[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: The nation's favorite celebrities.
We are special then, are we?
Oh, that's excellent.
NARRATOR: Paired up with an expert.
We're very noisily excited.
NARRATOR: And a classic car.
Their mission, to scour Britain for antiques.
Oh, I love it.
NARRATOR: The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction.
Yes.
NARRATOR: But it's no easy ride.
There's no accounting for taste.
NARRATOR: Who will find a hidden gem?
Who will take the biggest risks?
Will anybody follow expert advice?
Do you like them?
No.
There will be worthy winners and valiant losers.
- Are you happy?
- Yes.
- Promise.
- Ecstatic.
NARRATOR: Time to put your pedal to the metal.
This is "Celebrity Antiques Road Trip."
Yeah.
For today's road trip, we're exploring Shakespeare country in the company of two of Britain's best loved actors, Robert Powell and Liza Goddard.
I've just been thinking how long we've known each other.
40 years or so.
- Yeah.
And I don't think during that time we've ever, ever talked about antiques.
We've been to a lot of museums though.
ROBERT POWELL: I know absolutely nothing about antiques.
Nothing at all.
NARRATOR: For some, Robert is best known for his portrayal of Jesus in the 1977 TV miniseries.
More recently, he's been gracing our screens as God-like chief executive officer Mark Williams in hospital drama "Holby City."
In the passenger seat is another fine actor.
Liza's career spans almost five decades.
She landed her first acting jobs as a teenager in Australia taking the lead role in "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo."
And in the 80s, she played a jewelry thief in hit drama "Bergerac."
So they've got superb provenance, but do they have faith in their own abilities?
ROBERT POWELL: When I was working in Morocco and Tunisia when we were doing "Jesus of Nazareth," I tried to haggle and nearly always paid more than they'd originally asked for.
NARRATOR: Oh, dear.
This is sounding very promising.
Their guides on this trip are currently making their way to the meeting point in the left-hand drive Porsche, flash.
Robert Powell, Liza Goddard, this will be a riot, won't it.
NARRATOR: Paul Laidlaw has a passion for militaria, and his love of Robert Powell seems to run pretty deep.
PAUL LAIDLAW: Robert Powell has been pretty much the soundtrack to my life.
I don't mind telling you.
I was a wee boy.
Remember "Jesus of Nazareth."
I'm going to seriously, in a manly way, he was beautiful then.
Those eyes.
Those piercing blue eyes.
NARRATOR: Charles Hanson's big love is the 18th century.
He's more than happy to be paired with Liza.
It's a foregone conclusion.
It's myself and Liza and myself and Robert.
I will take that.
Super.
That's equitable, isn't it?
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
NARRATOR: Their trip starts in Stratford before striking out to Little Alne, Evesham, Newent, and Tewkesbury before striking boldly across the country to a final showdown in Acle just beyond Norwich.
Hello, sorry, hello.
Oh, lovely to see you.
You Well?
Yeah, thank you.
I like your ride.
I know it makes a-- ROBERT POWELL: Which car do you want?
Which one do you take?
I quite fancy this.
Now, have divvied up experts yet?
Yeah, I know-- I rather fancy this one.
Yeah, I know Paul fancies you so that's a much.
OK. NARRATOR: Right then, that's Robert Powell with Paul Laidlaw in the 1974 Jensen Interceptor, and Liza Goddard with Charles Hanson in the 1969 Porsche 911T.
Now, who's your money on?
And they're off.
Is there a strategy?
ROBERT POWELL: The ideal thing to do is something that essentially has no intrinsic value but is of huge value to the one person who wants to collect it.
PAUL LAIDLAW: You are absolutely spot on though, Robert, because you've tapped into compulsion with the collector.
NARRATOR: Armed with this cunning plan, Robert and Paul head for their first shop, Henley Street Antiques in Stratford.
We're in the heart of Shakespeare country.
So remember, all that glistens is not gold.
I hope Robert likes Wedgwood.
Gosh.
ROBERT POWELL: It's a lot of Wedgwood, isn't it?
I think I'm Wedgewooded out.
PAUL LAIDLAW: Now, I am a no stone unturned kind of guy.
Great, OK.
I won't leave here happy-- Until we get something.
Scan everything.
Oh, there we go.
I found it.
We just get all those thimbles and find a thimble collector.
I'll get-- we'll get a couple of hundred thimbles and a couple of hundred spoons, and I'm sure we can find somebody to buy them.
We sell them for 1 pound 50 each.
Buy them at a pound.
We've paid with 200 quid up.
NARRATOR: Well, he's got the right idea at least.
PAUL LAIDLAW: You nailed it at the off.
We are looking for a collector's item.
Something esoteric and rare and of appeal to someone with a mania.
Oh, it's all been super glued.
[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: He's got high standards.
Charles and Liza's first journey is a short hop for 17 miles to Little Alne near Henley and Arden.
Fabulous Finds.
Fabulous Finds.
Let's hope we have some fabulous finds.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Caroline Howard's shop is an eclectic mix of furniture and collectibles from the 1800s to the 1960s, from Beau Brummel to the Beatles.
Hello, Caroline.
Lovely to meet you.
And you.
CHARLES HANSON: Just take it all in.
Liza, just feel the history around you.
OK, just-- - Feel the vibe.
- You know, can you feel it yet?
- Yeah.
Yeah, it's great, isn't it?
Let's get hunting down, OK?
See that draws my eye.
LIZA GODDARD: Oh, a tea caddy.
CHARLES HANSON: Yeah, quite right.
Is that regency or later?
Victorian?
I'd go back about 30 years.
So go back to about 1790.
LIZA GODDARD: You've got the lining.
CHARLES HANSON: Yeah, bit of tin lining.
You're good.
You know, yeah, you know, you're-- you're no novice, are you?
Yeah, I am a novice.
I'm shivering a bit now, but no, the reason I like this is it's because it's 1790.
It's-- it's Georgian.
LIZA GODDARD: Yes.
CHARLES HANSON: Imagine the butler would have, you know, kept it locked, and it would have been as precious as gold or porcelain.
The tea was so expensive.
Back in the 1790s.
And to me, that's quite nice.
LIZA GODDARD: What about the burning though?
Won't that take away from its value?
NARRATOR: Oh, good spot, Liza.
Yeah, what about the burning, Charles?
CHARLES HANSON: You're quite right.
That would affect value.
But again, he's quite nice.
What do you think?
I like it very much, yeah.
NARRATOR: The ticket price is 65 pounds.
It does have those burn marks, but it's a contender.
CHARLES HANSON: I quite rate it.
LIZA GODDARD: Gosh, to walk in and see something straight away.
I'll say, you know, when you got it, you got it.
Hey, get out of here.
If I said to Caroline, just out of interest, what's the best price?
What's your best price, Caroline.
OK, what have I got on it?
LIZA GODDARD: 65.
CAROLINE HOWARD: 65.
I could do-- how about 55?
CHARLES HANSON: OK. CAROLINE HOWARD: I think-- Shall we mental note?
LIZA GODDARD: Yes.
We'll mental note.
Thanks for that Caroline.
OK. OK, let's walk on.
NARRATOR: A strong possibility and a good start for team Liza and Charles.
Breathe in the history, OK?
OK. Breathe it all in.
NARRATOR: How are things going for Robert and Paul in Stratford?
There are not many things that are actually just flying off the shelf.
NARRATOR: Robert seems like he's going to be a tough nut to crack, so time to try out Paul's area of expertise, military collectibles.
Now, they should be on safer ground there, shouldn't they?
Military and aviation collectibles down there behind you.
Flight navigation computer.
Second World War, and I can device used by navigators typically on heavy bombers.
NARRATOR: A genuine World War II piece with real character.
PAUL LAIDLAW: There you've got some calculations in there.
Look at that.
Somebody flying out in New Haven or a trip over New Haven.
You see that?
57 degrees so many minutes north.
Good heavens.
NARRATOR: Robert seems impressed with the militaria theme so far.
PAUL LAIDLAW: [INAUDIBLE] LIZA GODDARD: [INAUDIBLE] Yeah, so there's another navigator [INAUDIBLE] down there.
NARRATOR: During World War II when planes were above the clouds, they couldn't obviously use the horizon for navigation, and a bubble sextant would be used for positioning.
These two items together would make an interesting lot, but neither has a ticket price.
Time to involve Stephen Floyd.
Hi, Stephen.
They will be dear surely, will they or are they?
Well, I'm happy to offer it.
I mean, what-- what do you think is worth [INAUDIBLE]??
PAUL LAIDLAW: At auction, I would say on the pair, 40 to 60 would be realistic.
40 to 70.
40 to 60.
40 to 60.
For both?
PAUL LAIDLAW: You've heard what I've said there.
I heard what you said.
Are we in hagglable territory or no?
30 quid for the two.
PAUL LAIDLAW: Mr. Robert haggling is my middle name Powell.
NARRATOR: Careful.
Robert, remember what the great bard said, go wisely and slowly.
Those who rush stumble and fall.
25, is-- is that a-- I'll take 25 on them, yeah.
PAUL LAIDLAW: You just did it.
Yes?
Done.
I think that-- yes, I think that could be fun.
NARRATOR: Good haggling, Robert.
The bubble sextant and the Second World War calibrator are theirs for 25 pounds leaving them 375 pounds for the rest of the trip.
All's well.
That was all right, wasn't it?
ROBERT POWELL: I think so.
NARRATOR: Back in Little Alne, Charles and Liza are having no trouble seeing the wood for the tree.
That's pretty.
[INAUDIBLE] I found something quite nice.
Well, [INAUDIBLE].
Yeah, thanks a lot.
Yeah, no, I love those as well.
They're very nice.
LIZA GODDARD: Let's have a look.
CHARLES HANSON: It's a caster in that cabinet there.
CAROLINE HOWARD: Yeah.
CHARLES HANSON: It's a piece of-- it's a piece of treen.
CAROLINE HOWARD: It's a piece of treen, definitely.
NARRATOR: Treen means made of wood or tree and refers to usually turned and carved objects.
That's beautiful.
Antique treen sewing case for 20 pounds.
Oh.
CHARLES HANSON: Isn't that gorgeous?
Oh, that's lovely.
I've fallen in love with it.
Antique treen sewing case.
LIZA GODDARD: Shall we have that too?
CHARLES HANSON: Antique by definition we know is 100 years old.
LIZA GODDARD: Victorian?
Because look at almost this Gothic style of vine leaves and think of Pujan.
I think of almost his, you know-- he was on this-- yeah, absolutely.
It's very Gothicy.
Lovely.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I quite like it.
Maybe put that to one side as well, Caroline.
- I will.
- What a nice shop.
NARRATOR: Two possibles so far, and Liza's got her keen eye on something else.
CHARLES HANSON: That's interesting.
LIZA GODDARD: A lubrocharger.
What's a lubrocharger?
NARRATOR: Oh, come on, Charles, you're a married man.
I'm sure Liza is about to tell you that a lubrocharger would be used by motorists to inject the correct amount of fuel additive into the inlet manifold as an upper cylinder lubricant.
Easy.
There we are.
[INAUDIBLE] hold for extra flow.
[LAUGHTER] I love it.
I love it.
Yeah, isn't it a curio.
I love it.
A curio.
LIZA GODDARD: Yeah, I've never seen one.
Have you ever seen one?
CHARLES HANSON: No, ditto.
Never seen one before.
LIZA GODDARD: I like it.
It's a [INAUDIBLE].
It's a [INAUDIBLE].
A lubrocharger.
No one else will have a lubrocharger.
[MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR: There may be a reason for that.
Right, time for a good, old haggle then.
[INAUDIBLE].
Do we [INAUDIBLE]?
Yeah, yeah, I don't think I'll be any good at it.
I might get better at it by the end of the day.
OK, watch.
Watch and learn.
OK, watch and learn.
Look and learn.
CHARLES HANSON: Get out of here.
Caroline.
CAROLINE HOWARD: Yes.
CHARLES HANSON: Yeah, if we were to make an offer-- CAROLINE HOWARD: Yes.
--on all three, what would be your best price?
The very, very best, I could round that down to 50.
OK, we'll think about that, yeah.
CAROLINE HOWARD: All right, how about 15, and I can actually do that for 20.
So that's halving.
CHARLES HANSON: Yeah.
How are we doing?
You're saying 85 all in.
I was hoping for about 70.
75.
CHARLES HANSON: That could be 15.
That would be 15.
CAROLINE HOWARD: That's 30.
That's 30, and that would be 40 pounds.
Let's do it.
I think that's terribly good, Caroline.
So that's 15, 15, 40 makes 70.
70.
OK. CAROLINE HOWARD: Good with figures.
CHARLES HANSON: Well, if I'm running.
I think.
I think, Liza, if you're happy with that-- I am.
Do we shake hands?
Yeah, shake Caroline's hands.
It's a sale.
NARRATOR: 70 pounds in toto.
40 for the tea caddy, 15 for the treen, and 15 for the lubrocharger.
A good deal done leaving them 330 pounds left to spend.
CHARLES HANSON: Yeah.
NARRATOR: Robert Powell has always loved Shakespeare, playing Hamlet at the Leeds playhouse at the start of his career.
So whilst in Stratford, he's keen to investigate the very beginnings of the Shakespeare story.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford around 1564.
This building dates from 1417, and there's every indication that this is where the young playwright went to school.
Nowadays, the building is part of the King Edward VI school.
I'm Richard Pearson, the archivist.
NARRATOR: Archivist Richard Pearson is our guide.
The building as much as it was in Shakespeare's day with the schoolroom on the first floor above the town hall or guild hall.
So this is the medieval guild hall.
NARRATOR: This hall had many uses from council meetings to public feasts.
The hall was also used to put on plays.
This room will have particular resonance for Robert.
RICHARD PEARSON: This was the agreeing room, and this is where the actors changed.
And that's where the term green room comes from, it is believed anyway.
This is the original green room.
They believe that this is the original green room, and they came through here and performed on this stage.
Well, I've got to tell you, that is a bigger dressing room than I have ever had, and hey, how things have changed for the worst.
NARRATOR: Ah, the actor's lot is not a happy one, but better that than of a 16th-century schoolboy.
RICHARD PEARSON: And this is the old schoolroom.
What a wonderful room.
RICHARD PEARSON: This is where the boys in Shakespeare's time would come.
PAUL LAIDLAW: So Richard, in those days, how many students-- how many boys would there be in the school?
Probably about 40 boys in the school.
PAUL LAIDLAW: And ranging in age from-- From the age of five-- PAUL LAIDLAW: Five.
--to the age of 15.
ROBERT POWELL: So is there any actual physical evidence that WS was here in this school?
There's no evidence like a letter from his mother saying he was ill or no register or anything like that, but there was nowhere else in the area where he could have gone to school.
And also, he makes reference in both "Love's Labors Lost" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor" to headmasters who are loosely recognizable to Jenkins, who was headmaster at the time he was here.
ROBERT POWELL: It's good enough for me.
I mean, actually standing here, it's very possible to believe it.
Why not?
RICHARD PEARSON: You know he was here.
You can sense he was here.
NARRATOR: Richard also believes that it was in this very room that Shakespeare was introduced to theater thanks to his father's duties as mayor of Stratford.
RICHARD PEARSON: Because this end of the school is where the play is performed, so there's been a tradition of school plays and traveling players in this room, and this is where Shakespeare, because his father was the mayor, because they had to see the place first to make sure that they were suitable for the local people.
So Shakespeare as his father's son would actually see the players in here.
So the [INAUDIBLE] for Shakespeare's ideas of drama would have been here and would have been these early plays that were performed in here by traveling players.
It's all too much to take in, isn't it really?
NARRATOR: The presence of a Shakespearean spirit seems to get Robert's creative juices flowing.
ROBERT POWELL: God, I can just imagine somebody walking down here, grabbing hold of the hair just above the ears, and going, come on, boy.
Come on, get it right.
Yes, I can see looking at these grubby, little oiks with ink-stained fingers.
Write out 40 times, I must not talk in class, Powell.
Thank you.
I will see you later.
All these terrible memories.
School was just one long punishment school for me.
I bet Shakespeare didn't have that problem.
NARRATOR: Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more, or once more into the Porsche.
That's the window.
Oh, sorry about that.
Come on, Hanson.
NARRATOR: Where Liza is upping the stakes.
LIZA GODDARD: I'd love to find something that is worth 100,000.
How much?
100,000 pounds?
LIZA GODDARD: This old plate's been in my attic.
Yeah.
My mother left it to me.
Oh, yes, that's lovely.
It's worth 100,000.
You never know.
It's a funny, old game.
NARRATOR: The search for the 100,000 pounds sleeper is taking Charles and Liza to Wizzpan Antiques, an 18-mile drive, and a short walk away in Evesham.
Evesham was the birthplace of Molly Badham, the woman who trained the chimps used in the famous tea adverts.
Even she might have struggled with these two monkeys.
Oh, hello.
It's here.
Wizzpan Collectibles.
Oh, look scrummy.
NARRATOR: Oh, good, the scrummy antique shops are my favorite.
Hello.
Hello, hello, I'm Liza.
Mary.
NARRATOR: Mary has an unusual approach, but is there a sleeper worth 100 grand?
That's early.
Look at that.
Isn't that early?
LIZA GODDARD: Yeah, very.
NARRATOR: This bronze pestle and mortar is tagged at 50 pounds.
Charles is unsure of its period.
19th, 18th, 17th?
Just look at that.
Just handle that bronze.
That's lovely.
CHARLES HANSON: Northern German, northern European, could be Dutch.
We'll mental note, OK?
NARRATOR: Liza's smitten again, but the hunt continues, and these two are prepared to search through everything.
CHARLES HANSON: Can we get through here, Mary?
Is that OK?
MARY: Yes, you can, yeah.
Yeah, fine, thanks a lot.
Cheers.
NARRATOR: And all enter to the Aladdin's cave that is Mary's back room.
Whoops, careful, Charles.
CHARLES HANSON: Just get digging, OK?
You never know what you might find.
NARRATOR: First find.
CHARLES HANSON: Telisa.
LIZA GODDARD: Is it made in Hanley?
The theater where the new Victoria Theater is in Hanley.
Oh, that's lovely, and what's that view on there titled?
Down Somerset way.
Down Somerset way.
Is that great?
NARRATOR: Hanley is now a Stoke City center and was the heart of the Staffordshire potteries when this plate was made around 1930.
No tags on the back room stuff, so Liza and Charles have to guess the prices.
CHARLES HANSON: If it was like two pounds, worth buying.
NARRATOR: That's not going to make your fortune, but it's a start.
Oh.
Sorry.
NARRATOR: Steady, Charles.
Nothing broken.
No.
NARRATOR: Whilst Charles flounders-- CHARLES HANSON: Maybe we could buy a little fish jug.
NARRATOR: --Liza has found something else.
CHARLES HANSON: That's quite pretty.
Is that Lusterware again?
Isn't it?
CHARLES HANSON: It's like a sorb-- it's a sorbet cup, isn't it?
Yeah, it's lovely.
LIZA GODDARD: I think those are lovely.
CHARLES HANSON: 1940s, very nice.
NARRATOR: The four Royal Winton sorbet dishes go well with the handy plate to make up a Staffordshire selection box, but it's pestle and mortar that is stoking Charles's fire.
CHARLES HANSON: That little mortar we saw earlier, I really like it.
I think it might be 16th or 17th century.
Yes.
CHARLES HANSON: And I think it would be a really good buy.
NARRATOR: And you could be on to something there, Charles.
But first, Liza needs to bid for her plate.
Mary, this little lot here.
A tenner?
15 and it's yours.
NARRATOR: Charles?
CHARLES: Yes?
15 says Mary.
Mary, take a chance, Mary.
Mary, take a chance.
(SINGING) Take a chance on me.
Exactly.
If you change your mind, Mary, don't.
Because life's too short.
I'd want to pay about 10 pounds.
MARY: Go on, then.
You can have it for 10.
And say, partner-- Because you've bamboozled me, completely.
So you can have it for 10.
Thank you.
CHARLES (VOICEOVER): Generous Mary parts with the five pieces of pottery for a tenner.
What about the pestle and mortar, Charles?
What's the best on that?
I'd do that for 35.
CHARLES: Mary, would you take 30 for the pestle and mortar?
And take a chance?
MARY: I will, yeah.
CHARLES: Take a chance on me, You keep saying I'll take a chance.
But really, I should be saying that to you.
Yeah, we're taking a chance.
You're a darling, Mary.
CHARLES: Mary, let me give you a kiss.
Thanks, Mary.
[KISSES MARY'S HAND] Oh, my goodness, Charles.
CHARLES: Thanks, Mary Oh, my word.
CHARLES: Yeah.
Give the lady a handshake.
Aw.
Mary.
NARRATOR: Great work, team.
Liza got her pottery for 10 pounds.
The pestle and mortar was 30.
Pay Mary her money.
And that's the last shop of the day.
Oh, hang on.
Liza's Staffordshire pottery radar has picked up on this angel fish vase.
So I suspect this vase would date to, what-- 1930s?
MARY: Yeah.
Yeah, 1930s.
It's quite rampantly art deco.
NARRATOR: This was made by the Stoke company Myott and Sons using a technique developed by the Austrian company Goldscheider.
It's a pretty vase but has a small crack on its lip.
Do fish have lips?
Mary, there's a small crack on this vase over here.
We've just spotted it.
What's the best price on it?
20.
CHARLES: 20?
Yeah, 20.
CHARLES: That's quite good at 20 pounds.
NARRATOR: 20 pounds for the fish vase, then.
Will they bite?
Yeah.
Yeah, we'll take a fish vase.
NARRATOR: Only two shops in, and I make that seven items bought.
[INAUDIBLE] for having the time of their lives.
Yeah.
[HUMMING] You like all that.
I'm very excited.
Sometimes you have a hop skip and a jump when you find a good object.
I think mortar really is quite exciting.
I think although it's called 1850, I think it's more like 1620.
And it might say to you, if I was alive, I was alive when Charles I was King of England.
- It's amazing.
- That's good.
So it's almost 400 years old.
I hope so.
I hope so.
Hope so.
How much you think it's really worth?
Well, I think, with a hop, skip and a jump and a big bounce, I think it's worth about 100 pounds.
Let's go.
NARRATOR: With our happy pair hopping to the horizon, that's the end of day one.
With some bad news at the start of day two, the Porsche is kaput and has been retired from the road trip.
Every cloud, however-- I see this one.
Its a fixed-head Coupe.
The sarcophagus there?
PAUL: Described then as the most beautiful car in the world and perhaps should still retain that mantle.
Maybe we shouldn't kill this one.
Paul, can I drive it, Paul?
Can I drive?
PAUL: No, you can't.
CHARLES: Why not?
Look at what you did with the German one.
Oh, wow.
PAUL: Get in.
It's amazing, isn't it?
This is one of the cars of my dreams, I kid you not.
NARRATOR: So that's the boys, happy them.
But how are two celebrities enjoying their road trip?
Did have a good day yesterday?
We had a marvelous day.
We had a marvelous day.
I think Charles is a brilliant.
And he's got this fantastic laser eye.
He goes in the shop.
He goes looking around like this.
And he finds the little something that we pay 10 pounds for, probably worth-- I don't know-- 100,000 pounds at auction.
So not bad at all.
What about you?
ROBERT POWELL: We did struggle a little bit to find things that leapt out at us.
But we eventually did come up with, I think, fascinating lot.
NARRATOR: That fascinating lot is the World War II navigation aids bought for 25 pounds, leaving Robert and Paul with 375 pounds to spend today.
I'm sorry.
[INAUDIBLE] I think so.
LIZA GODDARD: Hello, Caroline.
Lovely to meet you.
NARRATOR: Liza and Charles were shopaholics by comparison.
[CLANGING NOISE] LIZA GODDARD: Oh!
Sorry.
NARRATOR: They bought seven items for 130 pounds.
So they have 270 pounds left for today.
CHARLES: Give the lady a handshake.
Aw, Mary.
LIZA GODDARD: Oh, I say.
Look at this.
Ooh la la.
ROBERT POWELL: New car?
How very nice.
What sort of type do you call this?
NARRATOR: Hang on.
Looks like more car problems to me.
LIZA GODDARD: They can't get out.
[LAUGHING] ROBERT POWELL: Excuse me.
It's all right, love.
CHARLES: Thanks a lot.
ROBERT POWELL: That's all right.
Yes, let me give you a hand there.
CHARLES: Thanks a lot.
Thank you very much.
ROBERT POWELL: Oh, no.
It's done.
[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: Experts extricated, lovely kisses and vintage cars exchanged.
Terror.
NARRATOR: And we're all ready for another day celebrity antiques road tripping.
Yeah.
Robert and Paul have taken the Jensen to Tewkesbury for a hunt in Tewkesbury antique center.
ROBERT POWELL: Robert Powell, hello.
Anthony.
Paul, pleased to meet you.
PAUL: I'm going to go in where it says, "and there's more."
NARRATOR: They weren't very impressed with yesterday's fare.
Will they do better today?
Oh, dear, that's not a good start.
There's not a lot that's inexpensive, is there?
I mean, inexpensive and good.
[CLANGING NOISE] ROBERT POWELL: I'm glad that wasn't us.
NARRATOR: Sounds like Charles Hansen's around here.
ROBERT POWELL: This hunt is harder than it looks, isn't it?
PAUL: Yeah.
Don't weaken.
ROBERT POWELL: Yes.
No compromise.
NARRATOR: These two aren't cracking under the pressure.
Nerves of steel, I say.
Nothing has leapt out at me at all.
Nothing that I would buy for myself.
NARRATOR: Paul offers one ray of hope.
One glass cabinet.
And I didn't like the price tags, but I liked some of the materials.
Let's have a wee shifty.
NARRATOR: They've got money to spend and objects to buy.
So can Paul or owner Terry impress Robert with something?
Maybe see the card case.
That would be great.
LIZA GODDARD: That's a smart thing.
PAUL: It's a very smart thing, that one.
George V gentleman's visiting card case.
Little cartouche there bears initials.
That doesn't help this particular one.
However-- LIZA GODDARD: If it was, it's a GBS or something like that.
George Bernard Shaw.
Then, then we'd be talking, wouldn't we?
NARRATOR: Well, he's interested.
The asking price on the card case is 75 pounds.
But what can they get it for?
May we offer you 30 pounds for that, Terry?
I can't do it for that, I'm afraid, Paul.
I'll give 35.
TERRY: And that would be my rock bottom on it.
NARRATOR: 35 pounds?
Any advice from Robert?
Don't panic.
It's [INAUDIBLE].
Don't panic.
PAUL: What do you do-- LIZA GODDARD: The day is running out.
We'll buy it for 35.
TERRY: OK. PAUL: It's a deal.
TERRY: Done.
PAUL: Thank you very much indeed.
Thank you, Terry.
NARRATOR: 75 pounds down to 35 is a good deal.
That's a nice little item and could do well for them.
LIZA GODDARD: I need you to do the hand brake.
Hand brake.
Hand brake.
NARRATOR: Before Liza and Charles get their day started, they manage-- - The hand off the hand brake.
Off.
- Sorry.
Off.
Of course.
- Thank you.
- Hand brake off.
NARRATOR: With a bit of collaboration and mutual assistance-- Hand brake off.
NARRATOR: --to take a turn down memory lane.
Liza's telling Charles all about when she became a world famous teen star playing Clancy in "Skippy the Bush Kangaroo."
That was two years of my life in the bush in Australia filming with all these animals, all totally untrained and incontinent.
NARRATOR: Knowing that, it's perhaps surprising that Liza has always had a love of animals.
She's patron of the RSPCA and the International League for the Protection of Horses.
And until recently, was the president of the Hawk and Owl Trust.
She certainly knows a thing or two about birds.
CHARLES: birds would you see around here?
You should see lots of Buzzards around here.
Yeah, Buzzards.
OK. A real Buzzard country.
I'll look for a Buzzard.
LIZA GODDARD: Could even see a Raven round here.
I can't see any birds yet.
No, I can't see a single bird.
- I'm looking in the trees.
- Yeah.
Trees, hedgerows.
CHARLES: at all.
NARRATOR: But Liza knows her place where she and Charles can see birds aplenty 37 miles away in Newent.
CHARLES: International Center for Birds of Prey.
LIZA GODDARD: I know!
It's so exciting!
I can't tell you.
CHARLES: Wow.
NARRATOR: The International Center for Birds of Prey is the oldest dedicated birds of prey center in the world, opening to the public in 1967.
We all ducked.
with over 200 birds on site, the center devotes itself to public education, research, and captive breeding.
The earliest evidence of falconry, the hunting of wild quarry using a bird of prey, dates to 2000 BC.
Head Falconer Mark Parker-- Hello.
Nice to see you again.
NARRATOR: --is something of a beak on the subject.
MARK PARKER: Falconry has been around for thousands of years.
It is the oldest sport in the world.
For some people, it was a way of getting food.
But I think you have to split that to the people that had the time and the money and the prestige and the position of society where they could fly big Falcons, important game, to somebody perhaps lower down the levels, that may well have been poaching with a hawk just to get that little bit of extra food to keep his family going through the winter.
Because Henry VIII loved it.
He was a fanatic, wasn't he?
He was.
He was either hunting or-- CHARLES: 16 century.
NARRATOR: Falconry is still used today.
From Wimbledon to landfill sites, birds used to control pests.
But the reality is that many native species of birds of prey are now at risk.
There's a lot of persecution with birds of prey around the world.
You have massive problems with vultures that have died by the millions through being poisoned, for a use of certain chemicals.
And Harry is being poisoned and shot in this country?
Yes.
So it's important, really, as far as we're concerned, to open people's eyes to the beauty of birds of prey and how we can look after them, how we can help them.
NARRATOR: As well as working to protect the birds, the center is also trying to preserve the heritage of falconry.
The most important part of a falconers equipment is the hood used to keep the bird calm during training.
And Mark has the beginnings of an antique collection.
For me, personally, as a falconer that loves the history of falconry, these are sort of gold dust.
These are like the Holy Grail to be cherished.
Because in my right hand, we have a hood that is what we refer to as a mollen hood.
It was made by a famous falconry family in Holland.
And this one here, we discovered through a little bit of digging, that it was made by a French Falconer in about 1934.
And they're absolutely fantastic pieces.
CHARLES: Well, they were.
If I said to you, I'll give you 100 pounds for the three, what do you say to me?
I don't know.
I don't know what the value is.
Probably in the region of 1000 pounds plus.
Wow.
MARK PARKER: In the right market, to the right person, they'd probably cut off their right arm to get this.
NARRATOR: Liza's in her element here, but Charles might struggle with this next bit.
You want to point your shoulder just like that.
CHARLES: OK. NARRATOR: Oh, Charles.
I've never seen a man so far out of his comfort zone.
MARK PARKER: Don't do that.
No, I won't do that.
I won't flinch.
Oh, no.
And don't dive for cover.
No, I won 't.
NARRATOR: Come on, these Liza.
Show him how it's done.
CHARLES: Fantastic, especially for someone who's been on "Doctor Who."
Do you ever go with yourself?
MARK PARKER: Clench your fist.
Put your fist there.
CHARLES: Yeah.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
There you go.
MARK PARKER: Jimmy will call him to-- there you go.
Brilliant.
CHARLES: Fantastic.
NARRATOR: I think we may have a convert.
Well done, Liza.
Oh, good boy.
Turn around and you go back to Jimmy.
Want to go back to him?
Yeah.
How fantastic is that.
CHARLES: Quite-- quite something, isn't it?
Yeah.
LIZA GODDARD: You enjoyed that.
CHARLES: I've enjoyed it so much.
LIZA GODDARD: Good.
Good.
Good boy.
Aren't you wonderful.
Thank you so much, Mark.
MARK PARKER: Pleasure.
Thank you.
It LIZA GODDARD: Was brilliant.
Thank you.
- Thanks a lot.
All the best.
- Come on then, Charles.
I don't know where we're going.
NARRATOR: Now these two birds of a feather need to go and do some hunting and squawking of a different kind.
With a faint air of panic about them, and 340 pounds left to spend, Robert and Paul head for the last shop.
They're still in Tewkesbury at Acquisition Antiques, the shop being looked after on behalf of the family by Millie Brashdeis.
Well, it says, come in.
We're open.
So let's go in.
They're open.
Lead on.
NARRATOR: They have to find at least three items here if they are to stand any chance against Charles and Liza.
PAUL: It feels better already, doesn't it?
ROBERT POWELL: Oh, yes indeed.
This will be an African traveling trunk of the 19th century.
Commissioned out there by some Westerner, I have no doubt.
Vintage luggage is a good field.
You could stick a small pane of glass in that and set it as a little drinks table next to the armchair or whatever.
You could, actually.
You looking at that eyebrow raised, or-- ROBERT POWELL: No, no I'm not.
No, no.
I'm fascinated by it.
Because it is a one-off.
NARRATOR: We have an enthusiastic celebrity on our hands.
And all down to a reptile skin traveling case priced at 115 pounds.
To start negotiations, Millie calls her bro.
MILLIE: I'm in the shop and they would like the test for 60 because it's their lucky number.
What's your lucky number?
He said he said his lucky number is 70.
So you can have it for his lucky number, if you like.
NARRATOR: Let's see if Robert is any good at haggling on the end of a phone.
Hello, this is Robert here, Robert Powell.
We like the box.
If you say yes, then the deal is done if we say 60.
PAUL: Tell him behave himself.
It's 60 quid for the box.
I've got to say, I've got an expert here who keeps on bullying me and telling me-- [LAUGHING] and telling me I've got to hold for 60.
Yes?
Yeah?
Thank you very, very much indeed.
You are very kind.
NARRATOR: Well haggled, Robert.
The case is secured for 60 pounds.
PAUL: I kind of thought Robert Powell talking to one down the phone would swing it.
Played our trump card right at the end.
NARRATOR: That's three items for Robert and Paul.
There you go.
Thank you very much.
NARRATOR: They're making progress, which is more than could be said for Liza and Charles.
- Oops.
- Go.
Hit it.
Hit it.
There.
OK.
There we go.
Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.
NARRATOR: As they approach the last shop of the trip, Liza and Charles are discovering that the most beautiful car in the world-- Sorry.
NARRATOR: --has the turning circle of an ocean liner.
Thank you.
Hanson, live in your work.
Hanson, live in your work.
Oh, I'm sweating.
I'm sweating so much.
NARRATOR: Liza and Charles have driven the nine miles from Newent to Ledbury.
All they have to do now is to park.
So stand by.
OK, hot rod.
You're the man.
LIZA GODDARD: Mind those children.
Get out of the way children.
That's it's.
Good.
Oh.
Well done.
Perfect.
Oh.
NARRATOR: Perfect is not the word I'd use.
They're here to have a look around Rod's Curiosities.
Oh, the old Curiosity Shop.
NARRATOR: Rod has lots of nice stuff.
But Charles quickly hones in on an item that's got real quality.
What I like in here, and I'm quite surprised to see it, is that lovely mug.
ROGER: Yeah.
CHARLES: Do you like it?
LIZA GODDARD: I do.
May we have a browse of this mug here, please?
ROGER: Yes, certainly.
CHARLES: Thanks a lot.
LIZA GODDARD: What drew you to that immediately-- CHARLES: Well, I'll tell you-- LIZA GODDARD: Out of the whole of all this nice, sparkly, shiny stuff.
CHARLES: Yeah, I can see the word Georgian-- LIZA GODDARD: On the label?
--which would suggest to me it's quite early.
And if it's silver, quite interesting.
NARRATOR: A Georgian silver tankard.
I can see why Charles is excited.
CHARLES: When you handle anything silver, first of all, you close your eyes and you hope it's quite heavy.
That's quite heavy.
And that's quite good.
NARRATOR: Charles obviously loves it, but Liza spots a potential problem.
Amazing this handle's not more worn, isn't it?
Considering you would-- Yeah.
NARRATOR: Well done, Liza.
Keep Charles in check.
CHARLES: The handle, Rod, do you think that's original?
ROD: Well, I can't say on that one right at this moment.
LIZA GODDARD: So that could be a Victorian handle?
That's why it's not worn.
Yeah, it could be.
NARRATOR: Ha.
It also looks as if someone has tried to remove an inscription at some stage, but they're still keen.
CHARLES: This Georgian hallmarked London silver tankard or mug, is hallmarked.
And this mug would have been toasting maybe our success on the vintage antique road trip back in the year 1757.
LIZA GODDARD: Really.
CHARLES: Amazing, isn't it?
And that's why I love antiques.
- I love it.
Yeah.
I love it as well.
NARRATOR: Charles and Liza have 270 pounds left to spend.
And the tankard is priced at 375.
So as ever, the key question is-- What's the best price on this?
ROD: The best?
The real best.
The bottom.
Oh.
150.
[CHARLES GASPS] I think that's very good.
I think it's very good.
NARRATOR: Well, that's a big reduction.
Liza's skepticism maybe helped to reduce the price.
But Charles thinks they can do even better.
Time for a quick pep talk.
I would love to try and buy it for-- (WHISPERING) 120 pounds.
Right.
OK. And that's your opportunity to go and see Rod.
OK, Rod.
OK, Rod.
Here I come.
What is your best price on this?
The best price.
The best.
Your very best price.
125.
Uh, your very best, Rod, would be?
120.
CHARLES: Oh!
- Yes!
Yes!
Say yes!
We're in.
Rod, quick.
Thank you.
I think that's all.
Thank you.
NARRATOR: Rod's generous reduction means the tankard has gone from 375 pounds to 120.
Thank you, Rod.
Cheers, Rod.
Cheers.
NARRATOR: Good work, team.
In Tewksebury, exciting news for Paul and Robert.
Millie's father owns a shop just up the road from the shop in which they bought the trunk.
And he's given them permission to have a look around.
Oh.
MILLIE: then you've got the back room as well.
PAUL: They don't make them like this anymore.
This is like walking back in time and full of really eclectic range of traditional antiques.
And that's me all over.
NARRATOR: Although the first find is not going to make their fortune.
PAUL: Robert?
ROBERT POWELL: Hmm-mm.
Do you want a banker?
A guaranteed profit.
NARRATOR: Feels like our boys have a new sense of direction.
PAUL: A military marching compass.
OK?
And it dates to-- of course, I can't read-- 1918.
A somewhat sophisticated marching compass, albeit mass-produced.
They're not rare.
However, this is priced at 10 pounds.
And I'm telling you, it will make 30 to 50 pounds in any auction on any day.
And could make 60 pounds.
ROBERT POWELL: Well, I'll take your word for that.
Let's have it.
Let's buy it.
PAUL: Yeah?
- Yeah.
- That a sale?
- Absolutely.
Well, we're not we're not even haggling.
That's a fair price.
ROBERT POWELL: Yeah.
NARRATOR: 10 pounds ticket price, 10 pounds paid.
Things are looking up.
Through into the next room where on the bed is, appropriately enough, what might be a sleeper.
PAUL: That is a hell of a piece of Boulle work.
Da da da.
That's a jardiniere, isn't it?
NARRATOR: Boulle work is a form of marquetry allowing, for example, brass to be inlaid perfectly into, for example, tortoiseshell.
It was perfected by Antoine-Charles Boulle around the beginning of the 18th century.
And isn't it fun in red?
What's the matter with that?
It's been through the mill.
- Beautiful, isn't it?
That's what the matter is.
It's been through the mill.
NARRATOR: The piece is battered.
It's had woodworm in the past and has a piece of molding hanging loose.
But still, Paul is interested.
PAUL: Well, that would be worth tidying up.
That's a rich thing for the money.
NARRATOR: The money being 95 pounds at the moment.
As a piece, it's beautiful.
And I love the color.
Yeah.
OK.
I like that.
Let's have it.
PAUL: You do like that, don't you?
ROBERT POWELL: Yeah, I do.
PAUL: This is great.
NARRATOR: This is the item Robert has been looking for.
Can he get the price down?
Ask your dad if there's slack in that.
Yeah, I'll give him a call.
And if there's a wee panel pen.
MILLIE: Yeah, I'll give him a ring for you.
PAUL: Yeah?
That's great.
Thanks.
(WHISPERING) At first glance, that's a dazzler.
I think so.
Yeah.
Immediately NARRATOR: Millie calls her dad and comes back with a price.
What do you think of 70?
I mean, if we were to say 60, would we get-- would we get close?
I would meet in the middle at 65.
65?
What do you think?
No.
No?
I'd dig your heels in.
Can it be 60?
ROBERT POWELL: Can it be 60?
MILLIE: If I did 60, would Dad be very angry?
ROBERT POWELL: No.
MILLIE: He'd forgive me, won't he?
ROBERT POWELL: He'll forgive you.
Of course, he would forgive you.
Anybody would forgive you.
I'll just smile sweetly.
Go ahead.
60 is fine.
I think 60?
Thank you very much indeed.
Thank you.
NARRATOR: Now that's a good deal, 60 pounds.
And there's just the small matter of running repairs.
Tape.
Voila.
NARRATOR: They finally found a piece that Robert really loves.
That, I would actually have in my own house and I would plant it.
And I think I would be very proud of it.
NARRATOR: A huge sense of relief for this pair.
The travel case, the compass, and their star item, the jardiniere, giving them a real chance at the auction.
Good.
Feeling good.
ROBERT POWELL: Yeah.
Rock on.
Dead proud now.
NARRATOR: Shopping finally completed, our fab four head for Tewkesbury Abbey to compare their wares.
Oh, hello.
Oh, my goodness.
LIZA GODDARD: Ooh la la.
NARRATOR: Charles soon spots the jewel in the crown CHARLES: I just feel that object is just too good to be true.
But it's here.
Really?
We both I think rather thrilled for you to say that.
CHARLES: What is key is condition.
Is it in good order?
PAUL: No, this is presentable.
CHARLES: If it was under 200 pounds, we've got to panic.
- Really?
- Yes.
Gosh.
How much was it?
Do we tell them?
Oh, don't tell us.
It was 60.
It wasn't.
It wasn't.
If that came into my sell room tomorrow, I'd happily advise a vendor it's worth between 150 and 250.
Easily.
That's the number I mentioned.
- Yeah.
- Oh.
You are such a clever boy, aren't you?
No, I think it's great because I think you've done really well.
And I really am worried because this, Liza, is an exciting object.
And we commend you.
ROBERT POWELL: Thank you very much.
Our turn.
Exciting times.
Come on.
LIZA GODDARD: Careful.
CHARLES: This way yeah?
OK. Voila.
LIZA GODDARD: Ta da.
Oh, pretty.
CHARLES: OK.
Hold on.
We'll just turn it around for you.
Look at that, Paul.
You have gone for-- oh, that's very pretty.
Is that period?
Look at his face.
Look at his face.
Is that period silver baluster tankard?
LIZA GODDARD: Yes.
What's it, 1740, 1750?
This was made in London in the year 1757.
LIZA GODDARD: Yeah.
- Oh, beautiful.
LIZA GODDARD: Oh, look at his face.
Look at his face.
No.
ROBERT POWELL: Beautiful.
PAUL: Yeah.
CHARLES: It has had some old engraving removed.
A presentation engraving from 1860.
That's a shame.
Just have a quick handle.
And feel that weight, as well.
Yes, you're going to make him jealous.
PAUL: Oh.
Oh, an Achilles heel.
So I wouldn't bother taking that to auction.
No?
No, so we'll just-- [LAUGHTER] Put it in your bag.
Yeah.
I like his style.
I like his style.
Very, very nice.
Could still do 200, 250?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We paid 120 for it.
Well, you're going to make on that.
That's just quintessential.
ROBERT POWELL: Absolutely.
- Well done.
- Thank you.
Loving your work.
Thank you.
[INTERPOSING VOICES] CHARLES: This could be a close one.
Can't wait for knowledge.
It's that way.
OK, partner.
NARRATOR: So what do they really think?
CHARLES: That jardiniere, it's got real legs.
It could make 400 pounds.
I don't know how they got this silver tankard for 120.
I don't know how that happened.
There's potential 100 pound profit in that one purchase.
If the world comes from Norwich at the auction-- Which, of course, it will.
On that sale day, we could make a fortune.
NARRATOR: Auction day has arrived.
And as they head to the village of Acle, just beyond Norwich, there's a lot of excitement in the celebrity's car, especially from Ms. Goddard.
Oh, I'm so looking forward.
I can't wait.
I do hope we do well.
I couldn't bear it if we went for nothing after all that because I think we've got some cracking things.
Do you mean you hope you do well?
Or you hope that we do well?
Yes, I hope you do bad.
No, I hope you do very badly.
NARRATOR: Finally they arrive at the battle arena.
Good morning.
That's quick, isn't it?
That's really quick.
Yeah.
PAUL: There's an entrance.
CHARLES: Yeah.
Good morning, partner.
LIZA GODDARD: Hello, Charles, darling.
Hasn't time flown by?
The auction is here.
LIZA GODDARD: How are you, gorgeous?
CHARLES: How are you, gorgeous?
OK.
Looking forward to a bit of fun.
Yes, indeedy.
LIZA GODDARD: He's never nervous.
Are you nervous, Robert, today?
We are quietly confident with the emphasis in bold, underlined, quietly.
We're very noisily excited!
Let's go.
LIZA GODDARD: I've had a coffee, a very bad idea.
NARRATOR: Decaf for you next time, I think Liza.
All of the items will be going into Horner's Auctioneers, once a month, sale of antiques, fine art, and collectibles.
- Calm.
- Yeah.
Calm.
I'm exhausted already.
NARRATOR: Liza and Charles spent 250 pounds on six lots, including the potentially match-winning silver tankard.
And they have high hopes for the pestle and mortar.
Robert and Paul spent 190 pounds on five lots.
And most of their hopes are planted firmly in the jardiniere, but will it germinate?
Charles, wee bit of sweat showing.
Wee bit of sweat.
It's dribbling.
NARRATOR: No messing about then.
Let's see how much Liza and Charles' tankard goes for.
This is a beauty.
A lot of weight to this one.
Let's go.
[AUCTIONEER CHANTS] 300 pounds.
CHARLES: Come on.
AUCTIONEER: 200 pounds.
50 pound.
Thank you at 50.
- What?
No.
Much more than that.
AUCTIONEER: Somebody made it 75.
75.
75.
80, 85.
85.
90 only.
At 90.
95.
95.
100.
Come on.
Come on.
AUCTIONEER: 110.
110.
Much more than that.
AUCTIONEER: 120.
120.
125.
130.
130.
- Come on.
AUCTIONEER: 135.
135.
140.
145.
150.
155.
Come on.
Very heavy, you know.
AUCTIONEER: Come on.
At 155.
160.
170.
180.
Come on!
AUCTIONEER: 190.
200.
200 pound bid.
200.
220.
240.
A 240 bid.
Very good.
Come on.
Come on.
AUCTIONEER: Come on.
At 280.
300.
300 pounds.
300 pounds.
At 300.
At 300.
We're going once more.
At 300 pounds.
Well done.
300 pounds right here.
NARRATOR: God, that's a huge profit.
Surely there's no way back for Robert and Paul now?
Robert, we're in trouble.
That is a mountain to climb.
NARRATOR: Can Robert's and Paul's first item, the navigation instruments, start to eat into Charles' and Liza's huge lead?
30 pound going to start with then.
And 30 pounds bid.
At 35.
35.
35.
Sell it.
AUCTIONEER: Come on.
35 bid.
35 pounds.
35 front row.
35.
34.
Waiting for 40 pounds.
At 40.
At 40.
At 40.
I'm still alive at 40.
At 40 bid.
Well done.
Profit.
Even more than that, though.
Sell it right here on the computer.
There we are.
Thank you.
It's better than a loss but it's not enough.
NARRATOR: Just a small profit, but a profit, nevertheless.
We need bigger steps than this, Robert.
We need bigger steps.
And profit.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
NARRATOR: Liza and Charles up next with the treen sewing kit.
Here we go.
30 bid.
30 bid.
At 30 online.
At 30.
Here at 35.
At 40 bid.
Keep pressing that button at home.
Yeah, come on at home.
Press those buttons.
50.
50.
I'm still online at 55.
60 pounds.
60.
65.
75.
Yeah, keep going.
80.
80 pounds.
Online at 80 pounds.
Have another go.
At 80.
Are you sure?
It's a nice one.
Calm down.
Not you, just telling the bidders to calm down.
There we go.
Thank you.
Not worth it.
NARRATOR: That made 65 pounds.
A small item, but a massive profit.
Oh, dear.
It's very exciting.
I didn't realize it would be so exciting.
NARRATOR: The compass next.
Robert and Paul sure need this to make some money.
30 pounds.
35.
35.
35.
40 pounds.
Come on.
Is this going to deliver?
40 at 5.
45.
45.
45.
Come on.
We want the 50.
- We need the 50.
We want the 50.
45.
45.
45.
You have to press that button again if you want it at 45.
It's in the room.
At 45 pounds.
Last look at 45 pounds.
And we sell-- PAUL: That's good.
It's on a Robert.
Its all right.
NARRATOR: Compass sold for 45 pounds there clawing back Charles' and Liza's lead.
Of course, Paul would know all about Samson mortar, wouldn't he?
A great name.
NARRATOR: Robert's and Paul's silver card case next.
20 pounds.
20 pounds a bid.
At 20 pounds 5.
25.
It's silver at 25.
Hold on.
Good.
Well done.
AUCTIONEER: In the back at 30 pounds.
At 30.
At 30 pounds.
At 30.
I'm going to sell it at 30.
How much did you say we were at?
AUCTIONEER: 35.
35.
40.
At 40 now.
45.
45.
50 pounds.
50.
It's a nice thing.
Come on.
Did we get the 50?
Well done.
That's good.
That's good.
Front row at 55.
60.
At 60 now.
60 pounds.
That's a good result.
That's a really good result.
Strong.
That's high estimate.
At 60 pounds only then.
We're going to do it.
He's number nine.
That's a strong price.
We're getting there.
NARRATOR: Nice thing.
Good profit.
Everybody's happy.
I thought oh, no.
Well done.
No, you didn't.
You thought oh, no.
Good.
NARRATOR: Now Charles' and Liza's first purchase, the tea caddy.
Come on.
That's gorgeous.
45.
45 pounds.
At 45.
I love this, just for history sake.
45 pounds.
At 45.
50.
Just for history sake.
Nelson used this.
Nelson used it.
At 50 pounds.
At 50.
50.
I'm on that front row.
At 50 pounds.
I'm going to have to do it.
- Come on.
- Oh, we go.
Thank you.
NARRATOR: 10 pounds profit on the tea caddy.
Every item has made a profit so far.
I think that was cheap.
- Yeah.
- I do.
But you're quite right, Paul.
The condition-- That's what killed it.
NARRATOR: The item that Robert searched high and low for, the jardiniere that cost them 60 pounds.
What a rare thing to find, this one.
Haven't seen one of these for years.
[AUCTIONEER CHANT] 50 pounds a bid to start.
I have 55.
55.
60 pounds.
70 pounds.
He ought to [INAUDIBLE] is running round and round.
85.
90.
95.
100.
110.
And 120.
130.
Are in the room at 130.
140.
150.
160.
170.
180.
190.
200 pound bid.
Well done, Paul.
Well done, Robert.
NARRATOR: Oh, it's hit 200.
Can it go further?
My lady here at 220.
240.
Come on.
260.
Go to 3.
At 300 pounds.
NARRATOR: Look at that!
300!
340.
380.
400.
420.
420.
Come back.
You said this might be the-- 420.
My lady here at 420 pounds.
And we're going to sell then.
Congratulations.
Well done, guys.
We knew, didn't we?
NARRATOR: Well done, eh?
A monumental 360 pounds profit.
That's in record breaking territory for "Celebrity Antiques Road Trip."
Robert, superb result.
Paul, congratulations.
Wonderful.
Just a wonderful result.
Heart leapt when I saw it.
NARRATOR: Now time for Liza's favorite item, the lubrocharger.
Here we go.
Here we go, Charles.
It looks beautiful.
Beautiful.
Look at that.
This is the most exciting lot of them all, I think.
This is [INAUDIBLE].
[AUCTIONEER CHANTING] At 25.
25 online.
It's early now.
It's a lovely thing.
See, this could be interesting.
Every pound is a nibble away.
It's a beautiful piece of thing.
AUCTIONEER: And 35.
Online at 35 pounds.
Last sweep at 35 pounds.
We're going to have to sell.
That's great.
NARRATOR: 20 pounds profit for Liza's beautiful "piece of thing."
I'm just going to fall notice because I think that's a new world record.
For a lubrometer.
NARRATOR: Liza's ceramics next.
30 pounds total cost price.
- Come on, everyone.
- Let's go.
30 pounds are going to start.
20.
10 pounds.
Thank you.
15 pound.
15 pound.
The lot at 15 bid.
15.
20.
Royal Winton, everyone.
Hooray.
35.
Go, [INAUDIBLE].
At 25.
25.
25.
Are we done?
That's right.
That's right.
Once more.
I can do no further at 25 pounds that we sell.
Oh, poo.
Yeah.
It was a gamble.
The fish vase is superb.
That was my choice.
It could have done it.
It could have done it.
NARRATOR: That's the first loss of the day.
But even then, only a fiver.
I make it we need a minor miracle now, if we're going to come back.
- OK. What's the next thing?
NARRATOR: Another item that Robert Powell fell for, the travel case.
50 pounds.
At 50 pounds.
Congratulations.
Off you go.
60 pounds.
Are we finished at 60?
At 60 pounds, I sell here on the internet for that.
Thank you.
There we are.
NARRATOR: No profit there, I'm afraid.
It's a funny thing.
That just shows a lack of imagination from all those people out there.
NARRATOR: The final item is Charles' and Liza's pestle and mortar.
It could be old.
It could make big money.
And it needs to.
Hold your breath.
Let's go.
80.
50-30 pound a bid to start.
At 35.
40 pounds.
Let's go.
Let's go.
At 50 pounds.
At.
50 I'm online at 50.
Come on.
It's 1630.
For goodness sake.
- I hope so.
55.
55.
55.
At 55 Pounds.
Is it worth one more bid?
Good last.
Well, done.
AUCTIONEER: 60.
Yes!
AUCTIONEER: At 60 pounds.
Charles I was on the throne.
AUCTIONEER: At 60.
That's 60 pounds.
And with Roscoe.
Charles I is on the phone.
What was he bidding for?
NARRATOR: Another great profit for Liza and Charles.
But not enough to catch rivals, Paul and Robert.
Well done.
I think we've had some really good results.
Thank you very much, Charles.
Well done, you.
No, well done you, too.
NARRATOR: Liza and Charles started with 400 pounds.
With the help of some astute buys, and a big chunk of tankard shaped silver, ended up after auction costs with a whopping 601 pounds.
Wow.
But it's Robert and Paul who won and won big, turning their 400 into 722 pounds and 50p after auction costs.
A remarkable achievement.
All profits from the series go to children in need.
In this case, over 500 pounds.
So well done, everyone.
Thank you so much.
It's been a most wonderful time.
Thank you, Jeff Charles.
Oh, thank you.
Thanks a lot.
My pleasure.
Thank you very much, Paul.
Well done, you.
Such a pleasure to meet you.
Should I drive?
Uh, actually, no.
I think the victor drives.
This is my prize, town Charles.
Thanks a lot, Paul.
I know.
And you deserve it.
Cheerio.
LIZA GODDARD: Bye!
Well, I think it has been a very, very jolly three days.
I've adored it.
I've learned a lot.
I've laughed a lot.
I've had a marvelous time.
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