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

I just love it.

VO: Behind the wheel of a classic car.

(HORN TOOTS) LOUISE: It's fast.

CHARLES: It's a race.

VO: And a goal - to scour Britain for antiques.

PAUL: This could be tricky.

MARGIE: £38!

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

VO: But it's no mean feat.

ROO: High five!

There'll be worthy winners... CHRISTINA: Mind-blowing.

VO: ..and valiant losers.

Could have been worse.

Will it be the high road to glory...

Car!

..or the slow road to disaster?

CHRISTINA: Aaagh!

TIM: Oh my!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

Oh, yes!

Hello!

Two stars of the antiques firmament are out once more for their last trip together.

What's that?

Morning has broken?

Uh-oh.

CHRISTINA (CT): # Morning has broken... # TIM (TM): Is it like...?

CT: # Like the first morning... # (TIM HUMS ALONG) I can't remember the words.

# Blackbird has spoken # Like the first... # CT: # Wooord.

# TM: Word.

VO: And the woord is that Tim Medhurst and Christina Trevanion are, as usual, full of the joys.

And who wouldn't be?

CT: Look at the cow parsley.

It's like the countryside's getting married.

VO: That's true.

Ha!

The poetic pair set forth from Emsworth, and are traveling the B-roads of the South West before crossing the Welsh Marches to the final auction in Cardiff.

TM: I've enjoyed everything.

The car, the company, the antiques.

Which one?

Wait, wait, wait, OK. (CLEARS THROAT) What comes first in that?

TM: The company... CT: There we go.

..the car, the antiques.

I've enjoyed the lot, you know.

Rotter.

It has been fun, hasn't it?

TM: It has.

VO: Yes, it has.

I can't tell a porky-pie.

Tim's piggy was filled with £200 at the start, and after the last auction is now stuffed with £342.76.

So well done!

While Christina's weaner was also fattened up last time, and is now positively bursting with £857.54.

Never fear, look what I remembered.

Ah.

TM: Can I have it back?

CT: No.

TM: Oh.

CT: Definitely not.

VO: Oh, right.

Ha!

Who will be fortune's fool this time as they hunt for treasure in the Cotswolds to take to that last auction in Cardiff?

Having dropped off Christina, Tim's bound for Long Marston, in Shakespeare country, just south-west of Stratford.

Forsooth!

Here is our first shop today.

The Barn antiques center.

To be or not to be?

Nice buns!

(BELL PINGS) TM: Hello!

DEALER: Hello!

Hi, I'm Tim.

DEALER: Hello, I'm Laura.

BOTH: Nice to meet you.

VO: I'm Tim, too.

Let's get cracking!

VO: All that glistens may not be gold, but some of it may be.

Nope, I have no idea where he's going either.

Presumably he'll come up for air somewhere.

Maybe now.

Oh, yes.

Laura, these are great, aren't they?

LAURA: They're beautiful, yes.

TM: I really, really like them.

They're inkwells, but they look like a pyramid of bubbles... LAURA: They do.

TM: ..that if you just touched one, it would pop.

TM: And they'd tumble away.

LAURA: Yes.

Have you got a loop I can borrow?

LAURA: I do.

TM: I want to have a close look at the silver hallmark, if that's alright, thank you.

See, my gut reaction was that they were late Victorian, or early 20th century.

But looking at the label, the owner has called them 1979.

LAURA: From the hallmark.

Which is a lot later than I'd imagined.

Yeah, they are a '70s hallmark, that's interesting.

LAURA: 1979, he's dated it.

TM: Yeah.

What have we got on the price?

BOTH: 65.

What would be your very, very best?

OK, the very, very best, I can go to 55.

55.

Yeah.

LAURA: Yeah.

TM: OK. Do you know what?

I think I might go for them.

LAURA: OK, lovely.

TM: Thank you.

Perfect.

Lovely.

LAURA: Thank you very much.

TM: Thanks very much.

VO: Without further ado... he's off.

Broadway is the pretty Cotswolds village that Christina's bound for this morning.

She's here to learn how, in the darkest hours of wartime Britain, and the decade that followed, a government initiative for furnishing people's homes sprang from the ashes of the Blitz.

And to see the work of the man who pioneered that scheme, and whose work characterized the interiors of British homes into the 1950s and beyond, Gordon Russell.

At the design museum named after him, Christina is meeting a Royal College of Art professor.

Stand by.

CT: Ah, good morning!

JEREMY: Good morning!

Good morning.

You must be Jeremy.

I am Jeremy Myerson.

Let's go and have a look.

Ooh, let's go and have a look, how exciting!

VO: In 1904, when Russell was 12, his family moved to Broadway, bought the semi-derelict Lygon Arms hotel, and set about restoring it.

And there was a team of people really doing up pieces of furniture, putting oak paneling all over the hotel, creating one of the great country house hotels.

And he learned on the job, he watched craftsmen as they worked with different materials.

He was interested in making, and that is how he learned his trade.

VO: 1914 was a defining moment for Russell and his generation.

JEREMY: Gordon enlisted, he served in the trenches.

He wrote in his army book, where it said profession, "Designer of furniture."

He had never designed a stick of furniture in his life, but it was a prediction of what he was going to do.

He really focused on the furniture workshop that was in the hotel.

And this grew and grew, and a lot of well-heeled American guests of the hotel, at the end of their stay, they used to ask to buy the furniture that was in their rooms.

Oh, brilliant!

Most people take a postcard.

Most people take a postcard.

And he suddenly had a furniture-making business.

VO: But Russell was interested in mass-producing furniture, and the war delivered that opportunity.

In a time of shortages, nationalization and rationing, the Utility Furniture scheme was introduced by the government to provide functional furnishings for those who had been bombed out, and for newlyweds setting up home.

Coupons were issued, as they were for food and clothing.

Gordon Russell was involved from the outset, and was appointed chairman of the design panel, bringing his Cotswolds school style to the approved designs.

JEREMY: Gordon Russell recognizes an opportunity, not just to meet a national emergency, but also to address his own ambitions, to introduce a more honest, simple, modern approach to design.

And this is the result!

JEREMY: These are the results.

CT: Yeah.

And if we look inside the drawers... CT: Ah.

..you can see the most wonderful, very simple plans.

This was sent to over 700 furniture workshops all over the country.

Wow, that many?

So that furniture could be made close to the point of need.

And what he did was he introduced a completely alien, European, Scandinavian approach to design, which was pragmatic, which was geometric, it was simple.

He is really orchestrating the complete state-controlled production of furniture in Britain during the war.

Wow, so he is actually setting a trend.

He is.

VO: The Utility Furniture scheme lasted until 1952.

Gordon Russell's mission, as he described it, had been to teach the machine manners, and produce affordable, useful, and attractive furniture.

But in his twilight years in the 1970s, he revisited his arts-and-crafts training, and handmade some beautiful pieces, like this one in the museum.

So here it is.

Aha, this is La Table!

In his own mind, Gordon Russell was back in the Lygon Arms in the Cotswolds, in Broadway, working at his father's side, refurbishing pieces of furniture and restoring them.

CT: So was he recognized in his lifetime?

He was knighted.

He was given the CBE.

He got involved in design policy for British Rail when it was nationalized.

He was in charge of the design of postage stamps.

He was the ultimate establishment figure.

But he never forgot his craft background in the Cotswolds, and at the end of his career, he came full circle, and was producing large-scale pieces like this one, made of yew.

Mm.

Well, what a fascinating chap.

It has been so interesting to learn about him, so thank you so much, Jeremy.

It's a great pleasure.

Hugely enjoyed learning about Gordon Russell.

What a chap.

VO: Next stop on Tim's final campaign is Stow-on-the-Wold, a pretty Cotswolds town with an enormous market square where, at the height of the wool trade, 20,000 sheep might be bought and sold.

Ha!

VO: Tara Antique Centre is Tim's destination, and as ever, he's not hanging about.

VO: It's a lovely manor house with three floors, stocked by 30 dealers, so loads to see, even on bottom shelves.

He does spend a lot of time on the floor though, doesn't he?

Oh well...

There we go, wear his knees out on his trousers.

Now I really love this paperweight, mainly because it's got a lion in it, and I love lions.

But this paperweight probably dates to around 1850 to 1870, something like that.

So it's quite early on in paperweight manufacture, which was probably started in the early 19th century.

And I like this one because it's got a lovely little colorful background, but with that lion boldly on it as well.

The lion is made of sulfide, and that's a process that was developed throughout the 19th century, and it made bog-standard glassware quite exciting.

And on it as well, you can see where it was held when it was made, and the bits of glass that were snapped off.

And it's quite rough, but lovely.

It's priced up at £28.

Doesn't seem expensive to me.

There are lots of paperweight collectors out there.

And I think because of its age, and just the charm of it, I think it might do quite well in auction.

VO: Time to convene with Karen.

Erm, you've got £28 on it.

What do you think the best price on that would be?

The trade would be three on that, so it would be 25.

OK, 25.

25.

Do you know what?

Perfect.

I'll take it.

BOTH: Thank you very much.

TM: Can I leave it with you?

KAREN: Yes, of course.

I'll carry on looking around, and then come back to you.

KAREN: OK, thank you.

TM: Perfect.

Thanks very much.

VO: Meanwhile, it's westward ho for Christina, to Winchcombe, and a first opportunity to divest herself of some of her cash mountain at Winchcombe Antiques Centre.

Pretty!

Cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep... VO: Too cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap for you!

£857.

Hope you don't mind me mentioning it.

Oh, that's quite cool, isn't it?

Look at that!

Oh, I do like an open cabinet.

Look at that!

I've not seen one of these before.

OK, Negretti & Zambra, very good name.

Made optical lenses and scientific equipment.

But this is bizarre.

So it says, "Patent 6276, 1915," and then it said, "Barometer - observe direction of wind."

I had beans for lunch.

"Read barometer and note whether rising, "falling or steady.

Set dials accordingly, "and the forecast appears where indicated."

"Stormy, much rain."

"Fine over a large area."

(CHUCKLES) £110.

Well, that's not a million miles away, is it?

That's quite cool.

I don't know what it would make at auction, but I think it's quite fun.

This looks like the cabinet to be in.

VO: Do you know, I think she's right.

We'll leave her to ponder the barometer, and see how the wind blows over back in Stow-on-the-Wold.

Yip, it's a teapot.

Generally used for tea.

You could fit many cups of tea in there.

What an interesting teapot.

And it's quite old, as well.

It's got lots of different applied decorations on here, and I think they probably tell a story.

And it's got this wonderful agate-type slipware decoration, which sets it apart from your normal bog-standard teapot.

But on here, the applied decoration, there's a bust of a man.

VO: He's probably Earl Grey!

Now synonymous with his favorite bergamot-infused tea, but also the prime minister responsible for the Reform Act of 1832, and the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.

Good egg.

What have we got on here?

£68.

Do you know, that's not too bad.

It's the sort of thing I'd buy for myself, so I hope someone else would like it.

Let's see what Karen thinks.

Karen!

I've found this lovely teapot.

It is nice.

Erm, now I notice there is some damage.

KAREN: On the... TM: But you have noted that.

KAREN: Yeah.

TM: So I'm just wondering, what's your best price for it?

55?

It's a deal.

Thank you.

KAREN: Thank you.

TM: 55 it is, there we are.

VO: £80 please.

25 for the paperweight, and 55 for the teapot.

Time for a brew.

Mine's a lapsang souchong!

But it's not teatime yet in Winchcombe, oh no!

Christina's still rummaging in that cabinet.

CT: These are really lovely.

This is a pair of table lighters, so you'd have these on your table, and you'd have them permanently lit, so the gentlemen could have their after-dinner cigar, or whatever it is they wanted to take.

Absolutely gorgeous - solid silver by the looks of it.

Probably actually weighted at the bottom, but really, really nice.

Yes, there is a little bit of damage to them, but to collectors, to have a pair, and to have them in not-too-bad condition, is really quite a lovely thing to have.

If these are under £100, I will be taking them, because they are really rather lovely.

Gosh, lots to go and talk about.

VO: Time to find owner Richard.

TM: Richard!

CT: Hello!

Hello there.

You alright?

Yes, I'm alright.

Found yourself a good book?

RICHARD: Yes!

CT: Oh, what is it?

You've probably got it already.

Popular Scientific Recre... Oh that's, yeah.

Instant cure for insomnia.

(SHE CHUCKLES) RICHARD: Indeed, indeed.

Now, I've been wandering around your lovely shop and I found these things... RICHARD: OK. CT: ..that I quite like.

So, they are... Oh, they're Walker and Hall - good.

CT: Yes.

RICHARD: Erm... 40 quid.

CT: 40 quid.

RICHARD: For the pair.

OK.

Very happy at that, that's cool.

And then 110 on the Negretti and Zambra barometer.

RICHARD: What were you thinking?

I don't know - it's your shop!

You tell me, I don't know.

OK, 20 quid.

The very best, definitely, probably 70 quid on that.

So 70, 80, 90, 100, 110... RICHARD: Aha.

CT: ..for the total.

RICHARD: Yes.

CT: Shall we say 100?

120?

No.

That was going the wrong way.

We'll keep it 110 then.

Oh, alright then.

£110.

VO: Now it's time for tea.

Taxi for Trevanion, methinks.

VO: There they are.

CT: Where are we going?

TM: We're going down here.

CT: That way?

TM: This way.

CT: This way.

Are you sure?

VO: Well, there are worse places to be lost than the Cotswolds.

Nighty-night.

CT: So what's your plan today?

TM: Plan is, buy some old stuff, make loads of money.

(SHE CHUCKLES) VO: Yeah.

That's about the size of it.

Oh look, cows!

Oh, they look like elephants, don't they!

They do.

God, they're big old cows, aren't they?

They're huge!

Hi, baby cows!

Aw, cute!

You know, I'd love to spend all day in a field.

TM: Mm.

CT: Munching away on the grass, enjoying life.

Sounds perfect.

VO: Yesterday, our cud chewer was attracted by a brass barometer... "Fine over a large area."

..and a pair of silver table lighters, but she's still left with a big fat £747.54.

While our young bull went for the china - a large agateware-style teapot... Could fit many cups of tea in there.

..and a glass paperweight, and a pair of silver and bubble glass inkwells, leaving him with £207.76.

Ooh, can we swap cars with this guy?

TM: He doesn't look like he's up for a swap.

CT: Can we swap?!

(INDISTINCT REPLY) Oh please!

Can we swap?!

Oh, he says he's gonna swap!

(SHE CHUCKLES) BOTH: Aw!

He's gonna be late for work.

VO: And so are you!

Get a move on!

And your car's nicer.

Having dropped off Tim, Christina's first pit stop of the day is in Tetbury.

I'm going to this shop with about 740 Great British pounds burning a hole in my pocket.

So let's hope I can spend it.

VO: The emporium in question is Trilogie Antiques.

Three floors, presided over by Lynda.

VO: There must be plenty to tempt our magpie in this classy dealer's collective, filled with beautiful things.

Ha!

And the odd ugly thing.

Right, what's upstairs?

The ladder to heaven?

This is amazing.

This is quite extraordinary.

So what we've got here is a... What looks to be a reproduction print.

And this amazing, wacky carved frame, which has got down here "The Terror of the Desert".

Gosh, it's almost like a transitional art nouveau, turn-of-the-century item.

Maybe 1900, 1910.

You've got all these wonderful carved motifs on the frame.

I've never seen anything quite like it.

You've got a scarab beetle here, and you've got the sun breaking through the cloud here.

You've got sphinxes, you've got pyramids, you've got palm trees.

I mean, it's everything that we would think of being in Egypt.

And yet, I think this is an English frame.

So it's a real kind of clash of cultures.

It's quite...

It's quite phenomenal.

£85.

That doesn't seem unreasonable, does it?

Hmm.

Let's go and talk to the shopkeeper about this.

Coming through!

Whoops.

VO: Tell me when it's safe to look!

Ha!

I always have to choose the biggest thing in the shop, don't I?

VO: Apparently you do.

CT: Ooh!

CT: I found this on the top floor.

LYNDA: Right.

CT: Now, does this CT: belong to you?

LYNDA: No, it doesn't.

LYNDA: It belongs to Caroline.

CT: Is Caroline nice?

She's very nice.

Oh, is she?

Phew!

OK, well, it's got a ticket on there, obviously with a description and the price tag there.

It says £85, at least I hope it's £85, I hope it's not...

It's 8,500.

CT: Ah, right.

LYNDA: No.

Shall I... Do you want me to put it back upstairs?

No it's alright, we'll keep it.

No, it's 85 so I could do it for 70.

CT: 70?

LYNDA: Yeah.

Marvelous.

I'm very happy at that.

VO: Lynda!

You had ME fooled there.

Thank you, Lynda!

LYNDA: OK, bye.

CT: Bye, love.

Bye!

VO: Bye.

See ya later, alligator.

Time to follow Tim.

He's off north to the largest town in the Cotswolds, Cirencester, where, by the Middle Ages, the wool trade was booming, lining the coffers of the church, landowners, and wealthy merchants.

The golden fleece of the Cotswold breeds allowed these pre-Reformation super-rich to donate lavishly to the building and decoration of local churches in places like Chipping Campden and Northleach.

Parish Church of St John the Baptist in Cirencester is the largest of these wool churches, and Tim's meeting warden Simon Smith to see how sheep have left their mark.

First stop, the tower.

Just 204 steps.

Just as well you're young.

TM: Is it far now?

Oh, what a view.

SIMON: There we are.

There's Cirencester.

TM: Wow!

So looking further north, up towards Birdlip and the main road, there'd have been far fewer trees.

The odd woodland, but all those hedgerow trees and clumps would probably not have been there.

And white dots everywhere.

And white dots everywhere.

Wool was something we could sell, export, tax, and also we could turn into a better quality material.

And that's what built this church.

Trade... and a love of God.

TM: Now, how many steps were there down again?

SIMON: There were 204 up.

TM: Right.

But there are rumored to be more on the way down.

OK. Let's go.

So we'll see you at the bottom.

It's gonna feel like 2,004 again.

SIMON: Right, just take a seat.

Thank you very much.

We can sit here and soak up the atmosphere.

VO: This opulent parish church is like a cathedral, and the ostentatious giving of wealthy local worthies is embedded in the very architecture of the building.

While we're sitting here, I've spotted these figures above the pillars, with armorials.

Do they represent certain people?

They represent definite people, people who contributed.

Russell was advisor to the king, Henry VIII.

He was with him at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

Very wealthy and powerful.

And then gradually as you go back, there's a set further on with three silver greyhounds.

And that was the Archibalds, who had a small manor house in Cirencester.

I think the greyhounds, they held the manor for the crown in return for providing three greyhounds when the king came hunting SIMON: in the forest here.

TM: Oh.

And then further back, people have got coats of arms.

They are sort of marks, they're wool marks.

So they would have been wool traders, contributing.

So you go from the aristocracy to minor gentry, to humble tradesmen.

So a complete range, but the more humble sort at the rear.

The flash ones at the front.

Not quite the way Christ would have wanted it.

TM: No.

SIMON: So they'd have given money to this church, partly because they thought they ought to.

Partly to curry favor with God, because that's how they thought God worked.

Partly to make a statement about themselves... ..and partly back for community.

VO: Local benefactors paid for the church's magnificent early-15th-century tower and the bells have been ringing here since 1499.

The full ring of 12 bells is being rung by Peter Holden and his team.

(BELLS RING MUSICALLY) TM: Wow!

Oh, man!

It almost seems effortless though, watching.

SIMON: That's the skill.

TM: Yeah.

And what happens if you don't let go?

If you hang onto it, or your foot gets looped up, there's several tons of brass, bronze, gonna carry you to the roof.

TM: Wow!

SIMON: Yeah.

VO: Oh dear.

Will Tim end up dangling from the rafters?

MAN: This one's down.

TM: Right, OK.

So if you pull it, it swings.

If you pull it a little bit more... (BELL RINGS) TM: Oh, yes.

..you can do that.

I've always wanted to do this.

Go on then.

I might take up bell-ringing.

Look at that.

That's it.

VO: Time to graduate to some teamwork.

I'll just get a box, I think.

There we go.

(BELL CLANGS) MAN: Wait for it.

TM: Oh.

Up, down.

Keep them there.

Oh, I see.

It's like a... (BELL RINGS) (BELL RINGS) MAN: OK?

Gently.

TM: Yeah.

OK.

There's a lot more involved and it looks so easy, doesn't it?

So, if the rest of the band would like to... Ooh, I can take part?

Well, you can ring... How exciting!

So the idea is that you try and make your hands come down just after Joanne's.

Just after, OK.

I'll be watching you, Joanne.

And it might sound like it sounded earlier.

OK. Let's hope so.

(BELLS RING MUSICALLY) So you watch... VO: A full peal can take three hours to ring, so we'll leave Tim to it.

Ding-dong, eh?

Meanwhile, with the wind at her back and in her hair, Christina's en route for the outskirts of Stroud, where at the picturesque-sounding Salmon Springs Trading Estate, her last shop is The Malthouse Collective.

VO: This vast emporium houses 50 craftspeople and antique dealers.

So, good luck!

CT: You know, I rushed to get here before Tim, and I've been here for 20 minutes, and he's still not turned up!

Do you know where he's got to?

VO: Oh he'll turn up, like a bad penny.

He's a coin expert, after all.

CT: It's a little ruby-and-diamond half-eternity ring.

Now I always get people crying out to me for ruby-and-diamond eternity rings, because of course ruby, for ruby wedding anniversaries when you've been married for 40 years, and they just don't seem to be particularly readily available on the market.

So you've got these really rather lovely, alternating rubies and diamonds.

That's marked up at £69.

That is not a bad price at all for that.

Colored stones, at the moment, are incredibly popular at auction anyway.

We're talking rubies, we're talking sapphires, we're talking emeralds.

And of course, rubies themselves are the red version of sapphires.

They're both what was known as corundum.

So that's £69.

I don't think that's a bad price at all.

I quite like that.

Hm.

VO: Hm.

She does like a shiny thing.

Now, what's happened to our erstwhile bell-ringer?

Perhaps the 204 steps did him in.

Oh no, there he is, look.

Here he is, on his way now.

Uh-oh.

There's no time for another shop!

TM: Hi there.

DEALER: Hello.

Nice to meet you.

Almost walked straight past you then.

TM: Do you mind if I look round?

DEALER: Yeah, feel free.

Excellent, thanks very much.

Ah, coins!

At last I've found some coins.

Excellent.

Right, I'm gonna have a look around, and I'll come back and have a look at those.

VO: But you have a rendezvous with Christina!

Er, hello?!

You're meant to be in Stroud.

Do you know, I just love stumbling across an antiques center, just on the off-chance.

And it's just nice, I feel instantly at home.

Do you know what?

I might even just have a little cup of tea.

Mm.

VO: Well, since you're here, what do you fancy?

We've got so many different coins here.

We've got Roman, we've got Greek, we've got Byzantine, Tudor, Stuart.

Ugh, there's just so many.

I like the look of that one.

They've got a James I shilling, now that's a good piece of history.

The first Stuart king.

I might have a look at that.

Can I have a look in this cabinet please?

DEALER: Yeah, sure.

I like the look of one of these coins.

Thank you.

What was your name?

Sorry.

Oh, Will, nice to meet you.

Will.

Tim, nice to meet you.

Which one do you wanna have a look at?

Just the shilling on the end there, if that's alright.

Yeah, sure.

I'll grab that one for you.

Thank you.

Great, do you mind if I have a little look?

WILL: Yeah, feel free.

TM: Thank you.

I love the coinage of James I, you know.

When you think of James I, you think of 1605, you think of the Gunpowder Plot.

And this coin potentially could have been minted in 1605.

I find that amazing.

With early coins, the mintage process was by hand, so you would have had someone in 1605, around that date, actually minting this, or striking it.

And what they would have done is they would have had a piece of metal, and literally just hammered the design by hand.

And so what you get when you buy a coin like this, is a piece of silver that's 400-odd years old, but you're also getting a portrait of a king of England and Scotland.

It's quite nice to find coins of this period with a strong portrait.

Sometimes when they were hand-struck, the portraits didn't come through very well.

I just love it.

I need to have a look at the price, don't I, really?

OK, £115, ooh.

Will, can I give this to you to hang on to for the moment?

And we might be able to do something with it.

Yeah, sure, I'll sort that out for you.

I'll come and find you in a moment.

Do you mind if I carry on having a look?

Is that alright?

VO: Well, whether it is or it isn't, you're gonna do it.

Ha-ha!

Meanwhile, how's Christina doing back in Stroud?

Look at that.

Look at that.

What does that say?

"William IV, fine example "of gentleman's dressing-table mirror.

"Three discrete drawers, fine carving, circa 1840."

That's not William IV if it's 1840, is it?

VO: You were taught your kings and queens in my day!

William was succeeded in 1837 by Victoria.

It's just got such great proportions.

So often you see these and they're quite tiny, and you're trying to see where you are in the mirror.

And what I particularly love is you've got these three little secret drawers in here, very discreetly tucked away in this frieze here.

So not everybody of course, on first glance, would know that that's a drawer, so you can keep all your secrets in there.

If you had any secrets to keep, of course.

I think that's gorgeous.

It's in great condition as well, £130.

That does not seem like a bad price at all.

Right, OK, I'm gonna take my ring and see if we can do some negotiating on those two items.

VO: Shelley is on the desk today.

SHELLEY: Hello!

Right, come on then, you look like you've found something.

Well I have.

This little ring here, which I think is an absolute little sweetie.

SHELLEY: Yep.

CT: Um, and there's also a mirror just around the corner as well.

On the mirror, I know the best price the dealer would do on that, an absolute best, is going to be around the sort of 100, 110 mark.

OK, well let's focus on the 100.

OK.

So the ring's 69, which for a ruby and diamond, is not a bad price.

It's not bad!

No.

So we could maybe do that for 60.

OK, so that would be...

So if we said 160 for the two?

Yeah.

Are you happy at that?

I think that's fair.

I think that's fair.

Very fair.

I'm... Do we have a deal?

CT: ..delighted, fantastic.

SHELLEY: We have a deal.

We've got 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 20, 40, 60...

There we go.

£160.

SHELLEY: Lovely job.

CT: All for you!

SHELLEY: Thank you very much.

CT: You're an angel.

That's wonderful.

Do you think I could try this on?

It would be rude not to, definitely.

Try before you buy.

(SHE CHUCKLES) CT: Thank you so much.

SHELLEY: Thank you very much.

VO: And with that, Christina is done.

But she'll have to wait for our lost boy who is still in Cirencester.

TM: This is interesting.

What have we got here?

So we've got a 14th or 15th century spur.

I find that quite amazing.

And I love when the spikes are still rotating, and they've been rotating for four or five hundred, six hundred years.

I love this decoration as well.

Quite often they're just plain, the spurs.

And this one has got some nice decoration along here with a crisscross decoration, and lines as well.

You just wonder where it's been, who's had it on their foot, where they rode on their horse.

It could have even been in a battle with Henry VII.

WILL: You never know.

TM: Amazing isn't it?

WILL: I think it's great.

Oh crumbs, time.

I'm meant to be at the next shop, Christina, ooh.

Erm, what sort of price is it?

55 quid!

I could do the spur for 45.

OK.

I could probably squeeze the coin to 100.

Let's go for it.

100 quid the coin, 45 the spurs, it's a deal.

WILL: Sounds good.

TM: Thanks very much.

WILL: No worries.

TM: Excellent.

TM: I'm really pleased.

VO: Well... we're glad you're pleased!

(SIGHS HAPPILY) VO: Oh dear.

Christina doesn't look so pleased.

Hello!

Timothy James Medhurst, where have you been?!

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

So you are the first road trip that I've lost anybody.

It's shut?

Yes, no kidding!

They only left about... five hours ago!

Oh, have you done alright?

CT: Yes, thank you.

TM: Good.

Well, have you got some coins?

I can't tell you.

(SHE SCOFFS) TM: Secret, isn't it?

After all that?

You're hopeless.

Right, come on, you're super-duper late.

TM: Come on then.

CT: Come on, in the car.

CT: Come on, go.

VO: All's well that ends well, eh?

And it's nearly time for the final chapter in our tale.

We're off to Wales.

Au revoir, Cotswolds, bore da, Wales!

Which way is it?

Are we... Erm, I'm guessing... TM: Is it back that way?

CT: It might be... Is it up there?

No, I think it must be down here somewhere.

OK, we'll find it.

VO: As ever, they'll get there eventually!

After some shuteye.

The sun shines on the righteous, and it's splitting the sky today over historic Cardiff, a latecomer to capital-city status which was officially bestowed in 1955.

Our sunny pair are on their way to their final auction - if they can find it, of course.

Are we in the right place?

CT: I'm not sure.

(THEY CHUCKLE) Oh, we are, look.

Ah, "auctioneers and valuers".

Here we are.

VO: Yes, this is the place, classily named Anthemion Auctions.

Oh my goodness, can you believe this is it?

TM: I know, here we are.

CT: I know.

From rainy Somerset to sunny, beautiful Wales, this is it!

I know.

And it's busy in there as well.

CT: Oh, it is very busy.

TM: Might be our day.

CT: Whoo!

VO: Ever the optimists!

Mr Money finally bought a coin, spending a total of £280 on five lots.

It's just fantastic, this marbled agateware.

Unfortunately, it does have a little bit of damage to the knop there and the spout, but for me, just absolutely gorgeous.

VO: While Mrs Moneybags herself spent less than half her available cash, £340 on her five lots, including the silver table lighters.

They're quite damaged.

They are battered but they are bit of novelty.

And anybody that knows me knows I love a bit of novelty.

They're by Walker and Hall, a good maker, and I think they'll do alright.

VO: Our auctioneer today is Ryan Beach.

What's caught his eye?

The James I shilling.

Nice early coin, rare coin.

Condition is so important when you're looking at coins like this.

I think it'll make probably 50, £80, something like that.

The Egyptian-inspired picture frame is fantastic.

You know, it's a real statement piece, but you've got to have the right room for it to go into.

I reckon probably 80, £120, but we'll have to see.

VO: Right, time for Tim and Christina to take their seats.

Oh my goodness, can you believe it?

I know.

It's exciting, isn't it?

It's really exciting.

Our last auction.

CT: I know.

TM: Oh!

VO: Yes it is, and we're off now with the first lot, Christina's ruby-and-diamond eternity ring.

£60, start me.

There's a tumbleweed going across the saleroom.

TM: Yeah, silence.

CT: Tumbleweed.

RYAN: I've got 40.

TM: We've got 40.

It's like a lifeline.

I'm not secretly really happy at all.

There are lots of jewelry buyers here, so I'm surprised they're not going for it.

I mean, they're beautiful.

TM: Oop, we're going.

RYAN: At £48, in the room... Oh, £2 increments, I love it.

(SHE CHUCKLES) 45, thank you.

Scrabbling to make a profit somehow.

All done then at £55... Oh dear, hard luck.

Yeah... Er... (SHE SIGHS) You could say it with a little bit more meaning.

Sorry, I can't.

I'm quite happy with that.

VO: I bet you are!

But a bad start for our lady of the rubies.

I'm glad I bought it.

TM: Yeah.

CT: It's a pretty thing.

VO: Time now for Tim's James VI shilling.

That's James I to viewers in England.

It's coin time!

(SHE FEIGNS SNOOZING) 50 on the internet.

55, 60 now, 65.

Ooh, that's...

It's away!

At £70 on the internet now.

70.

RYAN: Five I'll take.

TM: Come on.

TM: It's worth more than that.

RYAN: At 70 on the internet.

TM: No!

(CHRISTINA GASPS) CT: More, more, more, more.

TM: Keep going, come on.

At £75.

Are we all done, then, at £75?

TM: Oh dear.

CT: Oh sweetheart.

What a disappointment.

Do you know what though?

I'm really pleased that I bought a coin on the Road Trip.

Yeah.

VO: Just not this one, eh!

Maybe all that burning of witches caused bad karma.

It was a nice one to buy.

A good period of history.

VO: But don't get accused of witchcraft!

Up now, Christina's silver table lighters.

Start me at 150 for this lot.

CT: What?

RYAN: 150 start me.

150 I've got, straight in on the net, at 150.

You've done it again.

£160.

(CHRISTINA MUTTERS) £160.

(SHE CHUCKLES) Well done.

CT: Sorry.

TM: 160.

VO: She's quadrupled her cash!

CT: Awesome!

TM: Well done.

Happy days.

I'm really sorry.

VO: Tim's spur is next.

50 to spur you on, then?

Yes.

Come on.

£40, I'll take then.

Ah, Tim, what is going on?

£40 it's at.

RYAN: Going down again.

CT: Ah!

RYAN: £30 anywhere?

CT: Oh, what?!

Oh no!

It's medieval.

Medieval spur here.

We've got £20 on the internet.

TM: Oh no!

RYAN: £20 on the internet.

Just to get started, come on!

That was a mercy bid!

At £20 on the internet, at £20... (THEY GROAN) VO: A disappointing loss there!

Never mind - it'll make someone happy.

See, I'm afraid they all thought what I was thinking.

"What?!"

VO: That's right, kick a man when he's down!

Time now for Christina's print in the carved frame.

Lovely frame on this one.

£100 start me.

TM: He's bigging it up.

CT: Oh, tumbleweed.

80 to get it under way then.

Tumbleweed time!

£80 I have.

Well done!

£80, standing at 80 now.

At £80, are we all done then?

A maiden bid of £80...

It is still technically a loss.

It is.

VO: But not of biblical proportions.

Ha-ha-ha!

CT: I'd still buy it again.

TM: Yeah.

I think that's the main thing, isn't it?

I love it.

VO: Bubbling up now, Tim's silver-mounted glass inkwells.

RYAN: £50 start me, somebody.

CT: Yeah, come on.

Come on.

40 then.

Let's get then underway.

Oh, bidding, bidding, bidding.

Oh, we've got 50 on the net, 50 on the net.

Look, they're bidding!

There's two people in the room, and on the net.

I'm not in profit yet.

60, 65.

70... £70.

CT: £70!

RYAN: At 70 now.

In the room at £70.

75 back in.

80?

80 back in.

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.

On my right at 80.

This is wildly exciting.

80 back, 85 on the net.

85 on the internet now.

Come on, son.

One more.

Are we all done then at £85?

Yay!

Bravo.

TM: There we are, they sold.

CT: Well done.

TM: A little bit of a profit.

CT: Good work.

VO: Hurrah!

Tim's back in the game with that £30.

No, great spot, I like those very, very much.

Well done.

VO: Fair or stormy?

It's Christina's 1915 brass barometer now.

£80 to start with.

60 then, let's get it out of the way.

Nobody cares about my little barometer.

It's a good name, Negretti & Zambra.

It's a really good name.

40 to sell it then.

CT: Oh my goodness.

TM: Oh no.

CT: Why?

RYAN: I've got 40.

He's got 40, it's a start.

He'll start climbing now.

CT: Oh, this is bad.

RYAN: 45.

RYAN: Up to 45, 48 I'll take.

CT: Oh.

48, 50.

I've got 50 now.

Come on.

It's a slow burner.

It is.

At £50... Are we all done then at £50?

CT: £50.

(TIM GASPS) There we are.

That's a great loss.

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: It was an ill wind, perhaps?

The beans, I think she said.

Not your biggest loss.

No, not my biggest loss.

So I wouldn't worry too much.

VO: It's ever-hopeful Tim's Victorian glass paperweight next.

Now, I paid £25 for my paperweight.

Ruff!

Ruff!

Ruff!

It's a lion.

CT: Oh, is it?

It's not a dog.

TM: It's not a dog.

Start me at £20.

At £20 start me?

Come on.

It's a good paperweight.

RYAN: 10 then.

TM: Oh no.

It's got a dog lion in it.

A lion dog.

It's carnage.

Anybody interested at £5?

£5 is that?

CT: He's bidding, he's bidding, look.

You've got salvation over there.

I've got five in the corner.

£5.

Oh!

Are we all done at £5?

(GAVEL) TM: I surrender.

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: Completely defeated.

Think it could be modern.

I think we could probably say it's probably not your day.

It's not my day.

This is not my day.

VO: I wish I could disagree.

Time for Christina's last lot now, the carved mahogany dressing-table mirror.

Numerous commission bids here.

Start me straight in at... 50, 80, 100.

£110 to start at.

(SHE CHUCKLES) £110.

£110 with me then.

At £110.

With me at £110.

RYAN: Are we all done then?

CT: I'm really sorry!

TM: You haven't made money.

CT: Oh well.

Mirror mirror, on the wall... £110!

..who's made the most money of them all?

Christina.

VO: And that's her third profit today, if a very tiny one.

That was a nice surprise, wasn't it?

TM: Yeah.

CT: Yeah, didn't expect that.

VO: Is a large profit brewing for Tim's last lot, the agateware-style teapot?

£100, do I see?

TM: Come on.

CT: Ooh, £100.

CT: £100!

TM: No, he hasn't got it yet.

TM: He's asking 100.

CT: He's on the phone!

RYAN: £100 on the phone.

Straight in at £100.

TM: Yes!

CT: Come on!

At £100.

Let's celebrate.

Right, I'm getting a round in.

I'm TEA happy!

RYAN: Are we all done, then, at £100?

Oh, thank you, telephone bidder.

CT: £100, that's fantastic!

TM: Very good.

I'm pleased.

VO: Me too!

A fine profit to finish.

Do you know, it has been an absolute joy being with you this week.

Oh, same.

My little bro.

Oh I know, you're like my big sister now.

Not SO big.

Well, sort of my sister.

Thank you!

Right, come on.

VO: Time for a final tally.

Tim was riding high but even after today's losses, he still trots home from his first ever Road Trip with a very respectable £296.46.

So well done, boy.

Christina has kept her nose out in front today, making a profit of just over £33 after saleroom fees.

She finishes several furlongs ahead with £890.64 across the trip.

All profits go to Children In Need.

Excellent work!

CT: Oh my goodness, Timothy!

TM: Oh!

The ups and downs of the antique world.

Downs, the ups, the plateaus.

Amazing!

An amazing trip!

What an amazing week, seriously!

TM: I've had so much fun.

CT: Medhurst the brave!

And you made loads of money!

Yeah, but I've left with more than I came with.

What more could you ask for?

And you've left with a lot more than you came with.

Yeah, well.

Like I say, watch and learn.

Let's go and explore Cardiff.

Yeah!

VO: Cheerio!

Goodbye to a week of sunshine... ..showers...

There they go!

Look at that!

Wow!

..four-legged friends... Hi, dinky doo!

Whee!

..highs...

Double money already!

I've never done a deal standing on top of a piece of furniture before.

Oof!

Didn't see that there.

..lows... Oh!

I surrender.

..and a golden egg!

Well done!

Fantastic.

VO: Happy days, eh?

VO: Next time, it's high jinx in the highlands of Antiques Road Trip.

Say good morning to the cow!

(HORN TOOTS) Good morning, Highland cow!

VO: Margie Cooper looks for top drawer... Oh my goodness.

..whilst Charles Hanson puts his feet up.

Have you bought all your things?

CHARLES: I may have done.

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: I can't wait!

It's going to be a good 'un, I can feel it.

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