VOICEOVER (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts... Alright viewers?
VO: ..with £200 each, a classic car, and a goal - to scour Britain for antiques.
I'm on fire - yes!
Sold - going, going, gone.
VO: The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction.
But it's no mean feat.
50p!
VO: There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.
Are they papier-mache buttocks?
VO: So, will it be the high road to glory or the slow road to disaster?
Ooh!
Oh!
Here we go!
VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.
Yeah!
VO: It's the second leg of our Scottish expedition in the company of Charlie Ross, Margie Cooper and a 1961 Sunbeam Rapier.
CHARLIE (CR): My uncle had a Sunbeam Rapier.
MARGIE (MC): My dad did.
CR: Really?
Yeah.
Should you be sitting in the back seat with a bag of crisps and a bottle of pop?
MC: Yeah, feeling car sick.
VO: Auctioneer Charlie from Oxfordshire is a bit of a classic car specialist.
Like your Bugatti.
VO: He's also a Road Trip regular.
Tenner.
Right.
Here we go.
VO: With a reputation for decisive action.
Seen it, loved it, bought it.
VO: Dealer and Cheshire girl Margie, however, prefers a rather more roundabout approach.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Don't particularly like it.
VO: Not so much "veni vidi vici", more "she came, she saw, she dithered".
Do you want blood?
Yeah.
VO: Seems to work though, because so far Margie's tactics have paid off handsomely.
I'm traveling with a genius!
VO: Charlie began with £200 and after just one auction, he's amassed a total of £271.28 to spend today.
Whilst Margie, who also started off with £200, has done even better, with £315.10 in her pocket.
CR: Alright my lover?
VO: Not that they seem to be taking it at all too seriously.
Woke up in the middle of the night, made a cup of tea in my pajamas.
Must get a teapot.
VO: Charlie and Margie set out from Jedburgh in the Borders before traveling the breadth and length of Scotland to reach journey's end at Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
Today they begin in the capital at Edinburgh and head north to Stirlingshire for an auction at Kinbuck.
BOTH: # I've got a wonderful feeling # Everything's going my... # CR: Oh my hat's gone, oh my hat's gone!
MC: (LAUGHS) CR: Oh, stop, my hat's gone!
VO: Edinburgh's made those two even giddier, it seems.
The city is built on seven hills, a bit like Rome.
And with over 4,500 listed buildings, you can imagine why it's considered one of the best places to live and visit in the UK.
It has some of the quirkiest antique shops too.
MC: There we go.
CR: Antiques and curios.
Look, it's all outside as well.
MC: It is.
Wonderful.
Do you think the car's for sale?
I'm off to spend me cash.
Good luck mate.
See you later.
Luck?
I might need some.
VO: Hmm, sounds like he's already spotted something.
That's nice.
For a price...
..I'd buy it.
VO: Straight out of the blocks!
Morning, sir.
Good morning.
How are you?
When did you last see the back of your shop?
Oh... must be two or three years, I think.
CR: (LAUGHS) VO: Good question Charlie.
A chap could spend weeks in here and only graze the surface.
Can I have a clamber?
It is, I think, Alan, what you would call an eclectic mix, isn't it?
Yes.
VO: Careful now, we don't want a landslide.
Has that got a carriage clock in it?
VO: Good spot!
Just come in yesterday, that's quite a nice piece.
Well, look at that.
It's got its original... Yeah, it's got its original... VO: Came in yesterday, eh?
Catnip to collectors.
How lovely to see it in its original box with its original key and its... Look at that.
It's even got its little...
There we go.
Its little door.
And it's got a serpentine-shaped brass case.
No doubt an English case with a French movement, I imagine.
And about 1900 in date?
DEALER: Yeah.
Yeah.
CR: Yes.
VO: Carriage clocks were a French invention in the early 19th century, also known as officers' clocks.
They were designed for travel and the carrying case was a key component.
How much is said item?
Well, I would think about £100 I would expect to get for that.
Would you?
Yeah, I thought you might say that.
The best thing about this is the original case.
DEALER: Original box, it's a bit tatty, but someone will love to restore that.
CR: Yeah.
I think if that didn't have its original box that's a 50 quidder, but I think that does help considerably.
May I just leave it on there for the moment?
Give that a... Mull that over.
Give that a bit of, a bit of, bit of thought.
Have you got any silver on board?
VO: Funny you should ask, Charlie.
DEALER: Well, I have a few bits tucked away here.
This is a veritable Aladdin's cave here.
Now these are Edinburgh spoons.
They're quite nice...
I just was looking at the back there... Georgian, Georgian, they're Georgian.
They're Georgian and Edinburgh.
They've got the thistle and the castle.
And there's six of them.
Six of them.
And that's a silver pocket watch.
Silver pocket watch.
There we go.
London maker.
That's turn of the century, isn't it?
Sterling silver bracelet.
Niello decoration on it.
Is that Burmese?
Siamese silver.
Siamese is it?
Yeah.
I'm getting very excited here.
VO: What else has Alan got in there?
That's got quite a nice art nouveau top on it.
Gosh, what a lovely top to that.
Bit dented, but silver.
CR: Birmingham silver.
DEALER: Yep, CR: About 1910.
DEALER: Yep.
Hobnail cut body to it.
Pretty good order, really.
How much is your...
Your jar?
Er, well, it's in pretty poor condition...
It's not in great condition.
DEALER: £15, I would think.
CR: £15.
You know what I'm really tempted by?
But I don't know how much leeway there might be on the clock.
I don't suppose you can sell it to me for 60 quid, can you?
I think I would... 70 I would.
I think I would accept 70... Would you sell it to me for £70?
I think that's an extremely... tempting and reasonable offer.
DEALER: Right.
CR: and I'll shake you by the hand, sir.
That's very kind, sir.
Yeah, OK.
I have to say I can't stop now, you see, cuz I get the buying bug.
I don't suppose that could be a tenner, could it?
DEALER: 10, now let's... CR: Rather than 15?
Let's put... Let's put that in at a tenner, yeah.
This is getting better by the minute!
VO: I thought he might be about to buy just about everything in that little suitcase.
I think I'm going to have one look at your lamp, if I may.
Yep.
VO: Not forgotten it then Charlie?
Again, rather like the carriage clock, a lot of these have been reproduced over the years.
You've only got to look at the patination, the wear, feel the weight, to know that that is a 19th-century lamp.
And it's got its original "starboard" label on it.
VO: The word "starboard" derives from the Old English and literally means the side on which the ship is steered, because the steering oar used to be affixed to the right side of a vessel, and mooring at port was on the left, hence "port".
Interested, I'd say.
What sort of money is that?
DEALER: About 20 quid as it's... CR: About 20 quid, yeah?
I would give you 10 quid for your lamp outside, but I...
It's a mean offer, it's a rude offer, and I'm not expecting... Hmm.
I, I think it might make 20 quid at auction, 15, 20 quid at auction.
Right, let's move it on.
Yes, yes.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Let's... Let's get rid of that as well.
Thank you very much indeed.
Thank you.
VO: Fair point Alan.
The shop could get a little bit crowded otherwise.
ALAN: Good luck.
CR: I wish you a very good day, and thank you so much.
VO: It's never hard to imagine what Charlie's mood is, but with three lots in the bag I think it's true to say, well, whoops, with a spring in his step, he's pleased.
Meanwhile elsewhere in Edinburgh, Margie's come to the city's historic Mound - not one of the seven hills by the way - to visit a museum entirely dedicated to money.
VO: The Museum on the Mound is located at the historic former headquarters of the Bank of Scotland.
Founded in 1695, it's the second-oldest surviving bank in the UK.
Good morning.
DOUG: Hello.
MC: You're Doug?
DOUG: Yes.
MC: I'm Margie.
VO: But of course money itself is much, much older, and can take many different forms.
Pretty much anything can be money if you think about it.
Mm.
It's just that some things make better money than others.
It's got to be something that's desirable, so the earliest form of money we know about are the cowrie shells.
Right.
They were being used in parts of China at least 4,000 years ago.
But couldn't you just go along the beach and get those?
DOUG: Yes and no.
MC: So all of a sudden one afternoon you've got a lot of money in your pocket?
They, they were being used about 1,000 miles away from where they were actually found.
MC: Ah, I see.
DOUG: In China they were DOUG: being used inland.
MC: I see.
Where do these beads come from?
These ones here come from the Solomon Islands.
Mm.
And you can notice that there's four different colored beads here, and the different beads have a different value based on how easy or hard it is to find that particular shell.
So the white shells and the black shells are quite easy to find - they're the lowest value.
MC: Yeah.
Then you have the pale-orange beads and finally the reddish-orange beads.
The shells for those could only be found 20 meters down, so only the best divers could hold their breath, swim down 20 meters, find the shell and get up to the surface again.
So he became a rich man if he could do that?
Probably not, probably it was the person who made the beads then became rich.
MC: Ah.
(CHUCKLES) VO: Money, it seems, really does make the world go round.
Take "buck" for example - a slang term for "dollar" that may come from buckskin, once used as currency.
The museum holds other examples of the goods that were as important as cash north of the border.
This is a beaver pelt, and beaver pelt was used as currency in Canada in the 18th century.
Now it was being used by the colonists when they still had coins, but coins were in such short supply, and companies like the Hudson Bay Company, which most people would have gone to back then to get their supplies, priced everything in beaver pelts.
Just as we go into a supermarket today, so you would have gone in and it might have been one beaver pelt would have got you four knives.
MC: Yeah.
DOUG: Or two pounds of sugar.
# M-O-N-E-Y # Make it, take it, save it... # VO: Nowadays of course paper money is the standard, and much of the credit goes to the Bank of Scotland, because back in 1696 the Scots invented the modern banknote.
DOUG: Bank of England had been using paper currency but not in set denominations.
You know, you could get a banknote... Yep, for whatever.
..whatever amount.
But in 1696 Bank of Scotland came along, fives, 10s, 20s, 50s and 100s.
Goodness, still the same today.
Still the same today.
That's amazing, isn't it?
VO: People have been trying to forge banknotes since the Bank of Scotland started issuing them.
But the bank has been fighting back for almost as long.
DOUG: So this is Scotland's oldest surviving banknote from 16th April 1716.
MC: That's amazing that it's survived.
This one was kept to one side because it was evidence in a forgery case.
Ah.
This wavy line here is actually deliberate.
It was an early anti-forgery device.
The copper printing plate would have been used to print two notes at once and these notes were actually bound into a book a bit like a checkbook.
Mm?
And when the printed note was actually issued, the teller would just cut around the wavy line so when you presented your banknote for payment the teller could check the original counterfoil, and if it didn't match up he knew you'd presented a counterfeit note.
VO: Clever stuff, and elsewhere in the museum, they have a suitable jaw-dropping selection of the latest banknotes.
Never mind about beads, now you're talking!
A million pounds in £20 notes.
Number one there.
Doesn't look much, does it?
I'd get that in the back of our car!
VO: Well unfortunately, Margie, it's all a bit worthless because of that "canceled" notice on every single one.
Never mind - perhaps it'll inspire you to add to the small fortune you've already accumulated.
Now, time to meet up with Charlie and motor to another of the city's destination antiques emporia.
CR: What are you doing taking me down a dark alley?
Have you got designs on me?
MC: I'm trying to find you some antiques dealer.
CR: Well I can't believe there's an antiques shop here.
Go round the corner, you'll see.
Come on, Charlie, shall I go first?
Ah, Margie.
MC: Why don't you buy one of those?
CR: No, you can't have a basket.
VO: Courtyard Antiques consists of two jampacked floors with the accent on vintage.
Oh, look at his little ears.
VO: Including costume, toys, militaria and much else besides.
Evenin' all.
That's a beauty.
Now, Ms Cooper... Jacques Cousteau.
Great for fancy dress.
Eugh!
Teddy bears.
Helmets.
Globes.
Boats.
VO: While Charlie explores the top floor, Margie's downstairs with proprietor Lewis, being sensible.
You've got a set of six, not very old.
Eight.
Eight, sorry.
I mean they're heavy, they're so heavy.
Edinburgh Crystal, yeah?
Yes.
Mm-hm.
And I don't think there's any chips or cracks.
There's not much age to those.
LEWIS: £160.
MC: Ah... MC: Ah!
LEWIS: You really need to LEWIS: see them all, don't you?
MC: Oh no.
Oh, hecky thump!
(CHUCKLES) Really?
Yeah.
VO: Quite.
But Lewis also has several decanters, any one of which could be included in the deal.
So, could you sort of do me a parcel with the glasses, cheap?
Ish?
I can do you a parcel with the glasses, it's the cheap bit that I'm having a problem with!
VO: Something tells me this could go on a bit.
VO: Meanwhile, what's Charlie found?
It's a folding bagatelle table.
And you whack your ball.
If you get it in this hole, you see, you get one and the more difficult they are the more points you get.
You have your little balls.
Ah.
Pas de ballons.
VO: Bagatelle, named after the Parisian chateau of that name, is a French invention which is part billiards and part bowling.
VO: Ooh.
Failed.
VO: You can also see how pinball and even crazy golf developed from here.
Arrgh!
VO: Unlucky!
Not as easy as you think, this.
VO: Well, he might enjoy playing it, but I'm not sure he's convinced it's worth buying.
Now, how are things in the slow lane?
That's a nice example.
I mean, slate clocks are not the best, but...
But that's a beautiful one.
It is, and it's small.
VO: Although this slate clock is thoroughly British, it has a French movement, and the fashion for clocks made from slate began on the other side of the Channel.
MC: What money is that, then?
LEWIS: 120 MC: 120.
Oh... No, let's, let's call it...
They're not easy, are they?
LEWIS: 80.
MC: Hmm.
LEWIS: It does go.
MC: You got the keys?
LEWIS: Yes.
(CLOCK CHIMES) Oh, listen to that.
So, 65 wouldn't buy it?
LEWIS: I'm sure that's what I paid for it.
Can't believe I'm even interested in a slate clock, MC: but it's so pretty.
LEWIS: Mm-hm.
That is so sweet, you know, you've got these little Corinthian columns.
68?
(CHUCKLES) Now you're talking.
VO: Patience, Lewis.
Our Margie can be a very trying customer.
Meanwhile Charlie, for once, is equally at a loss.
I need some assistance, please.
I need an injection of definitive decision making.
VO: Oh lordy, Charlie, you've only been with Margie a short while.
I do hope indecision isn't contagious.
CR: I'm going to go for a walk down the street.
I'm gonna get some fresh air.
VO: At least that's decisive.
It's a lonely old life, really.
It's a lonely old life when you can't make up your mind.
But it seems to me, having bought not far from here, that there's a lot of antique shops here.
There's another shop there.
What a lovely looking shop.
I'm going to have a look in Bodkin & Farrish.
You never know, there might be the object of my dreams in there.
Greetings, sir.
Oh, hello there.
May I look round your shop?
Please do, please do.
Charlie's the name.
Pleased to meet you.
Hugo.
Hugo.
VO: Yes, but Bodkin or Farrish?
Anyway, I think Charlie will perk up in here - a real old-fashioned antique shop with plenty of lighting and, of course, furniture.
Look at that cabinet there.
Look at that cabinet.
French, do you think?
Doesn't look English to me.
The door, the carving on the door is exquisite.
1880.
£260.
Love to buy that for 100.
I wonder how flexible Hugo is.
Hugo, may I borrow you?
Yes, sorry.
I was just looking at your cabinet there.
Very cute, isn't it?
Just the...
The bottom door is sensational, the carving is fabulous.
I think it's probably too insulting to offer you... Hit me with it, I'm uninsultable.
I'll have a look at my ticket.
Are you insultable?
Have a look at your ticket.
I mean, I...
I think that would make at auction about 140 quid... HUGO: Is that all?
CR: Something like that.
Golly.
No, no I may be...
I may well be... Well, exactly.
I know what you're saying.
I don't suppose it's buyable for 100 quid, is it?
I mean, if it were, I would buy it.
I think sadly it's cost me more, but... Has it?
Yeah.
But, erm, you know, it's worth a try.
What would... What would be your, you know, never to be forgotten, show me the door price on that?
Yeah.
Well, I have restored it a little and I think I paid... Have you?
Yeah.
..140, but because of my quiet Sunday I will take 150.
I feel good vibes with Hugo here, but, you know, do I want to gamble?
VO: You know you probably do Charlie.
But there may be something else.
How about one of Hugo's fine sideboards?
Something took my eye over here with the... it was a frame.
It's not silver, is it?
No, that's a plated frame.
Not a repro, is it?
No indeed, it's 19... 10, 20.
Look at that.
Romeo and Juliet.
Mm-hm.
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou?"
I'm here!
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
Well, I mean, to me it doesn't matter a tuppeny jot whether it's not silver really.
I quite like the base metal coming through here.
It adds a depth to the color.
Look at him.
That all ended rather badly, didn't it, Romeo and Juliet?
VO: Well at least the auction's not in Verona, eh?
How much is parting with sweet sorrow?
HUGO: £60.
CR: £60.
And that'll be a roaring profit on that, I'm convinced.
CR: (LAUGHS) Oh, Hugo!
You wouldn't like to take £40 for that, would you, Hugo?
It's a deal.
That was what I was about to say.
£40?
The death would be 40, yeah.
I would like to pay £40 for that.
We have a deal.
FAB!
You want two of those... VO: Charlie's back in the saddle it seems.
Still hankering after that cabinet as well.
Pleasure.
I don't suppose... You don't want to take £100 for your cabinet, do you?
It's a miserable, pathetic offer.
Give me the 140 I think I paid for it.
Yeah, no, no.
I think I'm not going to, because... Not brave enough?
No?
CR: I'm not brave enough.
HUGO: It must be the sun.
Do you think it's the sun?
And the dizziness and I'll take your £100.
CR: What?
HUGO: I'll take it.
Are you sure?
Well... You should be quicker than that, sir.
Indeed.
Oh, my goodness me, I've just bought another thing for £100!
Perfect.
I'm more excited to see how much profit you make.
CR: (LAUGHS) VO: That's a very sporting attitude, Hugo.
VO: Charlie now has five lots, but Margie on the other hand still hasn't bought a thing.
I'm boring meself here.
VO: So far Margie's agonized over some glasses and a slate clock.
MC: (LAUGHS) VO: But there's more.
MC: This is nice.
VO: Something familiar too.
I wonder where the balls are.
Are these the balls?
There's the balls.
And you can have a jolly, jolly time playing, but I don't quite know how it works.
Nice thing, though.
Edwardian.
VO: Yes, we've heard all that from Charlie.
It's in good nick.
VO: It seems Margie might be a tad more interested in the bagatelle than her traveling companion was.
How much is that?
80.
Yeah.
Can that be 60 quid?
No.
No?
Well, I don't blame you, but I just want the guarantee really, don't I?
Well, you did beat me down on the clock.
How much was it?
70.
It was actually 75, but I'm, I'm... ..losing the will.
Well, I'll buy something, don't worry.
I'm getting really close now.
VO: Well, fingers crossed.
Back to the clock, eh?
Stick with us, viewers.
So the clock and the game... LEWIS: 140.
MC: We're nearly there.
MC: But you're there.
LEWIS: We are there.
I'm not there yet and you are.
68 each?
136.
69 each.
69 each.
VO: Cor, I think Lewis might need to sit down for a bit after that.
LEWIS: Thank you so much.
MC: (LAUGHS) VO: I know I do.
£138 on two lots for Margie, and all in all it's been quite a day.
No wonder they're feeling a trifle dizzy.
So, night-night.
VO: Next morning, Charlie accuses Margie of hanging on to her profits.
You're not going to spend that 315 quid, are you?
MC: I am.
CR: No you're not.
"I think I'll spend six poonds on this one... " "And seven poonds fifty on the other one, "and I'll keep the rest in ma handbag."
MC: "Ma wee purse."
CR: "I don't want to risk it."
MC: (LAUGHS) VO: Not something Charlie could be accused of, because yesterday he spent £230 on a lantern, a picture frame, a dressing table jar, a cabinet and a carriage clock.
As you do.
This is getting better by the minute!
VO: Leaving him with just over £40 in his wallet.
Whilst Margie was much more cautious, buying just a slate clock and a bagatelle game for £138.
I knew you were going to be trouble the moment you came in!
VO: Meaning she has £177.10 to spend today.
Later they'll be making for the auction in Kinbuck, but their next stop is still in Edinburgh, down on the historic dockside by the Firth of Forth, at Leith.
CR: Look at this, it's enormous!
MC: Oh my goodness.
I'll probably never see you again.
Goodbye darling, have a lovely time.
I will.
Spend all that super cash.
Yeah, I wish I'd got more!
Oh.
It's a serious place.
So, I'm looking for... John.
Margie, pleased to meet you.
I'm pleased to meet you.
Thanks for letting us come to this amazing place.
You're more than welcome.
Ah, gosh, so how long have you been here?
We're in this warehouse 25 years.
VO: It's not hard to see why this fine establishment, located in an old whisky warehouse, has recently won an accolade as one of the finest shops in the UK.
Sure to suit our Margie.
Poor old Charlie would have loved it in here.
VO: That's right.
But I'm sure she won't rub it in - not!
JOHN: This is a pull-out table from about 1820.
This is a Gillows one.
Oh, is it really?
And a stamp yet.
Oh my word.
These stamps are so important.
Yeah, critical.
VO: Yeah, there's quite a bit that's way beyond her reach but I'm sure John can guide the way to the more affordable items.
JOHN: Here's something interesting for you.
Oh, your box, a tin box.
Oh, a biscuit tin.
VO: The ticket price is £75.
JOHN: 40 quid.
MC: That's alright.
JOHN: That's quite smart.
Buy that.
There's wages left in that.
"Wages left in that."
I do like that.
OK.
I haven't said yes yet.
You have.
I can tell, the way you were... You can see how he's successful, can't you?
VO: Something tells me our John isn't a man to dither with.
A pen stand.
Onyx.
It's going to be £50 to you.
Would it sell for you?
Not sold on that.
OK. Carltonware, that's unusual.
You can have that for, erm, £30.
Actually here, £40, and I'll throw in another piece.
So, how much would those be, 35?
£40 for both.
That's a fair price.
MC: It is a fair price.
VO: Hm, no deal as yet though.
But this is shaping up well.
Margie arrived with almost £170 and I think John will make sure she spends a fair part of it.
Quickly, too!
And this is an interesting piece.
MC: It is, isn't it?
JOHN: It's for dealing cards.
JOHN: Four decks of cards... MC: Yeah.
JOHN: Could be blackjack.
MC: Really?
Could be something like that.
MC: Well, that... JOHN: It deals them out singly.
So, it's got all the information.
That's good.
Oh, that's really good.
Yeah.
Made in Paris.
Ooh, I like that.
Really excited about that.
VO: The ticket price is £25.
You can have that for £20.
D'you really like it?
I do.
Well, £20 if you want it.
£20.
A deal.
You like that?
Shall we shake hands on that?
OK.
Thank you.
VO: Fast work!
Now let's get back to that Carltonware.
35 quid, best.
Right.
£35?
Yeah.
OK.
Thank you.
That's that done.
So how much have I spent?
VO: Well £55 actually, not including the biscuit tin.
But do we have a deal on that as well?
Could it just ease a bit and I'll buy it?
How much did I quote you?
40.
That's it.
Not 38?
No.
No.
No 38.
It's £40.
Got to be £40.
MC: Yeah.
JOHN: It's Monday morning, it's half past nine.
I've a long week ahead of me.
"Will you please leave now?"
JOHN: Give me the money.
VO: I like this chap!
Five of those are yours.
OK.
There's your change.
A Scottish fiver.
VO: So with £95 spent, Margie's shopping is finally complete.
But where's Charlie?
Well, he's finally headed out of the capital.
Traveling north from Edinburgh to Dunfermline.
Done shopping, more like!
Look at this.
I couldn't be in a more perfect place.
I think I've died and gone to heaven.
VO: Actually he's on his way to see a unique museum dedicated to the humble bus.
Morning.
Good morning, Charlie.
Is it Eddie?
It's Eddie.
How do you do?
CR: This is extraordinary.
EDDIE: Yes.
I never thought I would come into the middle of Scotland and find so many buses.
How many buses have you got?
Er... we've 180 on the site.
180?
180, yes.
Are they all owned by you?
No, they're individually owned.
So if I have a bus and I want to put it in here I pay you a rent, do I?
That's basically it, yes.
Splendid.
VO: The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum is the largest of its kind in the world, and like many of the best institutions it owes its existence to enthusiasts and their valuable spare time.
What a wonderful view from up here.
Alright in the summer, but can you imagine sitting here in the middle of winter?
CR: Oh my goodness me.
EDDIE: A Scottish winter?
CR: Yeah.
EDDIE: I don't think so.
VO: Basically, everyone here just loves buses.
And this is what date?
This is 1928.
This is one of the oldest buses we have on the site.
It's one of the first generation Glasgow double-deckers.
And during the Second World War it was actually converted into an ambulance, the roof was taken off and it ran about in London.
Yeah?
And then it was discovered as a caravan in a field in Kent.
Have you got anybody here that used to drive buses?
I did.
Did you?
Whereabouts?
EDDIE: In Edinburgh.
JB: Did you?
I used to drive in Edinburgh, yes.
For how long?
10 years I was driving in Edinburgh.
Enjoyable?
Absolutely loved it.
VO: Bus, an abbreviation of "omnibus" - meaning "carriage for all" - applied to horse-drawn carriages before engine powered vehicles.
The word "clippie", however, is uniquely British.
This is the old-style bus, the old typical double-decker, with the rear entrance, where the conductor or the conductress, commonly known as a clippie, would stand.
Because they clipped the tickets?
Clipped the tickets, that's exactly that.
EDDIE: This is, er... CR: Oh you've got one?
I've got an old ticket machine, so there you go.
May I put it on, sir?
Absolutely.
And all you have to do is turn the handle.
And there's your ticket.
Oh, I've got a ticket!
That'll be thruppence please, sir!
VO: Charlie, as a fan of all vintage vehicles, is clearly enjoying this experience.
But it's all about to get even better.
So am I going to be entrusted with this big beast?
You are indeed.
You're going to be driving this huge monster, yes.
But of course to drive it you need to be appropriately dressed, so you must have the appropriate uniform.
Ooh.
Well I look forward to wearing it.
CR: Thank you.
EDDIE: Absolutely.
VO: Very dapper.
(ENGINE STARTS) Careful Charlie, easy does it.
Marvelous.
We'll get you as a bus driver yet.
CR: Oh.
EDDIE: Easy.
I feel strangely at home.
VO: So whenever a bus driver needs a holiday... And there you are, you're a fully fledged bus driver.
Did you enjoy that?
Thank you very much indeed.
Oh, I loved it!
VO: Ah Cupar - that reminds me.
It's now time to take a look at what they've bought.
I have a double reveal for you.
Right, a double reveal.
One 'ere.
MC: Yes?
CR: And one 'ere.
Yeah?
Izzy wizzy, let's get busy.
Oh!
Ah!
MC: What's that?
CR: Ooh.
Well, go round the front and have a butcher's.
Let's have a look.
Now then, that's not English.
No, it isn't.
What is it?
Is it German or Dutch?
It's French I think.
I think it's French.
I think it's French.
It's walnut.
How unusual.
But what I quite liked about... Look.
Oh, isn't that nice?
It's quite a nice thing, isn't it?
That's a lovely little thing.
I think you've cracked it there.
Oh, Margie!
VO: Good start Charlie.
She's impressed.
Ship's lantern, yeah.
I just like the patination... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It hasn't got its glass, but... What's it say?
Oh starboard.
But put a night light in there, it's starboard.
That cost a tenner.
A tenner?
A tenner.
Ooh.
Hey.
Oh, you've gone onto my territory.
Just for you I bought a little bit of silver.
Do you want to pick it up and look at it?
I'll pick that up and look at it.
So how old is it?
It's...
I think it's 1904.
MC: It is, yeah.
CR: What's it worth?
What will it make at auction?
You're the expert.
Well, I think that's gonna make between 40 and 60.
10.
Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho, oh-ho-ho-ho-ho!
VO: He's enjoying this.
MC: Oh, a little carriage clock.
Yes.
The only reason I bought that is because it's in its original case.
That's lovely.
With its original key, and it's a serpentine front.
Oh, that's amazing.
VO: Margie's turn.
Come on.
Right, here we go.
Ready?
Come on.
(THEY LAUGH) I know where you bought it!
MC: These are sort of scoring... CR: Hang on, hang on.
(CLOCK CHIMES) MC: Oh, bless it!
CR: Your clock's chiming!
MC: (LAUGHS) CR: The balls are the key there.
MC: They are.
CR: Cuz they're an odd size.
MC: They are.
CR: You can't get them.
MC: Let's look at the... CR: I love this.
MC: I know.
CR: Is this a biscuit tin?
It is.
Yeah, it is.
Is it a McVitie and Price?
No, it isn't.
No, Victoria.
The key to this is the condition, isn't it?
Mm.
Yeah.
CR: Look at the paintwork on it.
MC: Yeah.
VO: Now safe bet or gamble?
This is my favorite.
Now that's something that's French.
It is, and it's a card chute, for dealing cards.
For blackjack and for baccarat.
Oh, my goodness.
From a... From a casino?
Yeah, look how nicely made it is.
D'you know, I don't think I've ever seen one of those.
No, I know.
Decks of cards in there and the croupier brings them out like that.
What, like that?
Like that.
20 quid.
Beautifully made.
I think that's probably your best buy.
VO: All good so far.
MC: I think, I think, I think... CR: Am I allowed to be rude about one of your purchases?
What, my Carltonware?
Ghastly.
CR: Absolutely ghastly.
MC: How dare you, sir!
I've been nice about your things.
No, no, no, no.
Do you know why I think it's ghastly?
Because I once bought some.
And got stuck with it?
I absolutely did.
Right, come on, let's go.
Off into the sunshine.
VO: Now, what did they really think?
Oh, that bit of silver.
He's definitely going to make £40 profit, definitely on that.
It's gorgeous.
art nouveau silver, lovely.
The Carltonware is ghastly.
Yesterday's antiques, Margie.
Frankly if they make 15 you'll be a lucky girl.
I think he's done really well, and I think he's gonna get me on the second auction.
CR: I think I've got the edge.
I'm rather thinking after this time I'll have my nose in front.
VO: After starting out in the capital, today's encounter will conclude in rural Stirlingshire at the hamlet of Kinbuck.
CR: Hey, it's been raining!
MC: It has been raining.
CR: We don't like that.
No, I do not and if it rains on my head... Oh.
..we are pulling in.
I've got a hankie, d'you wanna tie it round your head?
MC: (LAUGHS) No, is that me?
The scarf?
No, it wouldn't be you, darling.
That's more... MC: Here we are.
CR: This is when you're beginning to wish you'd bought some galvanized buckets.
Is that yours over there?
The yellow ladders?
CR: Ooh.
Hope they've got our things.
That's a real cat.
That's a real cat there.
CR: Hasn't got a lot number on it, has it?
VO: Ha-ha.
Robertson's have been established in Kinbuck for a very long time, so they should be well placed to handle what Charlie and Margie have come up with.
Let's hear what auctioneer Kate Robertson makes of it all.
Carltonware, it's very run of the mill, mediocre.
We get them all the time.
I don't expect it to make any more than £15.
Normally slate clocks are big and cumbersome and they're very heavy to move around.
That slate clock's the right size, and it's nice and neat and clear.
The one that I think will do the best is the carriage clock.
These clocks normally make about 120, 150 pounds.
VO: Charlie began with £271.28 and he's spent £230 of it on five auction lots.
Thank you very much indeed.
Thank YOU very much indeed.
VO: While Margie started out with £315.10 and she's spent £233, also on five auction lots.
Oh, hecky thump!
VO: So Kate's got her gavel and she's ready to go.
VO: First we have Charlie's starboard lamp.
Now we'll see some excitement.
CR: Hope we will.
KATE: For 12 let's go.
Are you ready?
Go Charlie, £20.
20.
Thank you, sir.
£20 bid.
Come on, this is a nice one.
£20.
Advance on 20?
Come on, ship's lantern.
22, darling.
24.
26.
28.
£28.
A wee bit more.
28.
30.
32.
£32.
Advance on 32 now.
We've finished on 32.
All out on £32.
CR: Oh!
KATE: Now there's a happy bunny.
AS TOMMY COOPER: Thank you very much.
VO AS TOMMY COOPER: Lamp, profit.
Profit, lamp.
Ha-ha-ha!
VO: Ladies and gentlemen, place your bids for Margie's card shoe.
Falls under the...
It'd be good in a casino.
Really?!
Well done!
I love casinos.
Do you?
Rien de va plus.
Oh, rien ne va plus.
Faits les jeux.
Merci.
Oh, God, I've set him off!
I don't mind if I do!
This is quite a smart piece now, a dealing shoe.
We don't have many of those in here.
I bet they don't.
What am I bid on the dealing shoe?
£40?
40 on the dealing shoe?
Come on, 40.
30 then.
£30 on the dealing shoe?
Come on.
20?
20 on the dealing shoe?
Come on.
£20 on the dealing shoe?
CR: Come on.
20?
22.
24.
There you are.
Look at this.
KATE: 26.
28.
CR: Ah!
30.
32, 34, 36, 38, 40.
Advance on 40?
Thank you.
45.
£45 here.
Advance on 45 now?
We finish on £45.
All out on 45.
That was 13.
Why have you ended up with a cat on your lap?
Pussy cat!
You're like Dr Strangelove.
Hey, you've brought me luck.
VO: Every cat likes a winner, and Margie, remember, has a comfortable lead.
Wasn't the cat that bought it, was it?
VO: Can Margie do as well with her biscuit tin?
An Edwardian novelty biscuit tin... MC: Oh, here we go.
KATE: In the shape of a book.
It's Gourmet's Delight.
Gourmet's Delight.
Isn't that lovely?
Gourmet's Delight.
OK, what am I bid for this one then?
£20?
20 on the biscuit tin.
£20.
Go on.
Go on.
15?
£15?
10?
£10 for the biscuit... CR: Hang on, Margie.
10 bid.
Advance on 10?
Hang on, Margie - they need to work on this.
Come on now, wee bit more.
Advance on £10?
CR: Oh dear.
KATE: Advance on 10.
KATE: They are collectable.
CR: Oh Margie.
MC: (LAUGHS) CR: Don't laugh, Margie.
CR: Don't laugh.
Margie.
KATE: Advance on 10.
KATE: Come on.
Advance on 10?
CR: Margie.
Margie.
KATE: £10, it goes then.
CR: Oh, Margie.
VO: Margie's first loss for some time.
Now for Charlie's big gamble - the French cabinet.
CR: (GROANS) KATE: £10.
10...
I was foolish to spend a hundred quid on something... Oh, now, shush.
Quite an attractive-looking thing.
You could have that in any room of your house, I would think.
So let's go with that one.
£100?
£100 on the cabinet?
100?
£80.
80 on the cabinet now?
Thank you, 80 bid.
Advance on 80 now?
Advance on 80?
Thank you, 85.
MC: There you go.
90.
95.
100.
KATE: £100 here.
MC: There you go.
Advance on 100?
Come on, now, advance on 100?
Advance on £100?
KATE: 110.
CR: Ooh!
KATE: 120, 130, 140.
CR: Come on.
MC: (GASPS) KATE: 140 to my right.
Advance on 140?
Finished on 140.
MC: There you go.
KATE: All out on 140.
CR: Thank you!
MC: Well done!
CR: (SIGHS) VO: He got away with that, I'd say.
What we got next?
My heart's going like the clappers!
VO: What about the frame he bought at the same shop?
Come on, Mrs Adam, I want to see your arm shooting up this time.
You, ya wee romantic that you are.
Let's go.
£30?
£30?
30?
Come on.
£30?
20 then?
20, get started?
20.
22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, KATE: 34, 36, 38... CR: Getting there.
Getting there.
38 with you.
You at 40.
£40.
Advance on 40?
Advance on £40?
Come on.
Advance on £40 now?
Romeo and Juliet, and all that.
Where are we?
45.
KATE: £45 here.
CR: Oh!
She's bunged you up a fiver.
Advance on 45?
Advance on £45, now?
Are we finished on 45?
Four.
Well done.
VO: More blessed relief for Charlie.
This is purgatory!
(CHUCKLES) It's not what you'd call comfortable, is it?
VO: Time for the clock that Margie agonized over for so long.
CR: I declare myself worried about your clock.
CHEERING Oh, gee, thanks!
I didn't want to be rude when you unveiled it, but when I went to bed that night, I thought, "What has the old bag done?"
I thought... Let's go for £50, please.
50 on the clock.
It's a nice one.
50?
40 then.
Come on.
£40 on the slate clock?
40?
A nice size.
£30 on the slate clock?
30?
30 bid.
32, 34...
Here we go.
Here we go.
..36, 38.
Look, this man's got bid-itis.
40.
£40.
45.
£45.
MC: Getting out... KATE: Advance on 45 now?
Advance on 45?
Finish on 45.
Checked shirt.
Damn and blast it!
VO: To put it mildly.
I just had a bad buying day, didn't I?
Did you have a migraine or something?
VO: Margie's Carltonware next.
Something tells me this won't go well.
MC: Here we go.
CR: I'm praying for you.
108 is Carlton Rouge Royale, two-branch candle holder and ashtray.
£10?
10?
£10?
Come on.
£10 on the Carlton.
We'll take it to the next auction!
5?
£5 on the Carlton.
..free pair of tights with these, I think.
£5?
Thank you.
Five bid.
Advance on five?
Advance on £5?
It is unsalable, this stuff.
I have first-hand knowledge.
All out on £5.
Euan.
VO: That confirms Margie's luck's just run out.
Candlesticks were alright, the candelabra things.
It was quite...
I think calling it a candelabra is pushing it a bit, isn't it?
VO: Now, she was a big fan of Charlie's bargain jar.
OK. £20?
20?
£20?
Thank you, darling.
KATE: £20 bid, advance on 20.
CR: Oh good.
22.
24, 26, 28.
£28.
Advance on 28?
30?
£30 here.
Advance on 30 now?
Come on.
Advance on £30?
CR: Well... MC: That's OK. That's a whopping profit.
MC: Nice little profit.
KATE: We finish on £30.
MC: Well done.
VO: Charlie's quietly creeping ahead here.
You're a little cocky Johnny Know-All now...
I'm so unused to winning anything in my life, this has come as a bit of a golden day, really.
VO: Can Margie's bagatelle get her back in the game?
She needs snookers.
This is a definite profit.
Oh, there's no doubt about this.
Absolutely no doubt.
Cast-iron success.
£100?
100?
100?
£100?
She's obviously got faith in this.
This is interesting.
80?
£80?
Come on.
80?
60 then?
£60 on the bagatelle?
60?
£50?
50?
Come on.
£50.
My goodness, you're no' in the mood the night, are yous?
Is the heat going for you?
£50.
40 then.
MC: Oh God, this is terrible.
KATE: £40.
We've never had a night like this.
£40.
Thank you.
40 bid.
Advance on 40?
Advance on £40 now.
Advance on 40?
Are we finished on £40?
Stuart.
40.
Dear me.
Oh crumbs, it's not been your best has it?
It's been a shocker.
VO: I just hope that whoever bought it knows the rules.
Well I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
If I were you, I'd cry.
VO: Will Charlie's carriage clock hand him yet more profits, I wonder?
This is it, Marge.
This is it.
The final countdown.
£100.
£100 on the carriage clock, 100.
She's asking for 100.
80 then, £80 on the carriage clock.
£80 - how often do we get them in this condition?
£80.
50?
£50 on the carriage clock?
50.
Thank you.
Advance on 50 now?
Advance on 50.
CR: Come on, team.
KATE: 55, 60.
65, 70.
KATE: 75, 80.
£80.
MC: There you go.
Advance on 80?
Advance on £80.
Advance on £80 now.
Can you see him?
He's saying, "God, that was cheap wasn't it?"
VO: Not bad, but it hardly justified the gamble.
I'm not spending more than five quid on anything else ever again now.
Come on.
VO: Never mind - his steady profits, plus Margie's big losses, mean that Charlie is the winner today.
VO: Margie started out with £315.10, and after paying auction costs she made a loss of £114.10, leaving her about where she started, with £201.
VO: While Charlie began with £271.28 and after paying auction costs he's made a profit of £38.14, leaving him with £309.42 to spend next time.
Well done, old boy.
Well done.
The boy did well.
Thank you darling.
Here we go.
(HORN TOOTS) CR: Marvelous.
MC: (LAUGHS) VO: Next on Antiques Road Trip, Charlie tees off.
MC: Will you get back in the car please?
VO: And Margie's told to clear off.
Ha!
MC: I feel awful now.
DEALER: Sling your hook.
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