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

This is beautiful.

That's the way to do this.

VO: With £200 each, a classic car and a goal to scour for antiques.

Joy.

Hello.

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

But it's no mean feat.

(LAUGHS) (GAVEL) VO: There will be worthy winners and valiant losers.

Sorry, sorry!

VO: So, will it be the high road to glory or the slow road to disaster?

The handbrake's on.

VO: This is Antiques Road Trip!

Yeah.

Somewhere in this Scottish mist are Catherine Southon and Paul Laidlaw.

Whoops.

PAUL (PL): This may be dank and misty and arguably foreboding.

PL: But it's gorgeous.

CATHERINE (CS): Yeah.

This is a bit, erm, Macbethean.

Can I say that?

What, dramatic.

It is dramatic.

PL: What?

CS: A dramatic final.

BOTH: Oh!

VO: Our two auctioneers are making their way through the murk towards a thrilling showdown in Aberdeen!

Should one of us go and sell our soul to some witches in return for victory at the auction?

Oh, don't!

Don't.

Who knows what can jump out from behind this hedgerow.

VO: Maybe after their Morris?

Even though it does date from an era before seat belts were mandatory.

They've certainly come a long way together.

I'm quite upset actually, Paul, that it's our last... What a journey it's been.

..last little day.

From Northern Ireland to, well, we're touching on the north of Scotland.

CS: Yeah.

PL: And it's been glorious.

VO: Profitable too, especially for Paul.

Although he was ROCKED by some rare losses last time.

What just happened?

VO: Leaving Catherine feeling rather joyful.

CS: Do you know what?

PL: Yeah?

We are actually... Well, we're not equal on money, but we're equal on the auctions.

Don't say that.

You've won two and I've won two.

Oh ho, tie-breaker, is it?

You're getting a bit hot under the collar already, aren't you?

Argh!

VO: Catherine started out with £200, which has been nudged up to £257.92.

While Paul's identical stake has thus far more than doubled, to £402.46.

It could still happen.

One canny purchase or one disaster... Yeah.

..and that's, that's bridged.

VO: Our journey began in Portrush, County Antrim, and after exploring Northern Ireland, crossed into Scotland, taking in a lot of the lowlands, before arriving, several hundred miles later, in Aberdeen.

VO: Today's last leg starts out in Doune and heads in a northeasterly direction towards that deciding auction in Aberdeen.

VO: Still foggy though.

They used to make pistols here long ago.

In fact one of the town's claims to fame is that a Doune pistol fired the first shot in the American War of Independence.

Oh dear.

Be off with you.

Oh, Catherine.

This is my territory.

VO: It's a very large establishment you have all to yourself.

It's exciting, isn't it?

VO: Yes, all this stuff belongs to a whole heap of dealers.

It's just a question of tracking one down.

There's a chap there who's got his hands in the cabinet.

I'm guessing he's got to be a dealer.

I'll go and have a word with him.

It could save me hours.

Sir, I presume this is your... your stand?

It is, yeah.

CS: Catherine.

DAVID: Hi, David.

David.

Hi David, good to see you.

VO: So what's revolving?

CS: Oh, Louis Wain, what's that Louis Wain book?

Have we got to wait for it to revolve?

DAVID: Yes.

CS: It doesn't just stop?

No.

VO: Patience Catherine, patience.

CS: Oh, in the meantime hold on.

Yep?

What's that?

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

Yeah, a compact.

Little deco compact.

1930s, yeah.

I like that.

It's quite a nice design, isn't it?

Yes.

What're you asking for that?

Dare I look?

Well, it's £48 on it.

What's your best on that then?

How about 40?

Oh, really?

20?

Hm.

No.

CS: Can't go that low?

DAVID: Can't do it for 20.

What would you do on that?

Er, 28.

VO: Getting close.

Quick - the book's back.

There we go.

See, what drew me to this was the whole Louis Wain thing.

DAVID: Yes.

Louis Wain, quite a famous artist who was just mesmerized by cats, did lots of cats illustrations.

Yep, absolutely.

But what's this?

Can you tell me a bit about this?

Obviously this is...

It's an early book.

It's very rare.

CS: Mm?

DAVID: Erm... circa 1908.

The downside of course is the condition, the spine's not...

It's cos it's early.

VO: Antiques eh?

Also at the front Daisy, I think... Yep.

..who once owned it.

She's put... CS: We used to do that.

DAVID: It's only in pencil.

It can be rubbed out.

VO: He's good, isn't he?

CS: I like that.

What have you got on that, David?

It's 75.

Right.

But what would you offer me on it?

Ideally I'd love to pick up something like that for about 35.

Make it 40 and you can have it.

And what did we say on this?

We said 28 on that.

Can I just have a little think?

But what about if I did the two for 65?

Hm.

VO: Take your time, love.

I tell you what, if you could nudge it slightly under 60 I will definitely shake your hand and run away with both of them.

Right, what about if we said 60 then?

58?

And you've got a deal.

DAVID: OK. CS: Yeah?

58.

Is that... Is that alright?

DAVID: Yeah, that's fine.

CS: Thank you very much indeed.

VO: So while David gets back to his cabinet...

Thank you.

VO: ..Catherine's work is done.

VO: But away from downtown Doune town, the clouds have parted for Paul in the Highlands.

He's heading for the World War II POW camp at Cultybraggan, where in the shadow of the mountains he's come to discover the secrets of the place where they locked up the most dangerous Nazi prisoners.

Hi, is it Ann?

Yes, hi.

It looks incredibly intact and well preserved.

Mm-hm.

It's like driving back into time.

It is.

It has 96 Nissen huts on site.

Over 100 different buildings that are historically important.

They were only designed to last for 15 years, but they've survived... PL: Aye, indeed.

ANN: They're a leftover.

VO: Built in 1941 as a high security facility, Camp No 21 soon became much better known as "The Black Camp Of The North".

ANN: It was Germans from all forms of the army and also we had a lot of SS officers that were sent here.

I see.

A lot of the soldiers who came here had been Hitler Youth and then they'd gone into the SS.

They were the hardest, the most fervent Nazis.

And I dare say its location up here in Scotland is to keep them as remote as possible.

Yeah.

We classified our political prisoners.

White if they were not really adherents of National Socialism.

Oh, I see.

And black if they were full... fully... PL: Hard core?

ANN: ..committed to it, yeah.

Right.

This camp was full of black Nazis and it had a reputation for violence.

VO: Yeah.

The tough regime meant the guards at Cultybraggan were Polish because it was felt that British troops would be too nice to the prisoners.

Aw.

And Red Cross reports reveal that the rations supplied here were basic at best.

This building was the canteen for Compound B. OK?

And you can see that for breakfast they would have tea, bread, margarine, marmalade, beans, soup for dinner.

So, it wasn't an extensive diet, but it was equated with the experience of British soldiers who were being kept in Germany.

I see.

So, the soldiers here would have been able to still wear their uniform, for example.

Right.

Erm, because we wanted our soldiers to be able to wear their uniform.

VO: Cultybraggan's reputation became even grimmer when a "white" Nazi was murdered here by his fellow prisoners.

But from early 1945 the horrors of the Black Camp gradually began to fade, thanks to the arrival of a charismatic German in a British Army uniform.

ANN: Herbert Sulzbach was just an extraordinary individual.

He won an iron cross at the Somme and won another iron cross in 1918, but in 1937 he had to flee Germany because he was a Jew.

So, he came to London and of course when the Second World War broke out he'd actually volunteered for the British Army.

And one of the first places that we sent him to was Cultybraggan.

OK. And his job was to re-educate the Nazis.

It was the de-Nazification of the Germans.

So he talked about how knocking down their ideology was like knocking dust from a roof.

It was easy for him.

VO: Sulzbach believed that the men were essentially good and set about undermining National Socialism with books like this - a short history of America.

A German language book from a British prisoner of war camp to re-educate Germans about Allied western ideals.

ANN: Yeah, absolutely.

VO: Despite working for the enemy, Sulzbach was listened to and trusted.

ANN: When the concentration camps were discovered he showed the prisoners films of Belsen and they rioted, they threw things around.

They didn't believe that it was true.

They wouldn't accept that the Fatherland had committed these crimes.

So he used all sorts of different devices to get through to them and by November 1945 he's able to invite all the prisoners to meet him on a parade ground to come and commemorate the dead, whether they were enemy or whether they were comrade.

3,500 come out onto the parade ground and he reads them John McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, and he wants them to go home and to be good Europeans.

And that's what they do.

What a good, good man.

Yeah, really truly good person.

VO: Cultybraggan became a British army training camp after the war, and later the site of a nuclear bunker, before it was taken over by the local community in 2007.

VO: Meanwhile in another bonny bit of the Scottish countryside, Catherine's off to her next retail experience in Perth and Kinross, in Rait.

Does that make it bonny... Rait?

Ha!

Hi, Catherine.

Hiya, I'm Andrew.

Hi, Andrew.

This looks beautiful in here.

VO: Yeah.

Shame you've less than £200 left to splash.

What's that little bell?

That's nice.

DEALER: It's been a hotel bell I think.

But it is actually gilded, so it's got a fair bit of age to it.

CS: Probably late 19th century, Victorian, that... DEALER: Yeah.

I would've said it's about 1870, 1880.

Yeah.

Can you do a good deal on that?

I'm sure I probably could.

I love a bell.

It's slightly wonky.

Or is that me just being fussy?

You've gotta be fussy at this stage in the game.

Nice ring to it.

Come on then, what's your best on that?

That's the sort of thing you might...

I'm guessing you picked up in a big job lot of stuff at an auction.

I don't buy job lots.

VO: Whoops!

Ha!

The ticket price is £50.

You couldn't do 20 on it?

No, sorry.

30 then, that'll show me a £5 profit.

OK, right.

I'm gonna put that there.

There's a nice early wine glass up there, that gilded one at the front which is quite nice.

Unfortunately it's only a one but the middle... Is it champagne or...?

I would think it's a champagne flute, yeah.

Champagne, isn't it?

That is lovely.

That is gilded as well with the most beautiful decoration.

And again late Victorian?

Yeah, 18... Or d'you think a bit earlier?

I think it might be slightly earlier cuz when you hold it up to the light you can see there's quite a lot of imperfections in it.

I mean, that's was the thing, wasn't it, with the Victorians.

If they were gonna decorate something they were really gonna go for it, and you can certainly see that here.

There is a bit of wear.

Well, you might be a bit worn if you were as old as that.

Aw.

VO: Fair point.

What have you got on that?

Erm... Can that be like 20 then?

Not quite.

But... erm, 30 I'll do it for.

OK. Can I put this in with my little...

Yes, certainly, yep.

..bell.

We're having a bit of a Victorian selection here.

VO: There's a lot of it about.

Carpet bowls.

They're made of turned lignum vitae.

Each one is engraved with a different number and then that one is your jack.

And they... pretty smart.

I've sold these before and I've done quite well with these.

115.

I wonder if he can do a good deal on those.

Your lignum carpet bowls.

DEALER: Yes.

D'you play?

I do play green, green bowls, yes.

Oh do you?

VO: Hm.

DEALER: I do, yes.

VO: That's the small talk over with, then.

Can something be done on that?

Something... substantial.

Um...

It's a nice little set.

There is a bit of wear to it, but... VO: Strangely enough!

75 would be the absolute best on those.

Right.

VO: Right.

The carpet bowls are on the list, and I think she has designs on the lot.

So we have Victorian bell, Victorian glass and Victorian carpet bowls.

Three completely different things.

Yes.

Can a deal be done if I took all these beautiful items from you?

Initially we said about 30 for that, right?

Yep.

And then you said 30 for that, so I was thinking of a bit less and I was thinking maybe 50 for the two.

Right?

Stay with me.

Hear me out.

Hear me out.

Alright, I'm listening.

And then I thought maybe we could come down a bit on these and maybe say 50, so £100 for the lot.

I can't come down to 50 on those because they cost me more than that, unfortunately.

Right, OK. What about £110 for the lot?

That's fair, isn't it?

I'm really struggling at 110.

Make it 115.

115?

And that would make you...?

I might be able to have a fish supper tonight if I'm lucky.

Aw.

I don't want that.

Go on then.

I can't do that to you.

You've gotta have a decent supper.

VO: Sweet.

So that's £30 for the glass, £20 for the bell and £65 for the bowls.

Plus haddock and chips for Andrew later.

Yum-yum.

VO: Meanwhile back on the higher ground, Paul's making his way to his very first shop of the day.

At the delightful village of Comrie.

VO: Situated on the Highland boundary fault line, Comrie once experienced more earth tremors than anywhere else in Britain.

Hence its nickname of Shakey Toon!

Hi, Paul.

Hello.

Is it Debbie?

Hi.

Yeah, pleased to meet you.

Lovely to see you.

Welcome to Comrie Antiques.

Thank you very much.

VO: Off you go then Paul!

"A polygonal sectioned shouldered balluster."

That's gorgeous.

But it's not for me.

VO: Oh.

Oh my word, that's delicious.

What's the price on that?

Erm... 900.

It's well worth that.

Sadly you need to give me another fortnight of auctions to work up the budget to buy it.

Oh right, yeah.

Yeah.

VO: We rummage on.

What about the stick stand, is that dear?

The price on it's 78.

That's elegant, narrow, but it's way too much for me.

What are you like on flexibility if I was to consider that?

Well, offer me a price.

I think it's worth £40 to £60.

I like that but that's a £35 purchase to me, that.

VO: Of course Paul's already bought a stick stand this week.

Candlesticks too.

It's deja vu all over again!

The bolts that secure the dividers on that are loose.

OK. And you can't get at the heads of them because they're concealed.

Yeah.

So the darned things twist and turn.

See, that is how it should be.

Nice and rigid, fantastic.

That is a real annoyance.

Cos you stick your brolly in there and it goes skewwhiff and then if you're like me, you then can't sleep at night.

VO: Thankfully the rest of us aren't so afflicted.

So I'm offering 35 quid.

OK.

Seriously?

Got a deal?

OK. Yep, deal.

Wonderful.

Thank you very much.

I'll give you some money and I'll be gone.

Yeah, that'd be good.

PL: Brilliant.

DEALER: Thank you very much.

VO: Now the hard work's done.

Time to get ready for tomorrow.

So nighty-night.

VO: Next day it's not so much Scottish play, more San Tropez.

Paul, we've taken a wrong turn.

PL: Go on.

CS: We have.

No, this is the way.

We are in the south of France.

PL: (CHUCKLES) CS: This weather is amazing.

VO: Well, Catherine can afford a leisurely day in the sun because she did plenty of shopping yesterday, acquiring a compact, a glass, a cat book, some carpet bowls and a desk bell.

(BELL RINGS) Nice ring to it.

VO: That lot set her back £173, leaving less than 100 for any further purchases.

While Paul's haul was just one solitary stick stand.

Got a deal?

OK. Yep.

Deal.

Wonderful.

VO: Costing him £35.

Meaning he still has over £350 left.

Shall we spend all our money?

Shall we?

No.

You may.

You may.

Oh, come on, let's go for it.

PL: (LAUGHS) CS: Let's be united.

It's not stupid.

Why are you laughing?

Cos it's a trap.

Oh, you never play the game, do you?

VO: Oh yes, he does, Catherine.

Later they'll be making for that deciding auction in Aberdeen, but our next port of call is Arbroath.

Famous for its unique brand of smoked haddock, and the fact that in 1885 Arbroath Football Club beat a side from Aberdeen by the record score of 36 goals to nil!

Ha!

Hello, how you doing?

DEALER: Hiya.

PL: I'm Paul.

Hiya Paul, nice to meet you.

I'm Colette.

PL: Good to see you, Colette.

DEALER: And you.

PL: This is your emporium?

DEALER: It is that, yes.

Very good.

VO: There's a lot of choice.

Look at that.

DEALER: I've got a few really nice things in the back.

Oh!

You tantalize me, Colette.

Oh, I am.

(PURRS) (THEY CHUCKLE) VO: Oh yes, mention the back and our lot are all of a quiver.

The nerve center, is it?

This is the nerve center.

Right.

This is all stuff that's not been priced up yet.

You trust me just to have a wee rummage then?

VO: Not 'arf!

I've just picked up something randomly but I think it's delicious.

Take a look at that.

This is a brooch.

We have enameling over... ..what legally we always call white metal, but actually is silver.

In black enamel, in silhouette, this dancer.

And whose music is she dancing to?

That of a faun.

Half chap, half goat.

Each to their own.

That works, that's charming.

It dates to the 1920s, '30s.

Does it appeal today?

Oh, come on.

Here's the problem.

Ta-da!

The pin is a paperclip.

What you do is you go to your local charity shop or whatever, you buy a cheap throwaway brooch and swap the pin.

That's a start, is it not?

VO: Yeah.

Well he's certainly confounded us with a few of his purchases this week.

Add to that these assorted silver thimbles.

The piece for me is the royal commemorative.

Now, which royal commemorative is that?

The coronation in 1910 of George V?

No.

DEALER: It's Elizabeth.

PL: It's...

It's Elizabeth.

How about we halve them and you have half... OK.

Right?

..and I have half?

What's the price on those?

About 55.

Throw something else into the melting pot.

DEALER: That is lovely.

What's the price on a wrecked brooch and thimbles?

DEALER: How about we do 65 for the lot?

PL: I'm not going to give in that easily.

How about I come down a tenner, so basically you're getting that for free?

Basically, Collette, you've got a deal.

Loved working with you.

VO: Once Collette's put him down - ha!

- he's got a much more Paul object in mind.

This tool is a clinometer.

A clinometer allows us to measure angle of elevation of the barrel of a three-inch mortar.

A mortar is a type of artillery for infantry use.

That is neither use nor ornament, but it is what it is.

It is utterly authentic Second World War ordnance equipment.

And because of that, Laidlaw is a little drawn to it.

You've heard all of that, haven't you?

I have.

I couldn't help but notice in the back you've got other little bits and bobs that are similar to this in as far as they're brass and they're military.

DEALER: Ah, yeah.

Put them on the table and see what we can do?

Yep.

Give me a second.

PL: Think I know where they are.

DEALER: You can get them.

VO: This is turning into Supermarket Sweep!

PL: Those are artillery buttons.

The motto of the artillery is "ubique" which is Latin for "everywhere".

Right.

These buttons are everywhere.

That's a cap badge of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

And that is, you get yourself a big brass nut and then all you need are a couple of coins to solder either side and you've created a vessel which can be made into a little petrol lighter.

Now, while I might not be passionate about these things individually, that's an auctionable lot.

But I need them to be cheap and I'm just gonna hit you with a little offer.

Oh, hit me.

Hit me.

Erm... a tenner?

Oh.

Yeah.

I don't... What about 22?

Oof!

Seriously?

I'm gonna pitch 15 quid.

How about 18 and then we're both happy?

Alright then.

DEALER: So that was... 55 and... PL: 18... DEALER: 18.

..is £73.

£73.

It is, isn't it?

Mm-hm.

And I've got no money so I was just wasting your time.

VO: Take no notice, Colette.

(THEY CHUCKLE) Colette, you've been an absolute diamond.

DEALER: It's been great.

PL: You look after yourself.

DEALER: And you.

See you again.

PL: Next time.

PL: Take care.

DEALER: Thank you.

VO: Now, while Paul sniffs out a smokie, Catherine's headed down the beach to find out about one of Britain's greatest feats of engineering.

The Bell Rock Lighthouse.

Hi there.

Hi.

Catherine.

COLIN: Good morning.

CS: Very nice to meet you.

I'm Colin Easton, the curator for the Signal Tower Museum, and if we go indoors I can show you a little bit more.

Lead the way, Colin.

VO: Constructed 11 miles off the Angus coast by the Glasgow-born lighthouse engineer Robert Stevenson, the beacon, and Arbroath signal tower, were the solution to a pressing need.

I'm guessing this is Bell Rock.

This is the Bell Rock.

It was called the Bell Rock because one of the abbots of the abbey here in Arbroath a few hundred years ago thought it would be a bright idea to mount a bell on it, mounted on a sort of a wooden structure tethered to the rock so that it would be a warning to passing ships that there was a dangerous rock there.

VO: That bell was allegedly stolen by a Dutch pirate - ha!

- and by the time of the Industrial Revolution, with shipping greatly increased, a manned lighthouse was required to keep mariners safe.

This is a copy of the original 1806 parliamentary act, just giving permission for a lighthouse to be constructed.

You can see this is dated 21 July 1806.

And August 1807 was when they set off from Arbroath to actually begin the construction process.

VO: Although the contract was awarded to the experienced John Rennie, the design, which featured interlocking stones for strength against the elements, was a Robert Stevenson feature.

And it was he who supervised the hazardous building work.

COLIN: If you're 11 miles offshore on a rock peeping up out of the sea where the tide rises and there's only a few hours each day that you can actually work at low tide, and you're exposed to the wind and the weather, the rain and everything, the conditions were harsh.

CS: I can see there's the model there.

Am I right in thinking that this here, that's like the foundation, that's the beginning of it?

But what's that at the back of it there?

That was built as a beacon originally but then it was converted into what they called the barracks.

As the tide rose, instead of having to go onto one of the support ships, they could go onto the barracks, maybe have something to eat.

But they also slept in it during storms as well.

VO: The lighthouse took just over three years to construct and began operating in early 1811.

It's a testament to the engineer that in over 200 years there have been only two recorded shipwrecks.

CS: So do you think the Bell Rock lighthouse was one of the real models for other lighthouses?

Robert Stevenson and several generations of his family went on to be a dynasty of lighthouse builders, learning from experience and trial and error that they went on to use in later projects.

VO: One other key element was the question of communication.

Hence the signal tower.

Although it's now a museum, and the lighthouse has been fully automated since 1988, the link between them was once vital.

Wow, this is amazing.

COLIN: It is.

CS: So how would communication actually work?

The basic communication method was this metal pole with originally a copper ball on it.

It's painted red now, but originally it would've been a copper ball that would've reflected the sun.

If they raised the ball to the top of the pole in the morning out on the lighthouse that was the signal that all was well on the lighthouse.

If the ball on the lighthouse was still at the bottom of the pole, that meant there was a problem, so the keepers had to dispatch someone out to investigate.

Does this still work today?

The mechanism still works today and I can demonstrate it for you if you like.

Oh, yes please.

Turning this handle just raises the ball.

CS: Oh, wow look at that!

Oh, that's fantastic.

COLIN: And good exercise as well.

VO: Now, on the subject of feats of engineering, Paul's tootled a little further into Angus, towards the town of Montrose, where, just up the road from the lagoon, known as the Montrose Basin, Paul's off to his very last shop of the week.

Hi, George?

Hello there.

Good to see you.

Hey, I love the feel of this place, I don't mind telling you.

This is my kind of shop.

VO: Yes I think the expression "old school" might be appropriate in this instance.

What's the story of the mirror in the doorway?

Is it anything or nothing?

It's er... Be probably Edwardian.

Beveled edged plate.

That could be yours for 40.

VO: Who knows what he'll emerge with?

This is a big lump of pot.

I would call it a cachepot, which is a French word that translates to "hide the pot".

It's, er... You might call it a jardiniere.

Basically you stick your plant pot in there.

How do we tell a cachepot?

A cachepot won't, and this doesn't, have a hole in the bottom.

VO: There's no ticket price either.

PL: It's made by... Bretby.

Now, listen up, Bretby Collectors Club.

Loads of Bretby stuff is pig ugly.

Get over it.

Which is why I've never bought a piece of Bretby in my life.

This, however, I am going to concede to you.

It's about 100 year old.

It's pre First World War, so let's call it belle epoque.

And I think this juxtaposition of the big, heavy, bold bronze decoration with this delicate, almost esthetic depiction of birds and blossom works.

It's a standout thing.

Let's have a wee look.

It sounds fair enough.

Dusty, honest.

Nobody's tried to improve it and no restoration.

VO: But while Paul wrestles with that pot, Catherine's headed further north to the most northerly point of our trip, and Newmachar, the Aberdeenshire village formerly known as Summerhill.

Hello there.

DEALER: Hi.

CS: Hi, and your name is?

DEALER: Brian.

CS: Hi Brian, good to see you.

VO: What else can Catherine squeeze into her trolley?

You could do some serious damage with these.

Look at those.

Calipers, they're fabulous.

Brian?

Yep?

These calipers, where have they come from?

They came along with a load of cooper's tools I bought.

Coopers is a local...?

Cooper, er, for make... Barrel making.

Cooperage.

Right.

Oh, OK. DEALER: Yes.

CS: Right, right.

So, associated with either the whisky industry or barrels for holding herring.

CS: They're meaty, aren't they?

DEALER: Yeah.

You've got 32 on those.

I mean, is there a lot in... of movement in there?

There's a bit of movement in the price, yes.

CS: I wouldn't offer any more than £10.

Are you familiar with the term "on your bike"?

CS: Oh.

VO: She is, Brian.

I thought we were getting on so well.

VO: Hm.

Moving on.

So, we've got a refracting telescope as opposed to a reflecting telescope.

This is probably going to be third-quarter 19th century, about 1860, 1870.

Hasn't got its lens cap, which is such a shame.

Price... 78.

Your telescope, Brian.

Mm-hm?

It's a nice little telescope.

The big, big downfall is the fact you haven't got your lens cap.

Yeah, although other than that I mean it's pretty good.

It's got the name on it, the maker.

CS: Nice that you've got a nice Scottish name on it.

DEALER: Would these have been used just for pleasure purposes?

CS: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, this is just a gentleman's pocket... DEALER: Yeah.

CS: ..pocket telescope.

And lovely that you've got, you know, the eight sections, that it really does... Yeah.

Haven't seen them with as many sections before.

CS: Yeah.

It's just that for me is a number one issue.

DEALER: Mm.

CS: Cos that's what people look for.

DEALER: Mm.

That's a shame.

VO: What can you say, eh, Brian?

Why don't you keep looking and we can see what we can do.

VO: Her search continues.

Back in Montrose, however, they're getting down to brass tacks with the pot and the mirror under consideration.

They're both 40 each.

But...

Sounds fair enough.

There's more of a margin on the Bretby.

PL: (LAUGHS) VO: Time for a closer look then.

That COULD be a wall mirror.

Or, by virtue of this easel back, it could also adorn your dressing table.

It would be late Victorian.

It's all about this extremely rich, embossed facing.

The manufacturer of this wanted it to look like silver, back in the day.

But it's not.

This is electroplate, I'm quite sure.

It was a rich thing in its day, flamboyant, but just affordable.

VO: Back to George.

PL: The Bretby.

The mirror.

DEALER: Yep.

If I bought the pair of them, squeeze another fiver off them so I could make them 30 quid a pop?

I could indeed.

Look like a deal, then.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Spot on, thank you.

VO: That £60 completes Paul's purchases.

But what about our Newmachar correspondent?

Back in those cabinets again, eh, girl?

Look at that.

A sweet little pillbox.

Opening up these two little hinged lids there for little pills.

Now, the thing about this is it's beautifully embossed around the sides with sheaves of corn and also on the top there.

Really, really nice quality.

However it is not hallmarked.

You'd expect something of this quality, if it was silver, to be hallmarked, so it's definitely not English.

£38 is on this.

I'm gonna see if I can do something, a really good deal on this.

VO: Seconds out, round three!

CS: Brian?

DEALER: Yep?

I just found a little pillbox.

I'm really concerned that it might be plated and not solid silver.

You've got £38 on it.

I think if you're in any doubt, probably as well just to pass on it.

VO: I like Brian.

I was thinking maybe of taking a little gamble with it.

What were you thinking?

£20.

I was thinking 15, to be perfectly honest with you.

OK. Well, let's make it 18 and we can do a deal at that.

If we weren't going for that, then maybe the telescope.

Mm-hm?

The telescope I like but at £78... VO: Yeah, that missing lens cap.

So, what would work for you on the telescope?

30-ish.

We could make it 35.

I could do it for that.

Can you come down to 30 on that?

And then...

I'm done.

Yes.

Oh!

VO: Hoorah!

This is it.

This is the end of the road for me.

VO: So with everything in the bag, let's take a sneaky peek.

VO: Paul's parted with £168 for a stick stand, some silver thimbles, a Bretby pot, a brooch, a mirror and a collection of militaria.

While Catherine's lavished £203 on a telescope, some carpet bowls, a cat book, a desk bell, a compact and a glass.

How's the mood in the two camps?

Am I worried?

Oh yes I am.

The champagne glass, it needs five friends to be worth money.

I particularly adore his brooch.

That is exquisite and he paid £10.

The book, I just don't know.

If it makes £120... (EXHALES SHARPLY) ..that's bad news for me.

VO: After setting off from Doune, our experts are now making for their final auction of the week at Aberdeen.

And still as fiercely competitive as ever.

CS: It's a horrible thing to say, but I would be so happy if I could be the one person in the whole of the history of the Antiques Road Trip to beat Paul Laidlaw.

VO: Welcome to Aberdeen, the granite city and hometown of Denis Law.

Ha!

Although the local football team's record scoreline remains a piffling 13-0!

Well, it's the last-chance saloon, this.

VO: Er, geddit?

So what might our final score be?

The thoughts of auctioneer Stephen Donaldson please.

The telescope, an eight draw, it's quite a nice thing.

A Scottish scope and a good size.

There's been a little bit of interest in it.

The lot with the buttons, the clinometer and the trench lighter, I think this might do quite well today.

We've got a lot of other military items in the sale.

I think £40 to £60 for this lot and possibly a touch more.

VO: Cor, that'll please Paul!

Oh, it's got a great feel, this auction room, hasn't it?

CS: There's a big crowd here today.

Oh hey, bums on seats.

VO: First under the hammer is Paul's bargain brooch.

30 for this lot?

20?

10?

Come on auction, there we go, we're off.

12, 15, 18, 20, two.

Got a little friend here bidding on it.

28, new place.

30.

Two.

35.

Well done.

38, 40.

Two, 45, 48, 50.

Five, 60, five, 70, five.

No!

80, five.

It's beautiful.

90, five.

100, sir, rounds it up.

It's 105.

110, he's back.

115.

£115.

All done?

Sure?

And selling at £115.

(GAVEL) VO: What a great start, eh?

Hard to see Catherine overtaking him now.

Do you know what?

I don't even know what it made.

After £100 I cried.

VO: Another Paul purchase.

The pot.

£60 for this lot?

Come on.

40?

30?

20?

Oh, please.

10?

Nobody interested?

10 here.

Any advance?

12.

We're off now.

15.

Oh, don't be off now.

18, 20, two, 25.

25 standing in the room.

PL: No.

No, no, no, no, no.

CS: Shut up.

How can that happen?

We'll sell at 25 if that's it.

(GAVEL) CS: Oh, I'm so happy.

PL: What?

VO: Ah well.

He really mustn't grumble.

These people are going already.

These people that are bidding on your... Don't go.

VO: Quite.

But not when her carpet bowls are up for grabs.

£50 for these nice bowls?

30?

10?

CS: Oh, come on.

STEPHEN: No interest at £10?

10 bid, thank you sir.

One bid at 10 for the Victorian carpet bowls.

Gonna be sold... No!

..at £10 only.

12, 15, 18.

CS: Come on.

Come on.

STEPHEN: 20.

Two... 25.

25.

All done and finished at 25?

(GAVEL) Oh, ouch.

I mean... VO: Not convincing, Paul.

VO: Someone's got some nice lumps of lignum vitae there.

I would be genuinely upset if it was you.

No you wouldn't!

Would!

You'd be dancing a jig.

VO: Time for Paul's stylish stick stand.

30 for the stand?

20?

20, two, 25, 28, 30, two, 35, new place, STEPHEN: 38, 40.

PL: Fresh outbreak.

PL: Oh, there's two bidders.

CS: They're all wanting it now.

45.

I'll be with you in a minute.

48.

They're queuing up.

Form a queue, form an orderly queue.

50 on the outside.

I'll sell for 50.

Are we all done?

(GAVEL) That's alright, that's alright, that's alright, that's alright.

VO: Like the man said.

A fair reward.

How will her colorful compact fare?

20?

£10 for the art-deco?

10 bid.

12, 15, 18, 20, two, 25.

You're gonna be alright.

Gonna sell it.

If we're all done and sure at £25?

(GAVEL) No shame.

No glory, but no shame.

Don't gloat.

VO: A loss after costs, but she just about got away with that one.

VO: Time for one of Paul's stranger buys.

The thimbles.

£30 then for the silver thimbles?

20?

Bid.

Any advance on 20?

I've got one bid standing in the room at £20.

STEPHEN: All finished at 20?

PL: One bidder.

(GAVEL) # So happy # I could do a dance.

# VO: The huge profit from the brooch more than makes up for it.

VO: Catherine's big draw.

No lens cap, remember, though.

And I'll start bidding, with me at £40 on this lot.

Is there any advance on 40 for the 'scope?

It's on commission at 40.

Oh, come on.

Are we all done and all sure at £40?

That's alright, you did OK there.

VO: Yeah, buck up.

A clear profit.

Now it's champagne for one.

£10 for the champagne glass?

Five for a nice, decorative glass.

Five bid...

It should make 60.

Eight, 10, 12, 15, 18.

I am gonna sell for £18 if we're all done.

55, thank you.

No.

Why, why?

VO: If only we knew.

What can Paul's shiny mirror manage?

40 for this Victorian mirror?

30?

£20 only for the mirror is bid, thank you sir.

22, 25, 28, 30.

30 then, back where we started.

Are we all done and sure at 30?

I will sell at 30.

(GAVEL) CS: A loss.

Is it a loss?

After taxes.

Brilliant.

I'm going out with a whimper.

VO: He can afford it, mind you.

Now, will Catherine finally ring up a profit with this?

My stomach's going over and over.

This is not good.

I'm not normally like this.

£30 then for this bell?

20?

£10?

Why's...?

Why isn't he ringing it?

10 with the gentleman.

Any advance on 10?

It's been broken.

VO: Not exactly tolling.

20, two.

It's 22 with the lady.

25.

Come on.

Any advance?

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

I'm gonna sell it at 25.

It's a profit.

Yes, it's...

But it's minimal.

VO: It's a faint tinkle, that's what it is.

VO: Remember the auctioneer predicted good things for Paul's militaria.

Some interest on the sheet starts me at... Commission bids.

STEPHEN: ..£40 for this one.

PL: What?

It's a commission bid at 40, 42, 45, 48, 50, two.

Oh, Paul.

55, 58 and 60 and 65 then clears me.

Is there any advance on 65?

Being sold at 65.

All sure?

(GAVEL) PL: Slightly awkward.

VO: Aberdeen wanted it.

Whatever it was.

VO: Almost everyone likes cats.

Don't they?

This book has to make about £450 for me to be on the same level as you.

40?

30?

20?

I've got 20 on my right.

22... Come on.

25, 28, 30, two, 35, 38, at 40.

Come on.

OK, 40 then.

Back where we started?

Are we all done and selling at 40?

He's back at 42, 45, 48.

CS: Yes.

STEPHEN: 50.

Yes.

STEPHEN: Five.

CS: Yes.

60.

At 60 on my right again.

Oh, please.

Is there any advance on £60?

I'm coming back.

I'm coming back.

VO: Well, it was certainly good to end on a profit.

Right, come on, that was brilliant.

Catherine started out with £257.92 and after paying auction costs, she made a loss of £44.74.

Leaving her with £213.18.

While Paul began with £402.46.

After paying auction costs he's made a profit of £82.10.

So his final total is £484.56.

VO: All profits of course go to Children In Need.

Go on then, be nice, be nice.

For once.

Your chariot awaits.

Oh, thank you sir.

It's been fun, hasn't it?

Yeah.

Come on.

It's been amazing and at the last minute you peaked.

PL: Over the horizon once again.

CS: Off we go.

CS: The end.

VO: Almost.

And what a week they've had, eh?

Oh.

Could be a brush for a very small house.

(CHUCKLES) Do I buy the brooch?

I DO buy the brooch?

Oh.

Yay!

Cos they're philistines!

Would you please remove yourself from this cabinet?

Hoh-hoh-hoh.

Woohoo!

VO: Next time, Charles Hanson takes Margie Cooper for a spin.

That's going fast!

VO: Margie spots great deals.

There we go, I'm pointing now.

VO: And Charles sniffs out bargains.

(SNIFFS) Yes, yes.

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