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

Which way are the bargains?

VO: ..behind the wheel of a classic car... Do you know where we are?

No.

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

Act one, scene one.

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

Ta-da!

VO: But it's no mean feat.

There'll be worthy winners...

Woo!

Happy dance!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

Heartbroken.

Close your ears.

VO: Will it be the high road to glory...

It's just delightful, isn't it?

VO: ..or the slow road to disaster?

VO: This is Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah!

VO: Today we're in Dorset, on the trail of a couple of auctioneers last seen piloting a brightly-colored sports Roadster in a highly-excitable state.

Woohoo!

We are on the road together!

CATHERINE: It's good, isn't it?

PHIL: Yes.

VO: Yep, that'll be them alright.

Behind the wheel, we have Catherine Southon and by her side wingman Phil Serrell.

Both wrapped up warmly against the Wessex winds.

Can I just say on the subject of scarves, I am the one that wears scarves, not you?

Touch it, feel it.

PHIL: Pardon?

CATHERINE: Feel it.

That's lovely, isn't it?

CATHERINE: It's quality, that.

PHIL: Yeah.

VO: But a mutual appreciation of natty knitwear aside, squeezing into a sporty Morgan can sometimes lead to the occasional contretemps.

Do you think you can move your elbow?

Nothing wrong with my elbow!

It's right over my side.

Honestly!

It's not all about you this, you know.

But look, this is my side and I need the gear stick, so if you could just move over.

VO: Lewis Hamilton never has to put up with that, does he?

Phil, from Worcester is keen on all sorts of antiques, but he really does love porcelain.

Especially if it satisfies one key requirement.

PHIL: It's made in Worcester.

VO: Yep, that's it.

VO: While Bromley-based Catherine, although herself a bit of a jewelry expert, is pretty much au fait with anything that might rock up.

CATHERINE: In the 1980s, these roller boots were the coolest thing to have.

VO: And it was she who was triumphant at their first saleroom showdown.

SYBELLE: At £160.

Yes!

VO: One-nil.

But remember, in our best-of-five competition, Catherine and Phil still have a long way to go with many a twist and turn expected.

Not that bragging rights shouldn't be fully exercised, of course.

This is a dream.

Well, apart from the company, this is a dream.

CATHERINE: (LAUGHING) No... That's a nightmare, is it?

VO: They started out with £1,500 each and Phil's got £1,265 left in his kitty.

While Catherine has a wee bit less, £1,245.

They just have to make the cash, and the car, last the whole trip.

CATHERINE: I'm driving quite smoothly, right?

And not once have I been terrified yet.

CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) VO: They began in Bristol and set about a tour of the west which will take them to the Channel coast.

Then it's inland again towards the Home Counties and East Anglia, concluding in Aylsham.

CATHERINE: I absolutely love this car.

PHIL: Do you?

It's really smooth.

CATHERINE: It's smooth and sexy.

PHIL: Bit like me.

Nah.

VO: And Dorset starts shortly with a joint shopping trip to Shaftesbury.

VO: A delightful old hilltop town, with views of the Blackmore Vale, and an also delightful antiques shop close by.

Come on, Phil!

You were gonna bring the nice weather with you.

What happened?

Sorry about...Oh my goodness me, this is horrible.

VO: Get in quickly.

Flying through the door, sorry, hello!

BOB: Ah, morning.

Bob.

Catherine.

Well, I'm not Bob.

CATHERINE: You're Bob.

BOB: I'm Bob.

Oh, I thought you were talking to me.

Bob!

Bob, Phil.

Phil, Bob.

VO: And once everyone has finally been introduced, they can begin to explore the many delights of Kingsettle Antiques.

PHIL: (SHOUTS) Catherine?

CATHERINE: (SHOUTS) What?

CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) What are you?!

Oh, this suits you, Phil.

PHIL: Thank you very much.

That's actually quite scary.

I like the earrings.

VO: Now, while Phil fervently hopes that the mask comes off as easily as it went on, Catherine seems to have spotted something in a cabinet.

CATHERINE: Bob, I've never seen these before.

BOB: Art deco drinks markers?

CATHERINE: Yeah.

I think they're quite nice.

When we go to parties, we do... you put your glass down... You go for a dance.

You go for...oh, do you, Bob?

Have a little dance?

BOB: I go for a dance.

CATHERINE: Bob has a dance!

VO: And a lovely mover too, I'm sure.

Have a little dance and then you come back and you think, "Now which one's...which one is mine?"

So if you've got one of these on, clip it on your drink, that is quite handy.

VO: While these are likely to be silver, without a hallmark they'll be sold as white metal.

CATHERINE: You've got 89.

I don't think I'd want to go any higher than 40 or, at a push, 45 and that would be my limit, 45.

I'll let you have them.

CATHERINE: For 45?

BOB: For 45.

OK, alright.

I need to...

I'm just gonna think on those for a second cuz I need to go and have a little look.

VO: So Catherine already has a little something lined up.

And Phil's finally getting hands-on.

So it's a Red Ensign, which is a naval flag, I think, I'm not sure.

So, presumably, this would have been on a ship.

VO: True and colloquially known as the Red Duster.

No price on this one, though.

PHIL: I think it's quite a cool thing, actually.

I'm gonna have to try and buy that.

The only disappointing thing about this is there isn't a white one, so I could surrender to Catherine and just disappear into the distance.

VO: Come on, Phil, you're only one-nil down.

Let's put a brave face on things.

That is absolutely horrible.

I'm starting to get a bit freaked out in here, actually.

VO: Imagine how they feel!

Ha!

Back to Phil... PHIL: This is very much like a late-Victorian, Edwardian...Globe-Wernicke bookcase.

It was almost like a student bookcase, so you would see them in Oxford and Cambridge.

They're sectional, so they'll all lift off and you could build it as high as you wanted to.

So it's actually... they're quite innovative pieces of furniture.

So I'm going to go over and have a word with Bob and I'm gonna try and bid him for the bookcase, which hasn't got a price on it, and for the flag, which hasn't got a price on it.

VO: And luckily, Bob's got Phil, that's confusing, who owns them both, on the blower.

BOB: Got a Globe-Wernicke six-stacker bookcase and a Red Ensign flag hanging on the wall.

How does 250 quid sound, Phil?

PHIL: (ON PHONE) Not enough, not enough.

Would you want a minute to think about it?

BOB: (LAUGHS) PHIL: (ON PHONE) More like three.

BOB: 300.

Can I meet you in the middle somewhere?

PHIL: (ON PHONE) 280's the best, I can't do any less than that.

D'you know what?

I like both those, so I'll buy them and... PHIL: (ON PHONE) OK, great.

...keep everything I've got crossed.

VO: Thanks, other Phil.

That's made up of £220 for the bookcase and 60 for the flag, which is already coming in handy.

VO: 985 left.

With Catherine still on the lookout for a nice little urn-er.

(CHUCKLES) Ahem.

CATHERINE: This looks Victorian to me.

We've got these wonderful garlands, the swags, these three sort of scrolls around the lip of the urn.

It's got £85 on it and I think if I can get that maybe £40... Is that asking a bit too much?

£50, maybe.

VO: It could also be described as a jardiniere.

CATHERINE: Where's it been?

Tell me about your history!

What garden have you been in?

VO: Not a dickie bird.

Maybe she'll have more luck with Bob, Bob?

BOB: Ah, Catherine.

Really enjoyed looking around.

Good.

I did find myself outside looking at a rather nice garden urn.

Oh, the nice big one with three handles?

Lovely, it only came in yesterday.

Well, it's got 85 on it.

What can you do on that?

£60 would be the very, very best.

I'll take that.

£60.

BOB: It's a good buy, that.

Oh, it's lovely.

VO: Plus there's the deal they did earlier.

And I also like your art deco drink markers, you said 45 for those.

45 they can be, yeah.

So £105.

105 in total, that'd be lovely.

VO: Nicely done.

And with those two items acquired, Catherine now has 1,140 left.

Urn to follow.

Hm!

But before they hit the road, some refreshments.

And one-time confectionery shop vendor Catherine is serving.

What I really, really want... What would you like, sir?

I would like three dark chocolate Brazil nuts, please.

Where are they?

Come on!

(KNOCKS ON COUNTER) VO: Behave!

CATHERINE: What else do you want?

Er, dark chocolate ginger.

Oh, God, you like all the horrible ones!

PHIL: I thought I said three.

How many did I put in?

PHIL: Two.

CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) Shut up!

VO: Shut up, sir.

PHIL: And now I'd like some candyfloss, please.

There's your stick.

PHIL: Yeah.

CATHERINE: Here's my stick.

See who's the best.

CATHERINE: This is fantastic!

I've never done this.

This is absolutely brilliant!

CATHERINE: There we are, there's mine.

PHIL: OK.

Right.

CATHERINE: Nice and neat.

Outta here, I'm gonna have a go.

That looks perfect, it looks like a feather duster!

Don't nudge me!

Hey!

Play nicely.

CATHERINE: That's rubbish!

That is...that is really rubbish.

What do you think?

I would say Catherine's looks a lot more presentable.

CATHERINE: Thank you!

PHIL: I was robbed.

VO: Hey, it was only a bit of fun, Phil.

Because there is, after all, a much more pressing competition under way.

And Catherine's already in the driving seat for that one.

Oh, I don't like it when we start to go up hills, though.

Oh lordy, go on then, floor it, girl!

CATHERINE: Go on!

PHIL: Go on, give it some.

Give it some welly!

VO: Those two are now close to the Wiltshire border, where young Phil is about to be deposited at Fovant.

VO: Most towns and villages have memorials to two World Wars.

But the rolling hills of Wiltshire tell a story that deserves to be much better known.

Phil's meeting Helen Roberts, head of publications for the Fovant Badges Society, to find out more.

PHIL: Oh, blimey, Helen!

How are you?

Very well, thank you, nice to see you.

I tell you what, it's fresh here, innit?

It is, certainly.

PHIL: Isn't this fantastic?

HELEN: Yeah.

VO: The Fovant Badges are a collection of memorials carved 50 meters high into the hillside.

A lasting reminder of the army base that was here during World War I. HELEN: It was a huge camp here, up to 20,000 soldiers at any one time.

PHIL: What, out there?

HELEN: They had cinemas, they had a hospital.

PHIL: Really?

And all these fields would have been full of camp huts and as you can see, there's not really anything left.

Where did they all go?

VO: Once the war was over, the soldiers and their buildings soon disappeared, but Helen's taking Phil to get a much closer look at what remains.

Mind your step.

It's a bit of a schlep up here, isn't it?

HELEN: It is a steep climb.

PHIL: I didn't sign up for this.

And I haven't told you, it gets worse.

PHIL: What?!

HELEN: Yeah.

VO: Ha-ha.

There are 10 badges here, of which nine are survivors from the original 20.

HELEN: They would have brought shovels and everything up and it's reported that they had to be up working early before the rifle ranges started working.

PHIL: When it was dark?

So...yes, so there's reports that they started at 4am and had to be down by seven.

VO: Wiltshire's unique chalky geology, which over the centuries has inspired the creation of several white horses, offered ideal conditions for those Tommy artists to create from the land.

This is the chalk and, obviously, in the wet weather it looks quite gray, but in the summer this will bleach up beautifully white.

VO: It was certainly quite a lot of work.

In fact, it's estimated that the badges would have taken about 50 men six months to complete.

HELEN: We think this is the first one... PHIL: Yeah.

HELEN: ..cut out in 1916.

PHIL: Why?

HELEN: I think it was very much used as a distraction... Yeah.

..for the soldiers from life in camp.

And what better than to carve your regimental badge on the hillside as a lasting reminder of your presence here?

HELEN: This is the London Rifle Brigade badge and they were a battalion from the City of London regiment and then it became a bit of a competition with other regiments, cuz obviously we had lots here, to create their own badges.

So at one point there were up to 20.

I think they're hugely evocative.

Y'know, this is done in 1916, you think how many of the guys who did this came back?

I know, I know.

VO: Projects in the '50s and the '70s, often involving veterans, helped restore the badges and preservation continues today with contractors and volunteers looking after things.

HELEN: It is a battle to maintain the chalk, keeping it fresh and white, so... Yeah.

Leslie is there, busy removing some of the weeds.

VO: Conservation Officer Leslie has been doing this for seven years.

I tell you what, that looks like hard work to me.

LESLIE: Keeps you warm, though, keeps you warm.

PHIL: So what are you actually doing?

Just tidying up the profile, you can see the grass has grown into the lime, the profile.

PHIL: So you want me to hack that out?

At the edge, lift it up, pull it in.

And then you hoy it over there.

LESLIE: Perfect.

PHIL: I hope I'm not doing more harm than good here.

No, no.

I think you've got a job for life, Phil.

VO: He's a grafter, our Phil.

Just like the soldiers who created the original badges.

PHIL: And this isn't their day's work.

This is kind of... LESLIE: They did it for regimental pride.

And by the time, I think, it got to about 6.30, they'd slide down here on their shovels, like that.

PHIL: Really?

LESLIE: Yes.

I'll let you do that!

I don't think you've got a big enough shovel for me.

VO: Thanks to people like Leslie and Helen, who have maintained the badges, Wiltshire's hills still gleam with a poignant reminder of those who served.

VO: Now, back to Dorset where Catherine's raised the roof, en route to the town of Sherborne.

VO: Once the home of Tudor adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh, in fact, it was a gift from the Queen for his various acts of service.

I wonder if Catherine can make any interesting discoveries in the Sherborne Antiques Market.

PHILIP: Oh!

CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) Hello, Catherine.

Phillip.

CATHERINE: Nice to meet you.

It looks like you have an awful lot for me to see in here.

I'll see you both later.

PHILIP: Thank you.

CATHERINE: Thank you.

VO: Phil and Craig are nicely turned out, a bit like their establishment, which should give our keen-eyed shopper, with £1,140 at her disposal, plenty to ponder.

What do you think?

Yay, nay?

VO: Lovely.

(CHUCKLES) God, wouldn't you just love to see Phil in this?

That would be genius.

VO: Especially if he could lay his hands on a nice matching scarf.

Now, what's she got there?

Enlighten us, please.

CATHERINE: What do you think this is?

We can tell that it's Chinese, we've got these lovely carved dragons around the outside and the character symbols.

And this sort of bamboo shape all around the edge as well.

VO: All very nice, but what exactly is it?

Let's have a look further.

VO: Ah!

Thought so.

And this would have been your writing desk.

I think it's a really neat little thing.

What's the date?

Well, I guess because it's sort of fairly loosely carved, it probably dates towards the end of the 19th century, creeping into the 20th century.

£225 for this.

If I can get this for a reasonable price, ladies and gentlemen, this is going with me.

Hello!

What do you think of this?

Hello, my darling, what do you think?

What do you think of the table?

No.

She says, "No, don't buy."

I think yes, let's buy.

VO: So pooch opinions notwithstanding, that's on the list.

Anything else?

CATHERINE: Are they a pair?

They're huge.

I love things like this.

These are copper gas lamps, it's probably late-Victorian.

And I think that's rather nice.

What's on that?

200, is that for the pair?

VO: Well, you could always ask one of the equally well-matched shopkeepers.

CATHERINE: Phillip!

Ah!

Phillip!

PHILIP: Hello.

Hello.

CATHERINE: Can I borrow you two seconds?

Yes, yes, let me come round.

VO: Yes, come on, Phillip.

CATHERINE: Right, your lamps.

PHILIP: Yes.

CATHERINE: They're not a pair, are they?

PHILIP: No, they're £200 each.

The best I would be able to do would be for £100.

I am very interested at £100.

VO: And she's also partial to that Chinese writing table.

That is £225, can you do anything on that?

We can do a special price for you, it would be £100 for that one.

Really?

So the two for...?

Yes.

So that would be 200, £100 each.

CATHERINE: A special for me.

PHILIP: Cuz it's you.

VO: Thanks, Phillip.

Third Phil of the day.

And that little splurge leaves her with £940.

Plus, of course, her dear old chum, Phil, to collect.

That's Phil one.

I'm happy with what I bought.

I'm very happy with what I bought.

CATHERINE: Oh, are you?

PHIL: Very, very happy.

Oh, no.

Oh, yes.

Are you saying that just to annoy me or are you genuinely very happy?

Would I ever try and annoy you?

VO: Er, nighty night.

VO: Next morning, the weather's taken a turn for the worst with the little Morgan looking all at sea.

Have you ever been on a big ocean liner?

No, I've been on one of those pedalo things.

VO: Well, Cap'n Phil managed to plot a pretty good course on his shopping voyage yesterday, picking up a Red Duster flag and a Globe-Wernicke-style bookcase.

PHIL: It was actually quite innovative.

VO: Meaning he now has £985 in his war chest.

While Catherine splashed out even more on some cocktail glass numbers, a Victorian streetlamp, a Chinese writing desk and a jardiniere.

Tell me about your history!

What garden have you been in?

VO: Leaving £940 for her further purchases.

And several huge puddles to steer their tiny craft through.

I've got a St Christopher in my pocket that I'm gripping tightly.

VO: I'm sure it will clear up soon.

Back they go across the county line towards Salisbury.

VO: The splendid home town of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich, I just hope there's a very big plaque in their honor around here somewhere.

And there's Phil, having been dropped off at his first shop of the day, Salisbury Antiques Center.

Lovely.

VO: 14,000 square feet covered with antique English and continental furniture.

No shabby chic here.

This is a proper antique shop.

There are the most beautiful things in here.

PHIL: Here's a nest of tables, come and have a look at these.

There are three of these, there should actually be a fourth, and they're known as Quartetto tables.

This top is cross-banded.

It's where the grain of the timber runs in a different direction to the rest of it.

VO: It's all about how you cut and apply the timber.

PHIL: You can just see a line down there and a line across there.

And this is using four bits of very similar veneer, probably consecutive bits off the tree and you can see it's almost like a mirror image.

Because it's quarter veneered, it almost creates this kind of oval shape here.

So these tables, originally they might have dated from the Regency period, but they were reproduced in kind of Edwardian times.

They're just really lovely tables, not for me because...

They're £750.

VO: And a mere one step further on...

This is a Windsor chair and Windsor chairs are great because if you look at the leg on that chair, the back actually flows down into the legs, but if you look at this one, everything meets in the seat.

PHIL: I mean, I really love that.

£680, I did tell you we were in a proper antique shop.

VO: Maybe not, but remember he does still have almost £1,000.

So there should be plenty here that he could plump for.

I love luggage.

So if you're gonna go on your holidays, how cool is that?

VO: Very.

But also £295, wow.

I bet this could tell some stories, we've got Paris to Rome.

We've got some fantastic labels on here and they make it.

So this color, this leather, this patinated leather, which is almost like kind of chewed toffee, and these labels, make this just a really cool thing.

VO: Don't pack your bag just yet.

Not unless you're buying it.

How about something in economy?

PHIL: This is Edwardian, it's mahogany.

I quite like that little shell inlay in the middle of it.

Probably 1900, 1910.

It's just a...a sweet little tray, you know.

I mean, if you were brought your six o'clock gin and tonic on that, it would just taste so much better, wouldn't it?

VO: With room for an olive or two besides.

PHIL: There's no price on it, but I could perhaps put that together with this.

Now, is that a little shallow pedestal dish that perhaps would have had fruit in it?

Or is it...the cover of something?

And you would have taken that cover off.

Well the truthful answer is I don't know, but I think it's got this...lovely color to it.

And that also has no price on it.

PHIL: I think it might be time to ask.

VO: I think a decision has been made.

Look out, Southon, I'm on your tail.

VO: Breathe in.

Oh, and let's have a word with shopkeeper Chris about those.

PHIL: In my book, these two are like a tenner each.

Doesn't quite cut it, Phil.

What does cut it?

CHRIS: 30 quid, the two.

PHIL: Split the difference!

Is that 35?

PHIL: No, that's not that.

(CHUCKLES) I know I didn't teach Math at school, I taught Geography, but I do know that splitting the difference between 20 and 30 is actually 25.

Right.

How does that grab you?

Go on, be a gentleman.

Right here.

Yeah, we'll do that.

You're a star, thank you.

Thanks, Phil.

VO: Two items of treen purchased for not very much, leaves him with £960.

He just has to work out what that one actually does... VO: Now back to Catherine and those puddles.

Whoo!

I didn't want to drive through that.

CATHERINE: It is spring, and there are some spring flowers somewhere, but it doesn't quite feel like it.

This weather's a bit...a bit dull today.

VO: Watch out, there's another one.

She's heading south towards the town of Lyndhurst in the county of Hampshire.

VO: And the New Forest National Park with a very nice antiques center in which to make her last purchases before the auction.

There's 40 dealers vying for Catherine's spare cash and plenty of antiques, collectibles and curios to catch a buyer's eye.

And proprietor Jason will be happy to help.

Hello!

Things are looking up.

CATHERINE: You may be looking at this thinking that it is a Christmas decoration, thinking that it is an enlarged Christmas bauble because that is, essentially, what it looks like.

It's actually a witch's ball.

CATHERINE: It's something that, according to tradition, would have been hung in the window to ward off evil spirits.

VO: They apparently see themselves and don't come in.

And this is a nice early one because you do get reproductions of this.

You look to check that it's tarnished in some way.

This has got a nice, big sort of mark on it as well.

It's not too shiny.

CATHERINE: And, as you can see, this one is hand-blown, which makes us think it's actually a lot earlier, maybe it's sort of 1840s, certainly early Victorian.

VO: And there's a couple more.

CATHERINE: I've never bought one.

Now might be the time.

CATHERINE: Jason?

How much for your witch's ball?

I'm afraid, traditionally, Catherine, we can't sell those.

VO: Whyever not?

It's er, bad luck.

CATHERINE: So you don't want to sell it to me?

I'm afraid not, no, we've... CATHERINE: Oh, Jason!

JASON: I know, I know, I know.

CATHERINE: I've just stood... JASON: They are lovely.

..risked my life on this ladder.

You can give them.

VO: That could work.

What?

You could give it to me?

Well...

Here we are then.

Maybe I shouldn't have said that.

But, yeah, selling them for money is bad.

CATHERINE: OK, right, I better go and start again then.

CATHERINE: Thanks very much.

JASON: Thank you very much.

Right.

Off I go.

VO: Curses!

VO: Now, let's catch up with Phil down beside the seaside.

No sign of a pedalo though, at the nearby Hampshire port of Southampton.

Famously the place to get on board a great ocean liner.

Although Phil's here for the Robin's Nest Emporium.

Just wondering if the plural of emporium is emporia.

Latin scholar, don't you know?

VO: Festinare commodo, or get a move on.

Ha!

PHIL: Hi!

JEMMA: Hi, good morning.

PHIL: I'm Phil.

How are you?

JEMMA: I'm Jemma.

PHIL: Goodness me, this is huge this place, isn't it?

JEMMA: It's beautiful, isn't it?

PHIL: Yeah, really, really cool.

VO: Well, take a look around then.

This former bank has numerous dealers, so Phil should have no problem making a withdrawal.

Ha!

He's got £960 left.

You're hoping for an undiscovered treasure, aren't you?

Something that's just lurking away, waiting to be lifted up, taken out.

So we'll have a good look round and see what we can find.

VO: Looking, looking, looking...finding!

PHIL: So this is probably a piece of silver.

1862, Birmingham hallmark.

Birmingham is quite famous for assaying toys.

Toys or small bits of silver, like Vesta cases, a snuffbox, little ladies' purses and that's really beautiful.

VO: 175, that one.

But I think at that price, for me, it's probably all the money.

Beautiful, though, isn't it?

Very beautiful, yeah.

PHIL: Thank you.

JEMMA: Thank you.

VO: Meanwhile, back in the New Forest, whither his chum?

I need to look for something that's a guaranteed profit.

VO: Well, that would always be welcome.

This rather nice leather case, with a little hook there.

CATHERINE: Open it up and you get a set of bull's-eye agate buttons.

So dress buttons for a gentleman and these buttons do sell well, the price on these is £29, that's not bad.

I think there's a profit there on those, yeah, definitely.

It's a lovely case, nice velvet lining.

Victorian, 1870 to 18...1880.

Yeah, they are definitely a possibility.

VO: That's the safe option.

Anything a bit more thrilling?

Ah, this is cool.

Oh, I like this, come and have a look at this.

VO: A classic car accessory.

So nice sort of shaped leather and silver plate outer case.

CATHERINE: These little clips on the back, that would be clipped on to a dashboard, a very simple dashboard for a 1920s, 1930s car.

This would have been for the lady, the lady traveling in the back, the lady who couldn't possibly drive.

And here are all her accouterments, so her little powder pot and the little perfume bottle there.

VO: Very nice.

And you've got a mirror.

CATHERINE: What else have you got?

A little notebook.

Oh, that's cute, a little address book...and pencil.

CATHERINE: What are they asking for that?

Oh, gosh!

£189, that's quite a lot, isn't it?

I've never, ever seen anything like that.

VO: So two very different items to consider.

Something inexpensive for a gentleman, or a rather lavish item for a lady.

Maybe Jason can help Catherine decide.

Here he comes.

CATHERINE: Jason... JASON: Ah.

CATHERINE: I'm really drawn towards this.

JASON: If you wanted another one, you could go round the whole of England trying to find... CATHERINE: You will never find it.

But you will find agate buttons.

CATHERINE: Hundreds, well, not hundreds.

Maybe not a set of six, but that you'd never find.

VO: And what about that guaranteed profit she was after?

I think it could make an awful lot of money.

I will cut to the chase and say £130.

CATHERINE: What about the...?

JASON: The buttons I'll do for 20.

I think I need to have a coffee.

I need to have a bit of caffeine to make a decision.

JASON: Have another think.

Thank you very much, thank you.

VO: While she mulls that over... ..let's see how Phil's faring.

PHIL: So that's kind of like a cool, vintage-y, retro...coffee table.

It's got these four reeded legs united by stretchers.

PHIL: That's priced up at 15 quid.

VO: Bingo!

Jemma?

I am the last of the big spenders.

Oh, yeah, that's nice.

PHIL: It's priced up at 15 quid.

JEMMA: Yeah.

I'm gonna pay you your £15.

There we are.

JEMMA: That's great, thank you.

PHIL: Thank you very much.

Lord above!

VO: Mind your back, Phil.

That's him shopped up now with £945 left over.

VO: Meanwhile, in Lyndhurst, Catherine's made her mind up.

Right, decision made.

VO: Miracle!

Go on, then.

What do you think?

JASON: Well... What do you think I've gone for?

I think maybe the vanity case, possibly.

Possibly, cuz it's make-up, you know, and it's a bit more feminine.

Girls love a bit of make-up.

We love a bit of make-up!

But I think it's really nice to buy something you've never seen before and I've never seen it, and I don't know what's going to happen.

VO: That's the way we like it.

There you are, that's it.

I wanted to spend that today.

JASON: Well... CATHERINE: (LAUGHS) But if you spend more money, you might make more money.

VO: Jason's quite the salesman.

If it goes wrong, shall I come and blame you?

VO: Now, now!

Caveat emptor, as they say in Latin.

CATHERINE: Jason... JASON: Thank you very much.

..it's been really lovely.

That's brilliant.

Thanks very much.

Do you do washing up?

VO: That risky, but fun final purchase means... Bye!

VO: ..that Catherine has £810 for the rest of the trip.

VO: So back to the Morgan with auction number two coming up soon.

Are you feeling confident?

Well, this time I've really thrown money at it.

PHIL: Really?

CATHERINE: Yeah.

I spent just over £400, Phil.

Did you really?

That's a lot of money.

I've spent...

I think 320.

Yeah, well, there you go.

I just went go big or go home and I feel I might be going home!

No!

No, no, no, no.

VO: Time for some shuteye.

VO: Welcome to Rosewell, the former mining village which will be the venue for their second saleroom experience.

After rummaging all around Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire, our experts have now headed back towards Midlothian at Thomson Roddick, where they'll be selling in the room, on the net and on the phone.

And Sybelle Thomson wields the gavel.

At £300.

Slightly nervous.

No, we're gonna have lots of fun today.

CATHERINE: Are we?

PHIL: Lots.

VO: Talking of which, Phil parted with £320 for his five auction lot offering.

SYBELLE: This is a nice example of a stacking bookcase, a nice Edwardian one, shame it doesn't have glass fronts and there's no magic name like Globe-Wernicke on it, but it's a nice bookcase and bookcases are always popular.

VO: Catherine splashed out quite a bit more with £435 spent, also on five lots.

SYBELLE: I think my favorite piece, because it is such a statement of time, is actually the car vanity set.

I just think it's so unique.

I don't think it'll make a fortune, but there's just something about it.

VO: Enter the gladiators.

It's almost time.

I think this is gonna be good for us, we bought good things.

VO: Starting out with Catherine's weighty jardiniere.

Good decision not to try to lift it, by the way.

Nice, this, look lovely in the garden and I've got lots of interest and I'm at 42 bid, 42.

I really have high hopes for this.

SYBELLE: 48.

50.

CATHERINE: Good.

Five.

60.

Five.

70.

Five.

CATHERINE: Come on!

SYBELLE: 80, 80.

It's a lovely thing.

Anyone else going on at £80?

At £80.

Well, it's a profit.

VO: Catherine's off to a very fine start.

I was hoping a bit more.

You've changed, I can remember when you were just, you know, happy to be here.

Now it's, "Oh, it's a small profit."

Well, it is the whole point of being here!

"It's a small profit."

I haven't come just for a day out, Phil.

VO: Let's not get tetchy, shall we?

Rather, sit back and see how well Phil's Globe-Wernicke-style bookcase fares.

I'm slightly anxious about this next lot, you know.

Well, I think you should be very proud that you actually went for that, cuz I don't think I would have the guts to do that.

Well, I'm kinda hoping everybody else has got the vision otherwise I'm absolutely up a blind alley here.

CATHERINE: Kippered!

SYBELLE: £100 for it.

£100, straight in.

100 bid, 110, 110.

Online at 110, 120, 130... Come on.

140, 150, 160.

Yes!

Yes!

160, 170, 180, 180.

Nice bookcase.

180, 190, 200.

CATHERINE: There you go.

SYBELLE: 200, 200 anyone else... PHIL: Stopped, though.

SYBELLE: ..at 200?

Come on.

Can I tempt anybody in the room?

At 200... CATHERINE: Oh, come on.

SYBELLE: ..pounds.

Oh, you are miserable, aren't you?

Well, so would you be if you lost money.

VO: You're right, Phil, she would be.

Nice bookcase, though.

Have I upset you?

No.

Oh, Phil, I love it when you lose.

I know.

VO: Back to Catherine and her cocktail glass numbers, with case.

PHIL: Why drink markers?

Because you might get yours mixed up with somebody else and you don't wanna get your germs, your germs, on somebody else's drink.

Great fun, this.

Starting straight in at 10, 12, 15, 18, 20.

What did you pay for them?

45?

CATHERINE: Yeah.

SYBELLE: 22, 25... ..28, 28, 30, 32.

Oh, come on.

35, 38.

I thought I'm home and dry with these.

40, 42, 42.

Never seen another set, 45.

No, I've never seen them.

SYBELLE: On the internet, 48.

Keep going.

48, 48.

Any advance on 48?

I thought they were rare.

PHIL: (GROANS) SYBELLE: 127.

It's only £3, stop moaning.

It's £3 more than I've made so far.

VO: Plus Catherine is already one-nil up, eh, Phil?

You win some and you lose some.

Oh no, I did win.

Oh yeah, I did win, didn't I?

I've just rubbed that in.

VO: Phil's flag is next.

Definitely not the surrendering sort, remember.

Why did you let me buy this flag for 60 quid?

Do you think you paid too much?

Yeah, I do!

Why did you let me buy this?!

I shouldn't be allowed out on my own.

And who would like to start me?

£20 for it?

Oh, everywhere.

20, two, 22, 25, 25.

Bid up online at 25.

Anyone else going on?

28, 28, 28. Who can I tempt at 28?

I'm selling with Gavin at 28.

Just tempt anybody, please!

SYBELLE: Anyone else going on at £28?

This is not funny!

VO: Titter ye not.

It's no laughing matter.

Well, this is all going wonderfully well, isn't it?

VO: It is for someone.

Here's Catherine's latest lot, the Chinese desk.

And we've started straight in at 30, five, 40, five, 50.

SYBELLE: £50 online.

55... Oh, dear.

..at 55, 60, five.

CATHERINE: Oh, dear.

SYBELLE: 70, five.

I paid 100 for this.

80, five.

PHIL: Just not going well.

CATHERINE: Keep going.

90.

Five, 100, 110.

Oh, no!

How is this happening?

SYBELLE: 110, 120.

CATHERINE: 20!

120, 130.

SYBELLE: Bid up online.

I don't like you anymore.

140 against you, madam.

Anyone else going on at 140?

140!

At 140, 150.

Worth the delay at 150.

150!

150, 160.

160!

160, anyone else going on at 160?

At £160!

Happy days, happy dance.

VO: Everyone's a winner, eh, Catherine?

You rub it into me every opportunity.

"Oh look, Phil, that's made a profit!"

"Oh, look, Phil, oh bad luck Phil."

This is new, this is wonderful.

"Bad luck, Phil, that didn't do quite as well as you thought, did it?"

VO: Now for one of Phil's less risky items, the little tray.

When was the last time anybody bought an Edwardian gallery tray?

It's quite boring.

Alright, OK!

And I've got 10, 12, 15, 18, 20.

£20.

20 bid.

CATHERINE: What did you pay?

PHIL: Oh, my God!

Profit.

What did you pay?

Uncharted, uncharted territory!

20, nice little tray, can I tempt anybody else at 20?

I paid £15 for it.

You can't say any more than "nice" though, can you?

Alright!

Don't patronize.

You're horrid, you are.

No, well done, I'm only joking.

VO: Could Phil's fortunes have turned?

Albeit modestly.

You didn't expect to get three figures on it, did you?

Let's be honest.

Don't love you anymore.

I'm being nice!

I'm being realistic.

No, you're not.

You're not, you're not, you're not.

I'm saying well done.

You're just slipping the knife into the ribs where it really hurts.

VO: Can Catherine carry on making profits, though?

Her street lamp is next, here we go.

Do you not think it should be on something?

Like a pole or something?

Of course it should be on something, but I... What do you want a streetlamp that's down there for?

Now, no home should be without one of these.

CATHERINE: Oh, God.

SYBELLE: £100 for it.

100 for a streetlamp, 100, £50 for it.

CATHERINE: Oh, God.

SYBELLE: 50?

SYBELLE: 30, make a start.

PHIL: Oh, get in there!

30?

30 bid, 30 bid.

CATHERINE: Go away!

SYBELLE: 32 online.

32, 32.

Come on, this has gotta be £100, stop it!

SYBELLE: 35, 38, 40.

Keep going.

42, 45, 45.

It's still going.

SYBELLE: 45.

48.

CATHERINE: Keep going.

48.

PHIL: Hammer down.

SYBELLE: 48, 50.

I'll ignore him, don't worry.

Please.

Thank you!

Now who am I missing at 50?

There must be... Sell it!

..somebody else who can visualize it at 50.

55, 55, 55.

Oh... At £55.

VO: No wonder he's amused all of a sudden.

Another loss like that and it could be close.

I don't like the way she hangs out for all your goods here, you know, I think she's trying to like eke out every penny for you, she is.

Girl power.

VO: Next up, Phil's mystery treen.

He's decided it's a stand.

Probably.

Ha!

So it's this kind of boxwood, treen-y, sycamore-y, thingummyjig, whatsit.

So a useless object, then?

Yeah, well I've specialized in those throughout the years.

Very nice, this.

Who'd like to start me at £30 for the bowl?

Go on, get in.

30?

20?

£10 for the nice little bowl?

10 bid, in the room at 10.

Someone's taken pity on you.

SYBELLE: 12 online, 15, 15.

PHIL: Go on.

SYBELLE: 18, 18.

18 and selling it, I'd have another, madam, it's beautiful.

Yeah, I would...

Yes, it is.

No, it's not.

SYBELLE: 18, 18... (LAUGHTER) Shut up, you!

SYBELLE: Anyone else going on?

20, £20, can't say I don't work hard, 22.

CATHERINE: You do!

PHIL: I love you.

22, 22, 25, 25, 25, 25, 28, 28.

Goodness' sake.

Can I not tempt anybody else at 28?

At £28.

Rather chuffed, aren't you?

Mmm.

VO: And no wonder.

He's just got a bit closer.

It's the little things in life.

I was gonna say maybe you should stick to the smaller items.

VO: Catherine's last lot is her biggest risk, the in-car vanity set.

And who would like to start me at £50 for the car vanity?

I paid 130, I paid a lot of money for this.

£50?

30?

30 bid.

This is an automobilia collector's lot.

35, 38, 40, two, five, 45, 45.

Make no...

Tempted to bid 50 quid, cuz I feel sorry for you.

SYBELLE: 48.

PHIL: Oh, no!

SYBELLE: 48.

CATHERINE: Shush.

48, 50.

This is a good thing.

At 50, five, 55, 60, £60.

I really need the internet.

70, £70.

Anyone else going on at 70?

CATHERINE: Keep going.

SYBELLE: At £70.

So, how much did that cost you?

Shut up!

VO: A brave buy, Catherine.

Never mind.

Wasn't that a good thing?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You should have bought a few more of them.

VO: They're now about neck-and-neck with only Phil's inexpensive table to go.

Starting on the internet at 10 bid, 10 bid, 10 bid for the coffee table.

At 10, at 10.

What did you pay?

£15, I think.

15, useful little table at 15.

18, 20, two, five, 25, 28, 30.

Anyone else going on at 30?

Selling on the internet at 30, at... CATHERINE: You've cheered up.

SYBELLE: ..£30.

Really cheered up.

You've been miserable as sin earlier on.

VO: It's amazing what the chance of an unlikely victory can do, isn't it?

Have you any idea who's won this?

It was quite hard, this one.

I think we better rely on... CATHERINE: Yeah?

PHIL: Yeah.

The powers that be.

VO: Well, the not-so-impressive figures have been totted up and Catherine, after auction costs, has ended up with a loss of £96.34.

While Phil, also with saleroom fees deducted, made a slightly smaller loss of £69.08.

So he is hereby declared the winner of this auction, meaning they're now level pegging, with three more to go.

Some gambles didn't pay off.

Well, that was alright, wasn't it?

I really enjoyed that.

CATHERINE: Yeah, it was good for you.

Excellent.

CATHERINE: You're happy, aren't you?

She's a sore loser, frankly.

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