's see who bought what.

HH: Right, then.

JB: Ready?

Moment of truth.

Da, da, da!

HH: Right.

JB: There we are.

HH: OK. JB: Here's my array.

What is that?

That... That is a funny fellow, isn't it?

It's only got three legs instead of the four.

OK. And that... That worked for me.

A fiver.

Oh well, that'll do.

And that is...

I don't know what your Latin is like.

HH: No, bad.

JB: "Aqua" for water and "cara" is caraway seed.

Oh OK.

So it's extract of caraway seed and it was for the cure of wind.

HH: (LAUGHS) Slightly prophetic.

This is my most speculative item.

Alright, that's sweet.

And this is a very stylish lady with a bob, great jawline, great nose.

And it's slightly in the manner of Eric Gill... OK. ..who was a great illustrator, sculptor.

You name it, he was there.

How much did you get it for?

JB: £70.

HH: Oh, nice.

I didn't have the best couple of days of buying, really.

Oh, it happens to us all.

I was struggling.

I was struggling.

So I've got a bizarre assortment of pieces.

Here we go.

Lots of goodies.

Da, da, da!

Brass car horn.

Lovely.

Makes a great sound, does it?

Yep, here we go.

(HORN PARPS) Lovely, very good.

VO: Nothing like blowing your own hooter, eh?

So, you know, we can have fun with that in the E Type can't we?

Yeah.

Looks totally functional.

And how much did you pay?

I paid for that 25 quid.

JB: That's fine.

That's lovely.

HH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

JB: Nice item.

HH: This I love.

Yep.

'20s, '30s in style.

Lalique-esque but it's just a cheap pressed English glassmaker but I love it, like the decoration with the steps.

JB: Yeah, I like... HH: Sort of deco style.

JB: And very flared collar.

HH: Yeah, I love it.

I want it actually.

Well good luck.

Yeah.

JB: Now... HH: Come on then.

What, last in?

Have you got your trunks?

I don't think...

If you got in this water I don't think anybody'd see if you were wearing trunks or not.

HH: No, fair point.

JB: Anyway... HH: OK. JB: Let's go.

VO: Before you go, chaps, tell us what you really think.

JB: Helen's bought some nice items.

I slightly...

I do covet that Asprey's matchbox cover, it is a lovely item and at £40.

When...

If she'd asked me how much she had spent on it I would have said 50.

HH: I think that pottery tray is horrible.

(CHUCKLES) His Eric Gill thing makes me very nervous.

That is the kind of thing if it can be...

If it could possibly be attributed or even just sold in the manner of, you know, that is really nice.

It will be interesting who will win this next leg and let's see how we do.

VO: Indeed we will, as they head 30 miles for today's auction in Swindon in Wiltshire.

The inspiration for the NHS came from a Swindon scheme established in 1871.

It offered railway employees "cradle to grave" healthcare free at point of use.

There's nothing going free at today's auction, though, we hope, as our friendly rivals arrive to do battle.

JB: Here we are.

HH: Here we are!

(HORN HONKS) JB: Oh!

A celebratory honk.

We've arrived, everyone.

VO: Kidson-Trigg's auction house is the location for today's auction showdown.

Doing the honors at the podium is Pippa Kidson-Trigg.

What does she think of our items?

We've got a mixed bag, certainly we've got an interesting spread.

One of my favorites is the little posy vase.

It's functional, colorful and it's fashionable.

It will suit the modern market.

Should fetch £20-£40 but hopefully a bit more.

The Eric Gill piece, I hope this might be a bit of a sleeper.

Obviously Eric Gill is a great name so hopefully we might get to £100 today.

Am I going to sell everything today?

Well, we'll see.

Let's hope so.

VO: James began this third leg of the road trip with £218.28 and has gone on to spend £163 on five auction lots.

Helen started with £184 and has parted with £134 also for five lots.

Thank you so much for having me and I hope to see you again sometime.

VO: So with one auction win each under their belts it's time for the bidding to begin.

First up out of the trap is James's brown glass bottle.

Put me in at £5, I'm bid at five, is it £10 at the back of the room?

HH: £10, we're at 10.

At 15 now, at 20, lady's bid at 20.

At £20 at the back of the room.

Are we all done?

Come on, one more.

At £20.

VO: The bidders have bottled out of this one, giving James his first loss.

Oh well, there you go.

A windless area.

VO: Can Helen get off to a better start with her posy bowl?

PIPPA: Start me off at £5.

£5.

At £5, £10 at the back of the room.

Thank you.

10.

There we go, got 10.

Phew.

Go on, on the internet, go on.

At £10, last call.

Hammer's raised.

PIPPA: Fair warning.

(GAVEL) Oh, there we go, tenner.

VO: Even-stevens, but it's just the beginning.

Next up is the commemorative china beaker.

Someone put me in at £5 to start.

At £5.

At five, I'll take 10.

At £5, I'll take 10.

10.

At £10.

At 10, they came in just before.

At 15 now.

Anyone else in the room?

HH: OK, we're at 15.

JB: 15.

PIPPA: At 15.

(GAVEL) HH: That's a bit better.

JB: A lot better isn't it?

VO: Exciting?

It's another loss, but the biggest items are yet to come.

So what did you spend your money on, then, Helen?

VO: Will the matchbox holder strike a light with today's bidders?

20, at £20 I'm bid, at 20.

At 20 I'll take five.

25, thank you, at the back of the room.

At 25, 30 fresh bidder.

JB: 30, well done.

40, thank you.

PIPPA: At 45 with you.

HH: Yes!

PIPPA: I'm selling at 45.

(GAVEL) PIPPA: Thank you.

HH: Phew.

Well done.

Pulled it back there.

VO: You certainly did - a tidy fiver on top.

Will James see a big profit on his mirrored stand?

I'm going to start the bidding off at 50... JB: They are quite rare to see.

HH: Rare as hens' teeth, yeah.

70, five still with me.

At 75 still with me.

HH: Oh, that is just... JB: How very ungentlemanly and rather unseemly.

Almost vulgar profit.

I'm selling on the internet at home for £90.

(GAVEL) HH: What did it go for?

JB: I think 90 in the end.

VO: Ha!

That's lit up James's fortune alright - £75 profit puts him in the lead.

You see, you can't keep a good man down, Helen, that's your problem.

VO: James's three-legged tray is up next.

There we are, start me off at £5, I'm bid at five, at five, at five.

At five, I'll take 10.

At £5 for the tea tray.

Sorry, we're just waiting for the internet now.

At £10, thank you.

At £10 I am bid.

Fair warning, fair warning at home at £10.

I was right not to pay more than a fiver.

You were, you definitely were.

VO: The tray has served up a fiver profit for James.

JB: Lovely tray.

HH: Mm.

VO: And now it's time for James's slate and malachite mantle clock.

Start the bidding off at £5, I am bid at five, at five.

HH: Hmm.

JB: Five.

Ew.

Oh dear.

At £5, I will take 10, thank you, seated.

At £10 I'm bid.

Last call in the room.

Fair warning, fair warning on the internet.

PIPPA: I'm selling at £10.

(GAVEL) JB: ..expecting that.

There we are.

£10, that is an absolute bargain.

VO: Oh dear, he's clocked up a £40 loss with that.

I'm now back to zero again on that lot.

VO: Now, is the writing on the wall for Helen's writing box?

£5 I'm bid, at five.

I think it's overpriced at five, Helen.

10, thank you, Dave.

At £10 at the back of the room.

At £10, I'll take five.

Thank you.

At 15, at 15 seated.

20, fresh bidder at 25 now.

At 25, at 30, at five.

Do you want to go again?

At 40, at five, at 45.

PIPPA: All done at 45.

(GAVEL) HH: Yay, a profit!

JB: 45!

That was well done, well done, you.

VO: A nice £14 profit for Helen, before commission.

I think you slipped into the lead there, chief.

VO: Will anyone give a hoot for Helen's horn?

Ha!

£5, at £5 please.

Thank you, at £5 at the back of the room.

At five, I'll take 10.

At £10, thank you.

At 20, at £20 seated.

At £20, fresh bidder at the back of the room at 25.

30, five, 40, five, 50.

Yes!

Come on, horn.

PIPPA: All done at £50?

(GAVEL) Well done, well done.

He-he-he-he!

VO: Helen maintains her lead over James with a £25 profit!

See, you've done very well on the last two.

I've done well!

They needed warming up, Helen.

Yeah, they did.

VO: Can James get back in front with his Eric Gill-style portrait?

Start the bidding off at £5.

Oh.

At £10 now, at 10, 10, 10.

15.

It'll go.

It'll go.

At £15, any advance?

20, thank you.

At 25.

Do you want to go again?

At 30.

She's bid on loads of our stuff, that lady there.

I love her.

Selling in the room at £40.

(GAVEL) JB: Oh dear.

Oh James, I'm sorry.

It's all gone horribly wrong for me.

VO: Yes, he had high hopes for that, but he's just lost £30 on it.

(CHUCKLES) Well the market always decides doesn't it?

The market decides, yeah.

VO: It does.

JB: So there we are.

Oh dear.

VO: So let's total it up.

James started this leg of the road trip merrily with £218.28, but after auction costs he made a loss of £23.60 leaving a gloomy £194.68.

Helen meanwhile started this leg of the trip with £184, but after auction costs scraped a profit of just £1.30 - he-he - thereby winning this third leg of the road trip with £185.30.

You did... You did well.

Do you know what?

Scores on the doors, £1.30 profit.

I'm closing the gap James, you better watch out.

VO: She certainly has, Helen's won two of the three auctions so far on this trip, as the rookie turns master.

Just avoid clocks and carved... JB: Avoid... HH: And carved panels.

JB: And carved panels.

Right, here we go.

And we're off.

VO: On the next Antiques Road Trip... James loses his confidence.

I'm going through this sort of buying crisis!

But Helen's feeling flush.

Mega bucks, mega!

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