TIM WONNACOTT: The nation's favorite celebrities.
Oh.
Just want to touch base.
TIM WONNACOTT: Paired up with an expert.
Boo!
What?
TIM WONNACOTT: And a classic car.
Their mission, to scour Britain for antiques.
My office now.
TIM WONNACOTT: The aim?
To make the biggest profit at auction.
But it's no easy ride.
Who will find a hidden gem?
Like that.
TIM WONNACOTT: Who will take the biggest risk?
This could end in disaster.
TIM WONNACOTT: Will anybody follow expert advice?
But I love this.
Why would you buy something you're not going to use?
TIM WONNACOTT: There will be worthy winners and valiant losers.
No, I don't want to shake hands.
TIM WONNACOTT: Put your pedal to the metal.
Let me go at first gear.
TIM WONNACOTT: This is the "Celebrity Antiques Road Trip."
Yeah.
Today we're joined by a pair of chums, who go way back after both hitting the big time thanks to children's television.
It's Anthea Turner and Andi Peters.
Ooh.
TIM WONNACOTT: What have they spotted?
They'll be going head to head, hunting for antiques across the north west of England in this 1950 Land Rover Series 1.
Manufactured before seatbelts were mandatory means there are none fitted, which is why they aren't wearing any.
Seatbelts, I mean.
So now this is most uncomfortable ride I've ever had.
Anthea, why did we choose a Land Rover Classic?
I chose a Land Rover Classic because it's what I learned to drive in.
What, a tractor like this?
Yes.
But the one I learned to drive in, it was a bit better than this.
But not much.
Was it as loud as this?
Because-- Yes.
--this car is so incredibly loud.
- We're shouting at each other.
- And there's no radios.
I've got no music.
Is just me and you, baby.
Just me and you.
I know.
TIM WONNACOTT: Local lass Anthea has been gracing our screens for over 20 years, most notably as one of "Blue Peter's" most popular presenters.
There are old know people rambling.
- Do they realize-- - Morning.
--that their life is in danger?
Television's Anthea Turner.
And me, Andi Peters.
TIM WONNACOTT: You said it.
TV presenter Andi rose to fame in the CBBC Broom Cupboard in the late '80s, and has rarely been off our screens since.
I'm hoping for a Ming vase.
Just starting small, just starting small.
Well, I'm a bit more of an antique than you, so I think I might do quite well in this.
I'm really hoping that I get a really great expert, somebody that likes a bit of banter.
Yeah.
And will actually listen to me.
Because you know all the experts-- well, you know what they're like.
They'll be like, oh, I just want to get this.
I'm like, no, no, no, I quite like this.
OK, can I just stop it there?
Go on.
You just like somebody who listens to you.
Well, yeah, that'll do.
TIM WONNACOTT: Fingers crossed that our two antiques experts will be all ears, as joining the trip today, a dapper dandy Charles Hanson, and the ever wise Margie Cooper.
They're cruising along in this classic Jaguar XJS coupe.
Very nice.
Well, I can't wait to meet these two prized celebrities.
Yeah.
Andi and Anthea.
Do you know, it takes me back, Marge.
Because I was a 1980s boy, and I remember in '89, when I was 11 years old, watching Andi Peters in the Broom Cupboard.
But then, Margie, to, to add weight to today, Anthea Turner.
Yeah.
'92 "Blue Peter."
Yeah.
I was 14 years old.
How old were you then?
Look at me.
Look at me.
Were you still working?
Stop it.
TIM WONNACOTT: Never ask a lady her age, Charles.
With 400 pounds in the budget, both of our teams will be touring northwest England, making shopping pit stops in Cheshire, Greater Manchester, and Staffordshire, before finally heading to North Yorkshire for auction in Killinghall near Harrogate.
There they come.
Oh, here they come.
There she goes.
Whoa, crikey me.
That is some very handy driving there.
Morning.
Engine off, engine off.
This one.
The brake, brake, brake.
OK, that's off.
[INAUDIBLE] Oh, wow.
Marvelous.
Andi, that's some serious off-road driving.
How are you?
- How lovely to meet you.
- Charles, it's good seeing you.
I'm Andi.
Hello.
Charles.
I'm Andi.
Good to see you.
So nice to see you.
Good to see you.
You ready for the fair?
Hello, darling.
Nice to see you.
Driving with Anthea is quite something in that car.
Who are we with?
Who are you with?
An obvious choice, isn't it?
Well-- Anthea.
Anthea, you know, you are my-- yeah, absolutely.
There you are.
He's been talking about you.
What a way to manhandle him.
Good lord.
Will you look after me, Margie?
I will you look after you.
I will look after to you.
Will you look after me?
I mean, I'll do my very best for you.
I just want to find some "Star Wars" figures.
It's a beefy market, the "Star Wars" market.
Hang on, no, no, Margie, what you should have done is say, oh, that's a nice hat.
Shall I try it on?
Quick, let's go, Margie.
We get a head start.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Don't worry.
Come get your hat.
Belts on.
Woohoo!
Oh, this is luxury.
How do you open the door, by the way?
This is a very nippy vehicle.
No, it's fantastic.
It's really nice.
Bye.
See you.
Bye.
It takes us a little bit longer to get started.
TIM WONNACOTT: Come on, you two.
Get going.
This morning, both teams are racing 20 miles north to Failsworth in Greater Manchester.
That one's going, right?
There we go.
Do you have some squirty as well.
I don't think they do squirty.
Where's the water?
The squirty is the rain.
OK. [HONK] Oh, there we go.
Something like that.
So I'll just go [INAUDIBLE].
Do you buy in your private life?
Do you buy stuff like this?
You're in your-- you know, do you buy?
Oh, no, in my private life I buy everything new.
- Do you?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
So you've never bought old?
I've never bought old, even cars.
- Oh, really?
- I always buy new cars.
Yeah, I do.
Yeah.
I remember you, and I suppose you are my, dare I say, Anthea, look at me, pin-up.
You're my pin-up, [INAUDIBLE] '92.
I'm like, oh my god, Miss Turner.
And, you know, you've barely changed.
You look to me as though you're a haggler.
Do you know what?
I haggle in Marks Spencer.
And I know it's not the done thing.
I flew all the way to Thailand once just so I could haggle.
People are like, oh, they haggle on everything in Thailand.
I was like, right, take me there.
Andi is very competitive.
Yeah, well, that makes two of us.
Good.
Yeah.
And I thought am.
Anthea is going to be in this to win this.
Yeah?
There's no two ways about it.
She's very competitive.
Yeah.
On "Blue Peter" back in the day, they used to do the big jumps, the big bungee jumps and all that.
She would always want to jump the furthest, jump the highest.
So she's going to want to win.
And so, sadly, Anthea, I'm going to beat you to it.
TIM WONNACOTT: Looks like he already is, as Andi and Margie are first to arrive at Antique World.
First shop.
First shop.
Let's get ready to jumble.
See what I did there?
Jumble.
TIM WONNACOTT: Hey, very good, Andi.
Managed by two local antiques enthusiasts, this place is packed with all kinds of collectibles.
Shall we get together?
Uh-- Or shall I find things and sh-- and shout?
- It's up to you.
Do you want e to-- Marjorie, I found something.
Listen out for that.
If you hear that, come running.
- All right.
You go down there.
- OK, I'm on my way.
And I'll go down here.
I'm so excited.
TIM WONNACOTT: Whilst they head off to hunt, look who's arrived.
It's like a, a supermarket.
ANTHEA: Where are we going to start?
You know, I just wonder if they're here yet.
No, I can hear Andi.
I can hear Andi.
Yeah, of course I can.
Marjorie, I've found something.
Where is she?
Come on, Marjorie.
You're not allowed to use my full name.
I thought I could call you Marjorie.
I thought we're friends now.
Marjorie, come and have a look at these.
Link hands with me.
Oh my.
What do you think?
If you had, like, really massive toilet doors.
Oh my goodness, they're hilarious.
I don't know what they are, but they're hilarious.
You don't fancy them, do you?
No.
Well, I don't fancy yours.
Ha!
If I said to you, what by definition is an antique, what would you say?
I can't talk about you like that.
Oh, good answer.
Well, you're obviously priceless.
But antique needs to be 100 years old, OK?
Right.
Oh my goodness.
Nobody will remember this.
Oh, right.
No, from my children's BBC days.
That is Captain Bucky O'Hare.
He goes where no ordinary rabbit would dare.
If you're righteous indignation has suffered a hit and your photon accelerator's broken a bit, and you're losing your mind and you're having a fit, get the funky fresh rabbit that will take care of it.
Bucky.
Captain Bucky O'Hare.
Oh my goodness, amazing.
Never heard of him.
All right, put him back then.
Off you go, Bucky.
Get back next to Thor.
TIM WONNACOTT: Back to antiques.
Something's caught silver expert Margie's eyes.
I can see from here it's a bit damaged.
- Oh.
- So I'm going to open-- I don't like it already if it's damaged.
But it's quite-- this is a nice thing.
What is it?
That's for-- you put water in there.
Stamps!
Yeah.
Let's have a look at it.
I've got my-- - What you got?
What you got?
- Are you ready?
Oh my gosh.
Oh.
I see you when you do this on the telly.
I love this bit.
Yeah, well, I just want a quick look.
Not that it matters, but-- It does to me.
Oh, yeah, it is.
It's Edwardian.
OK. You imagine, back in the Edwardian times, you were writing letters all the time.
Don't want to go [INAUDIBLE] that, licking those [INAUDIBLE].
Don't do it.
So you'd fill that, and then you'd-- But my-- but the thing is, nowadays, stamps are self-adhesive.
Yeah, but you're not going to use it, are you?
Its an antique.
Why would you buy something you're not going to use?
I don't get it.
TIM WONNACOTT: I fear many antiques may be lost on our Andi.
Margie's keen, though.
Better get the dealer over.
Where's the person?
Jim!
They're always called Jim.
- No, it's not Jim.
- It's not Jim.
John!
- Gentleman.
- Gentlemen.
- Paul.
Paul.
I would have got there in the end.
I would have got there in the end, Paul.
Lovely to meet you, Paul.
Marjorie has a question for you.
How much is it?
I've got 45 on it.
I'll do it for 35.
If I was to give you 30 pounds, would you say yes?
Yeah, I'll do 30.
You're an amazing man, Paul.
Thank you very much indeed.
- No problem.
- Thank you.
- No problem.
- Thank you.
Well done.
Are you sure?
Yeah, 100%.
I'm, I'm bowing to your judgment, but the next thing I'm choosing, all right?
Yeah.
TIM WONNACOTT: First item of the trip bought, and it's Andi's choice on the next purchase.
Good luck, Margie.
Margie, come on.
Everybody wants a dog that can pour tea.
Come on.
It's got to be worth something.
Are you-- are you joking?
Hang on.
- Hello.
Don't tell them, don't tell them, don't tell them.
Anyway, how's it going for you two?
It's going very well, and my colleague I've learned is an expert in teapots.
- Oh, really?
- Oh, [INAUDIBLE] yeah.
She knows a good handle.
Ask me anything about a teapot.
She knows a good spout.
I do.
And then tip me over and pour me out.
- Pour me out.
- Exactly.
Exactly.
Well, I think you're doing very well.
We're doing better.
Right.
OK, OK. See you later.
Don't even look at them.
Don't even look at them.
They might give us bad vibes.
They might give us bad vibes.
You're going to go for crazy things.
TIM WONNACOTT: Oh, they're a competitive bunch, aren't they?
Right, Anthea, what on Earth have you got there?
In [INAUDIBLE],, we call them a guzunda.
A guzunda.
Because it goes under the bed.
That's it.
But this is one.
Look.
Oh, no, look.
Slipper bed.
It's a bedpan.
This slipper could be passed under the patient.
It's a hospital.
In front between the legs.
That's it exactly.
What I quite like about it is look, look at the wear on the foot rim there.
That's honest wear where it's shifted under the bed, and maybe you've been desperate, quickly pulled it into place, and [INAUDIBLE], don't you?
Yeah.
Let's just take it.
You never know.
- OK, madam.
- You never know.
No, that's it.
It might come in handy.
Yeah.
OK, big shop.
TIM WONNACOTT: So the 19th century bedpan is one possibility.
And it looks like Charles has found a different kind of bowl.
Looking at that ribbed outline, I think that just might be Charlotte Reed.
Let me try and get in from the back, OK?
OK. TIM WONNACOTT: Charlotte Reed was one of the leading English ceramic designers of the '20s and '30s in the potteries area of Staffordshire.
Look at that.
What I quite like about it are the colors.
What a shame it's not signed, is it?
It isn't.
Crown Ducal.
But she worked there in the 1930s.
I love this almost asymmetrical, almost Japanese art deco inspired blossom.
28 pounds.
So we'd probably get it for a little bit less.
20 pounds.
We should do.
I think so.
TIM WONNACOTT: While this pair are all pots and pans, what's Andi uncovered?
Look, it's heavy.
I always think if it's heavy, it's worth something.
Yeah.
A miner's lamp.
- Are they good.
- A lot of history behind that.
You know, you do see them around.
OK. A lot of the things, they look old, but they feel new.
This looks old and feels old, and I think that would be-- and again, if that's like 10 quid, I reckon we could sell it for 25.
Oh, I think you'll be lucky.
What, to get 25 pounds?
No, I think you'd be lucky that he's going to ask us for more than-- much more than that.
Oh, really?
Right, let's find the man who owns this.
- Yes, shall we get the man?
- Or the lady.
TIM WONNACOTT: It's a man.
Nice to meet you.
Called Jim.
What would I be looking at to pay you for this?
We've got an asking price of 60 on that.
Wow.
But-- But are you a man that's open to negotiation?
Well, I'm always open to offers as long as it's not below the belt.
I've got in my back pocket now 38 pounds.
- Can't.
- Really?
I'll meet you.
I'll do 45.
40?
Please could you do 40, because then there's no change involved and I've got 40, and I've got it in cash, and they're both new notes.
They're lovely.
They're lovely notes.
- Are you ready?
They're lovely notes, Jim.
41 pounds.
I want a pound for luck.
It's luck money.
Got to have luck money in this time.
I say-- I'm going to say luck money because you seem like a nice man.
Luck money I've got to have.
41 pounds.
At the auction, can I buy it myself if I want it?
Oh, no.
Does it not work like that?
Because I'm just thinking, if I-- but I like it.
If someone's only offering 20, I'm-- - No.
- All right, Jim, I'm taking it.
Shake my hand quickly.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
We're having it.
It's awesome.
TIM WONNACOTT: With the stamp moistener and an Edwardian miner's lamp bought, Andi and Margie are off.
Back with Anthea and Charles, a brass pestle and mortar are under consideration.
That's really nice.
Isn't it?
So heavy.
So you think this is how old?
I would say, looking at the base and how it's almost created this patination of that almost hue of what you can't really fake, it must be 1700.
Really?
1720.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'm not sure that they always belonged together, the mortar and pestle, but that's certainly of a similar age.
TIM WONNACOTT: So the pestle and mortar are added to the ever-growing basket.
Anything else grab you both?
I can't blow these things.
I'm sure you can.
No, honestly.
Look.
[INAUDIBLE] Useless.
Go on.
Put your lips together, and then you just go-- [BLOWING] TIM WONNACOTT: Not enough puff.
That is a typical late Victorian copper hunting horn.
Hunting horn.
Doo-doo doo-doo.
So how much is it?
Well, it's 16 pounds.
TIM WONNACOTT: Time to check out with Jim.
The guzunda has no price tag on.
How much was that going to be?
I can do that for-- whatever had 15 on it, can do it for 12.
OK, so mental note, 12 pounds.
The pestle and mortar has 55 on.
45 pounds.
OK. And this was priced at 28.
I think we can do 22.
OK. And then your hunting horn, finally?
12 if it helps you.
TIM WONNACOTT: With a combined total of 91 pounds, what's your best, Jim?
The absolute best now, 65 pounds.
I think, sir, at 65 pounds, we are going to say, going, going-- 4.
60.
Are we going for that [INAUDIBLE]??
Yes, we are.
Thank you very much.
- Thank you so much.
- Let's load up.
The car awaits.
Yeah.
And if you need to go to the loo, Anthea, we won't stop.
We've got the guzunda.
- Got the-- Follow me.
Let's go with some thunder.
Come on.
Thank you.
Thanks a lot.
TIM WONNACOTT: Andi and Margie, meanwhile, are making their way to Woodford in Greater Manchester.
I've got a surprise for you.
Really?
I hear you like planes, aeroplanes, things that fly.
I do.
How did you know?
I'm a bit-- when I was growing up, I would have loved to have been a pilot.
I just love planes.
- All right.
So we're going to-- we're going to go and look at some some old planes.
Antique planes?
Antique planes.
Oh my goodness, thank you.
Yeah.
Forward, driver.
TIM WONNACOTT: Margie's taking Andi on a trip to the Avro Heritage Museum, which is situated on the site of the old Woodford airfield.
Oh, this is going to be good.
Are you excited?
You're too kind to me, Margie.
Come on, out you get, love.
It wasn't my-- Shut the door.
Right, let's pretend that never happened.
In we go.
TIM WONNACOTT: A very excitable Andi and Margie have come to learn all about Sir Alliott Verdon Roe.
A leading pioneer in the aviation industry, Alliott was not only the first Englishman to fly an all-British aeroplane, but his company was responsible for some of this country's most iconic planes, including the Lancaster, World War II's most famous and successful RAF bomber.
Andi and Margie are meeting chairman Terry Barnes to find out more.
So the Lancaster bomber behind you was built specifically because World War II was brewing?
Absolutely.
There were over 7,000 of them made in total in the country, of which 4,000 were made here at Woodford and flew from Woodford.
An iconic aircraft, without which I doubt the war effort would have been successful.
And, of course, next year we've got the 75th anniversary of the Dambusters raid, where the Lancaster was a key element.
So the Lancaster was hugely important during wartime, but what became of it, well, in peaceful times?
Well, it was turned into a passenger carrying aircraft, and it was also re-engineered to become the Avro York, which in itself was quite a famous plane, because it took Charles de Gaulle, it took Lord Mountbatten, and even Churchill to various post-war meetings, which they had all over Europe in that time, of course.
And we have Churchill's chair here today, which was used in the York in a meeting he went with Roosevelt and Stalin.
Oh, wow.
Is that it?
It is.
Can I?
Go on then.
Oh!
Just imagine, Winston Churchill sat in this chair.
Never, never, never give up.
It's obvious, though, isn't it, that Avro had a huge contribution to British aviation?
They absolutely did.
Not just British aviation, world aviation.
And they had many, many inventions and firsts, one of them being the first enclosed cockpit in an aircraft, the first bomb rack, and then the first retractable undercarriage.
All leaders in their day.
What's your favorite achievement or your favorite thing?
I think the most iconic aircraft, and all 136 were made here, and that is the Vulcan bomber.
And by any chance do you have one here?
We just happen to have one for you.
Let's go!
Is it actually this way?
I [INAUDIBLE] saying let's go.
I don't even know which way.
It is.
Terry, this is phenomenal.
I mean, not only is it vast, it's kind of reminiscent of Concord in so many ways.
Would that be the D-shaped wing?
Absolutely.
So why was this built?
All right, this was built as a carrier for the nuclear deterrent during the Cold War.
The government sent out contracts.
They needed a bomber to be able to deliver our nuclear deterrent bomb, and so the Vulcan was born.
But, obviously, it never actually delivered that payload, did it?
No, indeed it didn't.
I mean, the first Vulcans flew in 1950 and were just reaching retirement at the end of the 1970s.
But then came the Falklands War, and so the Vulcans were used in the Falklands War to deliver conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, and bombed Stanley Airport at the very early part of the war.
Can we go inside?
You can't go in this one, but we have got one you can go in.
Oh!
Where?
Inside the museum.
Let's go!
What are we hanging around for?
TIM WONNACOTT: Andi wasn't lying when he said he likes planes.
He's clearly potty about them.
Growing up, I always wanted to be a pilot.
This is sadly the closest I'll get to it.
A plane in a museum.
I mean, it's worn well.
It's quite a tight squeeze.
There's all sorts of-- oh, no.
Look at-- oh.
Like a early day iPad.
How are you finding it?
I'd like it if you could take your seat and fasten your seatbelt.
I'd be grateful.
Goodness me, look at the technology.
Margie, doors to automatic, please, and cross check.
Where, where am I going now?
We're going to the Maldives.
Margie.
Yeah?
Can I have some warm nuts, please.
It's hot in here, Terry, isn't it?
Shall we go?
Come on, let's go.
Andi, are you coming?
You're all right.
I've got to park on stand 5 and then pick up passengers.
Oh, dear.
He's living the dream here.
He's living the dream.
TIM WONNACOTT: Leading pioneers in aviation, Avro produced planes crucial in both times of war and peace.
And it all started with the dream of one man, Sir Alliot Verdon Roe.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Andi Peters Airways.
It's our pleasure to have you onboard.
If you find any nice antiques, do let me know, and I'll take them off your hands.
[MUSIC PLAYING] TIM WONNACOTT: Anthea and Charles, meanwhile, have made their way to Romiley, where they're on a buying mission at Romiley Antiques and Jewelry.
[BUZZES] Oh.
There you go, the old-fashioned way.
Hi.
TIM WONNACOTT: Dealer Peter's shop has plenty on offer, and this pair have just over 300 pounds in their pocket.
What I like to look for are those objects which are market fresh.
They've just come in-- - Right.
--off the street from a local home.
Was that market fresh?
Exactly.
There's lots and lots of really nice antiques here.
Look.
ANTHEA TURNER: Ah.
Blush Ivy Worcester.
That's it.
I'm just thinking Harrogate.
I'm looking around at all these really rich pagination of furniture.
I'm thinking whether we ought to go with some furniture, you know.
TIM WONNACOTT: Anything in mind, Charles?
What I quite like, Peter, is this is a very nice paper mache mother of pearl inset.
I think-- is it a work table?
- A work table.
- That's it.
I like that.
So if you're at home, Anthea-- Yes?
--you have wools-- Wool.
--and your lace and whatever else in your lady's work table.
This is just a very decorative picture I've seen.
And you've got the ink stand here, as well.
That's also mother of pearl and paper mache.
That could almost go on top, and we could almost sell the two together.
This work table priced at 1-4-5, mid-Victorian.
Let's say it's circa 1870.
What could be the best price on that?
I'd like to say 125.
Peter, if I took charge now and say, right, love the work table.
It's priced at 1-2-5.
Just by chance, this ink stand was priced at-- what-- at 25 pounds.
Would you throw that in all for the princely sum of 1-2-5?
Would you?
PETER: Yes, I would.
CHARLES HANSON: OK, all right.
It's a deal then, is it?
Yeah, it's a deal.
Go on, then.
Let's both shake.
Yeah, thank you.
We'll take them.
Very good.
TIM WONNACOTT: This pair are on shopping fire today.
Thank you, Peter.
ANTHEA TURNER: Thank you so much.
Until next time.
Thank you.
- See you.
- Oh.
Sorry.
And then we broke it-- CHARLES HANSON: There we go.
See you, Peter.
ANTHEA TURNER: --and about six other things on the way out.
[MUSIC PLAYING] TIM WONNACOTT: Hey, Carlos, what are you doing?
Oh.
CHARLES HANSON: Sorry.
TIM WONNACOTT: And on that note, I think both teams should call it a day.
Night, night.
[MUSIC PLAYING] It's a new morning.
Our TV presenter pals, Anthea and Andi, are back together.
How was yours yesterday?
Oh, it was really good.
I like Charles.
Do you?
He's nice.
- You see, I like Margie.
- Good.
She's nicer.
We're luck-- no!
We can't play that game.
You know, I'm-- I'm in heaven.
I'm with Anthea Turner-- I know you are.
--a lady who has done so much-- Yeah.
--who is incredibly beautiful.
She is.
But not as gorgeous as you, Margie, you know.
Not as gorgeous as you.
- You have to say that.
You have to say that.
Andi is great.
I had just one shop yesterday.
CHARLES HANSON: Yes.
He's good fun.
He's lively.
Yes.
He looks a very fit man, as well.
Got around.
- Ah, he's got muscles.
Has he?
He's got a six pack.
CHARLES HANSON: He hasn't?
- Yeah.
- Six pack?
Yeah.
Have you got a six pack?
Eight-- eight pack.
Have you?
I've got an eight pack, Margie.
Have you got a wobbly six pack?
Margie, I've got no jelly belly.
How did you go yesterday?
Did you find anything?
I can't tell you.
Well, what I found was it's really interesting because an antique, you need an expert.
I couldn't have done this by myself.
No.
So Margie is fantastic.
And she spotted something that I would never have spotted and was quite confident that it would do well.
So only time will tell.
TIM WONNACOTT: Yeah, we'll have to see.
Anthea and Charles have had a storming start to their shopping, buying seven items already, the 19th century bedpan, the ink stand, the Charlotte Rhead vase, the Victorian work table, the brass pestle and mortar, and a late Victorian hunting horn.
Well, sort of, leaving them 210 pounds in their purse.
Meanwhile, Andi and Margie have just bought two items so far, the silver stamp moistener and the Edwardian miner's lamp from the same period-- Why would you buy something you're not going to use?
I don't get it.
TIM WONNACOTT: --which means they still have 329 pounds available to spend.
Here they are.
Good morning.
Hey.
Morning.
The vehicle is driven well.
Hello.
Darling!
How lovely to see you.
Oh, wonderful.
Oh.
Oh, sorry, wrong person.
Oh.
Sorry.
I'll do it again.
Darling!
No, here's my darling.
MARGIE COOPER: Am I second best?
Oh my god.
Never, ever, ever.
You slept on the "Antique Road Trip" dream?
- I did.
- Lovely.
I slept so well because I was so happy with our choices.
Yeah, I just slept in the memory.
Are you happy with your choices?
Uh-huh.
But I bet you guys had a nightmare sleep.
We didn't have.
We had quite a night, didn't we, darling?
Like a baby.
Yeah.
One thing is for sure that we are a formidable team.
Yeah, yeah.
Well on that happy note, on your marks.
- Come on.
- Get set.
Let's go.
Bang it.
Oh, wrong show.
Whoopsie daisy.
CHARLES HANSON: There we go.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Sorry.
Hold on.
Turn me on again.
TIM WONNACOTT: And they're finally away.
This morning, our dastardly duos are both making their way to Whalgherton in Cheshire if Charles can manage the landing, that is.
Now, if I-- Third!
Third.
Third.
Third.
That's third.
Third.
Down to fourth.
Beautiful.
And where's fifth?
There isn't a fifth.
OK.
So how did I do yesterday?
Well, yeah, it was OK.
I don't think we're ahead of them.
Yeah, well, it was OK?
Well, I think miner's lamps is sort of really a bit passe at the moment.
You see-- - Are you kidding?
Whoa.
Whoa.
MARGIE COOPER: No, no.
- You say that now, right?
No, listen.
But when it goes for 100 pounds tomorrow, I will be having the last laugh.
Yeah, well, I will give you a kiss on both cheeks.
- Mm, you see?
- Not on one.
Not on one cheek.
Both cheeks.
Just give me your career highlights.
There are so many.
However, "Blue Peter" was like the university of television and just the most amazing program to do.
You got a chance to do anything and everything.
I'm sure it was during your time that you made a Tracy Island.
I made Tracy Island.
Oh, goodness me.
I was-- I've always been a fan of "Thunderbirds."
Yes.
And it was the biggest make on "Blue Peter" ever.
And I've still got the Tracy Island I made on the television show.
You haven't.
Can you imagine if it went in your auction?
Listen, I'm available.
What that would get.
I would love to sell it for you.
- No, I'll never sell it.
- Really?
I'll never sell it.
It was the actual one that was made on the television program by me.
So how did you get your break?
Because you need that break, don't you, to get into-- Oh.
My break came when I was sort of 17, 18.
I was working on a radio station in a shop in Oxford Circus, a big old-fashioned shop.
Yeah.
And a TV producer was passing.
I then wrote to her.
She gave me an audition, gave me another audition-- Right.
And then gave me a job presenting a TV show on ITV called "Free Time."
And then the BBC contacted and said, "Would you like to come and work here instead?"
MARGIE COOPER: Oh my gosh.
So I went to the BBC and worked there for pretty much 12 years in a row with Children's BBC.
So what was that, the late '90s?
Yeah, I got my first break in '88.
'88?
Yeah.
I was on Children's BBC when I was 18.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
TIM WONNACOTT: Andi and Margie are first to arrive at Dagfields Crafts and Antiques.
MARGIE COOPER: Ooh.
Here we go.
Let's do this.
Let's do it.
TIM WONNACOTT: There's 50,000 square feet of collectibles on offer here.
ANDI PETERS: Oh, this is nice.
- Yeah?
I'll tell you why it's important to me.
Look, I've just realized.
It's got my birthday when I was 11 years old, and I'll always remember my 11th birthday didn't exist because Charles and Diana got married.
I wish I could buy it, Diana, but I can't.
It's all about profit, love.
Let's keep moving.
TIM WONNACOTT: Uh-oh, look who's finally turned up.
They're here already.
I don't believe it.
TIM WONNACOTT: I do.
ANTHEA TURNER: And in.
OK.
Right.
I can't turn it off.
Hold on.
There.
It's off.
I almost crushed their car.
- Come on.
Come on.
- Shame, really.
ANTHEA TURNER: They got here before us.
CHARLES HANSON: OK, quick.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Oh my.
Take it all in, partner.
Wow, I can't take all this in.
Take it all in.
This will take all day.
It's a little pottery jug.
ANDI PETERS: I quite like suitcases.
Yeah, they stack, and people use them as coffee tables.
ANDI PETERS: Oh, really?
MARGIE COOPER: Yeah.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Ah.
Here they are.
MARGIE COOPER: There they are.
Here they are.
Oh, look, we-- How's your day going?
You know, it's like a walk in the park for us now.
We're just-- we're just showboating, and my status is rising.
I'm keen to win now.
I bet you are.
Yeah.
Look, he's going-- My guns are out, OK?
Come on.
Let's go.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
- Let's let them leave.
- I need a weapon just in case.
ANDI PETERS: We'll find something proper around.
Exactly.
Come with your bodyguard.
Follow me.
Ignore them.
TIM WONNACOTT: Less bickering, more buying.
Right, Anthea.
What have you got there, love?
You said to me-- you said an antique has got to be over 100 years old.
An antique, by definition, needs to be 100 years old.
How old is that?
This is 65 million years old.
Really?
ANTHEA TURNER: It's an ammonite-- CHARLES HANSON: OK. ANTHEA TURNER: --found in Morocco.
CHARLES HANSON: Well, it's not ammonite.
ANTHEA TURNER: I mean, you find ammonite down on the Jurassic coastline in Devon.
Are you an expert in fossils?
No, no, not at all, no, but my dad and I used to go fossiling a lot.
Right, OK. ANTHEA TURNER: That's a little picture of him before he died.
Look.
His little tentacles are there.
CHARLES HANSON: So he was like a big snail almost.
Yeah, he was.
When he was living in that shallow water 65 million years ago, he didn't think he'd be here, or did he?
And we'd be staring at him now.
He didn't-- he didn't think that he could possibly be in an auction in Harrogate.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, I feel quite close to it.
I don't know why.
- I do.
There's almost a calm-- Yeah.
--feel about just looking at a fossil.
You might say I'm a fossil, but this is a real fossil.
How much is it?
Well, it's 220 pounds.
OK.
So we've got to get-- we need to get this down a lot.
TIM WONNACOTT: OK, don't forget.
Bend the knees.
Straight back.
I might call him Andi.
Andi the Ammonite.
You might be a keeper.
[MUSIC PLAYING] TIM WONNACOTT: Dealer Mark's got the owner of the 220 pound fossil on the phone.
What's your best price?
1-7-5.
So high?
Do you want a word?
I'd love a quick word.
Go on, then.
Hello, there.
Hi.
How are you?
I-- I was told that if you were in a good mood, you gave a really good price.
Are you in a good mood today?
You've had-- he's had lunch.
He's feeling happy.
So is there anything you could do a little bit better for me?
I wish you were here.
It would be so nice to meet you.
TIM WONNACOTT: Smooth talker.
160.
That will be lovely.
Yes.
My partner is happy.
I'm happy.
I think it's a wonderful object.
It's so old.
If that was worth a pound every year, it would be valued at what?
65 million pounds.
Exactly.
If we get that for it, we'll cut you in.
TIM WONNACOTT: Oh, no, you won't.
That's the fossil bought.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Oh, now, see, look at this.
Old school.
See, I love this.
So it's a French industrial.
Yeah.
Well, so it says Roneo.
I was trying to pretend I knew.
It's on the back of the label.
It's on there.
Right.
- We all do that.
We all do that.
What do you think?
Well, actually, you know what I said about fashion and antiques?
Yeah.
Well, these-- these are pretty saleable.
On trend.
On-- I hate the phrase, but they are on trend.
ANDI PETERS: I like it, but it's expensive.
It's, like, early 20th century.
- Is it really?
- Mm-hmm.
Oh my goodness.
It's an old one.
Nice brass handles.
ANDI PETERS: Yeah.
MARGIE COOPER: A little bit of damage at the bottom.
ANDI PETERS: Yeah.
But I've never seen one quite as narrow as that.
It's narrow, which is good.
Shall we be brave?
Favor fortunes the brave.
MARGIE COOPER: Definitely.
To Vicky we go.
MARGIE COOPER: Right.
TIM WONNACOTT: Right, Vicky.
What's your best price?
- For you, 110.
- Oh.
110?
So if I was to give you-- if I start counting the money now and I stop, will you say yes or no?
So 20, 40, 60, 80, 100.
And because this-- genuinely, I haven't got a 10.
I've only got a five.
I don't-- I haven't a got 10.
I've only got a five.
Could we do that?
Go on, then.
Yes!
Really?
Oh, thank you so much.
Oh, thank you so much, Vicky.
Oh my god.
That's amazing.
Thank you so much.
TIM WONNACOTT: Do you think he's happy?
Filing cabinet bought, they're off.
This could be our fortune.
TIM WONNACOTT: I doubt it.
Anthea and Charles have hit the road again and are making their way to Middleport in Stoke-On-Trent.
We are going back to the mecca for you-- Yes.
--which I'm potty but which, of course, you know as Stoke.
Yes.
And I just cannot wait to roll on and learn a bit about Middleport pottery.
TIM WONNACOTT: Born and bred in Stoke, Anthea has a real love for local pottery.
So Charles is taking her on a trip to the world-famous home of Burleigh Ware.
Since the 17th century, Stoke-On-Trent has been almost exclusively known for its pottery manufacturing.
Famous companies, such as Royal Dalton, Spode, and Wedgwood were established and based here.
Middleport Pottery is the last remaining Victorian pottery factory.
They still use the Victorian techniques to make their wares to this day.
Charles and Anthea are meeting historian Gemma Baskeyfield, who's taking them into what's known as the bottle oven, or kiln, to find out more.
Let's hope they don't bake.
Last time I was in one of these, I was on a school trip.
Just fill me in because it's a long time, and I've forgotten so many of the elements of it, about, you know, the history of pottery in Stoke-On-Trent.
Why Stoke-On-Trent?
Well, it's, of course, what we've got in the ground beneath our feet, perfect clay, perfect coal, and all the other raw materials that we need to make good pottery.
And then the industry grew up around those raw materials.
How long ago was that?
How long ago?
The ceramics industry in Stoke goes back into the 1600s in a very primitive and naive way.
But then that industry developed over the intervening sort of 300 years and up to the present day.
TIM WONNACOTT: Burleigh Pottery has been produced for over 160 years, and the state-of-the-art Middleport pottery site was purpose built back in 1888.
It's a bit lovely, just like a film set.
I do like a drone.
This place was planned out to be like this.
So it was very orderly system.
So clay arrived on the canal at one end of the factory, and then in a big u-shaped production flowed around to the end point where you've got packing and then dispatch, either onto the canal for shipment, or onto a horse and cart to go to the local train station.
I suppose, Gemma, really at that time in 1880, it was when the industry and the potters was at its height, and this was the most sophisticated offering to-date as a factory.
Yeah, to embrace steam power was the crucial thing.
So to move away from the very often women or small children working machinery manually to steam powering everything.
TIM WONNACOTT: Described as the model pottery of the Staffordshire pottery industry, the company were considered social reformers, improving conditions for their workforce.
Striving to be at the forefront of technical innovation, they were also concerned about reducing waste and pollution, modern concepts for the Victorian period.
It would take 25 different people to produce every single piece of Burleigh pottery.
Master potter John French wants to know if local lass, Anthea, has inherited any skills on the wheel.
I bet she's "wheel-y" good.
ANTHEA TURNER: Right.
Just remind me.
JOHN FRENCH: Pick up the clay.
ANTHEA TURNER: Right.
JOHN FRENCH: And I want you to throw it right into the center.
We're going to start off nice and-- you know, nice and fast.
That's it.
Perfect.
There we go.
Right.
Nice and straight, and just let it mold into your hands.
That's perfect.
Look at that.
- Wow.
- Brilliant.
- Woo.
- Good start.
Good start.
- Really good.
Do you know, I'd forgotten this?
But yeah, you just pull it up, and you push it down.
JOHN FRENCH: That's right.
Pull it up and push it down.
Play with it until it's putty in your hand.
Exactly.
That's right.
You're doing really well.
It's an amazing pot.
- Thank you.
Thank you.
- This is brilliant.
I'm really impressed.
And follow it up nice and straight.
Anthea, you're really good at this.
Isn't she?
Yeah, well, it's her heritage, isn't it?
How does it feel?
It feels gorgeous.
Good on the speed, by the way.
- Thank you.
Yeah, yeah.
Very good speed.
You're maintaining.
I'm in the third gear.
Do you know, you're better at that than you are driving that flipping car?
And then take that.
- Look at that.
- OK. And then-- then we have a potter's handshake.
Goodness me.
Excuse me.
There we go.
Thanks a lot.
Look at that.
I mean, Hans Cooper.
Now, how much do you think we're going to get for this at the auction at Harrogate?
It's of a lovely ovoid outline.
The-- the rim is in nice condition.
Yeah.
It's modern at its very best.
Well done.
I love it.
It is, isn't it?
CHARLES HANSON: I love it.
TIM WONNACOTT: Nice work, Anthea.
The pottery industry was once the beating heart of Stoke-On-Trent.
And although its significance has declined in recent years, potteries like Middleport provide a vital link to its industrial history while continuing to provide jobs for locals and producing impressive ceramics.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Ooh, another drone.
For their last spot of shopping before heading to auction, Andi and Margie have also made their way to Stoke-On-Trent, where they're arriving at Potteries Antique Center.
Let's hope we get another purchase in.
Yep.
TIM WONNACOTT: Look, he's such a gent.
Andi has still got 224 pounds burning a hole in his pocket.
- Oh, Royal Dalton.
- Yeah.
These are Royal Dalton.
Yeah, yeah.
OK, that's a local thing.
Yeah, yeah.
ANDI PETERS: Hmm.
MARGIE COOPER: We're really in pottery land, aren't we?
ANDI PETERS: Does pottery do well?
MARGIE COOPER: Certain bits of pottery do well.
What I struggle with is knowing what's old and what's new.
- Well, you don't-- you know-- - See, like this?
I love this.
I absolutely love this.
MARGIE COOPER: Oh, that's very nice.
Yeah, that style was, like, 200 and odd years ago, Louis furniture, French furniture.
ANDI PETERS: I've got a penchant for French furniture, haven't I?
MARGIE COOPER: You have.
You have.
That's really-- you see, I love that.
Yeah.
Now, this is 1930s, 1940s.
Is it reconditioned?
Probably would have been a pair-- Right.
- --all on the side of a bed.
- Bedside.
Yeah.
Really very nice.
Nice mahogany.
Little bit of stringing there, boxwood stringing.
A little bit of-- yeah, pretty.
I like it.
I like it a lot.
MARGIE COOPER: Nice bit of detail, but-- ANDI PETERS: Would you get this?
MARGIE COOPER: Yeah, I'd love it, but I'm just a bit worried about that.
It's 275 pounds.
Maybe we shouldn't go for such a high ticket item.
Well, yeah, that is a high ticket, unless they were prepared to give us a reasonable deal.
Take it down.
Should we try?
You see, I would put that at, like, 160.
Shall we try?
Yeah.
That was the face of no, let's not try, and you're going to embarrass me, which means I'm going to try.
I don't want you to be disappointed.
We're only asking.
MARGIE COOPER: Yeah.
TIM WONNACOTT: Let's hope dealer Mick is feeling generous.
Can I make you an offer?
Certainly.
ANDI PETERS: 20.
TIM WONNACOTT: Oh, that old trick again.
60, 120, 140.
Keep going.
160.
You'll have to try a bit harder.
Hang on.
Try a bit harder?
I've got 164.
Could I possibly have it for that?
Put another 20 on top, and you can own it.
Another 20?
We can stretch to another 20, OK. You're a star.
Should we shake it on?
Shake on it.
Shake on it, and there's the extra 20.
Thank you very much.
Mick, thank you so much.
It's a lovely piece, and we're-- - You're welcome.
--so pleased to get it.
Yeah.
TIM WONNACOTT: A lovely deal done.
Now, Margie, what have you found?
That has caught my eye.
What is it?
Well, it's a miniature fire grate.
What, so you'd put coal and stuff in there and light it?
No, you'd just-- you'd just clean it up.
You could get that because it's all-- you could get that looking really beautiful.
It would be like a steel color if that was all cleaned up.
And then what?
Then you go passed it every day and think, "Oh god, I really like that."
What?
Would you really do that?
Yeah, I would.
ANDI PETERS: How old is it?
MARGIE COOPER: About 100 years old.
ANDI PETERS: You're kidding.
MARGIE COOPER: Yeah, look at it.
ANDI PETERS: OK, let's-- look, you are the expert.
I just give away cash on television.
You just get a feeling about things sometimes.
Do you?
Yeah.
OK, I've got zero feeling about that.
But it's obviously exciting you.
Well-- So let's go with it.
TIM WONNACOTT: Looks like a traveling salesman sample to me.
Mick, you're needed.
We really honestly haven't got much money left.
So have you got a low price in your head?
A really low price.
For you, Margie, 75 pounds.
Mick, can I show you all the money we've got left genuinely?
Go ahead.
Oh, 40.
That is all our money there.
That's an insult.
Oh, is it?
MARGIE COOPER: Oh, it's not.
Give me your 40 pounds.
Oh.
MARGIE COOPER: Bless you.
We love you.
Thank you so much.
We love you.
Thank you so much.
- Thank you so much.
Heavens knows what it is, and I'm sure we'll make no money on it.
- Oh, not.
But you've been a real gentleman.
So thank you very much.
You have.
TIM WONNACOTT: That last minute buy means Andi and Margie have spent every single penny.
Great stuff.
Next, show and tell.
I love that bit.
Oh, look, more drone.
Oh.
Look out for the canal.
It's been a wonderful day.
We're very proud of our wares.
Oh, that's nice.
Oh, I like that.
CHARLES HANSON: It's very fragile.
Very valuable stuff here.
MARGIE COOPER: Pestle and mortar.
ANDI PETERS: Right.
MARGIE COOPER: Oh, I love your table.
Very nice Victorian, mother in pearl inlaid, circa 1880.
Lovely.
It came with the ink stand, as well.
That's gorgeous.
Right.
Move on.
CHARLES HANSON: Marvel at our pestle and mortar.
Yeah.
Are you sure it's an old one?
Yes, it's early 18th century.
ANDI PETERS: Early 18th century, OK. MARGIE COOPER: What's on the bottom of that?
CHARLES HANSON: We are proud of that.
ANTHEA TURNER: Charlotte Rhead.
Oh, very nice.
ANTHEA TURNER: Yeah.
Are you sure?
- Yes, we are, actually.
- Will you stop?
Why is her name not on there?
ANTHEA TURNER: Because she meant to put her name on it.
But she didn't.
The thing is, Andi, should you ever be ill-- Yeah?
--and you can't go to the toilet, you text me, and I'll be over-- ANDI PETERS: Yes.
ANTHEA TURNER: --with this.
And then if we hear a plop go, we go [HORN] like that because-- And I thought it would be really good to put your mobile phone and your car keys in in your hall.
- OK. And you would always know where they were.
OK.
So 1, 2, 3, 4.
What was your last lot?
ANTHEA TURNER: Ah, it's on the floor.
CHARLES HANSON: Now, listen.
MARGIE COOPER: Yeah?
CHARLES HANSON: We like to buy history.
MARGIE COOPER: Yeah.
CHARLES HANSON: Forget the Jurassic, the Cretaceous period.
- What a lovely color.
- Look at that.
- It's a fossil.
That's lovely.
Will you stop saying fantastic, fantastic, fantastic?
This is not our team.
You're gonna feel stupid because we named it after you.
- Oh, fantastic.
- Just handle it.
- Fantastic.
- Rock solid.
Rock solid.
- Just touch it.
ANDI PETERS: I don't want to touch any of it.
It's our turn.
- Come on.
Your turn.
This is what we've bought.
So we'll start-- - OK, OK, OK. --over here.
MARGIE COOPER: Do you like that?
CHARLES HANSON: It's very delicate, Margie.
MARGIE COOPER: Yeah.
It's on those lovely cabriole legs.
It's Edwardian.
Very stylish.
How much was it?
184.
You're joking?
No, I'm not joking.
You are joking.
I'm beginning to not enjoy this experience.
I-- anyway-- - That's why-- - Whoa!
- Have you broken it?
- No, I haven't.
Oh, all right.
Next, we have this.
It's a miner's lamp.
It's from a portable lamp and light company.
OK, next, we've got this.
Do you know what this is?
It goes between two stamps.
MARGIE COOPER: Yeah.
ANDI PETERS: It's for using to lick stamps.
If the right buyers are willing it on, it can make 150 pounds.
- Really?
- Nice.
Yeah, good.
Item number four is this.
It's a decorative little child's-- No, it's not.
It's a-- that's a little traveling salesman's.
OK. ANDI PETERS: And this is our fifth and final item.
Have you been to the tip?
ANDI PETERS: Might have been.
Yeah, OK.
They're not being very nice to us, are they?
No, that's after you were so gushing about their stuff.
Never be gushing about their position because this is what happens.
CHARLES HANSON: See you at the auction, OK?
- Yeah, see you at the auction.
- Keep the faith.
- Yeah.
- Give us a kiss.
Oh.
Yeah.
See you at the auction, Marjorie.
- Good luck.
- Yeah.
Come on.
Let's go.
Let's go.
TIM WONNACOTT: Bantering rivalry aside, what do they really think about each other's items?
- Having seen their stuff-- - Yeah?
--I'm quietly confident.
Good.
I think our stuff's got more character.
I love that little stamp glass silver sleeve.
So you think that's their sort of hero?
That is their hero.
Bought for almost zero, for 30.
OK.
It could make 100 pounds plus, but-- OK. --they've got one big drop, a huge drop.
I-- I think it's the little drawer set.
Exactly.
I think they haven't done too badly.
But please tell me you think we've done better.
Well, let's just hope and cross our fingers.
You didn't say we've done better.
This is the end of a fantastic relationship.
You go that way.
I'm going that way.
You'll notice that that way is into the river.
TIM WONNACOTT: Into the canal.
Thank you.
After starting in Alderley Edge, our teams have shopped up around the Northwest.
And Anthea and Andi are now hurtling towards Killinghall near Harrogate for the big finale.
It is gorgeous here.
The English countryside is some of the best in the world, and to drive such a classic car is-- sometimes it's not as fun as it looks.
To drive such a classic car around has been lovely.
With a classic bird driving.
Oh, I love this relic.
Whoa, ho.
That's the car, ladies and gentlemen, and not Anthea Turner.
Today's auction day.
I know.
Are you feeling confident?
No, I'm feeling quite confident because I-- and I tell you what, if it all goes wrong, I'm just blaming Charles.
Yeah.
It will all be his fault.
If it goes right, it's my choice.
Yeah.
If it goes wrong, it's Charles.
All his fault.
Ultimately, there's nothing more we can do.
No, there isn't, actually.
It's now in the hands of the customers at the auction.
TIM WONNACOTT: Very true, Andi.
Margie and Charles have arrived at Thompson's Auctioneers and are awaiting their celebrity partners.
Here they are.
In they come.
Oh, watch out.
Watch out.
Perfect.
ANTHEA TURNER: Oh.
Hello.
Good morning.
TIM WONNACOTT: On this road trip, Anthea and Charles spent 350 pounds.
They're combining the Victorian work table and ink stand into one lot and are also creating a rather peculiar lot from the hunting horn and the bedpan.
Huh.
Giving them a total of five lots.
Oh.
Come on, Margie.
Ooh.
Tuck in.
Blimey.
TIM WONNACOTT: Room for a small one?
OK, who's idea was this?
TIM WONNACOTT: Andi and Margie, meanwhile, blew their budget, spending every penny of the 400 pounds on their five lots.
Michael Johnson will be wielding the gavel today.
So what does he make of our celebrity's purchases?
My personal favorite is probably the fossil just because we've not had one before while I've been here.
So I'm just interested to see how well it does.
But I can see it doing very, very well.
The stamp moistener has got a bit of damage on it, unfortunately, but I still think it will look quite good on somebody's desk.
Obviously, it's not going to get used nowadays, but it'll-- it'll look the part.
TIM WONNACOTT: Here we go.
Time for the auction, which has buyers online and in the room.
[MUSIC PLAYING] I'm so nervous.
I actually am really excited.
TIM WONNACOTT: First up, it's Anthea's odd lot, the bedpan and the hunting horn.
Commission starts with me on this one at 20 pounds.
25 anywhere?
- It's lovely.
- Yes.
We're a bit nervous.
Might use it.
Sorry.
With me at 20.
Do I see five?
Are we all done on commission at 20 pounds?
Is that any good?
- No.
More.
- Are we all done at 20?
Come on.
Oh, no.
What?
TIM WONNACOTT: Anthea is clearly shocked at the loss.
It's all going down the pan.
That's the most exciting thing that's happened to me all month-- Yeah.
--is watching you lose four pounds.
TIM WONNACOTT: I wouldn't get smug just yet, Andi.
Your stamp moistener is up next.
In the right sale, this is 100 pound lot.
Is it really?
Yes, I kid you not.
If this is the wrong sell, it's useless.
Let's wait and see.
Commission starts with me at 20 pounds.
Two anywhere?
Sit down.
With me at 20.
Do I see two?
Two.
22.
25.
Yes, yes.
MICHAEL JOHNSON: 28.
Yes, yes.
Come on.
28 pound with the gentleman.
Are we all done?
At 28 pounds.
That's so cheap.
Unlucky.
Unlucky, but thanks for coming.
Thanks for coming, Andi.
That was our great hope.
But I lost four to your two pounds.
TIM WONNACOTT: It's a bit of a sad start all around, actually.
Oh, I'm exhausted.
I'd prefer to just buy my fossil myself.
I'm terrible.
That's ridiculous.
I can't do this.
This is too much for me.
I'm off.
This is too stressful.
Don't get up.
TIM WONNACOTT: Let's see how Anthea's Charlotte Rhead pottery fairs.
I love this vase.
It's like Anthea.
- I do, as well.
It's so stylish.
I know.
Commission starts at 25 on five.
28 now.
Come on.
With me at 25.
28.
CHARLES HANSON: Go on.
Let's run, baby.
32.
Let's run.
38.
We're running.
38 with the gentleman at the back.
Are we all done?
CHARLES HANSON: We're in business.
38 pounds.
Yes.
Well done.
TIM WONNACOTT: That's more like it, a marvelous profit for Anthea.
Guys, we're in the money, OK?
We're now on top.
You are.
TIM WONNACOTT: Can Andi claw things back with his find, the miner's lamp?
Commission stats with me at 35.
38 anywhere?
38, we have.
40 anywhere?
- Go on.
38 pounds.
Are we all done at 38?
We're missing a profit all the time.
TIM WONNACOTT: She's not wrong.
Another small loss.
Something of ours will go way above what we paid for it.
I hope.
All right.
TIM WONNACOTT: Now, for Anthea's Victorian work table and ink stand.
Uh-oh.
It's a lovely lot.
- Beautiful.
- Beautiful.
What are you trying for?
I'm praying.
I'm praying.
Who is going to start me off at 20 pounds for it?
20.
- Come on.
25.
30.
35.
40.
45.
50.
It's all right.
CHARLES HANSON: Run, baby.
Run, baby.
60, 65.
Five.
70.
- Let's keep running.
Go on, sir.
65 right in the corner.
Are we all done at 70?
Come on.
75.
80.
85 and 90.
95.
No, 90 pound with the lady.
Are we all done?
- Come on.
MICHAEL JOHNSON: At 90 pounds.
- One more.
I think we are.
Hold tight.
Oh, I don't believe it.
We're all just missing a profit.
So that's 35 pounds.
Oh, that's not bad.
TIM WONNACOTT: Bad luck, chaps.
Forget cooking on "MasterChef," skating on "Dancing on Ice," this literally has my heart rate at 1,000.
I'm going to check my heart rate.
Hang on.
TIM WONNACOTT: And you might want to keep an eye on it, Andi, as your 1940s steel filing cabinet is up next.
Lot commission on air.
I'm going to have to go in at 70 pounds to anywhere.
Well done.
With me at 70.
Do I see two?
Are we all done?
Commission at 70 pounds.
Come on.
Come up.
Well, I don't think that was bad.
We didn't have another [INAUDIBLE] What did you pay for it again?
105.
A lot more.
TIM WONNACOTT: Not quite what Andi was hoping for.
You know when you buy a scratchcard?
Yeah.
And you scratch it, and you haven't won anything, you go, ah.
Yeah.
This literally is like that.
TIM WONNACOTT: Next, it's Anthea's pestle and mortar.
Commission starts with me on this one at 35 pounds.
Yes, we're in business.
Come on.
35.
Do I see 38?
ANTHEA TURNER: Yes.
Someone bid 38.
There we are.
38 and 40.
40 with me.
42.
Good lad.
MICHAEL JOHNSON: 42 in the room.
CHARLES HANSON: Good lad.
- 45 anywhere?
CHARLES HANSON: Go on.
Gentleman's bid at 42 pounds.
Are we all done?
Marvelous.
That's the most we've made so far today.
TIM WONNACOTT: Another nice profit there for Anthea and Charles.
Where's the champagne?
Exactly.
I'm going to blow.
TIM WONNACOTT: Andi's priciest purchase up now, the 1930s cabinet.
Uh-oh.
Stand up and be counted, Andi.
OK.
Stand by your table.
This is lovely.
Very nice.
Beautiful.
Brushed.
Lovely.
I have a lot of commission on here, and I'm going to have to go in at 130 pounds.
ANDI PETERS: Higher.
Higher.
Higher.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's go higher-- MICHAEL JOHNSON: There you go.
ANDI PETERS: --for that one, shall we?
Who's going to do the first bid?
- 135 anywhere?
CHARLES HANSON: Well done.
- Come on.
Play the game.
Nobody playing?
ANDI PETERS: What?
With me, 130 pounds.
I shall sell.
High five.
You did well to get 130 pounds.
It's about 50 less than we paid for it.
We should have bought it for 95 and-- i should have bought it meself.
TIM WONNACOTT: This is not Andi's day, is it?
But it's not the making money.
It's the taking part.
Well, you say that now.
That counts.
That's not what you said this morning.
TIM WONNACOTT: Time for Anthea's last lot.
The auctioneer fancied the fossil, but will the buyers?
It's 65 million years old.
Where were you?
She was doing "Blue Peter."
A lot of commission.
I hope it's going to excite you.
I've got to go in at 250 pounds.
We're in business.
We're in business.
Yes.
Oh my god.
250.
Do I see 260?
Are we all done at 250 pounds?
It looks like we are.
Yes.
Well done.
Just look at his face.
TIM WONNACOTT: Yeah, Andi's face is priceless.
Smashing profit, that.
Our fossil, that little [INAUDIBLE],, and he'll be called Andi.
Andi, christened by yourself in his-- in his [INAUDIBLE]..
He's called Andi?
We did.
That's why he's got-- that's why he's valued.
Exactly.
Andi.
With I as well.
TIM WONNACOTT: Andi trusted his expert on this one, and it's his last lot.
Here we go.
How much profit has it got to make for you to win?
- To beat you?
- Yeah.
Loads.
Oh, about 200 quid.
More, more.
Commission starts with me.
I'm going to have to go straight in at 35.
38 anywhere?
With me at 35.
Do I see 38?
Are we all done?
On commission at 35.
38.
Go on, Margie.
42.
45.
CHARLES HANSON: Good.
45.
48.
50.
52.
No?
50 pound seated.
Are we all done?
At 50 pounds.
At least it's a profit.
High five.
TIM WONNACOTT: They got there in the end.
A profit for Andi and Margie.
Come on, team.
Let's go and have a cup of tea and go fossil hunting.
Yay!
Get after it.
After you.
After you.
Come on.
No, after you.
No, it's all right.
I've been working with three fossils all week.
TIM WONNACOTT: Unfortunately, Andi is right to feel down in the mouth.
After starting with 400 pounds, sadly, they made a loss today of 140 pounds and 88 pence after paying auction costs, ending their trip with 259 pounds and 12 pence.
Nice couple, aren't they?
Anthea and Charles also kicked off with the same amount, but they pulled in a small profit of 10 pounds and 80 pence, meaning they are today's winner, finishing with 410 pounds and 80 pence.
All profits go to children in need.
I still say the filing cabinet should have gone for more.
Yeah, yeah.
I know, and do you know, even I think that now?
Even I think that.
I've loved every minute of it.
Loved every minute of it.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
CHARLES HANSON: Thanks, partner.
ANTHEA TURNER: Brilliant.
- It's been a revelation.
Thanks a lot.
Old school.
Spud, as well.
Take care.
Take care.
Drive carefully.
ANTHEA TURNER: Off we go.
TIM WONNACOTT: It's been a blast, but it's time for our celebrities to hit the road.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
[MUSIC PLAYING] I've had the best time, the best time.
I might have caught the antiquing bug.
I really enjoyed finding them, and the exhilaration of watching them being sold was amazing.
Well, Andi, it's a long way back to London, but thankfully, we have the right vehicle for this road.
ANDI PETERS: Is there any in-flight snacks?
TIM WONNACOTT: Oh, Andi.
Cheerio.
[MUSIC PLAYING]