VOICEOVER (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts, with £200 each, a classic car, and a goal: to scour Britain for antiques.

Going, going, gone.

Yes!

Hello!

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

But it's no mean feat.

Yes!

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

I've got to try and win.

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

Sun shines on the brave, doesn't it?

Exactly.

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah!

MUSIC: "I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside" by John Glover-Kind VO: This week we're way down in the West Country.

Old hand Phil Serrell at the wheel, plus keen learner Tom Scott.

PHIL: Tell me, are you Tom or Thomas?

TOM: I'm Tom.

PHIL: Tom.

Phil.

Good to meet you, mate.

TOM: Hi, Phil.

Good to meet you.

PHIL: You looking forward to this?

PHIL: I didn't meant to touch your knee then, by the way.

TOM: That's alright, mate - don't worry about it.

PHIL: Later on in the week perhaps.

TOM: Exactly!

VO: Really?

Hm.

Dealer Tom may be a Road Trip rookie but he should know a thing or two about antiques, having grown up in the family business.

It is, sadly, way out of my price league.

Better put it back then!

VO: Now, keen-eyed viewers may have seen Tom's potential at his shop in Rutland.

TOM: How old is it?

19... ...20s/30s.

Yeah.

VO: Sign him up!

Phil has been around, it's safe to say, and as an auctioneer he knows quality.

But he doesn't always buy it.

PHIL: Hellfire and damnation!

VO: On past trips he's acquired a reputation for buying "big old lumps", but this week, apparently, he might just go straight.

PHIL: What I'm going to avoid are bridges, canoes and vaulting horses.

PHIL: Those are my three definite no-nos.

PHIL: I'm going to play it sensible.

VO: Never!

Phil and Tom start out with £200 a piece, a 1980s Lancia Beta Spyder and a map of Cornwall.

Penzance is this way.

Land's End's got to be that way.

PHIL: Penzance is that way?

Yeah.

PHIL: Oh, OK, I'll do a quick handbrake.

VO: Ha-ha!

Our trip begins at the far southwest corner of Britain, at St Buryan, before wending its way around several counties, to reach Wareham, in Dorset.

Today we start out at St Buryan and make for an auction in Ladock, near Truro.

Phil, here, St Buryan, this is your place.

This is for you.

So we've got to find the shop, haven't we?

TOM: Let's keep them pealed.

TOM: Hang on.

What have we got here?

PHIL: Oh, no, there it is.

TOM: Boathouse Antiques.

This looks lovely, mate - you're going to have a great old time in here.

PHIL: I'm going to enjoy this, I really am.

TOM: Right, I'm out of here - I've got to go and find my shop.

Hope she doesn't break down.

VO: So the old hand is the first to hit the ground...ha, strolling...and no prizes for guessing exactly what they specialize in at Boathouse Antiques.

So that's a buoy, isn't it?

VO: Not a girl.

Fender... DEALER: That's a fender.

PHIL: So that basically stops you bashing into the dock or whatever?

DEALER: That's correct.

VO: Brilliant.

I've never seen Phil as much of a sailor but he is warming to this alright.

PHIL: So what are these here then?

DEALER: These are dead eyes, which are part of a boat rigging.

DEALER: There would have been a large rope going through here, and then another one around here, and this would go up to the mast.

Oh, right.

And are those collectable?

Yes, they do yeah, lovely...

He's got to say that, hasn't he?

What are they made of?

Probably lignum, by the look of it.

PHIL: They're lignum vitae.

DEALER: Yeah.

PHIL: Dogwood.

DEALER: Dogwood?

Yeah.

Do you know how you tell?

DEALER: No.

PHIL: From the bark.

DEALER: Ah, very good!

VO: Lignum vitae is a tough, durable and extremely dense wood.

It's used for bowling balls and, until recently, policeman's truncheons.

I like those.

You've got £28 on those, and it's maybe £10 or £12 worth, but let me put them by...

Put them by.

..see what we can do.

Put them by.

Utterly useless those but that's just my sort of things, really.

VO: While Phil explores his seafaring side, Tom's at the wheel of the Lancia, discovering that long hair and open-topped cars can be a tricky mix.

Feel like I need to buy a headband at the first shop we get to.

VO: Or have a hair cut.

VO: Tom and his troublesome locks are on their way to St Just... VO: ..the most westerly town in mainland Britain.

So could this be our most westerly antique shop?

Logical.

You must be Vicky.

VICKY: I am, yes.

I'm Tom, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

TOM: Do you mind if I have a bit of a browse, and I'll give you a shout in a minute with some bits and pieces?

Not at all, help yourself.

VICKY: Brilliant, thank you.

VO: No sign of an Alice band in Bygones or any of the big French antique furniture that Tom usually specializes in.

I'm sure he'll keep his hair on though.

TOM: This is great.

A good decorative piece this one.

It's an urn, so there should be a tap in here, hopefully.

VO: And he's off.

Has got a few nibbles on it thought but it has...

It's got plenty of nibbles.

It's got the tap.

VICKY: It's got the tap.

How much is it?

TOM: £10.

VICKY: £10.

What can we say?

Eight quid and it's yours.

Call it a fiver and we've got a deal.

Call it eight.

Six.

Eight.

6.50.

7.50, it's yours.

Seven.

Deal.

7.50.

I'll take it for £7.50, I think that's brilliant fun.

VO: Phew.

Is every deal he does going to be as hard fought as that?

VO: First buy to the beginner.

Back in St Buryan, Phil's uncovered yet more seafaring stuff.

PHIL: These things here, I think they're interesting.

PHIL: What do they make at auction?

I would expect a copper one like that to make 50 or 60 pounds.

VO: Ah, a ship's lantern.

PHIL: That's a Masthead.

Do you know how I know that's Masthead?

Because it says it here, look - "Masthead".

A genius I am - absolute genius.

VO: Absolute something, certainly!

So how old is this?

This one is probably World War II, I would think, this one.

PHIL: But the glass looks alright.

Yes.

And that strikes me that if that was polished up, it would make quite a nice lamp, wouldn't it?

VO: Yeah, it is a lamp.

PHIL: I think I'd like to buy the lamp.

PHIL: And I'd like to buy these dead eyes.

I've chucked all my eggs in one marine basket then, haven't I?

VO: I feel a salty lot shaping up.

Can I give you 40 quid for the two?

TRICIA: That really is too tight.

PHIL: That's me being mean, isn't it?

Yeah.

For you, we could do 50.

PHIL: Go on then, I'll give you 50 quid.

TRICIA: OK. DEALER: That's a good price.

I know, it's a cracking price.

VO: That was brisk work.

A rate of knots even.

PHIL: Have you got any polish out the back?

DEALER: I have, actually, yeah.

Do you want to have a go?

Yeah, I'll have a go.

VO: Now, any sign of young Tom adding to his old pot?

TOM: Do you mind if I open up the..?

VICKY: No, have a look.

VICKY: That's a very old Moorcroft vase but not very colorful.

VO: Vicky's right.

Moorcroft is famous for its brilliant color, divided by tube lines, in the same way that a cake is iced.

TOM: Nice though, isn't it?

It's got a lovely shape to it, a lovely feel.

What have we got?

£65.

TOM: What could be your absolute best, best, dealer to dealer, first time road tripper deal?

My very best... 40 quid and it's yours.

VICKY: That's a bargain.

I'm thinking more like...30.

We can do a deal at 30.

We can do a deal at 35 and it's yours.

32 and we're done.

Can you meet me there?

VO: Blimey, Vicky, he's a determined customer!

TOM: It's a sweet little piece though.

TOM: Deal?

I'll bring it over to you.

I've seen it.

Not 35?

Not 35.

I can do 32.

Cash, today?

Right now.

Go on then, you've got a bargain.

Done.

I have been!

TOM: I feel like I've been done.

VICKY: Yeah!

VO: Well, they both sound happy enough.

Good start, Tom.

Phil's still at it too.

Seems like he's settling in, in fact.

Nothing seaworthy this time though.

This is a walnut fire screen, and this would've been... this would've sat in front of the fireplace, strangely enough.

VO: Like the man said, genius.

What I love about this is the mirror on the front, it just gives depth to your room, doesn't it?

TRICIA: It would do, yes.

PHIL: You've got a ticket price on that at 68.

PHIL: What's the best you could do that for?

TRICIA: 40.

PHIL: I think I'm going to buy that, PHIL: I think that's really lovely quality.

PHIL: Go on, here we go, 40 quid.

40 quid.

PHIL: You're an angel, thank you very much.

VO: He's not always in such good mood, Tricia.

And now I've got to get out of here, because if I don't get out of here... TRICIA: ..you'll find something!

Well, it's going to be just a one-stop shop, this is.

There we are.

Thank you very much Lovely, thank you very much.

VO: I thought Phil might be about to spend the lot in that shop.

VO: Tom meanwhile is back on the road and heading for Ashton where, deep in the Cornish countryside, he's about to see an astonishing collection of vintage electric guitars.

Guy.

GUY: Tom.

TOM: Pleasure to meet you.

And very nice to meet you too.

Thank you very much.

I hear you've got a great collection to show us.

VO: Guy's passion for all things rock began back in 1963, when a friend somehow booked up-and-coming group The Beatles to play a concert at his school.

Guy was smitten, and 50 years later, he has over 140 "twangers" crammed into his home.

TOM: So why guitars?

What's drawn you to the guitars itself?

They are rock and roll, they define rock and roll, the styles, the shapes, the way they've evolved over the years.

GU: There was a trade embargo between this country and America up until the late '50s, so we never saw American guitars then, and that's why in 1958 we have the very first commercially built British guitars.

TOM: It's fantastic.

TOM: Beautifully made, it's a stunning piece, isn't it?

It is a stunning piece.

This is the earliest known surviving guitar built by Jim Burns, and this dates from '58 and almost certainly it was the guitar advertised by Foote's in Melody Maker on December the 10th, 1959.

VO: Guy owns examples of just about every "axe" fashion, from the '50s up to the '90s, and beyond.

But it's not a huge house, and so every room's being used.

TOM: Guy, it would appear you've brought me up into your bedroom.

I have actually.

What 's going on here?

It's where I keep my favorite guitars.

TOM: So we've now moved into the '80s, we're looking to the Travelling Willburys' guitar here.

GUY: Well, the Travelling Willburys, as you probably know, was a band made up of five very famous musicians who suddenly decided they were going to form a band and they were going to write a song and it was going to be a hit, and that's precisely what happened.

TOM: So what, of the five you've got Bob Dylan, you've got..?

GUY: Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty.

TOM: And this, they've all signed it on the back here?

GUY: Yes, this is a facsimile signature of the band, yeah.

To be fair, it's a promotional guitar, it's not a great player but it's a great piece of guitar history.

Yeah, yeah.

Of course.

VO: Now the '80s weren't one of our most tasteful eras.

And so guy also has a machine gun shaped guitar inspired by Rambo, and this little treasure.

GUY: Well this is probably the most unusual custom built guitar of all time, and this is the Blue Moon guitar that was especially made for the band Showaddywaddy... TOM: OK.

GUY: ..when they launched their version of the oldie "Blue Moon."

GUY: It's obviously been featured a number of times on television.

TOM: Yeah, of course.

But more recently I managed to meet up with the band when they were in Falmouth, and that was the first time they'd seen it since the very early '80s, because the guitarist at the time, Russ Field, didn't find it a very comfortable guitar to play, because if you can imagine playing a guitar with dangling feet just below your waist... TOM: I can see what you're getting at down there.

VO: So many guitars and so little time.

Since his rock epiphany back in the '60s, Guy has been in a lot of bands.

But things didn't quite turn out as you might expect.

TOM: You must be itching to just give us a tune, can you do that for us?

I wondered if you were going to say that because actually I don't play guitar.

VO: Crikey!

Turns out he's actually a drummer.

Hang on, is Tom really playing that thing?

Actually, miming.

VO: While Tom's been "wigging out"... Phil's made his way from St Buryan to nearby Penzance... VO: ..probably not for the sunbathing, though Penzance is noted, usually, for its mild climate, as well as the birthplace of Sir Humphrey Davy, inventor of the miner's safety lamp.

Looks quite pleased with it too doesn't he?

VO: Enough promenading, time to warm up with a bit of bargaining.

Oh!

Bracing, innit?

GEOFF: It's a nice day for Cornwall.

Bloody hellfire!

Hi, I'm Philip, how are you?

GEOFF: A little bit fresh today.

PHIL: Are you both shops?

Yeah.

VO: On one side, Geoff has traditional antiques, and next door the more vintage, 20th century stuff.

Maybe a little cheaper, Phil hopes.

PHIL: I'd like to spend somewhere around...I don't know, between 15 and 30/35 quid.

Something like that.

Well, right next... behind you.

GEOFF: We've got a pair of bed-ends here.

Don't worry about the first look of it, the good thing about this is... Those look like they're worth a pound, Geoff.

Yeah, but there is something to recommend them.

Uh, yeah, I know what that's because I've sold furniture by this lady.

PHIL: Betty Joel.

GEOFF: Absolutely.

It was her husband that was designing and she thought she could do it better than him.

I've got to say, looking at these, Geoff, I think she was probably wrong.

VO: One of England's finest bespoke furniture makers during the '20s and '30s, Betty Joel crafted Art Deco inspired interiors for the rich and famous.

This is the best way to put it; she's the Clarice Cliff of furniture.

GEOFF: Yeah, absolutely.

VO: Yeah and even Clarice had her off days I'm sure.

That label though has to be worth something.

In horrible things of our time, these are up there.

GEOFF: I'll do you a good deal for it, don't worry.

I can do you a very good deal.

PHIL: Do you throw in paraffin and matches as well with it?

That's very cruel.

PHIL: I know.

25 quid.

PHIL: We've agreed that they're worth a pound.

PHIL: All we've got to do now is agree what the price of that's worth.

I'll give you 20 quid and I'll take them.

OK. You're a gentleman.

Thank you very much indeed.

VO: Well it's been quite a day.

Looks like it'll turn out nice tomorrow too.

VO: Nighty night.

VO: Next morning finds Tom at the wheel, and the navigator in need of guidance.

PHIL: Excuse me mate, do you know where the docks are?

The docks?

PHIL: Yeah.

Yeah, if you go round, it's just really roundabout, follow it round, and you'll come... basically the end of town.

It's where the land runs out!

PHIL: Cheers mate.

Cheers.

PHIL: That was a good local Cornish accent that wasn't it?

TOM: It was good.

VO: Yesterday Tom bought a filtration urn and Moorcroft vase for just £39.50, thanks to some pretty tough tactics... VICKY: Call it eight.

TOM: Six.

VICKY: Eight.

6.50.

VO: ..leaving him with over £160 at his disposal, while Phil discovered his sea legs, spending £110 on some deadeyes and a masthead light that's now looking rather shipshape.

VO: Plus a fire screen and some bed heads by a famous name, leaving him with £90 to spend today.

VO: Later they'll be making for that auction in Ladock but our first stop is the port of Falmouth.

VO: These days Falmouth is famous as a holiday destination but the real secret of its success lies beneath the bay.

PHIL: Wait, wait, wait, wait, look, a sign, maritime museum.

VO: Thanks to the deepest natural harbor in Western Europe and some resourceful sailors, Falmouth was once Britain's most important port.

Would you please just try and leave me something in the shop?

TOM: See you later.

Bye.

VO: So while Tom gets shopping, Phil's interest in all things nautical takes him to the award winning National Maritime Museum, Cornwall.

You must be Jonathan?

JONATHAN: I am indeed.

Welcome to the maritime museum Phil.

This is fantastic.

Isn't it lovely?

Shall we have a look?

Yeah, come on.

VO: The museum celebrates naval history and especially Falmouth's role in it.

It was from here that Sir Francis Chichester and Dame Ellen MacArthur set sail around the world.

But what really made Falmouth great was its very handy location.

JONATHAN: During the 18th century, we're at war - on and off - with France and with Spain.

We're also the most westerly port.

Right.

So if you want to get into the wide Atlantic, this is the place to leave from or to arrive to.

And I suppose also, if you've got a big sailing vessel, you couldn't tack or zigzag down the Channel, could you?

Absolutely, that could take you weeks, and from here you can get in easily and you can get out easily.

VO: From the 17th century until 1851 Falmouth was a packet station, from whence small, fast ships, carrying mail between Britain and the colonies, avoided her enemies.

VO: When Napoleon attempted a blockade in the early 1800s, the packet sailors of Falmouth became national heroes.

They were running these small, fast ships, with about six to ten guns only, they weren't meant to fight.

That was only in extremis.

They were carrying the post to and from Lisbon, Brazil, the Caribbean, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and they were getting past the enemy and carrying the mails, and here is a packet for you, that's what the mail would go in.

JONATHAN: This ship was sailing all the way to the Caribbean for a packet that big.

With the post in that.

It'd probably got something else on board such as bullion or money.

JONATHAN: There is a packet and there is a letter from it.

How rare are those?

That's the only one we know in existence.

JONATHAN: And it was just left on the doorstep of the museum one day.

PHIL: So that's the only one in the world that you know?

JONATHAN: Yes.

That really is quite something, isn't it?

Isn't it?

VO: The museum also includes examples of outstanding individual heroism by Falmouth sailors - like the tiny fiberglass boat in which the Robertsons somehow survived, back in 1971.

VO: The family of six were attempting to sail around the world when killer whales sank their schooner.

Mum Lyn, a former nurse, was the real heroine though, devising a means to keep the family hydrated.

JONATHAN: Let me show you how they survived.

Well, that looks like beeswax polish and a bike pump.

JONATHAN: It does, doesn't it?

PHIL: Yeah.

Two issues: one, food; the other, fresh water.

Fresh water - you can't drink sea water, cuz you go loopy.

Yeah.

So you put it in through an enema up your backside.

Oh!

And there it is.

Oh... VO: The museum has a place where the most amateur sailor can have fun.

Fans blow wind across the water; you try your hand remotely.

It's not easy though...

Tighten up as you go into the wind.

Oh, no, no, no, wrong way.

Oh, Lord, now what's going on?

Isn't it?

No, I've gone...

I've just crashed.

VO: ..well, not if you're Phil.

What's really upsetting me is there's a four year old boy up there, beating me.

JONATHAN: Yes he's doing very well.

JONATHAN: Keep that course and tighten up, excellent.

PHIL: Ah!

VO: Crikey!

I've got a fair lick on now haven't I?

All aboard.

VO: While Capt'n Phil's been having the wind taken out of his sails, Tom's been after some treasure.

Yesterday he found something in the window and it looks like he's going to do it again.

It's a sort of a tactic, I suppose.

Morning, Chris!

CHRIS: Morning.

Yeah, hi Tom.

How are you doing?

Nice to meet you.

I'm doing well.

And you?

Yeah very good, thank you.

Very good.

I've opened up my store room up through the back, so you can wander up.

TOM: Oh great, the back room, sounds brilliant.

CHRIS: Loads of rubbish up there, all prices negotiable.

Lovely, that's what we like.

If you want me just come down and get me, I'm cleaning my fish here at the moment.

VO: Ha!

Oh, well, good luck with that.

Looks like an interesting sort of place though.

Packed too.

Phil will be arriving later but meanwhile Tom's first into bat.

TOM: Great little whacker here, look at this, that's fun, I like that.

Many uses but just great for whacking the dust out of your rugs...or anything you fancy, maybe a bit of cricket in the afternoon.

VO: Straight to long on.

I like this, this is great, nice chunk of oak, good bit of woodworm in the end, it's well used; I'm going to have a word with Chris about this.

VO: Tom certainly doesn't hang about does he?

TOM: Chris I love that.

That's great.

OK.

Does it have a price on it?

Something small.

No price.

I am assuming that's a... Low price.

That's a very, very low price, I'm sure.

What about a tenner?

Needs to be lower than that, Chris.

Ya!

Exa... That's what I was going to do to you!

I'm thinking more of a few pounds.

It's a little extra, isn't it?

Quite an old little extra.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well...

I think it's for possing.

Possing?

I thought it was maybe for whacking or a little game of French cricket.

Possibly yeah, possibly but I think it might be a possing stick.

OK.

Either or.

It could be maybe Irish, for... Yeah.

Yeah, in which case £10, really cheap, isn't it?

No, I'm thinking like a fiver.

Go on then.

Fiver, great, deal!

CHRIS: OK. TOM: Thank you very much.

VO: Well whatever that stick was used for, Tom's got it cheap.

He wants more too.

What sort of things are you interested in?

Well there's a couple of bits in the window that I wanted to ask you about.

VO: Ah, thought so.

TOM: I saw...just as I was walking past, there's a little fire extinguisher down there that I did see.

CHRIS: OK. TOM: It's great isn't it?

Yeah, nice thing.

TOM: To operate, turn the handle to the left, work like a pump, brilliant.

VO: That's probably about 100 years old.

It's a great piece isn't it?

It's good fun!

Anyway, that's a good piece to hang on the wall somewhere.

Pretty cheap.

How cheap?

CHRIS: Well, that's 28 quid, that's pretty cheap.

TOM: That's your ticket price, Chris.

CHRIS: A very low ticket price.

I am thinking more like... £18.

OK, well let's say it's 20 quid, then we won't have to change a note will we?

£20, 25 for the two, we're done.

Brilliant.

TOM: You haven't got a bit of beeswax have you?

Could just give this a little bit of a feed.

CHRIS: Eh... yeah, OK. VO: That was cheeky.

Seems to be paying off though.

CHRIS: That's looking very good, isn't it?

TOM: That's looking alright, isn't it?

CHRIS: I'll give you 20 quid for it.

TOM: I'll take it.

CHRIS: (LAUGHS) VO: So while Tom heads out of town - I think that's the way, actually - the big man is already hard on his heels.

Ah, seems he's already at browse mode.

That's a fairly grotesque bit of Bretby, isn't it?

CHRIS: Very good spot.

VO: Chris is impressed.

CHRIS: That could be very cheap.

Oh...I don't even like it.

VO: There's a bit of a pattern forming here.

Is it Phil's latest tactic to buy stuff he really can't stand the look of?

PHIL: It is absolutely horrible.

VO: A loving cup has at least two handles for shared drinking and this slightly tatty example from Derbyshire dates from 1905.

PHIL: That's the issue with that, isn't it?

I don't know what the price on that is but I think that's got to be a gift with that chip.

Yeah, so what's a gift?

You don't want to know what I think a gift is.

I think that's got to be 15 or 20 quid with a chip in it.

OK, well I'll do it for 20 quid.

Really?

VO: He didn't see that coming.

This is what you've got to bear in mind, this is a typical Bretby pot, and the first rule of buying any pot is, if it's damaged, leave it alone.

So what am I going to do?

Ah, yeah here we go, let's put it in the pile.

VO: Ah well.

Like those bed heads, it's cheap enough.

Now is there any thing else hideous that Phil's not at all keen on?

CHRIS: That might be something.

PHIL: Wine labels.

CHRIS: Some of those are silver.

CHRIS: Some are unmarked silver and some are silver plate.

The rum one here is silver but it's continental.

PHIL: The sherry one here, I think's 18th century, it's Sheffield plate and you can tell it's Sheffield plate, cuz if you just look through, you can see the copper coming through the silver.

And I really like that.

Probably not very valuable, it's not silver.

PHIL: And these four brandy ones, well they're plated or silver, I don't know, they're not marked, so you certainly can't call them silver.

PHIL: But I think they're interesting.

VO: OK Chris what's your price?

PHIL: You said you could do 20 for that.

CHRIS: We've agreed 20 on that, cuz it's got a chip along the way and I've had it some while.

PHIL: Could you do those for the same?

CHRIS: No.

PHIL: What could you do those for?

The absolute minimum on those is going to be £40.

PHIL: The pot's at 20, the labels are at 40, that's 60 quid.

Can I give you £50 for the two, which is 30 for the labels and 20 for the pot?

CHRIS: Yeah, I'll accept that.

Oh, you're a gentleman, thank you very, very much.

VO: That's Phil done for the day then.

PHIL: £50.

CHRIS: Thank you very much indeed.

VO: Not Tom though... VO: He's making his way the 10 miles north, to Redruth.

VO: Just the sort of place where Mr Davy's safety lamp would've been greatly appreciated, because during the 19th century, Redruth became a mining boom town, producing tin, lead and copper in huge quantities.

WALTER: Hiya!

TOM: Hi Walter.

How are you doing?

Tom, how you doing?

Right on, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

How's it going?

Brilliant, right on.

If I could have a bit of a dig around, and I'll give you a shout in a minute, if that's alright.

WALTER: Feel free my friend.

Thank you very much.

VO: No prizes for guessing what sort of thing Tom might pick up in Thornleigh Trading then.

TOM: This is definitely a lighting shop.

Look at all this.

VO: Yep, Tom.

This is a beauty.

VO: Actually, Tom is a bit of a lighting expert.

TOM: £700, a little bit out of my league at the moment.

Maybe at the end of the week.

VO: He is confident!

But thanks to some hard bargaining, he still has over £130 in his pocket.

TOM: There's a nice ship's lamp in the window down here, I like the look of that.

VO: Here we go.

Back to the window.

TOM: Seeing as we're at the coast, really, should be...buy something from the coast, really, shouldn't we?

Something with a good nautical feel to it.

VO: Great minds eh?

Wasn't Phil saying much the same thing yesterday?

WALTER: A nice original one.

A good chunk.

WALTER: Nice, yeah.

It'll clean up nice.

I don't know the history of that one, to tell you the truth.

Astaire, OK.

So it's Astaire... WALTER: It's come local.

Yeah.

VO: Probably made from Redruth copper then.

TOM: You'd have a port and you'd have a starboard light on your boat, at the front and at the back.

So this is the...red?

WALTER: Don't know me south from port.

VO: I don't think these two are sailors either.

Walter I love it, but 175 is just way out of my price league.

What do you reckon we can get on to there?

TOM: Shall I bid you first?

Bid me.

I'm looking at 60 quid.

WALTER: No, it's far...

I couldn't let it go.... See, I paid more than £60 for it myself.

I'd do it for a oner.

I just can't see it, I can't, it's just not going to get there, is it?

I'm surprised how generous I am.

You're being very generous but I've got to be mean.

I could do 70?

WALTER: Definitely not going lower than 90.

Sorry about that; we've all got to live.

VO: Right on, Walter.

I know we have, I know.

I've got to try and win.

You'll win with that, there's a profit in that, no problem.

Meet me in the middle, 80 quid.

Nah, nah.

£80 cash.

We could do a deal right now.

It's less than half price, man.

I'll wrap it up.

85, you've got a deal.

85.

80?

Nah.

85.

Come on, come on.

Go at 85.

Deal.

WALTER: Done!

VO: Phew!

Tom's finally splashed out.

Wisely not spent it all though.

Now let's have a look at what they've got.

PHIL: Come on then.

I want to see what you've bought.

Do us your worst.

Go easy on me Phil.

Oh, get out of here!

Come on... have a look, this is what we got.

Ah!

Nice little...

It was "Ah!"

for, you know, for no particular reason at all really, just "Ah!"

VO: Recognition I'd say.

I like that a lot.

TOM: I think that's lovely.

And that's what, about 19... somewhere between 1930..?

TOM: 1930 maybe.

PHIL: I like that.

I like this.

Now this... TOM: A little paddle.

You like my fire extinguisher?

PHIL: Yeah.

TOM: My Pyrene.

That's my favorite lot.

That's a... How much was that?

That was £20.

That's for nothing, isn't it?

This was 85.

That could be a trouble piece.

PHIL: Well, I don't know, because you know....

I like it.

Yeah but you know your lamps, don't you?

And someone is going to make that into a really good decorative lamp.

It's got room for someone...

Someone could add a lot of value to this; they can clean it all down.

VO: A bit like Phil already has with his then?

Just out of curiosity, you didn't think about buying one with a sort of clear glass front to it?

TOM: Well I quite like the red light.

Really?

Oh, really?

Swiftly moving on then.

Is it my turn?

Yeah, let's have a look, what have you got?

PHIL: Well there's a certain amount of déjà vu going on here.

Nice.

Yours is bigger than mine, Phil.

PHIL: Well you know, far be it for me to boast.

You've been busy cleaning this by the looks of it.

PHIL: It needs converting doesn't it?

TOM: Yeah.

PHIL: And it would just make a great light I thought, once someone had done it.

TOM: Yeah that's lovely.

Not so sure about what you've got going on down here.

PHIL: Well, there's a bit of a marine connection.

These are lignum vitae.

They're 19th century and they're eyelets out of rigging, basically.

OK. Yeah, yeah, I see.

PHIL: They were 50 quid the two.

That's alright, that's got to be great surely?

Plenty of room here, isn't there?

Yeah, I hope so.

And what's this?

PHIL: Bretby.

TOM: Bretby?

PHIL: Yeah.

TOM: With a little damage.

That's one lot, two, three, four.

Four?

Where's 5th?

I'm not sure that you and the rest of the world are going to be ready for this.

OK. What is this?

PHIL: What?

TOM: That's just the most horrific bed head... No, don't hold back, say what you think!

..that I've ever seen, Phil!

PHIL: It's horrid, isn't it?

TOM: It's really awful.

PHIL: Yeah.

The only reason why I bought it is cuz of this here.

Betty Joel.

TOM: Betty Joel, OK. PHIL: Billy's mother.

TOM (LAUGHS) PHIL: She was a really good Arts and Crafts designer.

And so what happened to this one?

Everybody gets it wrong sometime.

PHIL: 20 quid.

Was I robbed?

I think we should just cover it up again.

OK, yeah, probably a good move.

VO: After that, I almost hesitate to ask, but what did he really think?

The ship's lantern and the spirit labels he's done brilliantly with but he's just really, really let himself down with that bed, it's just awful.

You know, secretly I think Tom really likes my beds.

I think he was just double bluffing me.

Philip's been brilliant; he's kind of dragged me through the process.

He's young, he's good looking and he's knowledgeable.

You know, we don't want people like that on this program.

VO: After beginning in St Buryan, today's trip will be decided at an auction in Ladock, near Truro.

TOM: What are you worried about today?

TOM: What's your worrying lot?

PHIL: Only the five lots I've got in.

That Bretby mug, probably one of the worst things ever known to mankind, run a very close second by me Billy Joel bed ends and the Edwardian fire screen that nobody wants.

VO: Oh Lordy!

So while Truronians and others, take a very good look, let's hear what occasionally outspoken auctioneer Philip Buddell think of our lot's lots.

Well the first item we have to sell today will be the Bretby loving cup, not the sort of piece of Bretby that I would regard as very collectable, probably rather ugly, I think, considered by most.

PHILIP BUDDELL (PB): The brass Pyrene fire extinguisher, it's fairly useless, its value is in its scrap metal and nothing else.

No one will want this on their wall and it will certainly be useless as far as putting any fire out is concerned.

VO: Oh, dear.

VO: Phil started out with £200 and he's spent £160 on five auction lots.

Oh, I don't even like it.

VO: Tom also began with £200 and he's spent £149.50, also on five auction lots.

I've got to try and win!

VO: First under the hammer Phil's least favorite lot.

The Bretby loving cup.

With a chip!

Ideal for all of you into a bit of love this weekend.

PB: Start me at £20.

20 I'm bid, at £20 I have, at £20 on the Bretby loving cup at 20.

At £20 I'm bid, at 20.

And 2, and 4... PHIL: I don't care mate.

He can drop the hammer.

I don't care at all.

PB: At 26, 28, 28 I have in front.

At 28, 30 at the back, at £30.

At £30.

It's getting there.

I'm absolutely staggered.

At £32, 32 I have.

34 at the back, at £34, £34, 36, 36 bidding in front here at £36.

PB: At £36, £36, 38, 38 in the second row.

40 in front.

At £40 I can breathe again.

PB: At 40 I'm bid, at £40.

42 would you say now?

At 40 I'm bid, 42 or not?

Against you, shame to miss it for another £2.

At 42...

I'll lend him a pound.

PB: At 42.

44, at 44, come again surely?

PB: At £44, are you all done?

The gavel is up, I sell.

Bidding in front at £44, 44.

133, thank you.

VO: So much for Phil's chipped pot advice.

TOM: Bargain.

PHIL: That's alright isn't it?

Well done.

Thank you.

Well done, Victor.

VO: Time for Tom's possibly Irish paddle or... bat.

Bit of old wood?

PB: Looking for someone with a canoe, where are you going to start me on this one?

£5, thank you, five I'm bid on the Irish paddle, at £5.

At £5, a fairly useless piece of equipment.

Shouldn't say that!

PB: At five I'm bid, at five, I have at six, what do you say, now?

£5, six.

At six I'm bid, at £6, a brave man here at six.

Seven.

Come on.

PB: At seven I'm bid, at £7.

£8.

At eight...

Racing away Tommy.

Yes.

Here we go.

At nine I have, we're in the big money, almost, 10 at the back, at 10.

That's it.

PB: £10 bidding at the back of the room, at ten I have on the paddle.

PB: At £12 I am bid at 12 I have, 14 or not?

At £12 on the oak... Come on.

PB: 14.

At £14, £16.

At £16.

Let's face it, if you take this home, ladies and gentlemen, it'll be a wonderful talking point round the dinner table.

PB: At 16 I'm bid, bidding in front.

18.

18!

Come on, we're going to get there.

You are, you're away.

Yes.

PB: At £20.

At £20.

22.

PB: At £22, it should be worth about £100.

At 22.

PB: On the paddle, could be Irish, could be Cornish, could be Welsh, could be Scottish.

Could be sold in a minute.

PB: At £22, all done, selling at £22, 4 or not?

Bidding in front, £22 you lucky man.

VO: Now that should stir things up.

Are you pleased with that?

I'll buy some more of those.

Yeah.

Brilliant.

There's a bloke got one down here but he wants 40 quid for it.

VO: OK the labels.

Phil actually liked these.

There we are, what are you going to say on those labels, ladies and gentlemen?

Who will start me at £10 on the labels?

Ouch!

PB: 10.

£10 on the labels.

Where's your sense of adventure.

PB: 19th century Sheffield plate and a silver one there.

PB: Thank you, 10 I am bid, at 10 I have, at £10.

PHIL: I am flabbergasted.

PB: On my left at 12, at 12 I have on the labels, 14 at the back.

£16.

It's going... You've got three or four bidders there.

At 20, at 20, bidding to my left at £20 on the white metal labels, 22 at the back.

At £22, £22 I have at 22.

And four, at 24.

26, at 26 I am bid.

At £26... PHIL: Ouch.

TOM: Really?

That's cheap.

That's really cheap.

PB: All done at £26.

Eight and up to advance it.

PB: Selling at £26.

Bidding at the far end of the room.

Selling... 26 to 139.

VO: Whoops, that's a blow.

Is there happiness written all over your face?

No, no.

VO: Will this be a nice little urn-er for Tom?

PHIL: What will this make then?

This make?

The only thing this will make is a good plant pot, with a weed growing out the top of it, I think.

Start me at £20.

Come on, yes, 20.

Mid 19th century, some age with it, a lot of use left in it if you want to do a bit of filtration this weekend.

PB: Start me at ten then?

10.

10 I'm bid at £10.

At 10 I'm bid.

You're getting too good at this mate, instant profit straightaway.

I'm beginning really not to like you Tom.

Oh here we go, look at this.

At £12, 14.

At 14, 16.

At £16, £16, £18 at 18 I have at 18.

PB: At £18, bidding in the front row... Tell you what, I should do this for a living.

PHIL: I thought you did!

PB: At £18 I sell.

All done at 18.

20 or not?

£18.

VO: Another solid profit puts Tom in the lead.

See, that's you racing away, you see.

That's alright, innit?

That's me...I'm getting quietly kippered here, I am.

That's not bad going.

I'm pleased with that.

What you've done is you've lulled me into a false sense of security.

VO: Now can another of Phil's unloved acquisitions get him back in the game?

If I get out of this without being burnt it's a result.

Right, who is going to start me at £40 on the bed head and foot boards?

£40, designed by Betty Joel.

PB: 40 I'm bid, at 40 I have, at £40.

At £40, I'm bid at 40.

OK start the car, I'm off.

PB: 40.

At £40.

What is going on here?

That certificate alone is worth 50 quid.

PB: Forget about the bed head and footboards.

At £40 I'm bid, 45 I'll take.

At £40.

Where is your sense of taste?!

And your knowledge?!

PB: Bidding at the back, 45.

50.

At 50 I've got.

55?

At £50, against you on the right, bidding on the left, at £50.

Are you're all done for 50..?

Should be worth double.

PB: At £50 I sell... £50.

114.

VO: Oh Betty's bed to the rescue.

TOM: That's good going.

What my mother's going to do with that is I don't know.

VO: Tom's Moorcroft, again hardly typical.

Where are you going to start me on this one?

£30 on the Moorcroft vase.

30?

20 then?

PB: £20 on the Moorcroft, thank you, 20 I'm bid at £20, 22, 24, 26, PB: 28, 28, 30, 32, 34, 34, 36 in front.

At £36.

38 at the back.

38.

40 on my left, at 40.

You're fine, you're fine, you're fine.

PB: At £40 I have on the early Moorcroft at 40.

42, you won't find many earlier than this, 44, 46 - fresh bidder - at 46, 48 at the back, at £48, £48, 50 I'll take.

TOM: I think you'd take 50.

PB: At £48.

All done on this 1916-17 piece of Moorcroft, at £48, and I se... 50.

At 50 I'm bid, at 50, at £50 I have and five would you say now?

PB: At 55.

At 55 I have, you shake your head, you will be disappointed not to have taken this home today, sir.

PB: At £55, lady's bid, all done at 55, the gavel's up, selling.

PB: 55 to 203.

VO: The new lad is more than holding his own here.

This is the bloke who says he's a novice, hasn't done this before, really anxious about it.

Yeah... VO: Can Phil's fire screen start the fight back?

PB: Let's get away on the fire screen at 20.

£20.

Most of you I know haven't got fireplaces.

That's a point I hadn't thought of.

You can always use it as a decoration in the room can't you?

£10 surely?

10, thank you, 10 I'm bid at 10 I have, at £10 for the fire screen at 10.

PB: At 10 I'm bid, 12, 14.

At £14, £16.

At £16, 18, 20 I'm bid, at 20 I have on the fire screen, 22, at 24.

£24 I have, at 24, you shake your head, bidding on my right at 24.

Ouch!

PB: At £24 I have.

PHIL: Is that it?

TOM: Yeah.

At £24, are you all done for 24?

24.

Mrs Richards, thank you.

VO: Oh dear, another big loss, even more after commission.

It should've gone for 40.

PHIL: Shut up, Tom.

TOM: At least 40 quid.

Shut up, shut up, shut up.

VO: Time for the big lantern showdown.

Tom's first.

I've got various bids left on this one and I have to start the bidding with me at £80.

Well done, that's good isn't it?

PB: Bidding's with me at £80 on this... How does that happen?

It's great.

Fantastic.

PB: At £80, I have, the copper ship's lamp at 80.

I am surprised.

PB: At £80, I have.

At £80.

85 I'll take now, at 80.

PB: At £80 I have, at £80, at £80, 85, 85, 90 with me, at 90.

Come on, another one and it's washed its face.

At £90 I have, 95 will you say now?

At 90.

PB: Are you bidding or stretching?

PB: At £90, all done for 90?

What was it?

5 or not?

Selling at £90.

£90.

VO: I thought Tom knew his lights.

If mine does 90, I'll be pleased with that.

If mine did 90, you should be up into three figures easy.

Well you know what the difference is, don't you?

You've got the clear glass.

PHIL: Polish.

TOM: You polished it.

Polish.

VO: Will polishing pay?

Don't forget the deadeyes either.

I have to start the bidding with me at £70, with me at 70.

That's alright.

At 70 I have, at 70.

At £70 I have, 80, at 80, 90 with me, at 90.

At £90 I have on this marvelous masthead lamp.

PB: At £90, I'll take £95.

Yes, I'm looking at you, sir.

PB: 95, yes, I knew I could rely upon you for 95.

Unfortunately, I have a bid of £100 here.

PB: So 100 I'm bid, at £100 I have at 100.

At 100, bidding with me at 100, I'll take another five from you if you like?

Are you sure?

Right, at £100 I'm bid, at 100 I have, and five anywhere else in the room?

At £100, five or not?

£100.

VO: Game on!

Phil is most definitely back in this.

The question is Tom, is your extinguisher going to put your fire out?

VO: Good question, the auctioneer hates it.

Where are you going to start me, £10 on the fire extinguisher?

PB: 10... 10 I'm ... PB: Five, thank you, £5 I'm bid on the fire extinguisher.

Five?

At £5 I'm bid, at £5, £6, £7, at 7 I'm bid, £8, £8, £9, 9 I have, at 9 on the brass fire extinguisher, 9, 10 in front.

This is going to struggle big time.

14 on my right, at £14, £14, 16, the bidding in front, £18, bidding in the middle at 18, 20 on my right, at 20 and two, 22, in the middle, the bidding at £22.

PB: At £22, all done, I sell at £22.

22 to 239.

VO: That £2 profit will be a loss after commission, and Phil is the winner today.

Sun shines on the brave, doesn't it?

Exactly.

Well done mate, well done.

VO: Tom began with £200 and after paying auction costs, he made a profit of £20.24.

VO: Phil also started out with £200, and after paying auction costs, he made a profit of £40.08.

VO: So Tom's the loser but he's certainly giving the Silver Fox a run for his money.

It was close.

Too close.

VO: Next time on the Antiques Road trip, Phil gets stuck.

This is panic time.

VO: And Tom takes off.

TOM: This is a rear wheel off a German World War II bomber.

TOM: Isn't that brilliant?

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