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

I've got it, I've got it.

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

VO: ..and a goal to scour Britain for antiques.

Argh!

VO: The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction... ..but it's no mean feat.

Doubled up there!

VO: There'll be worthy winners... AUCTIONEER: £1,700.

SERHAT: Yay!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

CHARLES: Oh, no!

VO: Will it be the high road to glory... Lovin' it, lovin' it, lovin' it.

VO: ..or the slow road to disaster?

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Nice!

VO: Crikey!

We're in Cornwall.

I'm relishing being chauffeured around by you... ..cuz I can look out the window.

VO: It's outing number four for dealers Margie Cooper and Paul Martin in their ruby red 1958 Jaguar XK150.

PAUL: I grew up in Falmouth.

MARGIE: Did you really?

PAUL: Yeah... MARGIE: How lovely.

So you were a teenager here?

I had flared jeans that my mum put darts and vents in to make them even more flared, you know, in the late '70s.

You've got to be careful with flared trousers.

You can trip over them.

VO: Talking of taking a tumble, last time... Oh, look.

VO: ..Cheshire-based Margie saw her big bucks diminish a little.

Gosh, can you imagine?

Oh, for goodness'... VO: She set out with £200 and has just over 342 for this leg.

MARGIE: Well I'm sliding down the greasy pole.

..Like a drum.

VO: But Paul spent all his money and won the day.

PAUL: Quirky!

AUCTIONEER: Start me at 30.

I don't believe what I'm watching.

VO: And after starting with the same sum, he's really starting to catch up and now has £232 in his piggy.

PAUL: Fingers crossed.

Yeah...

If all goes to plan, I might close the gap by another 80 quid today.

Oh, don't!

It'll be touch and go which one of us wins.

VO: Game on, eh?

Time for a quick recap on their journey so far.

They began in Shepton Mallet and have been winding their way around Somerset and the West Country, and they'll finish off in Exmouth.

PAUL: Slowly but surely, I will catch you... MARGIE: Yeah.

PAUL: You know that.

Have no fear.

You'll trip yourself up!

You will.

VO: Well, we'll soon see.

Their items will wing their way to Lichfield for the auction, but we begin in Wadebridge.

VO: Once a center for wool production, the town regularly turns up in the top 10 best places to live guides.

VO: Not surprising, really.

Victoria Antiques awaits our delectable duo.

PAUL: I like the look of this.

Proper old school.

VO: It's said to be the largest antiques center in Cornwall, so they shouldn't get in each other's way.

But if they do, I'm sure Michael, the owner, will sort them out.

VO: Right, Margie's off and running, with £342 in her kitty.

Oh gosh, that takes me back.

This is G Plan, which was all the rage in the '60s.

Everything was teak.

You can see how it attracts...

I mean, look at the clean lines.

It's sort of like Scandinavian look, isn't it?

G Plan coffee table... with a glass top, and it looks as though it was made yesterday, doesn't it?

VO: Immaculate condition.

Ticket price, £120.

MARGIE: If that was a little bit cheaper, I might have a go at that.

Brings back happy memories.

VO: That's Margie in a daydream.

VO: So where did Paul and his £230 get to?

There he is... ..Oh.

Ha ha!

PAUL: There's some Staffordshire flatback pottery here, which was very popular from around about 1790, right up to 1900.

And it's called Staffordshire flatback because it's designed to go on a mantelpiece or against the wall, so the backs are flat.

Generally unmarked.

Pieces can fetch around about £80, right up to £300, £400.

I find it a bit kitsch.

It's not for me today cuz I need to buy quite smartly, really.

I need to catch Margie up.

VO: Off you go, then.

PAUL: Clocks galore!

I don't need to look up there.

I can't afford clocks and anyway, time's flying by and I haven't bought anything yet.

Actually, that's quite pretty.

It's a Victorian car horn.

And the rubber's in very good condition, actually.

It's brass, sort of circa 1890, 1900.

There's no splits to the brass.

It's quite tactile, it's soft.

Nice rolled edge on the rim there and the rubber's not perished.

I think any classic car owner would love it as well, and that's what it's all about.

There is a big market for this kind of thing.

VO: Price tag, £48.

If I can get that for 25, maybe £30, that's worth buying.

It's begging to be tried and go 'unh-unh-unh.'

I'm going to sneak up on Margie and give her a little fright.

VO: He's not...

..He is!

(HONK) Oh!

BOTH: (LAUGH) PAUL: Wake up, madam!

MARGIE: Hey, I like that.

PAUL: I do.

Car horn.

Victorian.

MARGIE: Well spotted!

Be good for the Jag.

MARGIE: You bought it?

PAUL: No, not yet.

"Come on, kids..." "..supper's ready."

(EXHALES) I think I need a sit down after that.

VO: Me too.

(WHISPERS) 375.

MARGIE: Oh, look at that little baby.

It's a bentwood chair, typical bentwood, they get the wood to bend like that.

VO: They were invented by German-Austrian cabinet maker Michael Thonet in the mid 19th century.

I mean, it's such a solid chair when you look at it.

It's indestructible, really.

(CHUCKLES) I reckon it's probably 1920s, 1930s.

And obviously the seats get damaged and broken.

You can see all the remains of the last seat.

And it's been beautifully redone, rattan work.

And children's chairs are really quite nice.

Get your little kid to sit on there.

"Don't move."

"Stay on there."

VO: Yes, Mum.

Ticket price, £48.

MARGIE: Right, I'm going to ask if Michael can do... something for me on this.

Michael, have you got a minute?

MICHAEL: Yeah.

MARGIE: I've seen this child's chair.

Bentwood...

Very nice.

You know, at the right price, I'll take it off your hands.

MICHAEL: Just to help you out, £25.

That was the price I was rather hoping you'd say.

MICHAEL: Jolly good.

VO: Ah!

How kind.

And, with £317 still to play with, she's not finished yet.

VO: Now, Paul, you may remember, has already set his heart on a car horn.

Anything else?

I like that.

That's hand-blown.

That's kind of late-18th, early-19th century.

And that is a wasp trap, or a fly trap.

So basically, you can drop a little bit of whatever you want, a bit of jam or a bit of honey, and trap the little blighters.

It's got that lovely sort of onion shape, which is so traditional, so 18th-century.

It's in very, very good condition.

Price is £85.

I might buy that, if I can get it at a good price.

I'm going to hang onto it and ask, cuz if I put that back and Margie picks it up, and she says, "Paul, look what I found," then that will sting.

VO: Ouch!

Don't forget your car horn.

VO: Michael!

What's the best price you've got on the Victorian car horn?

PAUL: It's got £48 on the ticket.

That could be 35.

PAUL: And the wasp trap?

MICHAEL: Wasp trap.

PAUL: Or fly trap.

85...65 is the best I can do on that.

If I bought the two, could you do a better deal?

MICHAEL: £90?

PAUL: Yeah, I'll take 90.

MICHAEL: OK. VO: That's a very generous £60 for the fly catcher and 30 for the car horn.

Thank you, Michael.

MICHAEL: You're welcome.

Bye.

PAUL: You've been a star.

Bye.

VO: Paul's hands are full, but he still has £142 in his pocket.

(HONKS HORN) VO: His companion bagged herself a child's bentwood chair earlier.

How goes it, Margie?

MARGIE: So much to look at.

Metronome... Lamps.

Oh, look at this!

An old antique milking stool.

Probably made out of elm, made for purely utilitarian...

It could be used on the farm.

Isn't that great?

That's about 150 years old.

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

Handles really well.

It's a lovely, real genuine antique.

What are three legs good for?

Uneven stone floors.

I'll prove to you.

But this isn't an uneven floor.

There you go, milk away!

Yeah.

Don't wobble.

Brilliant.

Now all I've got to do... is get up.

VO: You can do it, Margie!

The stool is priced at £58.

I think 58 is too dear.

But this is the Antiques Road Trip, and this is a real antique and that's the beauty of it.

MARGIE: Michael, have you got a minute?

MICHAEL: Yeah.

Coming!

VO: They're really keeping Michael on his toes today!

MARGIE: Mid-Victorian...

Solid as a rock, aren't they?

MICHAEL: Yeah!

MARGIE: But...it's £58.

I'll let you have it for £40.

MARGIE: I'll accept that.

MICHAEL: OK, thank you.

Thank you very much indeed.

MICHAEL: Lovely.

So I'm going to give you some money.

VO: Nice work.

So, alongside the chair she bought earlier, Margie comes away with a milking stool for £40, and has £277 for the next shop.

VO: Paul is taking a mini break from shopping in Bodmin.

The town is home to Bodmin Keep, once the HQ of the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry, a regiment established in 1881 and vital to the evolution of the British army's tactical warfare.

VO: Verity Anthony curates the museum that now resides here, housing more than 300 years of military history.

PAUL: Hi Verity!

VERITY: Hi Paul.

Welcome to Bodmin Keep.

It was built in response to Napoleonic threats in 1859.

It originally housed the Royal Cornwall Militia and then later became the home of the army regiment, the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry.

Tell me, what does the light infantry mean?

VERITY: The light infantry was developed so that they were more fleet of foot, they were encouraged to think for themselves in a way that didn't really happen before.

VO: Traditionally, the British army fought battles in long columns of soldiers, firing one line at a time to strict orders.

Where did the idea of the light infantry come from?

This was all inspired by a man called Sir John Moore.

He's known as the father of the light infantry.

VO: Sir John Moore first saw action as a lieutenant in the American War of Independence.

He witnessed how differently the Americans fought, using speed and flexibility in small units that could adapt to the circumstances of each battle.

VO: By 1803, now a major general, Moore schooled the new light infantry in these strategies, which also required more complicated orders, orders delivered by bugle.

PAUL: I've noticed cap badges, tunic badges, emblems.

You've got Cornwall and the bugle.

So with the light infantry, where they needed to be faster, they needed to be able to adapt.

You could run with the bugle.

VERITY: Absolutely.

You can run with it, you can get many more tunes out of it, which gave many more options for orders.

And that became really important to the light infantry, and that's why you see it as a symbol across the regiment.

VERITY: Absolutely.

PAUL: You've got a bugle here.

VERITY: Do you want a go?

PAUL: I'll try it.

VO: Ear plugs to the ready... VO: The unit was originally split into two battalions, one covering home and the other to fight abroad.

VO: But by the First World War, more soldiers were needed to take up arms.

VERITY: It was a massive expansion.

Where were they stationed during the war?

In August 1914, the 1st Battalion were serving on the western front.

And what we have here is a German pickelhaube, so a German helmet, and that rather large hole you see... Gosh, yes.

..is thought to be the first shot fired during the First World War, and it was actually shot by a soldier of the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry.

He was a soldier called Private Sambrook.

And did he survive the war?

So unfortunately, he didn't.

He was actually killed three weeks later.

But our regiments actually won eight Victoria Crosses.

PAUL: Gosh.

But our probably most famous member of the regiment is Harry Patch.

VO: In 1917, Harry Patch was fighting in the Battle of Passchendaele when he was hit by shell fire that killed the other two members of his team.

Injured, he was returned home.

VERITY: Known as the last fighting Tommy because he was the last infantry soldier to die, aged 111, one week, one day.

He went on to be a firefighter in the Second World War.

And in his later life, he talked really strongly about being a pacifist, and he was really well known, in his hundreds, to still be really vocal about his pacifism.

Wow.

What a story.

So what's the legacy of the Duke of Cornwall's light infantry?

The legacy comes from the museum itself, holding all of that history, but it's honored most by the people who served in it and their families.

VO: It is indeed.

This important building not only carries the weight of historic battles, but echoes with the vigor and courage of those who fought them.

VO: Meanwhile, Margie's heading for Lostwithiel.

The medieval town was the capital of Cornwall in the 14th century.

VO: Margie's capital is £277 to spend in Uzella Court Antiques.

There's a mix of wares on display from several dealers, all kept terribly spick and span by Vicky, the shopkeeper.

MARGIE: Oh look at... That's funny, isn't it?

Let's have a look... Whoops!

Oh, we've locked it!

VO: Anyone got the key?

VO: Hurrah!

Now then, what is that?

Is that a stork with a baby?

Or is that a heron with a frog?

One or the other.

VO: I vote for the froggy heron combo.

MARGIE: It's a sweet little copper arts and crafts dish.

This area is very well known for copper works.

The late 19th century, the fishing industry became unreliable.

They wanted to retrain the fishermen to do things in bad weather, that they could make money.

VO: The Newlyn Industrial Class was set up in 1890 by artist John D MacKenzie, teaching former fishermen a naturalistic style of copper work.

Nice to see some things that are different and amusing.

VO: Ticket price, £58.

MARGIE: It's very nice.

I wish it was cheaper cuz I'd buy it.

And here's me thinking it was a stork with a baby.

What was I thinking?

(CHUCKLES) VO: What indeed?

Not to worry.

There's plenty more to see.

VO: Up you go, then.

MARGIE: That's unusual, isn't it?

What an unusual mirror...

..So it's wooden-framed with a beveled mirror, which is just beginning to have a little problem down there.

But it shows that it's got age to it.

It's been hand painted in this sort of animal-skin design... ..but I'm not sure... Is it... Is that... Is it papier mâché?

No, it can't be papier mâché.

VO: Could be.

MARGIE: I've been drawn to it cuz I think it's quite stylish, but it's not everybody's taste, is it?

And if you imagine that in a rather smart London showroom or an interior design shop...

It's pretty striking, isn't it?

VO: Ticket price, £98.

MARGIE: Well it's all down now to how much I can buy that for.

It's a real gamble, isn't it?

I think that's a real gamble.

It's a quandary.

I'm going to walk away and have a think.

VO: Well, that's a "will she, won't she?"

if ever I saw one.

How exciting!

And while she's reflecting, anything else catch your eye, Margie?

MARGIE: This is really unusual.

I've never seen a bell and an inkwell together.

I've never ever seen one of these before.

It's Edwardian.

It's about 1910.

It's in super nick, lovely condition.

Obviously, I was rather excited cuz it was £95.

I thought it was silver.

It's silver plate.

You know, this is silver plated on copper to put on your desk.

If you decide you want to post a letter or something, maybe you go... for one of your servants to come and take the letter for you.

VO: Yes, m'lady.

MARGIE: Inkwells sell... Bells sell.

It's...a bit expensive.

Maybe Vicky will be able to help me with it.

Vicky, have you a moment, please?

VICKY: You called?

You rang?

VO: She did, rather a lot.

MARGIE: I quite like this, but it's £95.

Now, I have a figure in mind.

VICKY: Mm.

But I would, wouldn't I?

VICKY: Yes, indeed.

What's the figure in your mind?

Could we start at 80?

I was thinking a tad under 70.

70, but that would be it.

Well, I think I'll say thank you.

VO: So, what about the mirror... priced at £98?

Cuz I'm a bit scared of it cuz it's not everybody's taste, but I just think it's unusual.

Now then, I have a figure in mind.

VICKY: Mm.

MARGIE: (LAUGHS) What can we do on that?

78 would be the best.

Yeah.

Probably do another couple of pounds, but really, that's it, seriously.

MARGIE: (LAUGHS) 75?

VICKY: 75.

I don't know.

VO: It's the moment of truth.

MARGIE: OK. VICKY: Excellent.

Done.

VO: Decision made.

Way to chance it, Margie!

That's 75 for the mirror, and with the inkwell at 70, that will leave her with £132.76 for tomorrow.

(ENGINE SPLUTTERS) VO: Oh no!

Not looking good.

MARGIE: Right... (SIGHS) I've got to find another means of transport.

(CHUCKLES) VO: I hope Paul's not waiting to be picked up.

Think it's a goner.

MARGIE: (SIGHS) And the day started so well.

(CHUCKLES) Now I'm carless!

VO: Bye bye, car.

Nighty night.

VO: Morning, trippers, one and all.

What's going on here, then?

Have you noticed anything different, Paul?

Your hair?

MARGIE: No, not my hair.

PAUL: (LAUGHS) MARGIE: The car!

The car!

PAUL: Yes!

It's gone.

The red one's gone.

And, hey presto, we've got another Jag.

PAUL: This one's a Mark 2, so this one's about 10 years younger.

MARGIE: I've just noticed the tax disc... PAUL: Yeah, that's... Yeah.

MARGIE: ..is the original.

1966.

MARGIE: World Cup year.

PAUL: They think it's all over!

It is now!

VO: Hardly!

Another day's shopping is round the corner.

MARGIE: I've a horrible feeling... ..you're going to catch me up.

I need a genie in a bottle to help me out of this one, that's for sure.

VO: Funnily enough, yesterday Paul did buy a bottle... PAUL: That is a wasp trap.

VO: ..No genie.

And a car horn.

PAUL: "Come on, kids!

Supper's ready."

VO: He still has £142.46 to spend.

(ENGINE REVS) Oh, that roar!

MARGIE: Rev!

I mean, can I do that again?

Yeah, go on.

MARGIE: Rev it up.

Ahh!

VO: Despite her car woes, Margie bagged a three-legged milking stool, a Bentwood child's chair... ..an Edwardian bell/inkwell... Maybe you go... ..for one of your servants to come.

VO: ..and a decorative mirror, leaving her with £132.76.

MARGIE: Paul.

PAUL: Yeah?

Isn't this Inspector Morse's car?

It is, my dear Watson!

(LAUGHS) VO: Uh-oh!

Wrong detective!

Never mind.

Their items are headed to Lichfield for the auction, but we're going to St Austell.

VO: Paul has dropped Margie off... ..and has £142 to spend in Cougar Antiques & Vintage Emporium.

Lee's the man in charge where there's militaria, retro, vintage and upcycled items, all carefully collected by Lee.

Very nice, too.

New hat.

£2,600.

I won't be buying this today, that's for sure.

PAUL: You can have it this way up.

I like this.

I really like this.

I think that's very decorative.

It's a subtle colored oak.

It's got a good hue to it.

It's an English mirror.

I'd say it's 1920's.

It's...it's almost got that sort of art nouveau flavor to it, just coming out of that sort of late Victorian period, which is sort of Gothic revival here, with these quatrefoil... ..the carving and a small quatrefoil here.

You know, motifs which you see in Gothic architecture.

And it's been cut out with a fretsaw and it's hand carved.

So it's crude in places, but it's got a feel about it.

It's got a feel as if it's artisan-made.

It's made with love and it's made to last.

VO: Ticket price, £52.

PAUL: Well, trouble is, I need to get it for about £35 in order to get my 50 quid, if that's what it's worth.

VO: Something to consider.

PAUL: This is a nice little lot.

It's some cricket memorabilia.

Love the ball.

This looks to me like 1930's or '40's.

And they're quite rare!

Pow!

But that's what I like.

Gray-Nicolls Limited.

VO: LJ Nicolls started making cricket gear in 1876 and supplied WG Grace with the bat he used to score his 100th century in May 1894.

PAUL: I think this is a good little lot because cricket memorabilia is really, really on the up.

I wonder how much this is, though.

That's not bad, actually.

Look, 35 quid.

I think the money's about right at 35 quid.

I think the ball and the boots look fantastic.

It's got a lovely patina on it.

VO: The crowd falls silent and it's Paul Martin at the crease.

PAUL: Yeah!

Howzat?

(APPLAUSE) VO: Bit of a googly there, but some nifty footwork.

PAUL: I'm going to go and find the owner, Lee, and find out exactly what the deal is on this cricket memorabilia.

PAUL: Lee!

Fancy a game?

LEE: Sounds good to me.

I like that cricket memorabilia in the cabinet.

There's £35 on the ticket.

What's the very best?

I'd do it for 30, Paul.

OK, OK. £30.

There's also something else I've seen.

The mirror.

It's sort of like 1920's, English.

That's got £52 on it... LEE: £52 on that one.

PAUL: What can I have that for?

LEE: Paul, I'd do 45 on that.

If I bought the two, could you knock any more off?

Maybe we'd take a fiver off each one again.

VO: Ah, that would be 25 for the cricket gear and 40 for the mirror.

That's £65.

I think you've got a deal.

VO: And he's left with £77.46 to bowl a maiden over.

VO: Now, talking of maidens, Margie is heading for Tregothnan.

Nestled in an area of outstanding natural beauty, the estate has pioneered botanical firsts for around 700 years.

VO: MD and botanist Jonathon Jones OBE can tell us more.

MARGIE: My word, Jonathon, it's like a jungle here!

It is like a jungle.

We're on the south coast of Cornwall.

There's a very deep sea creek, and that is the source of our warmth in the winter.

So this Indian, almost Darjeeling-style, jungle suits tea perfectly.

Very first British tea plantation, putting the Englishness into English tea for the first time.

Where did you get your first bushes from?

People in the tea industry, thinking this was either bonkers or it's going to make... JONATHON: ..will work.

MARGIE: Ah...

So we had tea bushes given to us from Darjeeling, from Japan, India... MARGIE: Really?

..All over.

And we had about 35 different kinds of tea to start the project.

What a learning curve you're on, Jonathon.

It was a huge...

Still learning!

VO: And after a few false starts, 300 camellia bushes, from which tea leaves are processed, eventually took root.

MARGIE: Oh my goodness!

How lovely is this?!

VO: But the first harvest yielded just one ounce of tea, that's around 14 cupfuls, and it was clear many more would be needed for a viable business.

Now around 20,000 bushes are planted each year.

Spread across a 150-acre plantation, they're divided into a series of tea gardens.

MARGIE: So these are tea bushes.

Camellia sinensis.

That's what tea is, yeah.

So tell us a bit more about this camellia sinensis.

Well, they're really tricky to grow.

They basically want to die for the first five years of their life.

And if you get them through that period... MARGIE: Really?

..then they should live for the next 400 years, so very long-lived indeed.

So they're temperamental at the beginning?

JONATHON: Really temperamental.

Very tricky crop to get going.

And these are now seven or eight years old and they're just away, and they'll be here for, hopefully, many centuries.

VO: It's believed that the Chinese started to drink tea about 6,000 years ago.

But it was the British who took it to our hearts.

So how did tea come to Europe?

Probably around 400 years ago and made very popular by royal families.

For the first hundred years or so of its existence in Europe, it was very expensive.

And then it became very popular, and still today it's the world's number one drink.

Are we drinking the same tea now as all those hundreds of years ago?

In the early days, it was mostly drunk green.

MARGIE: Mm.

But it's evolved a lot, and this country prefers black tea, which is really heavily oxidized.

And I can show you how that happens.

Margie, I think you'd like to pluck some tea!

Show me how to do it.

JONATHON: So there's five stages - pluck, wither, roll, oxidize, dry.

So basically, step one is literally plucking leaves off the plucking table.

That's what this flat top is called.

Going for those two leaves and the bud.

Then, when you've got a handful of lovely, delicate two leaves and a bud, you lay them out to wither.

JONATHON: Ooh, there's a cup of tea.

Just roll them now.

That way or that way?

JONATHON: It doesn't matter.

You'll feel them bruising.

You don't want to break them up too much.

Just feel them bruising.

Yeah, and you can feel, sort of a bit moister.

JONATHON: And then they'll react with each other.

In no time at all, they start to change from green leaves to brown and eventually black, which is what British people mostly drink.

And so finally, you dry only for storage.

You don't need to dry tea, really.

You could drink it straight away.

But for storage, you need to get down to less than 10% moisture.

Nice work, but I really want to take you now for a cup of tea, Margie!

Thought you'd never ask!

MARGIE: (LAUGHS) VO: Tregothnan now make some of the world's rarest and highest rated teas... ..blending home-grown Cornish tea leaves with Assam and Darjeeling.

Well, this is delicious.

I'd love another cup.

Margie, you can have all the tea in Cornwall!

VO: Aw!

And as Margie enjoys her cuppa, the specialist growers here, under Jonathon's watchful eye, continue to increase the acreage of tea bushes and intend to produce this uniquely English tea for centuries to come.

VO: Out on the road, Paul's not on a tea break.

Oh, no.

He's heading for Truro.

What a fantastic day!

It doesn't get any better than this, it really doesn't.

Look at that sky!

VO: Delicious.

The only city in Cornwall, its triple-spired cathedral is one of Britain's newest, completed in 1910.

VO: Bridge Antiques and Retro Centre beckons Paul and his £77.

I like this.

This is lovely.

Hello there, by the way!

Hi, it's Paul.

Hi, I'm Jane.

PAUL: Hello, what a great place you've got.

Thank you very much.

PAUL: I've got a good vibe about today.

VO: Splendid!

VO: It's time to find something to buy!

PAUL: I do like my architectural salvage because I think it's great value for money, because you can't cast and make things as good as this today.

And if you did, it's bespoke and it would cost a fortune.

You know, a matched pair of doorknobs like that, new... ..you'd be looking at around about £150.

And this is just classic recycling.

This is what antiques are all about, you know, they're 15th hand.

And because they're so well made, they last.

That's the beauty of antiques.

VO: Hear, hear!

And as Paul continues on, let's catch up with Margie, who's in Falmouth.

VO: With £132 burning a hole in her pocket, she's made her way to Antics, a kooky mix of antiques, vintage and curios... ..from the 17th century to the present day.

That's Martin.

He'll keep our Margie on the rails.

Ha!

VO: Beaky!

Hm, the enamel sign, it's probably 100 years old.

MARGIE: During the late Victorian times, they realized the value of advertising.

So you know, this was like your internet of the Victorian period.

(CHUCKLES) That's how you advertised your wares.

They're always in such a bad... bad condition because enamel is very, very easy to chip.

£185...

I can't afford it, but I'm always drawn to them.

And that, actually, is not in bad condition.

Cuz it's been knocking around for about 100 years.

VO: She's not wrong, you know.

Meanwhile, back in Truro, how's tricks, Paul?

VO: Ahem!

Singing the blues for Marge.

# I'm down in the dumps, man.

# (LAUGHS) VO: Could be your singing.

Haha.

Just joking.

Right...

I got distracted then.

VO: You did a bit.

VO: Down, boy!

PAUL: Can't get the lid up.

Hm, I like that.

That's a heavy old oak 1930's pub table.

Solid as anything.

I love the top.

I like that top.

It's the texture I like.

I like the fact that it's well made.

I like the black banding with the red top and that golden oak color.

Classic pub furniture from the 1920s to the 1950s.

Cuz all of these things are enjoying a renaissance right now.

They're on trend.

Look how well built that is.

It's got a friendly look to it.

That's classic 20th century modern.

It was cutting edge in its day.

VO: No ticket price.

That's funky.

I put that at around about £65 to £80.

I'm gonna find out how much is.

VO: Uh, Jane?

I'm looking for around 60.

PAUL: Can I make an offer?

JANE: (INHALES) PAUL: Would you...take 40 quid?

JANE: ..Yes.

Would you do that?

JANE: Yes, I'll do that.

PAUL: Oh, brilliant.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

VO: How kind.

At £40, he's bagged a bargain.

And that's Paul all shopped out.

All I need now is a cup of coffee.

VO: Mine's a double espresso.

VO: Back over in Falmouth, Margie's already full of beans.

I think I'm getting a bit silly now.

VO: Just a smidge.

MARGIE: Interesting... Yeah, that's a printer's mallet.

That's hide.

So he'd set his printing blocks, and then he'd level it all out, so it was all even so it printed evenly.

Oh, that's a nice tool, isn't it?

That's been a hard-working tool.

It's as solid as a rock.

MARGIE: And £45.

Hm...

Interesting bit of history there.

I wonder who spent his life using that.

It's great, innit, thinking about things like that?

Times gone by... ..Whoever wielded that for a living.

I don't really think that, under the hammer... Get the joke?

..that that will make me a profit.

VO: Not for today, then.

Well, that's quite interesting.

I like things like this.

Obviously, it's self-explanatory.

It's obviously advertising an art gallery.

This is slate.

It's very...

It weighs a tonne, that.

Ooh, yeah.

Absolutely weighs a tonne.

It's been unscrewed off the wall... ..of an art gallery that is obviously no longer.

VO: Like a dead parrot, "it is no more, miss."

MARGIE: It's been nicely carved.

It's probably not terribly old.

Mid-20th century.

It looks good, doesn't it?

It looks solid.

If it's a reasonable price, I think I might buy that.

VO: What say you, Martin?

Well, look, I was going to turn it round at 30.

I can do 20, it's just come in today.

Martin, that's absolutely great.

That works for me.

OK, I can take that.

MARGIE: So I've got a fiver out.

(LAUGHS) Nice try.

VO: 'Twas an honest mistake, guv!

MARGIE: Thank you so much, Martin.

MARTIN: Thank you.

VO: Well, that was easy.

And without further ado... MARGIE: Bye Martin!

MARTIN: Bye!

VO: ..she's off.

Hope she doesn't drop that on her foot.

Our cheery chums are happily ensconced in the new motor.

Have you felt how comfy these seats are?

MARGIE: Yeah, this...

It is... PAUL: My bum is just so...

It's just...

It's in there, you know?

VO: Charming.

PAUL: I'm going to go for a run.

MARGIE: Tonight?

Really?

PAUL: Yeah!

MARGIE: What a great idea.

And do you know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to put my feet up and watch the telly.

VO: I think I'll stick with Margie.

Time now for some shuteye.

VO: Here it is, our penultimate auction of the trip.

Margie and Paul have been zigzagging all over Cornwall, but they'll be parking up in Newton Abbot, just over the border in Devon, to see their items going under the hammer.

VO: The Orchard Organic Farm is bursting with lush loveliness.

And so are our dashing duo in their super summery duds.

PAUL: Look where the old Jag's brought us.

MARGIE: I know!

Idyllic, isn't it?

PAUL: Isn't that a stunning orchard?

MARGIE: Yeah, apple orchard.

PAUL: Yeah!

VO: Scrumptious.

Their goodies have moved onto Lichfield... ..home to auctioneers Richard Winterton.

Any favorites, Richard, amongst Margie's five lots costing £230?

The art gallery sign is fab.

I love this.

It is slate, it's a good size.

I'm quite sure there will be art galleries out here who will want this.

This is going to do well.

VO: Paul spent £195 on his five lots.

Richard?

The 1930's pub table...

It's a nice size.

People buy it because of the shape and the history.

I think it could be popular.

VO: It's looking good for the auction then, which is open to online and commission bids from around the globe.

VO: Let the games begin!

Right, let's see if we can make a profit then, shall we?

VO: That's the idea.

First up for grabs, Margie's mid-20th century slate plaque.

RICHARD: £20 I'm bid.

Five.

30.

Five.

40.

MARGIE: Oh!

Oh!

RICHARD: Five.

50.

£50 I have.

PAUL: Well done!

RICHARD: £50 I'm bid.

£50.

Hammer's up.

Sold at 50... (GAVEL) Well that was a good one, wasn't it?

VO: I knew it would be, and a great start for Margie.

That's cheered me up no end.

It's deflated me.

MARGIE: Has it?

PAUL: A little bit.

Good!

(CHUCKLES) VO: Ha-ha-ha...

Steady!

Up next, Paul's 1930's pub table.

Please big it up!

RICHARD: Nice piece.

Nice looker.

25.

£30.

£30 I'm bid.

Five.

40.

£40 I'm bid.

Five.

MARGIE: Oh!

RICHARD: 50.

£50.

60.

MARGIE: Oh!

RICHARD: 70?

No?

£60 then.

£60, haven't got the 70.

MARGIE: That's alright.

RICHARD: £60 I'm bid.

60.

RICHARD: Are you sure?

Hammer's up, £60, all done... (GAVEL) You disappointed?

PAUL: No, not really.

But... MARGIE: Good.

BOTH: (LAUGH) VO: Do watch the car!

Nice earner.

I was really scared of your items.

I needn't have been, need I?

(LAUGHS) VO: They're having a real ding dong.

Talking of which, here's Margie's inkwell and bell.

Ha ha!

RICHARD: Now we go now... Oh!

(IMPERSONATES RICHARD) "Now!"

RICHARD: ..the inkwell and table bell.

We'll start you at £25.

£30 bid.

£35.

£40 I'm bid.

45 I'm bid... MARGIE: Come on!

PAUL: Yes!

RICHARD: £50 I'm bid.

Bid at £60.

At £60.

At £60 I'm bid.

Yours, internet, at £60.

All done... (GAVEL) MARGIE: Oh, Paul!

PAUL: Oh!

VO: Large groan for a small dip.

That's a tenner gone!

A tenner gone!

VO: Never mind.

Will there be a buzz for Paul's hand-blown insect catcher?

Bit of interest we've got on this.

£5 I'm bid.

£5 I'm bid, £5 I'm bid.

£5.

£10.

£10 I'm bid.

£15.

15.

£20.

£20 I'm bid.

£20 I'm bid.

Five.

30.

30 I'm bid.

Come on!

Five.

35.

£35.

RICHARD: £35... MARGIE: Oh no!

(GAVEL) ..Sold.

Oh no!

VO: Sadly, it didn't fly.

It's not looking good.

VO: Chin up, it's Margie's early 19th century milking stool.

RICHARD: Bit of interest on this.

We are starting, we'll start you at five.

We'll go to 10.

We'll go to 15.

We'll go to 20.

Five.

We're 30.

We're five.

We're 40.

£40 I'm bid.

£40 I'm bid.

MARGIE: Oh, come on.

RICHARD: £40.

£40.

£40... Go on, go on, go on.

£40 I'm bid!

All done at 40.

PAUL: Profit?

MARGIE: No!

40 quid!

PAUL: Oh!

(GAVEL) PAUL: That broke even.

MARGIE: Broke even.

VO: There's an echo out there.

You know, we might have been better buying a cow.

VO: Sad, but moo... Let's hope the cricket gear doesn't hit a sticky wicket.

RICHARD: Where are we going to be?

PAUL: £5.

RICHARD: ..£5.

£10 I'm bid.

£10 I'm bid.

£15 I'm bid.

£20 I'm bid.

We've got 16 people bidding on this.

MARGIE: (GASPS) 16 people!

25!

Yeah!

RICHARD: 30 I'm bid.

PAUL: Oh!

(GAVEL) You've made a profit.

VO: Nicely done, Paul.

Howzat?

VO: It had appeal.

Time for Margie's children's bentwood chair.

RICHARD: Where are we going to be?

Starting at... £5 I'm bid.

£5 I'm bid.

Straight in at five.

£10 I'm bid.

£15 I'm bid.

MARGIE: Oh, come on!

RICHARD: £15 I'm bid.

(COW MOOS) MARGIE: Ooh!

PAUL: Yeah.

Thank you very much!

MARGIE: Is that a bid?

(LAUGHS) RICHARD: All done... (GAVEL) Who can we blame?

Blame the sunny day!

PAUL: It's that apple's fault!

MARGIE: (LAUGHS) VO: Not clutching at straws or anything.

Margie's struggling a little now.

Could have been worse.

Never mind!

Never mind.

VO: I think she does mind.

Paul's turn now.

His 20th century car horn.

I can see internet flashing at me all over.

There you go.

Toot, toot, toot, toot!

We will start at the £5.

We give it five.

Oh, starts at five.

10.

£10.

£15.

£20.

£25.

Come on!

Oh, no... RICHARD: £30 I'm bid.

MARGIE: Oh!

Money back!

Internet bid at 30.

Oh, God, 32?!

(GAVEL) Thank you very much.

Money back!

VO: Oh, toot, toot!

PAUL: Oh...what's next?

MARGIE: (LAUGHS) VO: Thanks for asking.

It's Margie's final item, her large beveled decorative mirror.

RICHARD: £5.

£5 I'm bid.

MARGIE: (SIGHS) Joke.

£10 I'm bid.

15.

£20 I'm bid.

30.

£30 I'm bid.

Oh, this is more like it.

No, it's not.

35.

You are joking... (GAVEL) MARGIE: £40 gone.

PAUL: Yes!

BOTH: (LAUGH) VO: That's done it.

But she did say it was a gamble.

Mirror, mirror on the wall... VO: And here's another one.

Paul's 1920's English oak frame looking glass.

Stand by!

RICHARD: £15 I'm bid.

15.

20.

25.

25.

30.

MARGIE: Oh!

RICHARD: 30 bid.

Five.

35.

35 I'm bid.

40.

MARGIE: Oh!

RICHARD: Five.

45.

50.

MARGIE: Well done!

PAUL: Profit!

£70.

Oh!

£80 I'm bid.

At £80.

Oh, well done.

PAUL: Come on!

MARGIE: Oh, well done!

£80 I'm bid.

MARGIE: Well, I never!

PAUL: £80!

RICHARD: All done?

PAUL: Going down... (GAVEL) Congratulations!

Your mirror beat my mirror.

VO: It did, and it also won Paul the day.

But it's fun though, innit?

It's good fun.

VO: Margie began with £342.76 but had her ups and downs and ends up with a little over 276 after auction costs.

VO: But Paul, who started the leg with £232.46, has barely lost a bean, and after costs has a smidgeon over £230.

The gap between them is shrinking away.

PAUL: Just one of those days.

MARGIE: (SIGHS) One more buying leg, one more buying leg.

PAUL: Come on.

Let's go and... PAUL: ..get some apple juice.

MARGIE: Yeah!

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