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

I just love it.

VO: Behind the wheel of a classic car.

(HORN TOOTS) LOUISE: It's fast.

CHARLES: It's a race.

VO: And a goal - to scour Britain for antiques.

PAUL: This could be tricky.

MARGIE: £38!

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

VO: But it's no mean feat.

ROO: High five!

There'll be worthy winners... CHRISTINA: Mind-blowing.

VO: ..and valiant losers.

Could have been worse.

Will it be the high road to glory...

Car!

..or the slow road to disaster?

CHRISTINA: Aaagh!

TIM: Oh my!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah, baby!

VO: Welcome to another aspirational episode in the company of the dream team.

CATHERINE (CS): You do look good in this car this morning.

PAUL (PL): WE look good in this car, Catherine.

Oh, I mean, this is as good as it gets, isn't it?

PL: We could cause accidents, let's face it!

CS: Oh-ho!

(THEY LAUGH) VO: Yes, do please avert your gaze, Worcestershire motorists, from the dazzling sight of auctioneers Paul Laidlaw and Catherine Southon.

CS: By the way, snow here.

PL: What?!

CS: There's loads of snow.

Shall we have a snowball fight?

(HE CHUCKLES) VO: I think the thaw might have set in.

No need to re-shoe your fabulous red Morgan though.

CS: This seems very weird all of a sudden.

In an open-top car with sunglasses and snow.

VO: Well, if anyone can carry it off, it's these two.

Get in.

VO: Witness their last show-stopping performance.

£65.

Am I winning?

£95.

Boom!

£75.

CS: Yes.

PL: Well done.

VO: Both excelled.

But Paul - surprise, surprise - came out on top.

CS: How did you win that auction?

I met this guy, strange-looking chooky, horns and a tail, Faust he calls him.

Anyway... we've done this deal and it sounds great so far!

VO: Well, whatever works eh?

He-he!

Paul started out with £200 and has already turned that into £243.66.

While Catherine, who began with the same sum, is close behind with £210.90.

Aye, but look, hey, nothin' in it.

CS: What's that, nothing?!

I can buy a piece of militaria today and make millions.

PL: I'm sorry, what?

VO: He-he-he!

VO: Our pair set out from Budby in Nottinghamshire with the expressed intention of thoroughly doing the Midlands.

They're currently heading out west towards Wales, before moseying back east.

So that when their work is done, they'll eventually gravitate to Middle Littleton and journey's end.

Today's ultimate destination is an auction in the Shropshire town of Newport.

But we start out in the beautiful Vale of Evesham.

In the same shop, so watch out!

Ha!

What do you think about shopping together?

PL: I love it, Catherine.

CS: Do you like it?

Do you?

I've got this feeling that whatever I pick up... ..you're kind of sniggering in the background... "He-he-he-he!

"Why is she picking that up?

"That's not going to make any money."

Whereas if you pick something up I'm going, "Oh my gosh, "oh my God, what have I missed, what have I missed?

"That's going to make so much money."

VO: It's just like therapy, this Road Trip business.

Evesham, beside the Avon, is surrounded by an awful lot of market gardens, making it a great town for fruit and veg.

But our two have their own "plum" assignment...

Here goes.

CS: Thank you, sir.

PL: You are welcome.

VO: ..at Twyford Antique Centre.

Hello there!

So, meet proprietor Andy.

Good.

Thank you very much.

ANDY: Nice to see you.

VO: Let's get cherry picking.

Watch out for the lemons though!

This is in the same league as knife rest and asparagus tongs.

What we have here is a serviette holder.

By the time you've worked out how to get your serviette out of here, pushing this up, opening this out, struggling to pull the serviette, your dinner is cold, you're finished.

Why bother?

VO: I think that's a no.

Over to Paul.

That's interesting.

Here is one from my youth.

I used to collect bottles, and I adore glass.

This is a gin bottle.

It's a free blown bottle.

A man worked molten glass and blew that bubble of glass into a wooden mold and you see these striations here - that will be the figure from the mold, the wood.

What does it tell us when we look?

There we go.

P Loopuyt & Company Distillers of Schiedam, Netherlands.

If you collect such things, glass shelves in a window, halfway up a hall or in your bathroom, with natural light flooding through them, these are a joy.

But look at that, proper antique, tells a tale, and is a good-looking object.

I love that.

And you can buy that for £14.

I'm not buying it today, but I'm hoping you found that as interesting as I do.

VO: Well of course!

CS: Yay!

VO: Almost as much fun as that!

I would love to own this.

I would have hours of fun.

I'd put a gin and tonic on one of these and just whizz it round.

VO: It does sound good.

You know what?

I'm pretty rubbish at driving but I am a fantastic train driver.

VO: Not actually buttering any parsnips though, are we?

(HE CHUCKLES) Very good.

I do love a gadget.

I also like period style.

It's hot.

Are we Riviera?

We could be.

1920s, jazz age.

And my partner in her flapper dress, Maybe, "It's getting a bit hot in here darling, "I've got just the thing for you," says I.

Out of the pocket comes my pocket fan.

And... "Oh... "That's just the thing.

"I'll join you for a dance later.

And... "But before I do, just check my make-up.

"Oh, looking great."

Is it sexy?

Well if you are sad as I am, I'm afraid it is.

VO: It's "La Brise".

In faux tortoiseshell.

1913, where did they get 1913?

I hate it when someone knows more than me.

Ah.

Clever vendor, they've deciphered the patent marks.

The patent number itself is appended by 1-3 so it is a wee bit younger than I thought, it's pre-1914, pre-First World War.

We are now going to say belle epoque, but if we are going to say belle epoque, we can't say art deco.

Do like a bit of pedantry, don't we?

VO: Touche.

PL: Price?

Oh, £150.

No, just joshing.

£15.

I love it, and I'm buying it.

See you later folks.

VO: Off and running.

(CATHERINE MUTTERS) VO: Well Paul is anyway.

Catherine hasn't quite picked up the scent yet.

VO: Crikey!

How're you doing?

Now see if I'd gone "aaagh!

", knocked that over... That would've been just brilliant.

PL: Expensive prank.

CS: And you would've had to buy it all!

VO: Ha-ha!

Well it could work.

Easier just to find something else though, isn't it?

CS: Oh, it's hideous, I can't buy that.

Oh, I can't even lift it, let alone buy it.

VO: An old water pump.

No price.

Ooh.

What's it worth?

No idea.

Cor, I... That's meaty though, isn't it?

VO: Yeah, let's have a better look at it with Andy.

CS: This is not my territory but it feels like it's missing something.

Well, it should have two screws.

So we're missing this and this and then something to hold that in.

Something to hold that in place.

CS: Three screws.

ANDY: Yes.

Three screws.

So as an incomplete water pump... ANDY: As an incomplete... CS: ..what's it worth?

I think we'd probably get away with £30.

It is the right time of year, I suppose, because people are moving into the garden.

Well it would be, er... different.

(SHE CHUCKLES) What do you think?

I think you would need to have that for 20 quid to have a chance.

Would you be happy to let it go for £20?

ANDY: Yeah.

Go on.

CS: It fits the bill today.

CS: I'm buying that.

ANDY: OK. That's for me.

£20 is yours.

ANDY: £20.

VO: Thanks Andy.

Can I come back for that?

ANDY: Yeah.

Yeah.

CS: Wonderful.

VO: Well, that was a bit of a surprise.

She'll be buying militaria next.

Now, what's Paul found?

You've heard of Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat, not to mention the dog.

His account of a journey up the Thames in 1889.

That is an important date, because this book is dated 1889, and that is a first edition.

Now, the price says £30.

If you tried to buy that from a specialist book dealer, I think you'd need a hundred-pound budget, but we are looking to buy material to sell at auction.

I think that's a bargain.

Let's go and see what we can do with that.

PL: Andy.

ANDY: Hi.

PL: Three Men in a Boat... ANDY: Ah, classic.

..out of that cabinet.

Ain't it just?

What's the owner likely to be like with price?

Well...

..I don't think I can do it any more than £10 off that.

To be honest with you... (HE CHUCKLES) ..I wasn't expecting that much.

Oh, right.

So, at 20, I am a happy bunny.

Yeah, well I'm still happy with that.

Brilliant.

Well, earlier on I spotted this little fan in another cabinet so, 20.

That's priced up at 15 and I'm happy with that.

ANDY: £15.

Right.

PL: I owe you £35.

£35.

That'll do fine.

VO: That's seems like a good deal.

There's £40.

VO: As his grin reveals.

And a fiver.

Andy, what a pleasure.

Thank you.

VO: So, with Paul making his exit, booty on board... and all cylinders firing, let's catch up with Catherine, taking a shopping time out in the fair city of Worcester, where she's come to learn about an almost-forgotten industry which was once the major employer hereabouts, at the City Museum.

Good afternoon, I'm Catherine.

VO: Curator David Nash has devised several exhibits dedicated to Worcester's lost art of glove making.

DAVID (DN): This desk I've done as a representation of one of the last glove manufacturers in Worcester, Alwyn Gloves, and this is what I saw when I went to their glove works.

Really?

So you have recreated this?

Yeah.

Down here we've got a huge tool, like a press I guess.

Cast iron, Hadley of Worcester.

So the tools were local as well.

DN: The Worcester gloving industry was supporting 60% of the population, and in the 1700s, of the about 14,000 glove makers in Britain, about 11,000 were in Worcester.

Gloves have gone out of fashion a little bit now.

Oh, completely.

But... Yeah, you rarely see people spending quite a lot of money on a fashionable pair of gloves, but in the day it was very important that you wore a good quality pair of gloves, and Worcester gloves were some of the best that you could buy.

The two biggest companies were Dents and Fownes.

Dents dating back to the 1770s, and famously made gloves for people like Nelson and the British royal family, and also shipped gloves all over the world.

VO: It's thought that the trend began with Queen Elizabeth's fondness for gloves, combined with their growing popularity in France.

Even the language of glove making was French.

The fourchettes which are in between the fingers...

I love this, cos they're using the French words, aren't they?

They're using the French words, yeah.

Or in Worcester it was called the four-gits!

Four-gits!

Cos they didn't know how to pronounce it.

Cos that's how we said it, yeah.

Brilliant.

It was a popular French industry that we were trying to emulate.

Were we as good as the French?

By the end, with the big glove factories, we were selling gloves in France, so I think that says it all really.

CS: That says it all.

VO: The museum also has examples of some of the finest gloves that Worcester factories produced during their heyday.

Including a pair that were presented to Queen Victoria in 1897.

CS: It's the stitching really... DN: Yeah.

..that is so special.

All handstitched.

A real premium product.

They are absolutely beautiful.

I'm just amazed at how tiny they are.

Yeah.

I mean, I know we had the stretchers then but still, how could you possibly get your hand in there?

Yeah.

Very dainty items really.

VO: But, as is usually the case, the working men and women of Worcester labored long and hard to keep fashionable folks in gloves.

What's the division between the men and the women?

Er... the leather workers were the men - that was the man's side of the job, so this photograph here shows a workshop, all men and they are stretching the leather, removing the hairs, getting as much quantity out of the leather as they possibly can and stamping out these component parts.

And the women?

The men were producing the sections of the gloves, the women were sewing it all together.

The women were sewing it together.

So these women were working at home.

Yeah, working on items such as these and later on sewing machines, you actually saw an architectural feature known as the glover's window in Worcestershire, which is a tiny little window at sort of desk height, which was added to the property so that the glove makers could get natural light so that they could work.

VO: The city's last glove maker finally shut up shop in 2015.

But Worcester is, of course, still famous the world over for another product.

A certain tasty condiment.

I love that stuff.

See, as a wee laddie, I used to drink Worcestershire sauce out of the bottle.

Do you know, for me, Worcestershire sauce, ready salted crisps.

Oh my word!

What a combination.

Try it!

(CRUNCHING) VO: Mm...

He's got a point.

VO: And right after the break - ha!

- Paul's off to the town of Upton upon Severn with its 16th-century coaching inn and three music festivals.

Hello there.

Hello.

PL: Is it Colin?

COLIN: It is.

PL: Good to see you.

COLIN: Good to see you.

My word.

Right then.

VO: Just over £200 in his pocket.

But do you think Paul knows he's being watched, children?

Mm, take a look at this.

On a table full of all sorts, a box of stuff.

That's a pocket folding knife, hallmarked silver.

Why would it be in the throwaway box?

Broken blades, of course.

Or broken springs.

Let's have a look and see.

I say, that's not looking bad.

Twin-blade English assay marks and what's the purpose of this?

Well, gentlemen's penknife, of course.

Why is a penknife a penknife?

For sharpening one's quill, of course.

But one other thing I know is pocket knives of quality are actually pretty collectable.

I think that's worth £30 to £50 of anyone's money but I'm intrigued that it's sitting with no price tag in amongst stuff that's frankly of no use to anyone.

VO: One to ask Colin about, perhaps.

Anything else?

Small silver objet, the last bastion of the desperate Antiques Road Tripper!

But what's not to like about this?

A little early 20th-century I should think, English assayed silver pincushion.

VO: Also highly collectable.

This is entry-level but is it dull, is it damaged?

No, I think that's good to go.

Sweet little object for the side table or the dressing table.

Price tag £12.

Seriously, £12.

You just buy that.

VO: He's not hanging about.

No teddies as yet though!

Anything a little weightier?

Big pair of shackles there.

I thought they were hand and feet shackles at first.

They are feet shackles, leg irons, man alive!

They are the real McCoy, gee whizz.

These are almost macabre.

These, I put to you, are rare.

Oh my word.

I think they might say Hyatt, long-standing manufacturers of police equipment and so on.

They do.

What are they worth?

Dunno.

Not seen a pair for sale.

Old-fashioned handcuffs are worth 30 to 50, £40 to 60 at auction.

You see those a great deal.

These have got to be worth £80 to £120, haven't they?

There was a price tag on these once, there is no longer.

Unless I've missed it on the floor.

Which I've not.

In fact, there are the aforementioned handcuffs... ..without a price tag.

VO: No keys either.

You could get the set here, couldn't you?

Grand night in if that's your cup of tea!

VO: Quite.

Over to Colin.

I found this downstairs on the table in a little box of costume jewelry and so on.

Without a price tag.

Ooh dear.

Why?

Because there are no issues with that.

No.

Ah, I know that little box.

Yeah.

Well, the box was a little lot.

Right.

I am sure we can find a price for that separately for you.

Can you find a price for both of those?

Can I give you a price for both of those?

Yes, you can.

Not a chance of them being £20 the pair is there?

Absolutely.

VO: A rapid deal on those.

What about the heavy metal?

It's on that bit there, Paul, there's so many pieces.

Oh now, I didn't look at that.

Yeah.

That element there.

What?

That's a piece of... That's a bit!

We've got £240.

Oh, I'm way out, I'm way out, I'm way out.

You would need to have a massive margin on those for it to be any use to me.

VO: Or... be prepared to split them.

160.

PL: Nah, I couldn't, no... COLIN: Too much?

VO: I think Paul would happily do without the horse's bit though.

120 for the lot.

Beards come in useful at times like these.

Give it a tug.

I don't buy that the bit is part of it.

I'm disinclined to take that to auction as a lot.

I'm offering you a hundred quid.

Go on then.

Magic.

VO: So £120 in all.

PL: Try that for size, Colin.

COLIN: Thank you, Paul.

Thank you, sir.

What a pleasure.

VO: For penknife, pin cushion and the "correctional collection".

Ha!

Quite a day.

(THEY LAUGH) I still love that view, down those louvers.

This is a proper English sports car, isn't it?

VO: You got that right!

Nighty-night.

Next day, Catherine's in the saddle.

Going a bit slower.

Oh look, here comes a tractor.

Please don't squash me, I'm only little.

Aw, he's nice.

VO: Oh, I see... She's got to squeeze in awful lot of shopping today, having purchased only an old water pump thus far.

It's all British made.

VO: Leaving her with almost £200 left to spend.

VO: While Paul's already acquired quite a pile.

A pin cushion, a pocket knife, a set of shackles, a first edition and a pocket fan.

That's just the thing.

VO: Which means he has less than a hundred in his wallet as they rove further west into Herefordshire and cattle country.

Oh, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Oh, steak.

How do you like your steak, Catherine?

CS: Very rare.

PL: Oh, really?

Does that surprise you?

Are you a vampire, Catherine?

PL: You've got the clothes.

CS: # Da-da-da da-da.

# VO: Ha-ha!

VO: Later they'll be heading towards the Shropshire saleroom in Newport.

But the first port of call today is deep in the Herefordshire countryside at Kilpeck where Paul's about to be deposited in a tiny medieval masterpiece.

Easy does it, easy does it.

There you are.

Thank you, Catherine.

Have a shoptastic time.

Thank you.

I'm going to look at a Norman church.

Look, have a good un, see you later, Catherine.

Tally ho.

VO: Close to the Welsh border, and well worth a detour, the 12th century St Mary and St David is one of the most perfectly preserved Norman churches in Britain.

Oh my word.

VO: Justly famous for a unique and strange collection of carved sandstone corbels.

And they are everywhere.

It's bedecked.

VO: These carvings, many of them non-Christian, have puzzled visitors for centuries.

But Paul's about to get some help from local writer Diana Thomas.

Diana.

DIANA (DT): Good to meet you.

Good to see you.

I don't know what I'm looking at.

Can you translate it?

Absolutely.

You've got the archway and that center bit there is the tree of life, which represents Christ.

I see.

Below it you have the chevron sign, which is the Egyptian sign for water and the idea is that you go into the church protected by the tree of life, and you leave behind you all this paganism, all this mythology, all these previous religions, because this was built on a pagan site, and when the Christians came here they wanted to say, "OK you believe all those things and we respect that, "but let's adopt them and weave them into Christianity."

So there is a point to each of these.

Absolutely.

VO: The church was built by William the Conqueror's grandson in about 1140.

He commissioned a band of masons, known as the Herefordshire School, to create these decorations, with influences from around the world.

So we've got pagans, Vikings...

There's Indian mythology, there's Scandinavian - we have these two snakes going up and down, and the snake has the tail in his mouth.

Now, the Scandinavians believed that there was a snake that went all the way round the Earth and he had his tail in his mouth, and if he ever let go of that, the Earth would be destroyed.

Remember you're in a Celtic area that was at one time Welsh.

You want to keep the natives happy.

I see.

You take on, like many churches have, a lot of the local stuff so that you can teach them through their language.

Remember this is just like the emojis of today, the pictorial representations that they would trust.

VO: Inside, the design is equally impressive but much simpler.

Although the once decorated walls are now plain, the work of the Herefordshire masons survives intact.

Oh, what a space.

All of a sudden I start to recognize Norman features and of course Christian iconography.

Absolutely.

We have six saints there, the top four are larger because they are Norman.

These little Saxon saints, they're not so important.

And you know the difference by their haircut.

Because the Celtic saints had a comb over, a bit like Bobby Charlton, whereas the Norman saints would have a tonsure, but the only one we can actually recognize is St Peter which is absolutely the key to heaven.

This if the aps.

Now, if you notice it is rounded, that's why it's Romanesque.

If you think about when first Christianity was allowed in the 300s, they went to Rome and they had their basilicas which had rounded edges and their gods would be there, their gods were taken out and replaced by a Christian altar.

So therefore the churches had that rounded shape, Romanesque.

Above it you have four chevrons.

They represent the four rivers coming out of the Garden of Eden, and they have four heads at the top that look like cats.

If you look in Genesis 2, it talks about the heads of the rivers.

PL: And that is a lovely focal point.

DT: Oh, it's amazing, isn't it?

It draws the eye and it is imbued as a presence, doesn't it?

Yeah, absolutely.

I think the walls are soaked in prayer and holiness.

VO: HAY... where Catherine's got to.

VO: That's not a question by the way.

Because she's in Hay, the place.

Hay on Wye.

Ha!

Just over the Welsh border.

The top bibliophile destination they call "The Town of Books".

Quite a few antique shops as well, mind.

CS: Hi there.

DEALER: Hello.

I'm gonna like this shop.

Thank you very much.

From the moment I step in.

VO: Good job too, because there's much to be done.

Yummy yummy things.

VO: Almost £200 to spend, remember.

Richard, this I like.

Yeah, it's different, it's different.

It's pleasing to the eye, that is.

The eye.

And I love that it... CS: Revolves.

DEALER: Revolves.

And you are dating that to '20s?

'20s, yeah.

VO: A magazine rack.

I think what I like about it is it has purpose but there's a bit of style going on there.

Yeah.

Bit like you and me, really.

I hope!

I wouldn't say I'm that stylish.

No, I do like that.

What's your price on that?

I've got 140 on it.

90.

90.

That doesn't seem bad.

VO: No, but maybe see what else Richard has first.

I quite like this with the little puppy dogs on.

It's lovely.

Nice detail and you can really see the fur on there.

It's a nice thing.

VO: A German pewter pin dish.

19th century.

They look so sad.

They're saying, "Buy me."

Yeah, they need a home.

What's... Oh dear, fif...

I thought that said 45.

55.

Is this yours?

Yes.

VO: Why the long... PAWS?

DEALER: I can go 40.

CS: Could you do any less than that?

Oh, don't look at me with those puppy dog eyes... Richard.

No, I was thinking sort of 25, 30.

38, absolute rock bottom.

CS: Really?

DEALER: Yep.

It doesn't seem a lot of money, I must admit.

VO: Getting warm, I think.

Nice to see you've got a few peacocks here.

Yes, I like the bronze peacocks, I think they are lovely things.

VO: Catherine did very well last time with a peacock.

£75.

(GAVEL) Boom!

I knew...

I knew that was a good thing.

VO: It wasn't as nice as that one either.

Beautiful colors on that.

And he's a nice weight as well isn't he?

DEALER: Yeah.

That doesn't look like it's been handled an awful lot.

COLIN: Not a lot, no.

The colors look quite fresh.

£80.

I could do him for... 60?

Just a nice bird.

CS: And a turkey.

You always need a turkey!

Not so keen on him.

I think they're ugly things, aren't they?

VO: Tasty though!

CS: This is my offer.

DEALER: Mm-hm.

I wouldn't really want to do any more than... £80.

Five?

80... 85.

CS: Push it by five.

Can you do that?

DEALER: Yeah, go on.

CS: Can you?

CS: Is that it?

DEALER: Yep.

That's lovely.

Thank you very, very much indeed.

DEALER: It's a pleasure.

VO: So £35 for the puppies, and £50 for the peacock.

Thank you very much for having me.

That's a pleasure.

Thank you.

CS: Adios.

DEALER: All the best.

VO: That was a brisk start.

It looks like Catherine's in no hurry to leave Hay just yet either.

Maybe she's after a first edition too?

Ah-ha, market day!

Lovely.

When I drove past earlier I saw you had a really nice rack of some description.

Yeah, which has gone.

I only saw it... Has it?

Yeah.

Sorry.

You've got to be quick here.

Had like a fire basket on the top.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, that sold about 20 minutes ago.

Damn.

I wasn't quick enough.

But... Wasn't quick enough.

..got those.

CS: What?

TRADER: These window frames.

Love those.

Where did you get them from?

Well, I did a pub clearance... Yeah.

..and they were in the back yard.

VO: Not the Crown by any chance?

TRADER: £40.

CS: Oh, no, I wouldn't pay 40 for them.

TRADER: What would you pay?

CS: 20.

TRADER: Go on, then.

CS: Absolutely wonderful!

TRADER: Great.

Do you want to be paid as well?

TRADER: Please.

VO: Well, different!

First the pump, and now these.

Where's that car?

VO: Novelty head rests, anyone?

Now, whither her bearded rival?

VO: In the Gloucestershire village of Staunton actually, in search of his last shopping opportunity.

At the self proclaimed Pretty Old and Interesting!

Which could describe Paul.

Hello there.

Hello.

PL: Paul?

DEALER: Yes.

Nice to see you.

Nice to see you.

How are you?

We're not going to forget one another's names are we?

No, no, no, nice and easy.

(HE CHUCKLES) You win the prize for the best aroma of any antique shop.

Thank you very much.

VO: Ah wood smoke.

Perfect whilst browsing.

This is heading towards being my favorite shop.

Look what I found.

Oh yes.

VO: Paul has just under £90 if he needs it.

Look at the decoration on that.

There is none, Paul.

This is a gentleman's sandwich box.

Such boxes were carried on riders' saddlery.

You have a little loop handle for withdrawing the box from the saddle pouch and then they open in a certain way, OK. Hinged lid, no surprises there.

Double hinged and falls forward.

The example you are looking for is silver.

We are clearly not that lucky.

But there is something in here that's going to make my day.

There's a name - Swaine & Adeney, London.

A good brand goes a long way.

Do you know, I've worked up an appetite for a profit.

I'm going to take this little sandwich box to auction but I'm not going to do so with a sandwich therein, I'm going to fill it with some other treasure.

Bear with me.

VO: Very promising.

Meanwhile back in Herefordshire, Catherine's taken our route to Leominster.

Once a very wealthy wool town.

Leominster Ore, they called it.

VO: Easy does it!

I'm sure that gets smaller.

VO: Catherine has just over £100 in her pocket.

(SHE SNEEZES) Oh!

VO: Ah, salute!

Nothing to be sneezed at in here.

Seen a bit of silver there which is probably Indian silver with a snake handle.

I hate snakes, but snakes are good, people like snakes for some reason, apart from me.

Alina?

Yeah?

The silver has caught my eye with the snake on it please.

DEALER: Yep.

CS: Lovely.

DEALER: This one, yeah?

CS: Yes.

There we go.

I like this.

The lady who owns this one is actually upstairs... Oh, is she?

Oh, I might pop up in a minute then, is that alright?

DEALER: Yeah.

CS: Fantastic.

Lovely.

Thanks, Alina.

Well, heavily repousse with the floral scrolls and foliage.

VO: For repousse work, the relief is created by hammering from the reverse side.

They've got 75 on it.

I would really want it for about 30.

I'll go and see what the owner thinks.

VO: Catherine, meet Val.

Hello.

I believe this is yours.

It is indeed, yes.

I do like it.

The problem I have is this.

CS: The damage on the lip.

VAL: Mm.

With that in mind, I would like to make you an offer of 30.

VAL: 35 is a snip.

35.

I'll shake your hand at 35.

VO: She's bagged her snake!

There we are, I'll take that.

VO: So from one happy shopper... to our man in Staunton.

Enjoying the aroma, and the discounts.

Miniature book form object, clear plastic.

Tell you what it is, it's Lucite, I suspect, which is another name for Perspex and we can be quite precise with date because I think this is a royal commemorative piece and I think it is a souvenir of the silver jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary it would be.

VO: In 1935.

A little concertina book here.

Have a look at this.

Ta-da!

I've got to say, look at this - that man's rocking a good look.

But I would say that.

VO: The resemblance is uncanny!

Photographs of the king and queen throughout their life, I dare say.

Interesting.

Royal commemorative souvenirs, they are not rare.

But in this instance you are green with jealousy at this stage, are you not?

Why do I not walk into antique shops and find the "everything that's unlabeled for £5" box?

VO: Crikey.

Catherine will be pleased.

And before I close the lid there...

..I see another little bargain, and that's a Second World War RAF sweetheart brooch.

What a little cabinet of joy that is.

VO: Not to mention a Georgian mourning brooch and a mourning locket!

Paul... How you doing?

I came here looking for one thing really.

Wow!

And I found five of your very reasonably priced £5 objects.

And at £25, no further ado, I'm just going to shake your hand.

Fantastic.

VO: Looking good.

I wish you all the luck with that when you go to auction.

VO: Which is now very much in our thoughts.

Off to Newport.

One of the Newports, do you know which one?

It's Newport, it's kind of there on the map.

VO: Ah, much clearer!

Not.

So... shuteye, please.

VO: Although Newport doesn't actually feature in the Domesday Book, it is very Norman.

They used to call it Novus Burgus.

VO: After setting out in the Vale of Evesham, Catherine and Paul have nudged north, towards Shropshire and a bustly Brettells Auctioneers.

CS: Ooh!

Oh!

Dress.

VO: Marilyn moment.

You gonna claw back that wee deficit?

I'm gonna try.

Whether I'll succeed is another matter.

Ain't it just.

VO: Catherine parted with £160 for her five auction lots.

She's been jumping in and out of skips.

Got rarity on their side.

But what on Earth is the buyer going to do with those?

VO: While Paul spend a bit more - 180 - on his five lots.

I think these are wonderful.

I'd love to know a bit more about them, the history behind them.

It would be fantastic to know.

Oh, hello!

Has your criminal past finally caught up with you?

Where's the arrow mark on them?

There, methinks.

Oh... Yeah.

So that would go with your natty set of pajamas with all the arrows printed on them as well!

Yes, that would look...

I would look the business.

VO: What's grabbed the attention of esteemed auctioneer David Brettell?

DAVID (DB): Pewter pin dish, looks a lot like WMF.

Interesting thing, it'll do well.

Sandwich box, Swaine & Adeney - we have a lot of rural people here, so those hunting things still make good money.

VO: OK, bums on seats!

Let the auction commence.

VO: Yep.

Hold onto your hats!

Beginning with Paul's first edition.

I will start at 25 bid.

CS: Oh!

PL: It's good - he's got some interest.

28 on the net, 28 bid.

28, at £28.

Still a bargain if you want it though.

I'd give you £28 for it and be happy.

£28 on the "tinter".

No casualties there.

VO: Almost his first war reference of the day.

PL: That's OK. Yeah.

CS: Yeah.

Move on.

VO: Yes ma'am.

Your pewter pups.

Start me then £10 for that.

Five, five bid, eight, eight bid, eight, 10, 10 bid, 10, anybody else for that pewter?

12, 15, £18, at 20.

£20 right in front of me now.

20, two.

22 sat down.

A last chance for you.

Five.

25 bid in front of me now, all done.

Anybody else?

Sold away.

You're out at £25.

(GAVEL) You win some, you lose some.

VO: Philosophical, Catherine.

PL: Don't you just.

CS: I'm doing quite well... with the losing at the moment.

(THEY LAUGH) VO: Now for the fruits of Paul's rummage.

Ratchers - is that a word in the south?

Ratchers?

No, I dunno that one.

Ratching about?

That's scrummaging in the North West.

Ratching?!

PL: Have a good ratch.

CS: Ooh!

I'm bid 40 to start on the left.

Got 40, come on.

40 to you, front row.

45, 48, 50.

Deserve to do well on this - this is a really good lot.

What do you mean, no?

£60 bid, £60, £60 on the net, £60 bid.

Five, 70 on the net.

£70 bid, £70.

Fair warning... CS: That's a good lot.

PL: I'll take that though.

Selling then at 70.

(GAVEL) I'm going to start rummaging.

VO: I think everyone is.

Show me the bargain shelf.

Show me the £5 shelf.

VO: Her serpent-handled jug's up next.

We can start at 45.

(HE CHUCKLES) CS: Ooh!

That's a nice little surprise.

DB: 45.

50 anywhere?

PL: Absolutely.

48 on the net, 48 bid, 50 looking for.

Pretty little thing at £48, hands up.

Anyone?

Anyone else?

On the internet, nobody in the room, sold this time at 48... (GAVEL) ..pounds.

Yes indeedy.

That's OK. That's alright.

Yeah, that's good.

VO: Oh it is.

Despite the snake.

I like this game.

(THEY LAUGH) VO: Paul's cool pocket fan is up next.

20 bid, £20 got, £20, pretty little fan there, two is on the net.

I think people need to see how good this is cos it doesn't... CS: You can walk past it.

PL: Yeah.

You need to know how good it is.

£22, this is not dear.

£22, hammer is up.

DB: Five, just in time.

PL: Snuck in there.

Ooh, get in there.

25 bid here on the front row.

I'm selling at 25.

Anybody else?

Sold this time at 25... (GAVEL) Fair enough.

VO: That does seem cheap.

But it's a profit OK. Good thing.

You did well with it anyway.

Yeah, I'll take it.

Of course you will.

VO: Let's see how Catherine's heavyweight item fares.

The pump.

We'll start at 25.

25 bid, 28, 28, £30 bid, £30 got, £30, two, 32 bid.

Waiting for you.

Five, 35, eight, 38.

PL: Here she goes.

He's just keeping on going.

£42, five, 45 bid.

Anybody else?

£45, round we go, fair warning.

PL: That's cheap.

DB: It's sold at 45.

(GAVEL) CS: Is it cheap?

PL: It's also a cracking profit.

CS: I don't care if it's cheap, I don't care what it is, that's money.

VO: That early loss is long forgotten.

CS: Wow!

PL: Happy days!

Yeah, I'm smiling.

VO: Time for more Paul rummage, or ratch, as he would say.

Sleeves up.

In you go.

Ratch.

10, low start.

Very.

Yeah, that's got to get more than that...

BIDDER: 22.

DB: That's more like it.

DB: That's more like it.

CS: Exactly.

That's more like it.

28, £30.

£30 at the front row, £30, two, five, eight, 40, £40 bid.

£40, two, five, eight, 50.

£50 bid, £50 got, £50 all done.

Sold this time at £50.

(GAVEL) Not quite there but that's a good profit.

PL: Happy days.

Happy days.

CS: Yeah.

VO: Rummaging clearly pays.

I will ratch.

"Catherine, how's the ratching going?"

"Don't talk to me."

VO: Or LATCH?

Her pub window frame's next.

I can start at 38 in the room.

PL: And you've almost doubled your money already.

# Double your money.

# 38, 38 bid, 38 bid, 38, 40 anywhere?

38, sold away, last chance for you then.

Hammer's up.

I'm selling at 38 for the pair.

All done at 38.

(GAVEL) VO: Another clear profit.

CS: Ooh!

Oooh!

(HE CHUCKLES) That is an "ooh, good for me" and an "oooh, bad for you".

VO: Now, is that the sound of the men working on the chain gang?

Paul's big buy.

Start at 55, 55, 55 bid... CS: Watch it go.

55 bid, 55.

60, £60 bid, 65, 70, 75, 80, five, 90.

Five, 100.

DB: 10, 20... PL: I'm safe.

I'm safe.

Hours of fun with this lot.

(THEY LAUGH) DB: 120 bid, 120 got.

120 bid, 120, 130, 40, 50, 60... Oh my gosh, Paul, that's brilliant.

160 on my left over there.

Sold away this time at 160.

(GAVEL) Yes!

PL: Delight... CS: Yes!

They were brilliant.

They weren't mine.

Sadly.

(THEY LAUGH) VO: Let's all bask in his reflected glory!

Ha-ha!

Just means I'm going to get dinner tonight.

VO: Finally, it's Catherine's peacock time.

Number two in an on-going series.

Her last chance to seriously dent Paul's lead.

Start on the net at £48.

£48, 48 got.

48, pretty thing.

48 bid, 48.

50 anywhere?

Forty... 50, that's better.

55.

PL: He's got mind control.

55, 55 bid, nobody in the room?

No?

55 bid.

CS: Oh, no.

DB: At £55.

Hammer's up.

CS: Come on.

Will be sold at 55.

(GAVEL) Oh, that was my one hope.

I thought that was going to do really, really, well.

VO: It's yet another profit though.

We are money-making machines.

We are.

Kerching!

VO: Time to reach for the money adding-up machine.

VO: Catherine started out with £210.90 and after auction costs she made a profit of £13 and tuppence.

So she now has a little under £224.

VO: While Paul, who began with a little over £243, made after costs, a profit of £93 and sixpence.

So he now has £336.72.

And a burgeoning lead.

PL: That's another one down.

CS: Oh!

(HE CHUCKLES) VO: Next on Antiques Road Trip...

I'm going for the ratchet mode today.

VO: Catherine gets a plan.

PL: Ratching.

CS: Ratching, ratching.

(SHE GROANS) VO: Paul gets serious.

This wee pouch could save your life.

VO: And as for the car...

(THUD!)

Ooh!

Left something behind.

There's something dragging.

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