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

VO: ..behind the wheel of a classic car.

I'm always in turbo.

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

Hot stuff!

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

IZZIE: (GASPS) VO: But it's no mean feat.

There'll be worthy winners... PHIL: Cha-ching.

MARK: Oh, my goodness!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

DAVID: Bonkers!

VO: Will it be the high road to glory... You are my ray of sunshine.

NATASHA: Oh, stop it!

VO: ..or the slow road VO: to disaster?

(GEARS CRUNCH) Sorry!

VO: This is Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

We're approaching halfway on our journey with Izzie and Ishy.

So, how are you finding the trip with me?

(YAWNS) Sorry, did you say something?

(CHUCKLES) VO: She jokes, of course, because the pair in the gold Volvo are actually getting along famously.

I'm loving it.

I'm really enjoying doing it with you.

VO: Yes, even though the weather may have taken a distinct turn for the worst, relations remain cordial, especially with a trip to Harrogate, Yorkshire's bun capital, in prospect.

It will be nice to explore the local cuisine.

I know there's some good tea rooms, some pastry shops... IZZIE: Ooh.

ISHY: ..some cake shops.

Do you know what?

I am absolutely looking forward to a cake.

VO: See what I mean?

Ishy, from south London, is a warm-hearted jewelry doyen, with plenty of sage advice for would-be antiquers.

When the piece is really sharp they are modern and, sadly, not real antiques.

VO: While Bristolian Izzie, an auctioneer and a dealer, has even been known to feel empathy for the objects themselves.

If you were a brooch, you would not want to be a bar brooch.

VO: And after their second trip to the saleroom... At £38 commission bid, then.

VO: ..they remain pretty much neck and neck.

(BOTH LAUGH) VO: Ishy started out with £200, and those two auctions have thus far slimmed his wad down to £169.94.

While Izzie, who began with the same sum, does have a wee bit more, a whole £202.88.

Maybe we can just support each other to try and make a profit for us both to stay over the £200 mark.

VO: I'm sure they'll do much better than that.

They launched from the Lakes and have gone on to thoroughly shop the northern shires before next slipping south towards the Midlands, with a climax expected in Leicester.

ISHY: I hope it clears up.

VO: Fingers crossed.

Our special "say yes to Yorkshire" edition starts out in the market town of Knaresborough... ..on the River Nidd, a place with more than its fair share of colorful local characters, like St Robert, the hermit, prophetess Mother Shipton and Jack Metcalf, the road builder... and fiddler.

And here comes our shoestring duet, in this one together.

IZZIE: Here we are.

VO: Beautifully maneuvered.

Now, play nicely, you two.

At Donkey's Years Antiques Centre, an expression of which the first known use was in 1927, making it almost an antique.

I think this is going to be modern, but I'm just checking because this has all the colors of suffragette jewelry.

Ooh!

OK, I can't buy this.

It's £495.

I don't have £495.

But the reason I noticed it was we've got amethyst, purple, pearls, white, peridot, green.

They're the suffragette colors.

So I was checking was it there for a period piece.

VO: Green, white and violet stands, give women votes.

And, to be honest with you, if that was a period suffragette piece, £495 is no money for it.

VO: Fair enough.

What about her chum?

Also keen on sparkle.

So, I've just spotted something very, very interesting.

And this is one of the reasons why I absolutely adore working with jewelry.

So, on this very simple-looking, plain-gold band we've got a triangle and a Hebrew letter on the inside.

The Hebrew letter translates to J.

That combined with the inscription on the inside, it says, "Whom virtue unites, death cannot separate."

That was the motto for the Masonic lodge and even the design of this ring was, in the late 1800s, specifically detailed by the lodge that it should be a plain-gold band of this size, this width, and I can see that there's an inscription engraved inside to the band as well.

So we've got "George A" something.

So we've got a name, we've got the lodge that this ring came from.

I mean, super easy to overlook this on a shelf, but I think it's fascinating.

How can so much history be captured in such a simple, sleek object?

So if we take a look at the ticket price, it's marked at £425.

It's out of my budget, but how special to find something with such a story, just simply resting on a shelf.

VO: Fascinating stuff.

I think antique and affordable should be our motto though.

I am always drawn to slag glass.

I don't know why, but there's just something about it.

Slag glass is a type of molded glass or a pressed glass.

VO: Large amounts were made in the north-east during the late 19th century.

IZZIE: It's a little jug.

Now, this is relatively plain as far as decoration goes, I've seen much, much more detailed ones, but if you look carefully, you've got the bird here, and another here and another here.

And then the handle is modeled as branches.

And it's also got a bit of an esthetic movement look to it.

It's only priced at £10.

Is there a profit in that?

Doesn't seem a lot of money, but I shall pop it back and then my musings and meanderings can continue.

VO: Okey dokey, I'm sure that sums like that will be of huge interest to shopkeeper Phil.

These are a pair of wooden dumbbells.

It's not something that you see every day.

They're Victorian in age, and it's called treenware.

So, hand-turned, they've got a beautiful patina.

Over a century of use.

The one thing you notice about these though is that they are super, super lightweight.

So you're not going to get much of a workout.

They were initially made for Victorian ladies, so I don't think they weigh more than 200 grams each.

VO: Dumbbells go a very long way back.

This mosaic was discovered at a 4th-century Roman villa.

There is a little bit of damage, which probably explains why they are £12, but at that price, I think it's well worth a punt.

So, I'm going to carry on looking around, but definitely keen on these.

VO: Oh, good.

There's an awful lot of them thar cabinets.

Izzie?

Oh.

Wow, he's rather smart, isn't he?

What have we got here, then?

At first glance, you might think he's part of a garniture or maybe a desk paperweight, but because he's got this hook, he's actually a pocket watch holder.

So you'd hang your pocket watch from this, and then you've got this sort of beautiful display for it.

Now, it's got a signature here, L&F Moreau.

And they were French brothers, early 20th century.

They were renowned for their very ornate clocks and garnitures.

VO: The L stand for Louis and the F for Francois.

Now, I suspect this is after them.

I don't think it is them.

It's probably just a gilt spelter, to be honest with you and then you've got this marble base.

But it's probably sort of... the inter-war years.

It's a nice piece.

It's priced at £38.

I'd definitely like to shave some money off that so I can try and make a bit of a profit on it.

I'm going to pop it back, have a ponder, my usual, why not?

VO: Comme d'habitude, huh?

IZZIE: And if I can get a couple of items, I might be able to do a bit of a group deal.

VO: We'll see.

She already has the slag glass under consideration, of course.

Anything else for Ishy?

Now, this is a cool object.

This is a Victorian, I think, brass padlock with letters on it.

And how it works is there's a word that would be spelt out, and then once you match the word up with the lines, the padlock actually opens.

VO: Combination locks have also got quite a lot of history.

In 1206, the great Muslim inventor Al-Jazari described one.

So the code is on this.

I'm going to see... ..if it works and once the word's lined up, it opens up.

VO: I wonder what the magic word is.

22 on the ticket.

ISHY: I think this is probably 1890/1900.

There's no maker's mark that I can see on it, but it's got the age, it's got the wear and this kind of fits in with that time period where objects like this were all the rage.

VO: Time to talk figures.

Phil, how are you?

I'm alright, Ishy.

How are you?

Good.

I spotted two things.

PHIL: OK. ISHY: I've got these two IZZIE: treenware dumbbells.

PHIL: Yep.

So they've got a ticket price of £12.

And then the really cool combination lock.

ISHY: £22.

PHIL: OK. Is there any movement?

They come to 34, we'll do them for 30.

You happy with that?

I would be delighted with that.

VO: Dumbbells, 10, and the lock at 20, then... Alright, hope to see you soon.

Take care.

Bye-bye.

VO: ..leaving him with almost £140 and Izzie with the place to herself.

Ooh, you're rather lovely, aren't you?

VO: Well, that was quick.

The reason I picked this up is it is very Christopher Dresser in its style, and that's because of these handles.

Christopher Dresser was an important 19th-century designer.

He was pivotal, particularly in the esthetic movement.

You've got The arts-and-crafts planished copper.

And the use of copper and brass in itself is very arts and crafts.

VO: The movement was a reaction against industrialization and mass production.

But one of the things they wanted to do wasn't to make it high-end and unaffordable, it was to keep it, where possible, affordable.

So you see things such as copper and brass, rather than silver and gold, so they're using their design but they're making it in an affordable way.

It's priced at £75.

Now, what is it going to make at auction?

It's a hard one, but, yeah, a good piece.

VO: Here we go.

Phil, I think I've decided on three.

OK.

So we've got the slag jug at £10.

IZZIE: Very happy to pay that.

PHIL: Cool.

The eagle watch holder, that's priced at 38.

What could you do on that?

34.

That's it?

I was sort of hoping for 30.

Right.

I will split the difference.

We'll do it for 32.

OK, that's fair.

Thank you very much.

The arts-and-crafts twin-handled copper vase.

That one's priced at £75.

Well, I would say 65 normally, but I know the dealer well and I think she would go to 60.

So if we tot that all up, £102.

VO: Izzie splashes out.

100 left.

Thank you so much for having me.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

Bye.

VO: Now, while she loads up - she must have the vase in the boot... ..and we say farewell to Knaresborough... ..Ishy is about to make himself familiar with the neighboring town.

Taking a brief break from the shopping, just down the road in Harrogate... ..which during the 19th century became a must-visit tourist destination thanks to its healing waters.

Historian Dr Paul Jennings can explain how it all came about.

We're standing in the pump room, built in 1842.

It's over the famous sulfur well which has a very powerful smell.

Originally, in fact it was known as "The Stinking Spa."

And why was the water considered to have healing powers?

For hundreds of years people had been using water to cure practically everything, but it became confined to a range of specific complaints - skin diseases, digestive disorders and so on.

How did it work?

Did people come and spend the day here?

No, people would come for a long period of time to get the full benefit of taking the waters.

You'd drink the waters or else you would bathe in the water.

VO: The well at the pump rooms was by no means the first in Harrogate.

That had been discovered hundreds of years before.

But it was without doubt the most sulfurous, and heralded a new boom for the town's spa industry.

During the first part of the 19th century there were reckoned to be about 10,000 visitors every year.

Did everyone have access to the water?

Well, yes.

There's also a tap outside where you can access the water for free.

VO: And it's still there, even if the stuff doesn't quite comply with modern safety standards.

So you just press the button and the water comes out.

VO: Sniff, don't sip, Ishy.

A tint, yeah.

Wow!

I can smell it coming out of the tap.

It's a very strong smell.

It smells like eggs.

PAUL: Yeah.

ISHY: Salty eggs, really.

I don't think I'll be trying that.

No, it's possibly best not to.

VO: I'm an antiques expert, get me out of here!

The Victorian public couldn't get enough of Harrogate's finest, however, and once the town was connected to the railway network, tourist numbers continued to grow.

The opulent Royal Baths opened in 1897 and Harrogate, now at the height of its popularity, became one of Europe's plus chic spa resorts.

Meaning new restaurants, theaters and grand hotels.

ISHY: Ooh, we're standing in front of his incredible fireplace in this beautiful hotel.

What was the significance of this hotel to the area?

It's built in Harrogate's spa heyday, its golden age.

It's one of two massive purpose-built hotels, built within three years of each other, 1900 and 1903.

ISHY: Was it a large employer?

PAUL: Yes.

The hotel workers came from all over the country, but particularly in the Edwardian period, the hotel employed Europeans.

All the chefs, for example, were French and many of the waiters were German, and German waiters were very popular in grand hotels.

VO: In the years before World War I, The Majestic was frequented by celebrities, politicians and European aristocrats.

Then during the '20s and '30s, Hollywood stars like Errol Flynn dropped in.

But eventually, the glamor was to fade.

After the war, you're living in changing social and economic times and the spa gradually became less and less important, and also the local council began to look towards other ways of developing the town's economy.

And eventually the spa aspect of the town was completely abandoned, with the sole exception of the Turkish baths.

But it does feel like there's a bit of a resurgence now back to the spa.

VO: It certainly does.

But meanwhile, in nearby Knaresborough... MIMICS ANNOUNCER: Please stand back from the edge of the platform.

Because at the Grade II listed station, there's an antique shop.

And here comes Izzie with £100.

Oh, yes, in the waiting room, actually.

IZZIE: This is cool.

VO: Very, and much more fun than the other much more famous Northern Line.

MIMICS ANNOUNCER: The one that goes to High Barnet.

No, not Izzie's.

IZZIE: Do you know what?

I don't think I've ever played with a puppet.

VO: About time you had a go, then.

IZZIE: I don't know why I've picked up one with four legs to start with.

So you move that one and then you have to... Ooh, it's a dancing horse.

VO: More of a mule, I think you'll find.

IZZIE: What does a horse voice sound like?

See what you did there?

Hey!

Look at me doing my dancin'.

Oh, my God, did you see the horse talking?

I think I've got the knack of this puppet malarkey.

Well, sort of.

VO: Hmm.

What about the shopping malarkey, then?

You know what?

There's not even a price on this, but with puppets, the big name is Pelham Puppets.

And some Pelham Puppets are extremely rare, others less so.

And I'm afraid to say this pony here is not a rare Pelham Puppet.

Right, I wonder if I can gallop out of this.

IZZIE: Whoo!

(HORSE WHINNIES) VO: Bye-bye.

(TRAIN HORN) VO: But we do have a bit of a timetable to adhere to, remember?

And so, anything you might consider not just playing with?

IZZIE: That's a bit different, isn't it?

It's a cake stand, but you've got the bamboo, which I love, and then you've got this rather unusual sort of plate, as it were.

And it appears that the plate is made of... Well, it's a material.

VO: Looks a bit like straw.

I think it's been lacquered.

I wonder if it's strong.

I don't suppose you need it to be that strong if it's just for cakes, although a fruitcake can be jolly heavy, but a Victoria sponge, of course, is all about being light and fluffy and not having a soggy bottom.

VO: Indeed!

IZZIE: There's something about it that I quite like, and I can't really put my finger on it except that it's a bit different and I haven't seen a cake stand like that before.

It's esthetic movement, so it's probably 1880s, 1890s.

It was influenced by the Orient.

VO: It's also £85.

Time for a haggle.

(WHISPERS) Wish me luck.

Tony?

TONY: Hiya.

IZZIE: Hello.

I've seen your rather fine cake stand.

It's priced at £85.

Now, what's the best, best, best, best, best, best price you could give me, please?

Well, it has been quite a slow day, so... what about 25?

How would that suit you?

That's amazing.

I will happily pay you 25.

VO: Well, if you don't ask, as they say.

Thanks very much.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

VO: So Izzie leaves the waiting room with 75 left over... IZZIE: Choo-choo!

VO: ..and her cake stand fitting easily into the capacious golden boot.

Now, time to reconnect with her chum and resume the chinwag.

If you could time travel, which era would you go to?

I'd like to go and see what Anglo-Saxon England was like, to the 16th century to see Cromwell and Charles I.

How about you?

I'd love to go to Ancient Egypt and see how the pyramids were built.

But then I'd love to go forwards into the future as well.

VO: Well, we've definitely got tomorrow all lined up.

Ha!

Nighty-night.

Back to the future, the weather's much the same, although our pair have swapped places.

There's a lot of gray.

Even the cow was hiding under the tree.

But it's surprisingly warm and toasty in here.

VO: Of course it is, with yesterday's purchases safely nestled in the boot.

Ishy's choices were a pair of antique dumbbells and a Victorian combination lock... And once the word's lined up, it opens up.

VO: ..leaving him with almost £140 to spend today.

While Izzie parted with a lot more for a slag glass jug, a cake stand, an arts-and-crafts vase and a pocket watch holder... Wow, he's rather smart, isn't he?

VO: ..meaning she has just 75 remaining in her kitty and lots more questions requiring urgent answers.

OK, let's try a quickfire round.

IZZIE: Favorite cake?

ISHY: Victoria sponge.

IZZIE: Favorite color?

ISHY: Blue.

Favorite sandwich?

Oh, I love a brie and cranberry.

Ooh!

VO: Tasty.

Looks like they've forgotten the weather already.

More Yorkshire?

It's a big county, and the first shop today is in York... ..an historic city, dominated by the mighty Gothic Minster.

And just around the corner is The Antiques Centre York.

Ishy, having dropped off his chum, has free rein.

Quite a choice in here, too.

Some objects are very old indeed.

So, it's good to get... in character.

Almost 140 left to spend, remember?

ISHY: Now, we've got a really cool piece of jewelry here.

It's a material called cut steel, and there is so much history around this material.

And individual rivets of steel were attached to a base plate.

If you turn the piece around, you can see the base plate and then the individual studs.

And cut steel, when it was polished, really resembled gemstones.

It caught the light.

You have to remember, in that era they didn't have all the lights that we have.

Jewelry was worn in candlelight, and as cut steel catches the candlelight it sparkles.

VO: It was sometimes used to supply alternative bling when sumptuary laws forbidding extravagance meant gems were out of the question.

Even Napoleon bought a parure of cut steel because at the time, he couldn't afford a parure made out of real gemstones.

VO: A parure is a set of matching jewelry.

And even today, when worn, it really is an interesting object that catches the light.

The ticket price is a little too high for my budget but it's just a really interesting object.

This is centuries of history distilled into one piece.

VO: Quite.

£300.

That's Amber, by the way.

There for whenever he wants to do a deal.

So I've spotted something across the room and I've come to get a better look.

This... is... a very interesting object.

This is a silver-topped bottle.

So it's faceted on the sides, but it's not a screw top, so it's just a cap that goes on top, so I don't think this was used for perfume and liquids.

And it looks Edwardian in age, and I think this was used to store hat pins.

VO: They were all the rage then, of course.

A woman might well have several.

ISHY: It's just a special way to make yourself stand out from the crowd.

I can see "A&Co Ltd," which I think is Asprey.

So, that's a really good brand.

If we open it up, it actually says "Asprey, London" inside, so my suspicion was correct.

The price is £42.

That's kind of what they should fetch, so...

I probably will have to do a bit of haggling on this piece, but it's a really nice clean object and I think this could be the find from this shop today.

VO: Here we go.

ISHY: Amber, how are you?

AMBER: I'm good, thank you.

AMBER: How are you?

ISHY: I'm good.

I found this really lovely silver-topped bottle.

Brilliant.

It's got a ticket price of £42.

I'm just curious to see what the best you could do on it is.

So, about £30, if that would be alright with you?

£30 is amazing.

VO: Thanks, Amber.

See you soon.

Bye.

VO: So while Ishy departs with just shy of 110 still in his pocket... ..Izzie, also in the fair city, has put shopping on hold for a bit while she gets herself to England's oldest-surviving Catholic convent to hear about Mary Ward, the astonishing woman whose work inspired it, from historian Dr Hannah Thomas.

Mary Ward is a Yorkshire woman born in 1585 into a Catholic family at a time when it's illegal to be a Catholic.

She had a vocation to set up a religious order that would educate girls.

She was influenced by the Jesuit order, who had a very radical approach to education, and she felt called by God to have a female order of Jesuits.

VO: Mary had grown up in violent times.

When she was 10, her family home was set on fire by anti-Catholic rioters.

And when she was 20, her uncles were executed for their part in the Gunpowder Plot.

She steadfastly refused two marriage offers before moving to France to become a nun and follow her calling to education.

Was it quite easy for her to set these schools up in Europe?

There's quite a lot of opposition to effectively everything that she's doing.

She has a really difficult time.

And the Catholic Church has just been redefining parameters for things and one the things they decided, this Council of Trent is that women religious should remain enclosed, they should remain behind the monastery walls for their safety.

But Mary Ward totally goes against that.

"We don't want to be under anybody's control."

So the Church is not happy about this at all.

VO: But Mary Ward was not to be denied.

And with the help of her followers, known as the Jesuitesses, she succeeded in setting up schools in several European locations.

Izzie is about to learn more from Mother Superior Sister Ann.

She was a woman far ahead of her time, but she had to have the authority of the Church to be able to operate completely, so that meant she had to go to Rome to get approval.

And she was asking for something which was beyond men's comprehension in those days.

They were very happy for her to have schools, so long as she was enclosed in some way and she said, "I don't even want two sticks for an enclosure."

VO: Mary Ward did not receive the Pope's approval and was later even imprisoned, before eventually returning to her native Yorkshire where she died in 1645.

But her work still carries on.

What happened to the schools that Mary Ward established?

There's about 200 schools around the world that owe their foundation to Mary Ward's vision and Mary Ward's legacy.

SISTER ANN: I feel she's a total role model for today's world.

Where there is no freedom, no truth, she stands out as a woman of truth.

So what she has to say is so important.

VO: Meanwhile, Ishy has now left the city and headed south, but what's he seeking?

I'm going to keep an eye out for some glassware, because Izzie's smashed it with the glass.

I haven't bought any nice furniture yet.

All my items have been quite small and compact, so something quite eye-catching and bold.

VO: Well, there's one more opportunity for that dream purchase on the outskirts of the village of Thurnscoe... ..right here at Harrisons Antiques Centre & Auction Rooms.

Not that he'll be requiring the latter just yet, of course.

It's easy, just follow the signs.

A little under £110 to spend in here, which probably precludes certain items.

Plenty of others in here, though, to choose from.

It's cool, it's different.

I... really like it.

It's only a tenner.

It's got a nice patina across the surface.

It's got some wear and tear.

With these kinds of items, that's not a bad thing.

It shows it's got a bit of age, a story and people do really like that.

It's a simple thing, but it does have a broad appeal.

You've got interior designers, you've got collectors of these signs, you've got people with the initial I for their first name, so you've got your Ishys, your Izzies, your Ivans - anyone, really.

It could do really well at auction, and if I saw this in the store I'd probably buy it for myself.

VO: I say - quick work.

Now, whither his road-trip buddy?

Yup, still in York and about to get her last chance to grab a little something before the auction at Gate 56.

Oh, wow!

What an amazing shop.

VO: It does look rather good, doesn't it?

£75 left for any further... (SHE STRUMS) VO: ..LUTE!

(CHUCKLES) Oh, I always like a little advertising piece.

This one is a Horseshoe Brand clothes wringer for family use.

So a traveling salesman would have had this, and they would go round trying to sell their wares.

And what better way than by a demonstration?

So you'd unscrew these bolts and that would enable you to feed your wet cloth through, and really squeezes out all that excess moisture.

And hopefully your clients will be so impressed and so wowed that they immediately sign off and put an order in for the full-sized version.

VO: Probably late 19th/early 20th century.

It's a cool piece and it's a bit of social history.

Well, typical me, I've picked something I can't afford.

It's priced at £225, so that's not just a little bit out of my budget, that's a lot out of my budget.

So I shall leave this one here for the next person to pass by and be totally amazed by the wringing properties of it.

VO: Oh, what you might call a WRINGING endorsement.

But what about our man in Thurnscoe?

He's got his "I" on this item, of course.

And that's N for Nathan, the man in charge.

Likes to polish.

I've spotted a really unusual vase here.

This is French, circa 1900 and a beautiful thing, actually.

So, it's gilt metal with these beautiful ceramic flowers all the way around it, perfectly hugging the glass, which makes me believe that this glass is original to the item.

There is wear to the gilding but nothing too substantial, I mean, it is over 100 years old.

VO: A trumpet vase.

He did say he wanted glass.

Also, only £25.

ISHY: It probably was part of a pair, but as a stand-alone piece it's a beautiful object.

So let's go find Nathan and see what we can do.

VO: Let's.

ISHY: Nathan, how are you?

DEALER: Hiya.

So, I found two cool things.

First one is this really cool vase and then this, ISHY: the letter I for Ishy.

DEALER: OK.

So, this has a ticket price of 10 quid.

DEALER: Yep.

ISHY: And that has a ticket price of 25.

Is there any movement on them?

I'll tell what I can do for you, I'll happily do 20 on the vase.

DEALER: So it's 30 for the pair.

ISHY: 30 for the pair.

I think that's super fair.

VO: Nice rhyme.

He's been moved to poetry.

Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.

Pleasure.

ISHY: Take care.

DEALER: See you later.

Bye.

VO: Shopping done and his loot in the boot, but meanwhile, with almost £80 unspent, he heads off to collect Izzie in old York, old York.

They really should have named it twice.

She's found something she WHEELIE, WHEELIE likes.

I think this might be a... Well, believe it or not, a dog cart.

Child.

Dog.

It's, I would have thought, late 19th century, possibly early 1900s.

This is a replacement seat.

So pop your child in here.

There's a little seat belt, as it were, for the child.

Even a dog running, it's not going to pick up any huge, huge speeds, so your child's going to be pretty safe.

VO: Really?

I think the best use for it nowadays would be to display a few potted plants, although pooch power was once a fairly common sight.

We didn't have a dog as kids, but I would absolutely, being the elder, I would be sat here.

My brother, I would have at the other end, pulling me along.

VO: Mush, mush!

Ha!

No price label, however.

I have absolutely no idea if this is a winner or a loser, but I think I've probably fallen in love with it a little bit, just because it's so mad.

VO: Let's have a word, then.

IZZIE: Hello, Neil.

DEALER: Hi.

I think I've found something weird and wonderful, and it's the dog cart.

How much is it?

To give you a fighting chance at auction, I'll do it for the unbelievable price of £50.

So, I'll say, yes, please.

Thank you very much.

DEALER: It's a deal.

VO: Woof, woof!

IZZIE: Thanks for having me.

DEALER: Thank you, bye-bye.

VO: All done, with £25 left.

Watch out, somebody likes it.

He-he!

Ah, there they go, back together with just the auction to worry about now, plus the odd awkward question or two.

Who would your dream Antiques Road Trip partner be?

Someone really funny, but hopefully they wouldn't know what they were doing with the antiques.

VO: I think Ishy might be getting a bit competitive, you know?

(CHUCKLES) Shuteye, please.

Auction viewing day starts at Stoke Park Pavilions, the Palladian-style construction built on a deer park where Henry VIII used to hunt.

And here come our experts, hoping to bag some very big profits.

Best of luck.

May the worthy winner... ISHY: Win.

Yeah.

IZZIE: ..win.

I think that's how the saying goes.

VO: Well, something like that.

After doing all their shopping in Yorkshire, Izzie and Ishy have headed south towards Northamptonshire and Stoke Bruerne... ..while all their goods have been dispatched towards Nottingham and Arthur Johnson auctioneers, where they'll be selling in the room, on the net and on the phone, with Hettie Jago in charge of proceedings.

85?

Goes, then, at 80.

VO: Ishy spent a mere £90 on his five auction lots, including a bit of CAPITAL spending.

The I initial sign is a good feature piece.

I can see this doing quite well.

VO: Izzie splashed out almost twice as much, 177, also on five lots.

The arts-and-crafts vase is one of my favorite lots.

I think it's absolutely beautiful.

I love the bamboo-detailed handles.

I think this is going to attract a lot of interest.

VO: Well, those words should help calm any of the collywobbles our experts are experiencing.

Some of my items I still love.

ISHY: Yeah.

IZZIE: Some of my items I'm starting to consider why I paid a bit too much for them.

Yeah, I feel a little bit calmer going into this sale, ISHY: so let's see.

IZZIE: Right, IZZIE: shall we go for it?

ISHY: Yeah.

VO: And we start with Izzie's slightly barking cart, dog not included.

I just loved the idea of a kid having so much fun with their best friend.

Well, I've got to start the bidding at £30 only with me.

Oh, no.

It should go for more than £30.

It's with me on commission.

35, 40 is with me.

ISHY: OK, it's gonna go.

HETTIE: At £40.

IZZIE: Come on.

HETTIE: Do I see 45 anywhere?

Any interest online?

45, thank you.

50 still with me.

Come on, I just need 55... At £50, it's with me HETTIE: on commission at 50.

IZZIE: No!

Any advance on £50, then?

And five, thank you.

ISHY: Yay!

(THEY CHUCKLE) 65 anywhere?

Come on, let's have another.

Any advance online?

You're out online and I will sell, then.

It goes on commission at 60.

I think that's quite cheap.

VO: Well, it's a profit at least.

Maybe the issue was how are they going to transport it after the auction?

Well, with their dog and their child.

ISHY: (LAUGHS) VO: Ishy's turn.

That trumpet vase.

Ooh, Ishy, this is very pretty.

I have £15 only bid, on commission at...

It's cheap, it'll do more.

Thank you, 40's with me.

Oh, amazing.

At £40.

45 is bid.

Back of the room at 45.

We've got 50 online.

55?

55 is bid.

Thank you.

At 55, looking for 60.

HETTIE: 60 is bid.

65?

IZZIE: (GASPS) Any advance on 60?

65, thank you, in the room.

A new bidder.

HETTIE: 65 in the room, HETTIE: 70 online.

IZZIE: Ishy!

ISHY: It's doing quite well.

IZZIE: This is incredible.

£70 online.

75, thank you, fresh bidder at 75.

Looking for 80.

80 is online.

85?

I will sell online.

Goes, then, at 80.

VO: Ishy's in the game.

ISHY: That was amazing.

IZZIE: Well done!

VO: Time for Izzie's cake stand, also bought cheaply.

Part of me thinks, "What's someone going to do with a broken cake stand?"

But it's such an unusual cake stand.

Yeah, I think saying damaged is a bit harsh.

Just enough to drop, like, a mini scone down.

Yeah, that's a diet tactic.

IZZIE: Yeah.

HETTIE: 30's bid, straight in.

Good, a little profit.

35, 40 online.

45 is in the room, thank you.

OK, I'm pleased.

I've got 50 and five online.

60?

60 is in the room, thank you.

At £60, do I see 65 anywhere?

At £60 in the room.

You're out online.

It goes, then.

Sold at £60.

VO: More tasty profits.

VO: Almost as good as cake.

ISHY: It's over double.

IZZIE: I'm pleased with that.

ISHY: Well done.

IZZIE: Thank you.

ISHY: That's really good.

VO: Now, give me an I.

No, better still, bid for it.

One of Ishy's.

Was it the only letter that they had?

ISHY: Yeah.

ISHY: And it's an I. IZZIE: Meant to be.

ISHY: The only one and it was and I, so I was like, "Yeah, that's for Ishy."

Anybody at £10 for this?

HETTIE: Surely?

ISHY: Oh.

£10, thank you, HETTIE: on my right.

IZZIE: Yeah, you've broken even.

At £10 only.

With the room at £10 only.

Do I see 12?

At £10 only.

12, thank you, online.

IZZIE: Yeah!

ISHY: OK, cool.

15 in the room.

Thank you.

At £15.

Looking for 18 next.

We all done, all out, then?

With the room at £15.

VO: Respectable, although I'm sure he'd have liked a bit more.

There just weren't enough people with names beginning with I that saw that.

VO: Next up, wherever I hang my watch... Izzie has spotted this.

I think this is a bargain at £32.

It's beautiful.

He's a handsome chap sat atop there.

20 is bid straight in.

25 is in the room.

At 25, looking for 30.

30 is online.

35?

35 is in the room, thank you.

At 35 and 40 online.

Definitely out?

Thank you anyway.

Do I see 45?

And 45, thank you.

It's climbing.

At 45.

Looking for 50 next.

50, thank you, back in.

OK, I feel a bit better now.

55 anywhere?

55 is bid, thank you.

Do I see 60?

65, thank you, back in.

HETTIE: 70 bid.

ISHY: Climbing.

HETTIE: And five.

IZZIE: OK, I'm pleased now.

Looking for 80.

80, thank you.

Do I see 85 anywhere?

I will sell at 80.

85, back in, thank you, at 85.

Looking for 90 now.

90.

Hey, my eagle's soaring.

ISHY: (CHUCKLES) IZZIE: It's flying.

£90.

Looking for 95, then.

I will sell, then at £90.

VO: Highly sought after.

It's all going splendidly today.

I'm delighted.

Totally delighted.

VO: Feel the burn, anticipate the profits - Ishy's bells.

Originally they were used for, like, women's weights because they needed something so delicate to work out in the Victorian era.

I reckon I could get on board with these, cuz I could probably just sit here doing a weight whilst drinking a cup of tea in one hand, weight in the other.

Surely someone's got to love them.

Start me at 30 on these, please.

Start me at 15, then, surely?

HETTIE: 15, thank you.

IZZIE: Profit already!

Straight in at 18 in New Zealand.

At £18.

I've got 20 now in the room.

At 20.

Do I see 25?

25 online.

30?

Want to go one more?

30 in the room.

I've got 35 online, though.

Doubled your money!

40?

At £35, it's online at 35.

Looking for 40 now.

40, thank you.

Back in New Zealand at 40.

ISHY: Oh, brill.

IZZIE: Who knew?

It was all about the lightweight weights.

(CHUCKLES) Off to New Zealand.

Well, at least it won't be too heavy to fly over there.

The shipping won't be too much.

(CHUCKLES) Not a single loss today so far.

You are on an absolute roll, Ishy.

Touch wood.

Thank you.

VO: Now for the auctioneer's favorite, Izzie's art nouveau vase.

This sort of item used to do so, so well.

It used to be really, really popular which is why I bought it.

And I sort of hoped it might be Christopher Dresser design or similar.

Start me at 60 on this one, please.

Start me at 40, then.

Start me at 20, surely?

40 straight in, thank you.

And five, 50?

50's bid in the room, thank you, at 50.

Do I see 55?

I'm just hiding until it gets into a profit.

It's with you in the room at 50.

I've got five online.

60?

60's bid, thank you.

Ah, OK, broken even.

Let's have one more.

One more.

£60 the bid, then.

With the room at 60.

We all done, then?

Sold, done at £60.

So I think that has answered my question.

It is not Christopher Dresser.

It is nothing to do with Christopher Dresser or anyone that even knew Christopher Dresser.

VO: I think they may have heard of him, though.

Well it could have been worse.

It could have been a lot worse.

VO: Ishy's Asprey's bottle now.

Hallmarked silver.

Well, I have £10 only bid on commission.

At 10.

Do I see 12 anywhere?

ISHY: Oh, no.

HETTIE: It's only bid at 10.

It's on commission at £10.

Looking for 12.

12, thank you.

15 still with me on the book.

18, thank you.

My bid's out now, it's online at 18.

And 20.

I'm looking for 25 next.

25, thank you.

ISHY: Getting closer.

IZZIE: One more to break even.

Are we all done, then?

I'm selling at 25.

VO: Ah, well, someone's got themselves a very nice thing.

£25 for an Asprey sterling silver bottle.

Can you imagine what that cost brand-new?

VO: Slag glass jug, anyone?

Izzie's last lot.

So I've got to start at £12 only bid.

That is a profit.

I will take that.

I was expecting her to say, like, 1,200.

20 is now in the room.

25 is still with me on commission.

Do I see 30 anywhere?

At £25, then, it is with me.

Selling, then, on commission.

Goes at 25.

VO: Izzie's amazing glass streak continues.

So far every glass item you've had has done so well.

You even had me going around the shops looking at glass, which I never do.

VO: But how will Ishy fare with his final offering, the little lock?

I really like this.

I'm not an expert in padlocks or what the market on these things are.

Oh, aren't you?

Well, you know what?

I am an expert in padlocks, so I can tell you, Ishy, it's going to do great.

I have got commission interest but I can start at £20 only.

On commission at 20, and five, and 30.

35?

35, 40 is with me on commission.

45 back online.

50 online, thank you.

55 anywhere?

At £50 the bid, then.

£50, then.

It's online and I will sell at £50.

VO: Well, played, Ishy.

I think he found the right combination today.

Ha-ha!

I've got to say, you absolutely hands down have come out the winner on this one.

VO: She's right.

Izzie began with £202.88, and after auction costs made a very nice profit.

So she now has £267.78.

While Ishy, who started out with £169.94, made, also after costs, a bigger profit, meaning he is victorious today and now very close overall, with £252.14.

So, are we still being nice?

IZZIE: Well done.

ISHY: Thank you.

ISHY: Well done to you too.

IZZIE: Thank you.

VO: Yup, bless them, still being nice.

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