VO: The nation's favorite antiques experts, £200 each and one big challenge.

Well, duck, do I buy you or don't I?

VO: Who can make the most money, buying and selling antiques, as they scour the UK?

Yee-ha!

VO: The aim is, trade up and hope that each antique turns a profit.

But it's not as easy as it looks, and dreams of glory can end in tatters.

DEALER: 60.

PHIL: Get out of here!

VO: So will it be the fast lane to success or the slow road to bankruptcy?

I'm gonna go and cry!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

VO: Today, we're back on the road with Philip Serrell and Jonathan Pratt.

Young Jonathan seems to be taking a lot of guidance from his older Road Tripper.

JONATHAN (JP): I am learning from the master himself.

PHILIP (PS): I don't know about that.

JP: You are my master.

You are my... my guru.

VO: Steady!

But when it comes to shopping, Philip Serrell is a lover of all things daft and different.

And it's often the dustier, the better.

Those fit the Serrell bill, don't they?

VO: Jonathan Pratt prefers the more traditional items and has a real penchant for vases.

Look at that baby.

VO: At their first auction, Philip's unusual love of the oars and axle hubs made him a decent profit of £55.

There's a man out there with a broken down train and a boat without any oars.

You've just made his day.

VO: Jonathan's three vases didn't exactly storm the auction... with loss... ..after loss... My hopes and dreams dashed in one fall of the hammer.

VO: Philip's wacky strategy seems to be working a treat - from his original £200, Philip made a profit and now has £273.48 to play with.

VO: Sadly, by playing it safe, Jonathan's £200 has dwindled and he only has £161.90 for this leg of the game.

Looking serious.

JP: I'm annoyed with myself for losing money so soon.

PS: Can I make a suggestion?

JP: Go on.

I'd sort of tend to stay away from Oriental vases.

Ah... worldly advice.

VO: This week sees the pair traveling in their 1965 Triumph TR4 from Cockermouth in Cumbria all the way to Wilmslow.

VO: Today they're off to Corbridge with our final destination in Northallerton.

JP: It's very pretty.

I mean, it's just so different to all the other places.

PS: I'm moved.

JP: Have you?

No, I am moved.

Oh, I see.

I can lend you a tissue if you like.

VO: Seen as a jewel in the crown of Northumberland, Corbridge grew from the Roman town of Corstopitum... ..which was a supply town for the troops on Hadrian's Wall.

Steeped in history, since 1827, Corbridge was - and still is - well known for its quaint shops and boutiques, which is very handy, because our chaps need to shop, shop, shop!

PS: This looks quite wealthy, JP.

I don't like wealthy areas.

JP: No, I think exactly that.

PS: Wealthy areas have expensive shops.

JP: Yes.

VO: You'd better be prepared to dig deep then.

Good stuff.

Fantastico.

Yep.

VO: Right boys!

Off in separate directions please - Philip, you go one way.

Jonathan, you go the other.

(HUMS) DEALER: Jonathan?

JP: Jonathan Pratt, yes.

JP: Nice to meet you.

DEALER: Hello.

Do you mind if I just... Just have a browse around.

Have a look around.

VO: Right, Jonathan, the auction you're going to is a general sale, so please bear that in mind.

I buy whatever I see.

VO: Oh dear.

What have you got there?

This is a sort of copy of a Scottish stoneware chair.

They made these sort of highly fired glazed garden seats, which were made to look like sort of rustic sort of cobbled together branches and normally they're this sort of size.

Erm... and I've not seen one like this before, which is quite sweet.

The downside with this is that arm and that arm don't match and if you look close it's obviously been broken and lost its arm, hence the price is only £45.

This could be an object that might be popular but I'm gonna put it down because I don't really like it very much.

VO: Carry on looking then.

Rather pretty actually.

It's my color I think.

VO: Hm, matter of opinion.

Philip's not having any luck seeking out a real bargain in his shop.

So... PS: See you in a bit.

VO: ..he makes a sharp exit to join Jonathan... matey like.

What have I picked up that I quite liked?

I did look at the little Scottish pottery chair.

VO: Ah, you're back at that, are you?

DEALER: Has it got a price on?

JP: It has.

20.

Best price?

You wouldn't take £15?

Er...

I can't take £15, no.

Can't take £15.

£18?

Go on then, yes.

VO: That was a rapid change of heart.

What a pretty thing.

Philip's just arrived.

I didn't realize... And, he's coming this way.

Make sure you leave something, JP.

I've left you some stuff, Phil, don't you worry.

Just for a poor unsuspecting auctioneer.

VO: Who are you kidding Philip?!

What?!

You nursing something, JP?

Yes, I'm just... starting to model myself on you, Phil.

PS: Get out of here!

VO: Ha-ha!

Right, Jonathan, it's time for you to settle up for what I think is a chair up your jumper.

That's it.

Now zip up.

That's one down.

I'm going to leave Phil to it and pop over the road now.

VO: And Philip's not wasting any time.

That little ashtray on the bottom, how much is he?

Erm... it's got 78 on.

This is by Robert Thompson of Kilburn.

It is.

And he was known as Mouseman, and he was known as Mouseman because when he started working making furniture, he reckoned that he was as poor as the church mice and so his trademark was to put this little mouse carving on chairs and everything else that he did.

What's this - is this 30 years old?

DEALER: Probably, yes, but it is one of the slightly later ones.

But a lot of people prefer that because that is more accessible to them.

Yes... well, it's not hundreds of pounds is it?

What's the very best you can do on that?

50 would be the absolute bottom line.

VO: While Philip has a think about the ashtray, a Mauchline Ware inkwell with a jockey hat design has also caught his eye.

And it's made of wood.

PS: Is that... What's that hole there for?

DEALER: I think it would be for a quill pen.

Northallerton, Yorkshire.

VO: Yep, that's where the auction is.

Not too far away from Middleham and Middleham's a massive racehorse center where they train racehorses and I'm thinking that that little jockey's cap and that hoof, that might do OK there really.

This is hardly Phil Serrell wacky and weird is it?

What's the best you could do it for, for me?

Can you get it... What have we got on it?

You've got 75 which... 50 would be the best.

The very best you can do on that is 50?

No... no better at all?

£45?

No.

I'm toying now between... two things.

If I just bought the Mouseman, could you do just the Mouseman for 45?

OK, 45.

Alright, thank you very much indeed.

Let me get some money out.

There we are, my love.

So there's your £45.

Thank you.

VO: What about the jockey inkwell?

Let me just think about this little chap here.

What did you say that was?

45 was the absolute best.

I'm gonna go for broke here.

VO: Ooh, two more items bought then Philip - both wooden!

Have I put all my eggs in one big wooden basket?

Oh well, we'll find out, won't we?

VO: We certainly will.

Jonathan was also unsuccessful in the shop across the road but he's still hiding his last purchase from the curious Philip.

What have you bought?

Oh, just some sandwiches, don't worry.

A sandwich?

Oh I'm feeling a bit peckish.

Well, er, you'll have to get them later I'm afraid.

PS: Really?

JP: Yes.

Are they a bit... they sound a bit stale.

VO: Paltry buying in Corbridge now over, so back on the road.

PS: Sandwiches are in here, are they?

JP: Get off!

(SLAP) PS: You just slapped my knee!

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: Oh, nice!

Both chaps are now heading east to the Newcastle upon Tyne suburb of Jesmond, 18 miles away.

Considered to be one of the more affluent residential suburbs in the area, so where better for more buying?

VO: Jonathan however isn't stopping here yet - he's off to the theater, darling - but drops Philip off to carry on his spending.

Good luck, Philip.

Yep.

I'm off to tread the boards.

Enjoy the theater, dear boy.

Thank you very much.

Bye.

Drive safely.

Yeah, always.

Hello!

VO: Hello!

This shop doesn't exactly smack of the Serrell weird and wacky.

Does that look familiar?

VO: Seen anything you like, Philip?

Well, we've got five Royal Worcester plates, they're blushed ivory and the greatest exponent of painting these flowers on Worcester porcelain was a man called Edward Raby and prior to 1900 the Worcester porcelain factory, they didn't let the painters sign their work.

Edward Raby had a bit of an ego and he used to work his monogram, ER, into the foliage so you could pick that up and look at it for a week and not see a thing and then on the eighth day, lo and behold you'll see his little monogram, ER.

DEALER: Yes.

And when you found that, it adds 100 quid doesn't it?

Of course it does, yes.

Yes, it's a signed piece.

VO: The flowers on this set are in the style of an Edward Raby design, but sadly his trademark signature is nowhere to be seen.

You've got five.

Yes.

It's an odd number.

So I could buy one of those of you, couldn't I?

You could, yes, that's a good idea.

Yes and then I could be...

I'm probably actually doing you a favor.

Of course, even numbers up.

I'm making you a more salable set, aren't I?

Yeah, no that's true.

When do you want me to start telling you the sob story and how much bad luck I've been having lately?

DEALER: Really?

PS: What can you do it for?

DEALER: They average just over £30 each.

I think I've got to try and buy that for 20 quid.

You can have it £22.50.

I think I'm going to buy that one off you.

VO: Awfully traditional.

Are you changing your gameplan, Phil?

Thank you.

VO: While Philip's off to another shop, Jonathan's heading two miles down the road to just outside Newcastle's city walls for a more theatrical affair.

Newcastle began as a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall but today is one of the largest cities in England.

Situated north of the River Tyne, one of its most iconic views is of the seven bridges and the city wonderfully combines its industrial heritage with impressive modern architecture.

VO: The Journal Tyne Theatre, first known simply as the Tyne Theatre, opened its doors in 1867.

One of the region's best loved entertainment venues and one of the oldest working Victorian theaters in the World, it's now looked after by The Tyne Theater and Opera House Preservation Trust and their consultant Brian Debnam will show Jonathan around.

Oh hello!

Hello Brian.

Jonathan Pratt, hi.

Good to see you.

Good to see you.

Come in.

Well, first time I've been through a stage door.

VO: On his arrival Jonathan is soon following in some rather famous footsteps.

Oscar Wilde lectured here, William Gladstone, er... JP: He lectured here then?

BRIAN: ..prime minister at the time, he lectured here.

Sarah Bernhardt... JP: Oh, yes.

BRIAN: ..been on this stage.

All the great 19th century stars.

And behind you is a picture of the theater as it might have been during the 1880s.

It shows how they used to get 3,000 people in this theater.

It seats 1,100 people today for safety reasons but... Yeah, well you can see because, I mean, on the top tier there, is that someone hanging over the edge?

And there's a huge amount of standing at the back of each of the balconies.

I think the Victorians were smaller.

Obviously not as in love with health and safety as we are.

I'm yet to go in here, so I'm getting... this is building and building it up now!

VO: I don't think you're gonna be disappointed.

Time to raise the curtain.

Erm... Cor!

There we go.

Makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

VO: The impressive, lavishly-decorated auditorium within this grade-one listed building was in fact the social hub for the local community.

They built this theater just outside the city wall so they could get their license and they didn't need a license from the city council built out here amongst the pubs and poor houses and the rough area of town, and it's always been a people's theater.

The Theatre Royal was where the posh people went.

VO: The theater still remains very much in its original condition despite its conversion into a cinema after the second world war.

Into the '50s and '60s the theater started to go bad, there were much more competition around, And they started to show sort of slightly sleazy movies here, which actually if we saw them today wouldn't be very naughty at all!

VO: When the building reverted back to its roots as a theater in the mid 1970s, new stars were born here.

In the 1980s it was a famous amateur theater with big amateur musicals on this stage.

OK. People like Ant and Dec... Ant and Dec!

..started their career on this playing munchkins, I think, in the Wizard of Oz.

VO: Perhaps it's Jonathan's time to tread the boards.

I am imagining myself sort of on my opening night and, you know, I feel quite nervous actually.

I'm gonna leave you now in the middle of this stage with that auditorium in front of you for your own private performance.

To be or not to be - that is the question.

VO: Oh dear, I think you're better off backstage mate.

So it's time now to get a real sense of how Victorian theaters were run.

Jonathan's led down into the belly of the theater where the original wooden stage machinery is still housed.

What this does is it, erm, enables the stage above to stage spectacular...

Yes.

..and extraordinary shows.

What you do is you pull back on this thing here, it drops the stage surface...

Right.

..you then pull this back quite violently across here taking three or four guys to do so, and then they wind this up and it's got a scene on it or it had horses on it or it had people on it, BRIAN: a whole chorus... JP: Yes.

BRIAN: And they could all go up.

JP: Very clever.

The similarity is with a ship.

JP: Yep.

BRIAN: And actually the people that used to work here... JP: I was going to ask... BRIAN: ..were often sailors.

I was going to ask cuz this is like hauling the sail.

VO: Sadly, despite still being in working condition, this original under-stage contraption is no longer licensed for use.

As I don't think we'll be seeing Jonathan's name up in lights anytime soon, best he gets back to the day job, eh?

And while Jonathan may not be exactly a theater star, back in up Jesmond, Philip may be about to shine in his next shop.

PS: Hiya.

DEALER: Hello there.

Is it alright if I have a wander round please?

Yep, not a problem.

VO: This place is much more your style Philip - rather random, eh?

You've got a rack of woodworking tools around, haven't you, that I've noticed?

Yes, we've got a few lying round.

Do you want us to go and get some?

Can we... can we put all of them on there?

Yeah.

And I can have a look at the whole lot.

VO: Well, "the whole lot" actually involves digging them out of the basement.

DEALER: They're over here.

Will you just have a look at those?

DEALER: This is Geordie dust you know.

PS: Geordie dust!

VO: Ooh, the glamor!

They're molding planes aren't they?

Yeah.

So you would get a piece of wood like that.

It would be... And you would run that down there, wouldn't you?

And it would... that...

It would be for, like, skirting boards.

That there is the shape that you are actually going to mold.

I would guess they're somewhere between 1890 and 1920, aren't they?

Yeah.

How many woodworking tools you got in the place?

Probably about 15.

You a gambling man?

I'm definitely a gambling man.

I will make you an offer for the whole lot.

I've got to be looking at somewhere between 20 and 30 quid to buy them.

DEALER: Right.

PS: Is that... is that a deal?

I think we could probably do a deal on that.

Let's take them all upstairs.

VO: The chaps head back into the daylight so Philip can assess all the woodworking tools, including the rather dusty molding planes.

I'd like to buy the planes for 25 quid.

It's been a hard week.

Good man!

Get in there, get in there!

Is there somewhere that I can just go and try and give these a bit of a wipe over?

Yep.

I'll bring this one, I can manage this one, alright?

And the executive can show the way.

Right.

VO: Now, Philip's not a man afraid to get his hands dirty - but he's roped in some helpers.

No women allowed!

Men only club.

Stop messing around, get on with it!

You don't see Fiona Bruce doing this, do you?

VO: Not in a gentlemen's lavatory, you don't!

Fantastic chaps.

Those look alright, don't they?

There's 30 quid there.

I want £5 change and another fiver for cleaning PS: the wretched things!

DEALER: Thank you.

PS: Thanks so much.

DEALER: Thanks, I'm glad we could do some business.

If we put 'em down there I'll wait for JP to come.

DEALER: Right.

Alright.

PS: Good to see you.

VO: So with the washing up done in shiners, it's been a successful day of shopping.

Time for both Philip and Jonathan to get some rest and let's hope tomorrow proves as fruitful.

It's the start of a new day and more buying beckons.

Yesterday Philip Serrell got into the swing of things quite quickly and spent £137.50 on the Mouseman ashtray... ..the Mauchline Ware inkwell, the Royal Worcester plate and a box of old woodworking tools.

Huh!

That leaves £135.98 for his second day of shopping.

Jonathan Pratt spent - wait for it - a whole £18 on the miniature pottery chair, leaving him £143.90 for today.

Skinflint!

But there's a problem for Jonathan in Jesmond.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS) VO: His one and only item is broken.

JP: Hi there.

MAN: Hello.

Hope you can help me.

Something... Something I bought yesterday was this little Scottish stoneware seat.

The arm got... has been knocked off whilst being carried around.

It just needs to be glued back on like so.

That shouldn't be a problem.

Yep.

I've actually got a tube of glue open.

There we go, good as new.

Well you've been an absolute lifesaver, thank you very, very much.

VO: Ah, the kindness of strangers.

VO: Meanwhile, with four items, Philip's cruising to Broad Chare near Newcastle's Quayside for a glimpse into the area's maritime history.

I know that JP's only bought one item and the consequence of that is that I can take it fairly easy today.

VO: The River Tyne was once a hive of activity vital to the area's wealth but nowadays the volume of trade there is much reduced.

At the start of the 16th century a group of seafarers formed a charitable guild on Newcastle's quayside to support the town's growing maritime community and improve the safety of navigation.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Trinity House formally began in 1505.

Its members are called brethren and are largely serving or retired master mariners - sea captains to you and me.

Philip's come to their headquarters where Captain Healy, the deputy master, will show him some exceptional maritime artifacts.

All aboard.

PS: Morning.

CAPTAIN HEALY (CH): Hello.

Captain Healy, how are you?

Fine thanks, and yourself?

Philip Serrell.

Yeah.

This is a hidden gem isn't it?

It is, yes.

One thing I do know is that you've got a fabulous collection of... of marine items around here, haven't you?

Yes, yeah.

Not unnatural when you think we've been here for over 500 years and it's the brethren over history have brought things back to this house and we're... lucky enough to still have a lot of them here and be the custodians of what is essentially living history.

Oh, it's fant... Can I have a look at them?

Yeah, of course.

Let's go.

Thank you.

VO: As visits to Trinity House are strictly by appointment only, this is a rare treat for Philip.

So this, Philip, is the banqueting hall.

Oh dear, that's a jaw-dropping room, isn't it?

CH: It dates from 1721.

Fantastic.

This is what we know as King Charles' Chair.

King Charles was in Newcastle several times, the city being a royalist stronghold at the time of the civil war.

It's said because Charles was fairly short in stature that chair was built deliberately high so that when was seated around a table his eyeline would be the same as that of other people's.

That's our principle motto of the house, "Deus Dabit Vela" - "God will give sail", and it alludes to the ship without sail in the top of the crest.

The history in that is just unbelievable.

Show me more, show me more, please, please!

OK, so we're now going into the boardroom.

That really is spectacular.

VO: Something has instantly has caught Philip's eye - a model of a ship which was built during the Napoleonic war in 1805 by sailors held as prisoners of war in Britain, either ashore or in the hulks of a moored ship.

You're prisoners, you're living in horrible conditions, you're working by candlelight, you've first of all got to make the tools to fashion this.

PS: That's not the work of one man then?

CH: Most likely not, no.

It's a team of sailors and made for a very, very specific purpose.

Which was?

To buy their freedom and their repatriation.

VO: The garrison officers in charge of the imprisoned sailors would strike deals with the prisoners of war.

In exchange for a highly skilled custom made model like this, their freedom and safe return home would be granted.

PS: It's not... not ivory, is it?

No, it's not.

When you think, prisoners of war, what would they have had access to... to make something like this?

Well, probably really what they ate or something.

Yes, yes, it's quite literally that - it's beef and mutton bone, it's essentially a whole shipbuilding exercise in miniature.

It's like the biggest Napoleonic prisoner of war ship I've ever seen.

It's certainly one of the largest in existence.

You're gonna have to drag me away from here.

Alright, let me show you something totally different to this then.

VO: Their next stop, The Masters Room, the private headquarters of the brethren in Trinity House which houses their wonderful library.

In particular here, books that document the voyages of exploration, the poles, Australasia, the North West Passage.

Can I show you something else in this library?

Yeah.

It's an asymmetrical bookcase, it's blown glass as well, it's full of wonderful treasures, but do you perhaps notice anything at this end that's a little bit unusual?

Those books look a lot darker, but otherwise... Would you like to get closer and perhaps have a look at them?

Oh my life!

So are these... are they painted?

CH: They're painted, yes.

Oh.

VO: Well there's a first - Philip, speechless!

It's like being in a ship, isn't it?

VO: The secret doorway leads to the oldest part of Trinity House, the chapel.

4th January 1505 - the day we came into being, an order was signed for the building of the chapel.

So this has been a place of worship since 1505 and is still regularly used today.

VO: Going back almost five centuries, Newcastle's Trinity House is still very much a functioning organization.

Captain Healy, I have had just, like, one of the best days, it's been... well, thank you.

VO: Having been bowled over by this well-kept maritime secret, sadly Philip has to leave.

VO: How's Jonathan getting on in Jesmond though?

With only one wobbly item, I think he needs a helping hand.

Hello!

I'm looking for the sort of, er, little knickknacks and little bits and pieces.

Mm-hm.

Has anything caught your eye so far?

There's a little table that's quite cute.

We can have a look at that if you want.

JP: Yeah, I'll show... DEALER: Yeah, show me that.

I like all the leather as well.

Yes, this little table here?

Well, OK, it's not the most stable... No.

Admittedly, but erm...

I hadn't seen...

I just thought, you know, it's made of mahogany... Mm-hm.

And it's got a little bit of age, so it's early 20th century.

It's like making stuff when you're children.

Yeah, yeah.

It's quite fun really.

It is, isn't it?

You have the princely sum of £25 on there.

DEALER: Mm-hm.

JP: And I'm wondering how much of a... discount I might be able to persuade you.

I'm Scottish - I don't discount that easily, and it's been discounted.

Yeah, but if you're Scottish, you paid very little money for it.

VO: Cheeky.

But it's working.

Let's go upwards from where you start.

DEALER: Make me an offer.

VO: Steady!

I'm gonna start low and then we can haggle upwards OK?

£12.50.

£12.50, that's ridiculous.

Come on, higher.

I wouldn't want to go as far as £20, so sort of somewhere just under £20.

Have a think about it.

VO: Hm, I'd keep looking if I were you, boy.

Little oil of a watermill.

Mm-hm.

It says £35, would you take an offer on that?

I certainly would.

I like buying pictures and they can always surprise you.

Mm.

Early 20th century.

It's not badly painted.

DEALER: It is.

JP: Needs a clean.

Yes.

When it's cleaned the blue of the sky will come out so it's like a little discovery...

The person buys it and they've got the opportunity to clean it and see how much it changes it.

Again, I'd probably only want to pay £15 for it.

VO: Right - put your best offers on the table then.

I'll do the painting for... 17.

I will... VO: Come on.

..take the picture.

Right.

And I'm gonna leave the table.

As much as it pains me...

I think you're making a mistake.

I know you do.

Of course you do.

I'll do it for 15.

Go on then.

Got a deal.

Fantastic.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

VO: Not bad - her Scottish charms sold you two more items.

Excellent.

Bye-bye.

VO: Time for the chaps to get back on the road together and head for more buying... but of a different kind.

VO: So, reunited, Philip and Jonathan are heading to a market in Tynemouth.

Yeah, what I haven't told you Phil... Yeah?

..is the market opens at 10am and it finishes at four o'clock.

Well, what time's it now?

It's about two.

PS: We better get on then!

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: Fingers crossed there's something decent left for you to buy.

Let's hope it's an undercover market too.

PS: This is just wet.

JP: Yeah, let's get inside.

Come on.

Ugh.

VO: In fact, today's market is actually being held in the Victorian Tynemouth railway station and stalls here sell everything from food and plants to valuable antiques.

Good luck.

VO: The boys split up.

So with only two hours of buying left, the pressure's on.

Go get those real antique bargains, Jonathan.

Hello!

What is he doing?

They're rather sweet with little steel... cut steel buckles.

Victorian.

OK. You wouldn't take, you know, you know, £25 or something for them?

No, I paid more than that for them, sorry.

I think I'll say no to that chap.

Thank you.

You wouldn't sell me a box of toy cars would you?

Yes, absolutely.

For...?

£10.

Call it a fiver.

Call it seven and you got a deal.

Call it six.

OK. (CHUCKLES) There you go.

Thanks very much.

Brilliant.

VO: OK...

I suppose there is a market for toy collecting.

Philip's also on the prowl for a bargain.

Love those clogs.

VO: They look familiar.

How old are they?

Erm... aren't they Victorian?

These have actually been worn because they are sort of kitted out, there's things for rubbing up against the heel and they're shod and everything.

But I think they're beautiful.

Now if you'd see me those for 20 quid I'll have them.

I can't, cuz I paid £30 for them.

I'll be back in a minute.

Right OK.

I might try and buy them off you for your money back but we'll see how we get on, shall we?

VO: With nothing else catching his eye Philip's mind is still on the clogs and he's going to offer £30 for them.

You watch.

I've got to be quick, I've got a train to catch.

Train to...

I've got a train...!

There you are, look.

DEALER: OK. PS: 30 quid.

Alright.

Alright, love you - you're an angel.

Yes.

You are.

You're ever so kind.

DEALER: Enjoy.

PS: They're fantastic.

PS: I love those.

DEALER: They're gorgeous.

Who's going to buy those, a doll collector?

No, no, just sort of women who've got sort of dresses and they collect little bits to put on.

Can I just say I've not bought these because I collect dresses, I have no dresses in my wardrobe!

VO: Huh, the gentleman doth protest too much methinks.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, my love, you're an angel.

DEALER: Enjoy your day.

PS: Yes, see you soon... VO: Jonathan will be mad that he's bagged those.

What's he up to anyway?

Hornsea dog.

VO: Really?

Two quid?

Go on then.

Yay, there we go!

There you go.

Thank you very much.

Five items bought!

And I've spent... how much?

About 60 quid.

Get in there.

VO: This wasn't exactly the kind of buying I had in mind.

Dear oh dear.

I quite like...

I quite like this pair here to be honest.

A pair of decanters, blown glass with little, er... nice little ribbed decoration on it.

People just don't, you know, use these things like they used to.

DEALER: A tenner each.

JP: A tenner each?

Yeah.

And that's... a bargain.

I'll be generous - £8.

For each?

No, for the two.

Oh, ho!

I'll do £15 for the pair.

Just because, you know, you're one of the boys.

Do you know what...

I'm on fire!

VO: If you say so... JP: 15 quid.

DEALER: 15 quid.

JP: Thank you very much.

OK. DEALER: That's it done.

There we go.

VO: At last - shopping complete.

It's time for the boys to head back to the warmth and dry to show off their buys.

Look at this.

Bit of quality merchandise.

There we go, look at that.

Well, it's a little ply table isn't it?

When's that?

1950?

Bit of mahogany veneer though on it.

Yeah.

It could be as late as the 1950s.

What did you pay for that?

I paid £15.

Well, that's alright isn't it really?

Well, I reckon it's my turn now and I have to say out of all the bits I bought this is just a bit dull really.

VO: You're not really selling it to us here.

I bought it from a really nice antique shop and they guy had got five of these Royal Worcester plates and I pointed out to him that five wasn't really a set and he'd probably do better selling them as two pairs which left him with one over.

That's very sensible advice, Phil.

Well, I...

I don't know how we arrived at the price but it was £22.50.

I think that is probably worth more or less what you paid for it but there's room for a little bit of improvement on it maybe.

OK, JP, what's next?

Bought that little chap there.

I like that.

Stoneware Scottish copy of a miniat... of a garden seat.

That...

Perfect, I think that could be £80-£120.

VO: Sadly it's not perfect.

It has got a fair bit of damage to it.

When have you seen one of these?

Well, I haven't.

I paid 18.

Next.

A box of planes and there are 17 ordinary... erm... molding planes.

Mm-hm.

There's three of these sort of parallel planes.

Aha.

And this one which I suppose is a similar sort of router almost.

Some are quite collectable, you know, the more complicated planes are the most collectable.

And they cost me £25.

VO: Possibly perfect for a country auction.

I bought... A bag of apples?

A little box of toys.

Right, fine.

I gave him six quid for the lot.

I was on a roll.

That to me was the one that made it.

Yeah.

You know, he might only be worth £2 or £3 or something.

PS: That's probably worth a tenner on its own.

JP: It might be.

VO: Fingers crossed!

Over to you boy!

And I bought this little inkwell and I've no idea what it's worth and it's a real gamble for me in that the jockey's cap, horse's hoof... Oh, that is fun, isn't it?

..does it for somebody who's into horses.

JP, what's next?

Ah, so what's that?

That's a 1900, 1910 furnishing oil painting.

I thought it was quite charming and I paid £17 for it.

Happy?

Yeah.

VO: As long as Philip's happy - that's the main thing.

Over to you.

I've sort of bought this specifically for the auction in mind really.

I paid £45 for it.

And I think in a Yorkshire sale, I thought the worst it would do is lose me a fiver and the best it might do is make me £25.

JP, last lot!

OK, this pair of decanters.

Can I just make one observation?

JP: Go on.

PS: They're not a pair.

That doesn't matter, they're in perfect condition, Philip, just a minor technicality.

And bulking the lot up... lovely little figure of a terrier.

JP, how much did you pay for that lot?

If I told you I'd paid £40 for them you'd think... You're lying.

Yeah.

If I told you I'd paid £20 for the lot... You're still lying.

I paid £15 for these two.

You're still lying.

And a couple of quid.

PS: You paid £17?

JP: £17 for them.

D'you know what I'd do, if I were you?

You're going to offer these as one lot?

Yeah.

I'd chuck that in the bin save embarrassing yourself.

Thanks Phil.

VO: Don't let him discourage you, Jonathan.

JP, I thought these were lovely.

Oh, my word!

VO: Yep, it's the clogs you wanted.

I thought those were lovely.

I thought they were lovely too but I thought they were expensive.

What, 50 quid?

JP: Yeah.

PS: Yeah.

And so I put them down.

I wanted to give her 25, 30.

That's what I gave her.

JP: Did you?!

PS: 30 quid.

Oh, for goodness' sake!

I offered her that much.

Oh, sorry Phil.

That was nasty, wasn't it?

VO: I think these chaps are tired.

Anyway... moving on, what do the boys have to say about each other's items in private?!

I think this is really, really interesting now because JP, he's gone out there and he's spent no money, he's clearly disciplined himself, not necessarily to buy his taste or what he likes, he's got a real plan and a strategy.

I don't know if it's going to work or not but that's what he's set out to do.

The chair, the little chair I think that's a really interesting lot and if he hits the right market he could do well with that.

VO: What about the clogs, Jonathan?

To be honest I don't really want to talk about the shoes.

VO: Go on.

Well, you know, I go...

I get asked obviously round to go and soften up the clients and then he goes on and takes the stuff afterwards, so I am annoyed, absolutely.

She should have said, "You can't have them."

VO: Oh, Lord!

On this leg of their road trip, the pair have traveled from Corbridge to Newcastle upon Tyne - stopping in the suburb of Jesmond, the city center, Broad Chare, and Tynemouth.

Their last stop is the auction in the town of Northallerton.

Now, trailing behind just how is Jonathan feeling?

You know, I'm sort of flailing around like an amateur.

I need some...

I need some, you know, results.

VO: Set between two national parks, Northallerton, the county town of North Yorkshire, is the largest market town in the district.

Northallerton Auctions Ltd are a long-established firm holding livestock markets and antiques sales.

Let's hear what auctioneer Tim Pennington makes of what our experts have entered.

I think the items that the guys have bought, erm... are very good.

Obviously the most pertinent one is the Mouseman ashtray, erm, which is very, very local to here.

I think the Scottish chair is an unusual item.

I've seen larger versions of it but not a smaller version like that and I think possibly the damage and the repair may well cap its value.

VO: Let's jog our memories on what each expert has spent.

Philip bought five lots - totaling £167.50.

And Jonathan parted with only £73 for his five lots.

Settle down everyone - it's auction time.

Oh, here we go, here we go, here we go.

Oh, crikey.

VO: First up, Philip's Royal Worcester blush ivory plate.

Where will you start me?

£20 for it straight in.

Oh help.

10 bid, at £10 bid, at 10 only bid for it.

At £10, at £10 all out left and right.

Now at £10 only bid, little money - good bit of Worcester.

At £10 only bid, £12, £12 bid off the rail.

At £12 only bid, at £12, we're at £12 at £12 bid and selling at £12.

That's done well then!

VO: Whoopsie - that supposedly safe buy hasn't paid off.

Now for Jonathan's early 20th century painting of a mill.

Where will you start me?

£50 for it straight in?

£50?

£30.

Well £20 for a bad start surely.

10 bid.

At £10, we're at £10 only... You've got a bidder there.

TIM: £15 off the rail, at £15.

JP: £15.

Come on, keep going, keep going, keep going.

Left and right now.

At £15 only bid.

£18?

£18 bid, little money at £18, only bid at £18, only bid, all out in the ring now at £18.

Only bid at £18, bid at £18 bid and selling at £18.

I have worked it out, you know - that the less you sell stuff for the less commission you have to pay, that is the one bonus!

VO: Ooh!

After commission's deducted, that's not even a profit.

VO: Let's hope Philip's box of woodworking tools serve him well.

30 bid, at £30, bid at £30, only bid at £30... You're a fiver up already.

£45, £50, £55 all out in the ring now.

£60, £70.

£70 bid, I'll take five, where are you?

At £70, only bid at £70.

Bid at £70, only bid at £70, we're at £70 bid and selling at £70.

That's a bit of a relief.

Good man, well done.

VO: A classic Serrell dusty lot turned him in a handsome profit.

Another of Philip's items - the Mauchline ware horse hoof and jockey cap inkwell.

Quite a bit of interest in this, where will you start me?

£40 for it straight in.

£30 bid.

I've £30... That's a result.

£40, five, eight, £50.

All out of the ring now.

£55, £60, five, £65 with me...

I'd definitely take that.

Are you all done and finished then at £65?

PS: Phew.

JP: Ah, Philip.

I'll take that.

You're good at this, aren't you?

No, lucky.

Lucky, lucky, lucky.

Nah.

VO: Well that trotted out of the auction didn't it?

VO: Next is Jonathan's mahogany plywood table.

The occasional tableware.

Will you start me £5 for it straight in?

Oh, there we go.

£5, £10, £15, £20, £20 with me on the rail...

I'm flabbergasted.

I'm gonna cry because it's made more than my Worcester plate.

£20, bid at £20, only bid at £20 and selling at £20.

VO: And he's elated with his first decent-ish profit.

I've made profit overall so far.

Don't rub it in.

VO: Up now is the Mouseman ashtray bought for £45 by Philip.

£20 for it straight in?

JP: There we go.

TIM: £20 bid.

At £20, we're at £20, only bid at £20.

At £20 bid two.

£22, £25.

All out in the ring now.

£28, £30, £30 I'm bid.

At £30, we're at £30 only bid, a harmless price for a good Mouseman piece.

At £30, only bid at £30... That failed then, JP, didn't it?

Still going.

£32, only bid at £32, bid and selling at £32.

Sorry Phil.

VO: Eek - a loss.

It's time to see how the assorted box of toys goes.

10 bid, at £10, we're at £10.

PS: Profit JP.

JP: Yeah.

TIM: All out in the room now... JP: No, no, no, come on, 12.

15, 15 bid.

At 15, only bid at £15, bid at 15 only bid.

Take 18 where?

At 15, only bid at 15, bid and selling at 15.

Foster... JP: Good.

Steady.

Great.

PS: That's well done that is JP.

VO: I like your positive attitude.

You're racing away.

JP: I am.

PS: Yeah.

VO: Uh-oh, it's Philip's pair of 19th century children's clogs next.

Don't look, Jonathan.

Bit of interest in these.

Where will you start me?

£50 for 'em straight in.

£20 bid, I have £20, five, £30, five, £40, five.

All out in the ring now.

At £45 bid, at £45 bid, £48.

£48 with me, at £48 I'm bid.

At £48 I'm bid, are you all done and... £50, £50 bid.

Take two.

£50 I'm bid, £52.

£52, £52, £54, £56 against you on the rail.

£58, £58 I'm bid.

At £58 I'm bid, £60.

At £60 against you.

£60 against you, try another one.

£60 against you.

At £60 I'm bid and selling at £60.

How about that eh?

See, if you'd have bought those you'd have made a tenner profit.

But I didn't want to make a tenner profit, I wanted to make £30 profit, Philip!

PS: Is that the way it's worked?

JP: £30.

You owe me.

I think I should be commissioned for my services there.

VO: They were a very clever buy, Philip.

VO: Next, the rather random lot of a pair of glass decanters and the Hornsea pottery terrier.

A fiver for them?

He's got confidence in them, hasn't he?

At £3 we're at £3 and a bid for them, £5.

£5 bid, at £5.

£8.

£8 against you.

£10.

Keep going.

£12, £12 with me, at £12 and a bid... £15, someone £15.

Come on.

At £12 and a bid, £12.

We're at £12 bid and selling at £12.

So what... where are you now, JP?

Oh, Philip, you know, I'm in the doldrums.

VO: Aha, Philip did warn you they might not do well.

VO: Last lot - although it's unlikely the 19th century Scottish pottery chair will make the profit that Jonathan needs.

£10, £10 bid, at £10, we're at £10 only bid for it.

£10, at £10 bid all out, left or right.

At £10 only bid, all out on the rail now...

I assume it's because people don't understand that.

Really.

At £10 only for it, are you all done and finished then at £10.

It's a dreadful state of affairs VO: Oh dear - ending on a low, with a final loss.

I wanna go and cry.

I can't believe it!

VO: And without stating the obvious, today's winner is Philip Serrell.

So let's crunch the numbers... Jonathan started this leg of the trip with £161.90 and after deducting auction costs, ends today with an even less £150.40.

Philip started with £273.48 and after auction costs, now has £301.96.

No wonder he's smiling.

Oh, JP, where do we go from here?

Look, Philip... you made money.

You made money, you did very, very well.

I am still trying to learn here.

VO: I'm sure you'll have better luck next time, Jonathan.

Next time on the Antiques Road Trip, Jonathan spies a few bargains.

That's quite interesting.

Up on the wall.

VO: And Philip's busy sampling the local produce!

You're an angel, thank you.

You're welcome.

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