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

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

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

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

Argh!

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

But it's no mean feat.

Doubled up there!

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

SERHAT: Yay!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

Oh, no!

VO: Will it be the high road to glory... Loving it, loving it, loving it.

VO: ..or the slow road to disaster?

This is the Antiques Road Trip.

Uh-oh!

VO: We've hit the halfway mark on our east of England expedition in the company of antiquonauts Catherine Southon and Serhat Ahmet.

Where are we today, chaps?

CATHERINE (CS): Suffolk!

Suffolk is actually one of my favorite counties.

We haven't been on a trip where it's not your favorite county.

VO: Oh, she's very gregarious is our Catherine.

I've got a feeling that Suffolk may be lucky for us.

I feel we're gonna have fun here.

Yes, that's the chat we need.

VO: Sounds good to me.

On the last run out, Serhat got his mitts on some substantial items.

That's hea-vy.

VO: And Catherine had high hopes for her regency bell pulls.

Ding-ding!

You rang, my lord?

VO: But the auction was a bit of a bumpy ride.

Oh, that hurts.

CS: We haven't got a lot of money between us, have we?

In fact, we are quite brassic really.

I think that's a good thing though.

Do you?

Come back stronger.

Find the fighting spirit.

VO: Well, they'll need it because currently Serhat's funds have dwindled to a sorry-looking £159.90.

Catherine's managed to fare a little better.

She's now sitting on £170.66.

We're hardly setting the world on fire, though.

SERHAT: What's your tactic gonna be for this round?

I can't tell you that.

Oh go on.

No!

I can't possibly tell you that.

VO: Oh, very cagey.

Their motor for this trip is the Morris Minor Million, built before seatbelts were mandatory but still a vision in lilac.

This car has really grown on me.

I think it's a little trendy.

I think we look trendy in the car.

I do need to get a hat like yours.

Ooh, well, I'll tell you what, it's much needed sometimes.

I don't have the advantage of hair though.

When I was about 16 I had hair down to my waist.

No!

VO: Yes, he did.

We have the proof right here.

SERHAT: I was a heavy metaller.

I used to go headbanging.

(SHE LAUGHS) Come on, Serhat, do a bit of headbanging.

(HEAVY METAL MUSIC) Woo!

VO: (LAUGHS) Party on, Serhat.

So far on this trip they've rocked up in Kent, London and the East Midlands.

They're now on tour through East Anglia before they head to their last gig, an auction in Nottingham.

This time they'll be shopping their way up the Anglian coast, ending up in Norfolk at Norwich.

But our journey begins here in Suffolk and the village of Snape.

It was the place to be buried, round here, in Anglo Saxon times, and lots of finds have been unearthed in the area and having ditched her headbanging buddy, Catherine's come to dig up some treasures in the Snape Antique Centre.

It's a bit of a trove in here, lots of lovely things for our eagle-eyed auctioneer to have a gander at.

CS: These are always very interesting and can make serious money at auction.

So what are they?

VO: You tell me, Catherine.

This is Ethiopian and the whole idea of this is at night-time, you would actually rest your head on this.

These go right back to Egyptian times but this is probably, I dunno, 100, 200 years old or something.

And it's made of incredibly hard wood.

I don't know about you, but...

..I think I would prefer a pillow.

VO: It's duck down all the way for me.

Ha.

Let's move on.

Oh, I do like a girly cabinet, girly cabinet with lots of trinkets.

I'm drawn to this straight away.

This looks like a little barrel, just a brass barrel with mother of pearl going round the outside.

But it's actually a little spyglass.

VO: They don't get much smaller than that.

That is very, very sweet.

And I think it's Georgian.

Ladies used to have them.

More like opera glasses, looking around to see what men they probably fancy.

If you wanna be discreet, this is super discreet.

VO: It's not called a spyglass for nothing.

£40 on the ticket.

CS: £40 seems very expensive.

But it is early, so I might see if something can be done.

CS: Sandra?

VO: Sandra?

That'll be our ever-attentive dealer.

Here she is.

I'm really drawn towards this little spyglass that I love because I think it's probably Georgian.

However, it has got quite a high price on that, £40.

Do you know what the best price is that the dealer would do?

The little spyglass would be 30.

Mm!

Do you think she'd come down just a pinch more?

Maybe 25?

I could try.

I'll go give the dealer a call.

Lovely.

Thank you.

VO: So while we wait for that, let's see where our other shopper is.

Just pitching up a mere 11 miles down the road at Woodbridge.

And a very pretty market town it is too.

Lots of very pretty buildings, including this very pretty antiques emporium.

In you go, Serhat.

Woodbridge Antiques is very smart on the inside too.

Lots of well laid out cabinets with some very fine things.

They've even got some ceramics for our porcelain fan.

Hm!

Well, you can't please everyone.

There's lots more to look at.

SERHAT: I really like this.

Not my usual thing at all, but what I like about it is the amount of detail on the panel here, and it's of the Giessbach waterfall in Switzerland.

So these things were often made as souvenirs.

VO: That's a rather fancy letter opener or paper knife, priced up at £48.

SERHAT: And this has been really beautifully carved in this trellis of flowers as the handle.

And all hand painted, exquisite detail.

On the back there is this inscription, October the 26th 1865 and it's a reminiscence of Switzerland.

So I think that's a really beautiful gift.

VO: It's a bit posher than a bar of triangular chocolate.

SERHAT: I'm gonna just lay that down and then have a good think about that.

VO: So, while he cogitates, back in Snape there's some good news.

The dealer has agreed to £25 for that spyglass, and now Catherine's got something else in her sights.

CS: Oh, this has just caught my attention.

It's just the colors that jump out at me.

It's all enameled in a really wonderful vibrant green.

And the body of the butterfly is in a nice sort of purple.

I think the pin's probably been replaced, which is a bit of a shame.

What's the price on that?

£38.

It's a nice thing.

I think that would look stunning.

Doesn't that look nice?

VO: Yeah, very fetching.

Brings out your eyes.

The enamel is beautiful.

It's absolutely perfect.

I might just see what Sandra can do on that.

Sandra?

VO: Sandra's getting her steps in today.

I've just been drawn towards this brooch.

The lady's called it art deco.

Mm, I'm not sure.

Might be slightly later, might be deco style.

But it's just lovely and it's in really nice condition.

It's got 38 on it.

What is your best price on the little brooch?

SANDRA: The best on there would be 30.

And the lovely little Georgian spyglass?

CS: I think that was 25.

SANDRA: 25, yeah.

So if I can buy both of those... SANDRA: Yeah.

CS: 55?

SANDRA: 55.

CS: Is that alright?

That's fine.

Amazing.

Thank you very much.

VO: And those two tiny items bring her funds down to just over £115.

CS: One very happy customer.

VO: Ah, that's always good to hear.

Time to point the Morris to pastures new.

Now, back in Woodbridge with that painted paperknife down as potential, is anything else grabbing our man's attention?

SERHAT: Oh, pretty impressive.

I have no idea about brass.

It's really not my area at all.

VO: It'll do you good to branch out from ceramics, boy.

It's character building.

What's drawn me to these is the lovely detail in the center.

And they both appear to have this very kind of stylized lion holding some sort of implement.

I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if these were Asian rather than European.

Just the style of them seems to say that very much, especially the lion itself.

VO: You might be onto something there.

It looks awfully like the lion on the Sri Lankan flag to me.

Just the detailing on the front just seems to suggest that there is quite a bit of craftsmanship.

They're definitely old.

He says.

Definitely old, possibly.

But the nice thing is the price.

£16 each.

VO: And for a man of dwindling resources like you, that could be the clincher.

Go grab your paperknife and let's have a word with the lady behind the counter.

Natalie.

Hi.

I've found some pieces.

Lovely.

Swiss paperknife.

Yep.

And then these two brass chargers and it's price we need to talk about.

VO: Currently a grand total of £80.

What could you do if I were to take all three pieces?

I think we could probably do 60.

I was thinking 50.

Are you able to do 50?

OK, go on then.

Yeah?

Thank you.

Well, I'll give you some cash.

VO: Honestly, those puppy dog eyes have got him a chunky discount there.

£30 for the paper knife and 20 for those chargers.

Thank you very much, Natalie.

Thank you for coming to see us.

SERHAT: Take care.

Bye bye.

BOTH: Bye.

VO: And with a smidge under £110 left, another satisfied customer heads for the hills.

Now where's Catherine got to?

She's out and about.

Hang on, no she isn't.

Yes?

Where has Catherine got to?

Ah.

Well, with the Morris out of action and our best man on the job, she'll have to rely on the shoe leather express to get to her next shop.

We'll catch up with her later.

Now, also under his own steam, Serhat has popped along to the tiny Suffolk village of Marlesford.

He's visiting the rectory here, once the childhood home of Flora Sandes, the only British woman to fight as an enlisted soldier during the Great War.

Good lord.

Ben.

Hi, Serhat.

Nice to meet you.

VO: Serhat's come to hear her incredible story from Ben Johnston, Flora's great nephew.

This is where she grew up.

And she was home tutored, but she had the run of the countryside where she could run around, ride, shoot, and a classic tomboy.

SERHAT: So a very active young lady.

Flora was always known as the brat, you know?

And it's probably because she was so blooming active and rushing around.

VO: Her adventurous spirit continued into adulthood.

She drove to Monte Carlo in her sports car, worked her way all across the Americas and trained in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.

In 1914 when war broke out, most women were expected to stay at home while the men went off to fight.

But Flora, who was by this time 38 years old, defied conventions and rushed to volunteer.

BEN: Initially she was turned down as a nurse for the British Army, because they looked at her credentials and she'd never done a full hospital training.

So they said, "No, certainly not".

But fortunately, she'd come across the American wife of the Serbian ambassador, who was desperately trying to recruit medical staff for Serbia, who'd already been fighting for the last two years in the Balkans.

VO: After working in Serbia's overcrowded and typhoid-ridden hospitals, Flora ended up in a field ambulance on the front lines just as the armies of Germany, Bulgaria and Hungary launched a coordinated assault on the country.

With her fellow ambulance staff having fled, Flora felt she could do more good as a fighter and so enlisted in the Serbian army.

BEN: She became a private, which she was absolutely thrilled about.

But not so thrilling was the fact that Belgrade had been taken and not only the army, but the government left the whole country.

So she was very active in the retreat over the mountains of Montenegro in winter, which was known as the Albanian Golgotha, where so many people died.

Of the 400,000-odd that started of the troops and civilians only 180,000 arrived the other end.

VO: During this terrible ordeal, Private Sandes' various acts of valor saw her promoted to corporal.

Did the men mind fighting alongside your great aunt, a woman?

I'm quite certain they didn't.

And in fact, I'm sure they were delighted to have her alongside because she was a good shot and that was really very important in those days.

SERHAT: And was she really physically on the front lines, seeing all the action herself?

I don't think there's any doubt about that.

I mean, if you get hit by a grenade in a dawn raid, you are on the front line.

This particular one smashed into her revolver strapped to her right side and exploded, broke her arm, filled her body with shrapnel.

VO: Whilst recovering from her injuries, Flora was promoted to sergeant major and given the Karadorde's Star, Serbia's highest military honor.

When she was well enough, she returned to the front and played her part in liberating Serbia.

By the end of her commission in 1922, she was the first female officer in the Serbian army.

What happened to Flora after the war?

Initially, she came back to the...to the UK to stay with my grandmother, and was looking for adventure.

She actually then got married to a colonel, Yuri Yudenitch.

They moved back to Belgrade, where he was teaching English.

And that went up until the start of the Second World War.

She then re-enlisted.

By this time Captain Flora Sandes was, you know, certainly a hero in Serbia and they welcomed her back even though she was 65.

VO: Flora's actions changed the perception of what women could achieve during wartime.

But it wasn't until 2018, 100 years after the Great War, that women were allowed to take up combat roles in the British Army.

Flora's adventures ended back here in Suffolk, where she lived until 1956.

At the church across the road from her childhood home, there's a plaque commemorating her deeds.

And she's remembered in song too thanks to the renowned folk singer and songwriter Reg Meuross.

# Flora Sandes, Flora Sandes Wasn't born a fighting man # But God help the man # Who finds himself at war With Flora Sandes.

# VO: What a truly heroic woman.

Now, it looks as if Catherine's finally made it to her next shop on the outskirts of the village of Yoxford.

Hopefully Yoxford Antique Centre will be worth all the legwork.

70 different dealers are all selling their wares in here, so lots of possibilities for our girl.

Only £115 left to her name, though.

That's quite cool.

So this is iron.

I think that this... is probably...

It could be for hanging baskets, but I think essentially, it might have been something that was maybe hanging outside a stable or something because you've got the sort of welded horseshoe on the top.

VO: If that's the case, I dread to think why the spanners are there.

CS: Actually, maybe you could put a sign on that.

Looked like it did have a price on it once upon a time, but it's actually worn off.

I love the fact that it's dirty, I love the fact that all the paint's coming off, and I love the fact that it's got a use.

And I love the fact that it hasn't got a price.

VO: Time to talk to someone in the know.

That'll be Nigel.

I have found something here which I like.

A nice piece of iron, a ring of iron.

There isn't much of a price on there.

It's a little bit moldy, the paper.

OK. Could it be sort of £30?

Well, it was 80.

Right.

OK.

But it has been here a long time.

Yes.

NIGEL: And it's mine.

CS: And it's yours.

And that means I can do what I like.

I can certainly half the price for you.

£40.

How's that sound?

You couldn't do 30 on it?

I'd do 35 and meet you halfway.

CS: That sounds good to me.

NIGEL: OK.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, I'm very happy with that.

VO: One big iron ring to go.

But she's not finished yet, oh no.

That's not bad.

Victorian terracotta chimney pot.

VO: She's gone large again.

CS: I just love the idea that something like this had a completely different purpose once upon a time.

And these are of course used outside for people to plant all sorts of beautiful flowing foliage.

There's a whacking great chip out of it there.

I'm not too bothered about that.

What I'm interested in is the fact that it's only £35.

And I think that seems rather cheap because I've bought these before at sort of £80, £90.

£35, I mean you try and go out and buy a decent flowerpot for that today.

Nigel?

VO: Here he comes.

Found something else.

These Victorian chimney pots, probably about 1860, 1870.

Normally sell quite well.

They do.

This is £35.

With chip is there anything that can come off that?

All the dealers do a standard 10% discount.

Lovely.

That would be £31.50.

Perfect, Nigel.

VO: Add in that blacksmith's piece and that brings the bill to £65.50 for those two big lumps.

Now, has anyone spotted the obvious issue?

My problem is I've bought two rather big pieces and my car has broken down.

Oh dear.

If you could gift wrap and deliver, Nigel, I would love you forever.

For you, Catherine, anything.

VO: What a nice man and with that it's time to call it a day and hit the road.

Serhat's just going to have to make his own way.

I bet she's regretting wearing heels now.

Nighty night.

VO: Hello chaps, got a new motor?

Thought we needed to see a bit more of the countryside so I took off the roof and painted it cream.

That's...

It's the same car.

Can you not tell?

VO: Don't believe a word of it, Serhat.

She broke the last one.

It was poorly, put it that way.

So it's gone to the car doctor's.

VO: It's a very nice replacement.

This one dates to a time before seatbelts too.

Doesn't quite have the cachet of the lilac machine though.

Does that mean I should do all the driving from here on in?

I think you probably should.

I mean, I think I should just give up the whole driving thing and just admire the scenery.

Aww.

VO: Well, car trouble aside, Catherine still managed to bag some bits and bobs yesterday, two very big and two very small.

This is super discreet.

VO: Those leave her with a little over £49 to spend today.

Serhat meanwhile still has just under £110 after plumping for a pair of brass chargers.

I wouldn't be surprised actually if these were Asian.

VO: And something else squirrelled away in the footwell.

A paperknife from...where?

Eh, it's Switzerland.

So it's the Giessbach waterfalls in Switzerland.

It's beautifully hand painted, isn't it?

It's very nice.

How much did you pay for that, by the way?

That's £30.

COCKNEY ACCENT:£ 30!

That's £30.

I've gone back to my south London roots.

VO: That'll be a Bertie my old China, innit?

Later they'll be sending all their purchases off to a saleroom in Lincoln.

But today's shenanigans start in the Suffolk village of Wrentham.

Serhat's going solo on this one.

Renhouse Antiques, handy parking.

And you know it's gonna be good when there's a Venus de Milo in the window.

Inside it's not huge, but they've packed it with some very nice things.

No shelf is left unornamented.

Should keep our boy out of mischief for a while.

Whoo-hoo-ooh.

Gosh, that is colossal.

This is Doulton flambe wear.

And this was a technique that was first done by Charles John Noake who worked at the Doulton factory.

This was created in the kiln by adding oxides.

I have not seen one this size - I am not kidding, it's about five kilos - in a very long time, I'm out of breath.

But I've just noticed... ..a massive crack.

Look at that.

VO: Probably the stand collapsed under the weight of it.

I'd put it back if I were you.

So it all depends on the price.

£78.

If that was perfect, we're talking about easily £3,000 at auction.

VO: Gosh.

If only, eh?

However, at that price, there's lots of money to be made at auction.

I may eat my words.

VO: Don't worry, we'll remind you.

Now, anything else take your fancy?

Need to roll my sleeves up I think, before I tackle the glassware in front of what I want to look at.

VO: Another piece of porcelain.

Going for his favorites today.

And actually, I've seen something else over there, which makes an interesting comparison.

I'll just grab it.

VO: Can't keep his hands off the stuff, look.

So there's two English porcelain dishes.

Derby, 1790, Copeland Spode, about 1890.

What they're both trying to do is replicate what Sevres, the royal manufactory in France was doing in the mid to late 18th century.

So in the case of the Derby one, if we think about what was going on.

1789, French Revolution, people no longer wanted to buy Royal Sevres.

However, who was reigning at that time in England?

George III.

And George III was obsessed with Sevres, and whatever George III did, that's exactly what his population wanted to do.

If you couldn't afford Sevres porcelain because it was very expensive, this was your alternative.

VO: And 230 years later, it's priced at £60.

That might work.

I think we're gonna go find Amanda.

VO: That'll be her, adjusting her smalls.

Nice.

Amanda, hi.

Hello Serhat.

Hello.

There's a couple of pieces that I found that I'd like to talk about.

There's the Doulton vase up there.

Yeah.

It's got a crack or...five.

It's got a lot of cracks.

It does, it's really... You have to turn it round...

It really is knackered.

And then this Derby dish, which I like, but it's quite scratched and quite rubbed.

VO: That's a combined ticket price of £138.

Watch.

I'll tell you what I'd love to pay.

Go on.

I'd love to pay £70 for two.

Alright.

SERHAT: Got a deal?

AMANDA: Yeah.

Oh!

You're a star!

Thank you, Amanda.

I'm tired of lifting this up and down, it's so heavy.

VO: For that discount, Serhat can certainly help you out.

So that's 50 for the vase and 20 for the dish.

And there he goes, relieving a weary shopkeeper of a tiresome burden, and it's almost like a public service, look.

Now, before she gets to shopping, Catherine's on the hunt for some breakfast.

She's headed north into Norfolk and the coastal town of Great Yarmouth.

It's more famous nowadays as a seaside resort with its golden sands and pleasure beaches.

But for centuries, much of this place's prosperity came from fish.

Catherine's come to the town's Time And Tide museum, which in a former life played a big part in Yarmouth's fishing economy.

And here to give her the tour is exhibition officer Philip Miles.

Attention!

CS: Hi there, Philip.

This is a lovely quaint little courtyard.

We're standing in what used to be the tower curing works.

And the bulk of the building that's around us was built in 1880 and it was a one-stop shop for smoking and curing herring.

The fish that were smoked here were sent all over the world.

VO: Smoking as a way to preserve or cure fish goes back thousands of years.

The kipper, of course, is the most well known type of smoked herring, originating in Scotland.

But here in Yarmouth they had their own local specialty, the bloater.

PHILIP: It's credited with being invented in the town by a chap called Mr Bishop, who in 1836, he had some leftover herring that he hadn't processed at the end of the day, so they were still whole.

He popped them into his smokehouse and the long smoking process overnight with the whole fish caused them to bloat up and they were found to be quite a delicacy.

So do they get rid of any part of the fish?

No, they're smoked whole with everything in, roe, guts.

It is an acquired taste, but it's said to make the flesh of the fish moister.

It's almost like you're marinating them in their own internal garnish.

VO: Sounds delicious.

Yarmouth was the last stop on the herring run, when Scottish fishing fleets followed the summer migration of the herring down the east coast of the British Isles, landing their catches at local harbors.

The fish would be packed on the quayside by the herring lasses, who traveled on land alongside the fleet.

They were then brought in vast numbers to smokehouses like this one.

PHILIP: We're standing about halfway up one of the smoke towers.

And you would have fit 24,000 herring in one smoke tower.

You had what were known as rivers, and they tended to be women, who would put up to 21 herring on a speat which was a wooden pole.

And then she would pass the speat up to a man who would climb these, just like a ladder really.

And they would have started at the top and worked their way down until the entire tower was full of fish.

And these must have been quite slippery.

Yeah, they would have been covered in fish oils and fish juices.

Would have been quite a treacherous job.

VO: A cheap source of protein in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Yarmouth bloaters were shipped across the globe either whole or as bloater paste.

They were even served on the Titanic.

But in the 20th century, overfishing had caused the herring stocks to dwindle.

The price of fish went up and bloaters dropped off the menu.

Nowadays it's a rare artisanal delicacy, only produced by a very few smokeries.

So, time for a trip down the coast to Lowestoft, to meet a big fish in bloater smoking, Gerry Skews.

Gerry, these are local herrings, is that right?

GERRY: Absolutely.

CS: Ooh, caught in the... North Sea.

In the north part of the North Sea.

They actually started their life just outside of Denmark.

What's the process then, Gerry?

So it's really very simple.

What we do is we take the herring, we make sure that it's in good physical condition.

And then we put it into the brine solution, which is a high concentration salt, 60% salt... Wow.

..and we leave it for 20 to 25 minutes.

So this fish is ready to be put onto the speat.

And then we're going to hang it up and put it into the smoking kiln.

This one's winking at me, Gerry.

Put the speat through the gill.

Big hard push.

Agh!

GERRY: Job done.

CS: Oh, wow.

VO: Well, the girl's a natural.

And once you've hung all your herring...

These are incredibly heavy, it's like weights.

VO: They're put on rack to dry before it's into the kiln to be oak smoked for 48 hours.

CS: Right.

Little fishies, do the business.

VO: And after that hard work, time to see what all the fuss is about.

Right, I'm going in.

I like it very much.

I think that's a good flavor.

Thank you very much, Gerry.

You're very welcome.

Bring back the bloater, that's what I say.

VO: And three cheers for Gerry for helping to preserve this East Anglian delicacy.

Now, out on the road, Serhat's also crossed the county line and is pootling through the Norfolk country lanes.

I have to say I'm really enjoying driving the backup car.

Though I'm not terribly... (GEARS GRIND) ..pleased.

Whoa.

VO: Try not to break that one, Serhat.

We've run out of replacement Morrises.

Ha.

Hopefully he'll make it all the way to the chief city of East Anglia, Norwich, where, in the shadow of the mighty 900-year-old cathedral, there's a temple to all things antique, Looses Emporium.

Looks like our man finally made it then.

And it looks like someone else beat him to it.

Hello!

Hello!

Serhat, you look good in that car.

Oh thanks.

But whoowee!

I can smell smoked fish, is that you?

SERHAT: Is that you?

CS: Shut up!

VO: I don't know, is that any way to greet a friend?

Inside it is a sight to behold.

It's massive.

Fine antiques, lots of vintage, some random curios.

It's the ideal place to do some early Christmas shopping too.

With Serhat's coffers down to £39.90, let's see what that will get him in here.

That's a really fun little character.

These pieces are known as toby jugs, sometimes they're called philpots.

They originated in Staffordshire from about 1760.

And the original ones had a salt glaze on them, so quite a dark brown color.

In this case it's later.

It's probably, I don't know, first half of the 19th century.

But what I like about this one in particular is that he's taking snuff.

I've not seen that on a toby jug in a very long time.

VO: Not to be sneezed at then.

A little bit of damage.

Hm, actually the more I look the more I find.

There seems to be a common theme in my purchases today.

Nice big crack going through the body.

VO: £59 on that.

Crack thrown in for free.

SERHAT: I know what I've got left.

I just want to know if Patrick can do it.

VO: Time to seek out the man himself.

This is Patrick.

Hi Patrick, how you doing?

Hello.

Alright, how are you?

I found this here toby jug.

Yep.

And I'd like to buy it.

Yeah.

But I'm gonna be just totally honest with you.

I've got £39.90.

Just let me have a chat with who owns it.

Bear with me and I'll be back in a sec.

No probs.

I'll wait here for you.

VO: Yeah, talk amongst yourselves.

Uh, you got a toby jug down the back there, would you take £39.90?

VO: This is a bit awkward.

Oh, look lively.

He's coming back.

Yeah, it's your lucky day.

He would accept that, so... SERHAT: Really?

PATRICK: Yep.

Amazing.

Brilliant.

VO: And with every last penny handed over, Serhat's spent up.

Bye then, Patrick.

PATRICK: Nice to meet you.

Bye.

SERHAT: Pleasure.

Bye.

VO: One happy shopper.

Now, outside our Catherine has moved benches.

Seems to have acquired something on the way too.

CS: It's a rather charming little cruet set.

And normally I would walk straight past this because it's not silver.

It is actually silver plate.

But to me this has actually been made rather well.

We've got three little pails here or buckets.

This one being the little feeder for the cow.

And I think this is probably where the mustard would have gone, you would have had a nice little spoon in there once upon a time.

You've still got the other two cruets, the salt and the pepper there.

I would date this probably to the late part of the 19th century.

It's a nice thing though.

I think I've got a little bit of a soft spot for Daisy here.

VO: No price on it.

Let's hope it's less than your remaining £49, eh?

Patrick, I found this little cruet set inside.

I must admit, now I bring it outside it does look like it's been cleaned within an inch of its life.

Now, I'm gonna make you an offer.

Yeah.

Tell me what you think.

Cuz you haven't got a price on it, how does £10 sound?

What about 15?

15?

OK, I'm gonna go for that.

VO: And that speedy purchase leaves her with £34 and change.

Bye bye.

Thank you very much.

Bye bye.

VO: Right, I think we're done for the day.

Next stop, auction.

You've really enjoyed driving this car, haven't you?

I do, I do.

I love it.

I love it.

I'm just wondering, has the car doctor been in touch?

The car doctor has not been in touch yet.

The car is still poorly.

In the meantime, should we drive to Cromer?

Cromer.

Cromer.

And have some Cromer crab.

VO: She's obsessed with seafood.

Time for some shuteye.

VO: We're back in li-lack.

Looks like the car's doctor's surgery was successful, or they stuck a plaster on it.

CS: Oh!

SERHAT: Seriously?

Careful, squeeze.

Breathe in, Serhat.

I did, I really did.

VO: Yeah, don't scratch the paint, she's just come back from the menders.

After setting off from Snape, our pair have shopped all the way up East Anglia.

Their items have headed off to auction in Lincoln.

But we'll watch the show from the Norfolk City of Cley-next-the-Sea with two experts next the windmill.

SERHAT: How stunning is this?

CS: The blue sky and the windmill... And the wind.

..and the wind.

Which is why I have brought... SERHAT: Ooh!

..my cap, so I can be a twin with Serhat.

Keep my hair back.

Serhat hat hat.

Serhat hat!

Serhat hat is on, I'm ready for action.

(BOTH LAUGH) VO: And that action will happen in the showroom of Golding Young & Mawer, with bids on the books and on the net, all under the watchful eye of auctioneer Colin Young.

What does he make of Catherine's five lots, bought for £136.50?

The spyglass is a really interesting lot because when you look at it online, it looks big.

You then pick it up and...it's rather small, so I think the estimate's going to be small as well.

VO: Serhat also bought five auction lots, spending all of his £159.90.

Anything catching your eye, Colin?

The Royal Doulton vase by Charles Noake.

What a name, what a truly fabulous piece.

It's imposing, it's big, and it's cracked.

VO: Ah, you spotted that then.

Right chaps, are we ready?

Here we go again, more jeopardy.

Don't be nervous, Serhat!

SERHAT: I'm not, I'm not!

We're in this together!

VO: But Serhat's first into the fray with his hand-painted tourist trinket, the paper knife.

£40 to go.

£20, anybody?

£20?

Come on.

That's not... That's for free.

£20 bid.

Two now do I see?

At £20 I'm bid, 22.

At 22, 25 now do I see?

Ooh.

There we go.

Oh, so you're going.

It's trying hard.

At 25, hammer's up, last call for you then?

Have one more.

Thank you, 28 bid.

Ah!

Bid me 30 now then.

28, 30.

30 bid, last call for everybody then.

Hammer's up and I sell at £30.

There we are, £30.

SERHAT: I got my money back.

CS: Yes.

VO: Less those pesky auction fees, of course.

That's like my driving that was.

(BOTH LAUGH) Steady, steady, steady... ka-thunk.

VO: Now, hardly visible with the human eye is Catherine's teeny spyglass.

£30 anybody, 30.

£30.

20 at a push... Oh my goodness.

20.

You obviously need to have a very close look.

You do need to have a very close look.

20 is now bid, at 20.

Looking for two now then.

£20 I'm bid.

Two now do I see?

At £20 I'm bid, any more now then?

It's not looking good.

Last call for you then.

You've all seen it, but obviously not looked close enough.

(CATHERINE LAUGHS) COLIN: £20.

SERHAT: Oh Catherine.

Aww!

Oh dear.

VO: It's only a little loss.

Barely noticeable.

The optics were superb.

Never mind.

Oh, never mind.

CS: We move on.

VO: We do.

Onto Serhat's couple of brass chargers.

Might be old, might be Asian.

COLIN: Come on, bid me a tenner.

SERHAT: Ah!

We're doing well here, aren't we?

12, 15 now do I see?

Any more now then?

15 bid, 15 bid.

18 now do I see?

At £15 bid, any more now then?

CS: It's just not fair.

Come on, bid me 20 now.

At least give me my money back, people.

Selling at 18 then.

We're doing really well.

VO: But it's the taking part that counts.

Hang on, no it isn't.

Oh my goodness, bread and water for us tonight, Serhat.

Oh dear.

VO: Chin up, plenty more to go.

Continuing on with Catherine's butterfly brooch.

Who's gonna start me at £40 for it?

40 anybody?

It's worth 40 all day long.

£40 is now bid.

At 40, 42?

Yes!

Well done.

VO: That's more like it.

45, got a bid on my right here, at 45.

48, 48, 50 now, 50.

CS: Yes!

COLIN: £50 I'm bid.

Never have I been so happy for a £20 profit.

52 now.

At 50 bid, 52.

At 52, bid me five now then?

Hammer's up then, you've had your last chance then.

52!

I'm really happy with that.

VO: I should think so too.

Not a bad return either.

It might as well have made £100 profit, that's how happy I am.

VO: Next up it's the first of Serhat's cracked ceramics collection, his snuff-taking toby jug.

Let's make it really exciting.

Who'll start me at a pound?

Pound?

VO: Blimey.

Thank you.

One bid of one, two, bid at two?

Three do I see now then?

At £2 I'm bid.

Three from anybody else?

At £2 I'm bid.

Three.

£3 I'm bid.

Three, and four now then.

At £3 I'm bid, four?

Four.

Bid at four.

Five anywhere else then?

Oh Serhat!

It's early days, let's see.

Five bid, six bid, seven now do I see?

At £6 I'm bid.

Seven now surely.

At £6 bid.

Seven, seven bid.

£7, eight now.

I'm looking for double digits.

At £9 bid, 10 for anybody else then?

Goes this time then, hammer's up at £9.

Yay!

(BOTH LAUGH) He tried.

VO: Definitely not up to snuff.

These jokes write themselves sometimes.

Should be crying, but I'm...

I'm happy about it.

I should be crying my tears into the toby jug.

VO: Now, will the bidders go cock-a-hoop for Catherine's big old iron bracket thingamajig?

12 bid.

15 now do I see?

Massive thing.

15 bid.

18 bid.

£20 bid?

Two now do I see?

At 22, any more now then?

Going at £22.

I think he was surprised at how little it made.

VO: No heavy metal fans online today obviously.

It was such a cool thing.

SERHAT: Yeah.

And I just thought it was nice to buy something a bit different.

VO: The second of Serhat's cracked pots now.

It's the biggie, his Royal Doulton flambe vase.

Hoping that someone's not gonna notice the gaffer tape holding it together on the inside.

£100.

100?

No?

Aw.

Halve it.

60.

That's not half.

Even I know that.

30.

£30?

£20 bid, 20.

Looking for two now then.

20, 22, 25 now do I see?

£22 I'm bid.

Five.

28.

Are we all done then, going at £28?

No, don't be crazy.

COLIN: 30 now, the bid's... CS: Now they're going.

..in New Zealand.

At £30.

Are you done?

You're finished then?

Last call then?

Going at £30 then.

I had high high hopes for that, even... CS: Did you?

SERHAT: ..with a big old crack.

VO: Well, lesson learned there I think.

If you can't afford the perfect, I thought buy it and turn it round.

You don't have to look at the crack.

No one will see it, no one will know!

VO: And on the subject of big damaged bits of crock, Catherine's huge but slightly foxed chimney pot is up next.

I bought it and I couldn't work out the sort of tapered shape of it.

And then as soon as I left the shop I thought, I know why, it's upside down.

10, anybody?

10?

Thank you.

10 bid.

12 do I see now then?

At 10 looking for 12?

Come on!

No!

VO: Oh dear.

At least they turned it the right way up.

I'm not buying big pieces ever again.

VO: Now, last chance for Serhat.

His Derby dish.

There's a bit of pre-sale interest in this.

Anybody gonna start me at £100 to start me?

£100 anybody, 100?

100 bid.

10 now do I see?

£100 I'm bid.

CS: It's got 100!

SERHAT: Yeah!

Oh my goodness!

10 now do I see, at £100 is now bid?

At 100, 110 surely?

At £100, are we done?

Surely 110.

Takes out my commission bids, but only just.

At £100, are we all done then?

Going this time then.

Selling at £100.

Woohoo!

Hooray!

VO: Hats off to you, Serhat.

Your only profit, but it was a good 'un.

SERHAT: So I'm really pleased about that.

Oh, that's just so cool.

I need my hat back.

VO: Yes, you need to hang onto it.

Because it's time for the final lot, Catherine's cow cruet set.

£50 surely, 50?

Oh, I don't think so.

No bidders?

Bid me a tenner.

At £10 I'm bid, at 10 bid.

12 now do I see?

At £10 I'm bid.

10, 12 bid.

At 15, 15 bid?

15, 18, 18 bid at 18.

£20, 20 bid.

Two bid, five.

He's on fire.

30, 30 bid, 32.

32, 35 now do I see?

Can we milk it for one more?

Just milk it.

..£32.

I didn't really like it that much.

(BOTH LAUGH) VO: Doesn't matter, Daisy more than doubled your money.

And now we're done.

I don't know what to make of that.

I think we're quite close.

VO: Well, let's find out.

Catherine started this leg with £170 and change, but made a loss after auction fees.

Her funds have deflated slightly to £145.68.

But Serhat, who began with just shy of £160, lost less.

After saleroom costs he now has £153.34, so he wins this one.

But there's not much daylight between them.

CS: One thing that's nice is that we're getting back in the car, getting back in the warm.

SERHAT: Run, run!

VO: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.

The heater's bust.

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