NARRATOR: The nation's favorite celebrities-- [CHUCKLES] Mhm, I like that.

NARRATOR: Paired up with an expert-- Oh, we've had some fun, haven't we?

NARRATOR: --and a classic car.

It feels as if it could go quite fast.

NARRATOR: Their mission, to scour Britain for antiques.

[BUZZING] Yes!

Fantastic.

I do that slow mo.

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

[LOUD THUMP] Come on, boys.

NARRATOR: But it's no easy ride.

Ta-da.

NARRATOR: Who will find a hidden gem?

Oh, tell me.

NARRATOR: Who will take the biggest risks?

Go away, darling.

NARRATOR: Will anybody follow expert advice?

I'm trying to spend money here.

NARRATOR: There will be worthy winners-- Yes.

NARRATOR: --and valiant losers.

Put your pedal to the metal.

This is the "Celebrity Antiques Road Trip".

[THEME SONG] MAN: Yeah.

NARRATOR: On today's show, we have a pair of culinary masters of cuisine, the red hot and spicy chefs, Tony Singh and Cyrus Todiwala.

I wanna find a Ming vase.

Oh, well, actually, I'm not really bothered, as long as I don't drop a Ming vase or anything like that.

Yes.

That's it.

But I'm a bit clumsy and that's the thing, a bit clumsy.

Well, I got butterfingers too.

Oh.

NARRATOR: We'll need to keep an eye on you to then.

Firm friends and award winning chefs, Edinburgh-born Tony has worked at some of the most prestigious restaurants in Scotland.

TONY SINGH: Look at that.

Lush posh just makes the best produce.

Look at that, happy lambs.

Ah, happy lambs, just resting, relaxing.

There we go, baa.

NARRATOR: Fellow chef, Cyrus, is a restaurateur with a respected following amongst Royalty and celebrities.

TONY SINGH: That's lovely.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Seriously.

I like this-- I like the whole trim.

With the feel, yeah.

It's a '70s's, hey.

it's, ah-- it's like a passion wagon.

NARRATOR: Passion wagon?

Eh!

The great charms each have a bag of money totaling 400 pounds, and Tony is serious about his antiques mission.

Well, we've always been on the same side, so it's always been fun.

Yeah.

But now the gloves come off, I see.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm not very happy with that.

Why?

But it'll be fun.

NARRATOR: I can promise you that.

Today's antiques experts are the beautiful, Natasha Raskin, and the, mhm, fragrant, David Harper.

I bet with your loot, people often say, why did I know that guy?

Is he a rock star?

Is he a musician?

[SHUTTERS] Oh, he's just that antiques guy.

[LAUGHTER] No, bizarrely, they often think I'm a-- I'm a TV chef.

It's weird, isn't it?

NARRATOR: It is.

Natasha and David have the rather grand 1977 Jaguar XJC.

Natasha is getting to grips with some tropical temperatures.

NATASHA RASKIN: It is hot in here.

DAVID HARPER: It is hot, um-- Are these 1970s car is always so warm?

The reason why is because most 1970s cars electric windows don't work.

All right, OK, yeah.

- And the electric windows-- - Yeah, that's true.

Yeah.

- --don't work.

Yeah.

[LAUGHTER] As long as you can get us there and we don't cook.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

NARRATOR: I'm sure you'll be absolutely fine, Natasha.

Meanwhile, over in the big manly Aston Martin-- I love the passion.

It's like the chefs that work for you, your specialist, the sous chef, the passion they have rubs off on you and it makes you wanna see a lot of things because they're much keener.

I'll tell you what, we-- we are excitable characters, so we get excited when we see things.

Mm-hmm.

I hope they have the same kind of excitement and enthusiasm.

NARRATOR: Don't worry, gents, we have the finest of television professionals for you.

[INAUDIBLE] it just occurred to me as I've told you.

Oh, my gosh.

[CHUCKLES] You're meant to be good at this.

[LAUGHTER] Crikey, Moses.

Our adventure begins in the city of Dundee, moving south along the East Coast taking in the Fife town of Anstruther before finally landing at an auction in the village of Rosewall in Midlothian.

And it's time to meet up.

Oh, my gosh, they're in Aston Martin Lagonda.

Oh.

[WHISTLING] NARRATOR: Oh, they're nice and relaxed.

It's huge.

Oh, my gosh, thank you very much.

Hello.

Oh, loot at that.

DAVID HARPER: Look at you two.

What do we have here?

Do we refer to a chef?

TONY SINGH: You can if you want to show me that, it's OK. Do you need a hand out, chef?

[LAUGHTER] [INAUDIBLE] Cyrus, chef.

How are you, sir?

Very well.

- Great, delighted.

- Nice to meet you, Cyrus.

How are you?

- How are you?

Tony, chef.

Very good to meet you.

Hello, Tony.

Nice to meet you.

How are you?

- Look at your shoes.

- Oh, thank you.

- Oh, look at this, look at this [INAUDIBLE] Wow, my gosh, Aston Martin.

How was that to drive?

It's a tank, yeah.

DAVID HARPER: It's a tank?

It's a tank.

We'll can go right through them.

- Oh, yeah?

[LAUGHTER] I think I've got a bit of competition on the fashion stage here.

- Yeah, I was-- I was going to be the peacock.

What's this?

DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

NATASHA RASKIN: What's this?

NARRATOR: There does seem to be a bit of a red theme.

So shall stick [INAUDIBLE]?

What care are we gonna have?

I am very happy.

Do you wanna drive that one?

Oh, I would love to drive this one, Cyrus.

- OK, so we go with that one.

- Are you sure?

Yeah, yeah.

DAVID HARPER: Are you sure?

Yeah.

Thank, God.

Sounds good to me.

NARRATOR: Come on, you lot, get a wiggle on.

Antiques won't by themselves, you know.

Go, go!

Ha ha, see you later.

Suckers.

Wow, my gosh, lively.

What's it got, lively?

Lively.

NARRATOR: Let's saddle up then with Tony and Natasha.

TONY SINGH: Antique shops, auctions, charity shops-- I just like-- I'm a rummager.

This is not uncharted territory for you.

- Nah.

- You know exactly what you do.

I just caved on Cyrus because [INAUDIBLE],, I've never been to a charity shop in my life.

Oh, you've just been telling him that you're a novice?

- [INAUDIBLE], yes, telling him.

- [CHUCKLES] NARRATOR: Sneaky Tony.

Meanwhile, Cyrus is giving David a lesson in the Indian haggle.

Indians will nod their head like that, so you have to understand whether it's a yes or no.

But it's still a shake of a head?

It's still a nod.

Because here you'll have two nods.

One is yes-- DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

- --or one is no.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

An Indian will go like that and like that, you know.

And what does that mean?

So this is no and that is OK, you know.

No, this is brilliant.

This is a little bit more crazy.

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: Interesting.

Our gang are all sharing the first shop.

Look out, Clepington Antiques.

Cyrus and David are the first to arrive.

Oh, man.

Should we cut in front of them?

They must have known a shortcut.

A very common Jaguar.

Hello.

[LAUGHS] Ah CYRUS TODIWALA: Mr. Singh is here.

Yes, yes, yes, we're in first.

NARRATOR: Yes, David, well done.

This looks big enough though for everyone.

Gee, look at that, mhm.

Right, OK, here we go.

Let's go.

NATASHA RASKIN: You ready?

Let's do it.

NATASHA RASKIN: You feeling confident?

Oh, yeah.

I'm liking the look of this.

NARRATOR: Glad to hear.

It used to be a dairy farm, don't you know.

Crikey.

See, we do come from a real trading heritage, don't we?

Very much so.

But, um, you could buy a pin and you could order a Wells Fargo truck or a Rolls Royce from my grandfather's shop.

No way.

Yes.

NARRATOR: I think Cyrus's trading experience will prove to be invaluable on this trip, don't you?

So you said you like small things?

Yeah, smaller things because they can fit in more into a house, you know.

Otherwise, bigger things do not have a place in a small house.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

CYRUS TODIWALA: That's why small.

But small things, also for me, are a mark of craftsmanship.

Yes, OK. OK. CYRUS TODIWALA: For instance, that one looks real class.

DAVID HARPER: OK. That is a very stylish thing.

Very stylish.

Date wise, what-- what are you thinking?

I think, uh, '50s, '60s maybe.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah, with a definite nod towards art Deco.

NARRATOR: Now where's dealer Jim to talk money?

DAVID HARPER: OK, so do we-- can do as a deal on the glass?

I don't know, but I-- I can only try.

Is there-- is there a price, this deal?

Well, let me just show you the one that we're looking at, this one.

Right.

Oh, eh, piece of art glass, so.

Piece of art glass.

Choosing a price for that, I'd be lost.

I mean, [INAUDIBLE] could have-- as long as he has two pounds.

[LAUGHS] Right, OK, OK. Should we-- should we go with two pounds then?

- Whatever.

- [CHUCKLES] I don't give a foul.

I'm happy with two pounds.

NARRATOR: Hey?

- He's happy.

- Two pounds?

Should we go for two pounds?

What do you think?

Well, I think you couldn't get much cheaper than two pounds.

NARRATOR: Two right, David.

DAVID HARPER: Actually, it pays me, you know, just agreeing.

Um, do you wanna-- do you wanna do your spice bartering?

Well, I'll tell you why.

Because I mean, somebody's buying it back from us-- OK. --might look at the cheap there and the little cheap there and might say, no-- JIM: He's right, yeah.

CYRUS TODIWALA: --I'll drop the value down further.

So maybe if we get it slightly cheaper, we might be able to sell it off at a-- So hang on, slightly cheaper than two pounds?

- Yes.

- OK. OK, this is good.

Right, OK. - Which is a pound.

I bet you're pleased we've arrived.

Oh, yeah.

I've done my stuff, so I'm quite happy anyway.

Pound then-- as a pound anyway.

Are we going down to a pound now?

Oh, yeah-- oh, yeah.

Over to you, Cyrus.

So it's down to a pound, it's not a big spender.

Have we done it?

A pound?

Yeah, I think we'll take it from him.

Do we do a certain nod?

We do a nod, yeah.

Oh, marvelous, we've done it.

Marvelous.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, just that.

[CHUCKLES] We've done it, a pound.

Gotta [INAUDIBLE].

DAVID HARPER: OK. NARRATOR: What's just happened there than?

[CHUCKLES] One solitary pound for the 1960s glass vase, well, I never did.

Cyrus is one tough negotiator.

What about over in the other camp?

NATASHA RASKIN: So these are slightly damaged.

These are family photographs, slides.

NARRATOR: Oops-a-daisy.

Dear, Oh, dear.

Oh, my God.

Yes, bulletproof one.

They're still intact, which is amazing.

NARRATOR: Yeah, let's move away quickly from here, I think.

What's your method in the shop?

Are you going to-- I have never got a method.

I just rummage.

NATASHA RASKIN: I mean, is that something you're into?

TONY SINGH: Look at that.

Wow, old fashioned fire extinguisher.

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

That's quite cool, yeah.

What is that for?

Now I have no idea what that's for.

That's not-- is that a welding thing?

NATASHA RASKIN: Should we ask about it?

TONY SINGH: We should actually.

That's quite cool.

NATASHA RASKIN: Because that's quite a cool bit of [INAUDIBLE].

TONY SINGH: And it's different, yeah.

NARRATOR: Time to call over proprietor, Derek.

We've got a sprayer or extinguish.

Extinguisher.

We thought it was a welder, but it's only one tank.

I, personally, think it's a sprayer.

NATASHA RASKIN: Yeah, all those different nozzles.

DEREK: Yeah, but it's all on me.

Oh, [INAUDIBLE] only.

There's an arrow on there showing that's it's, ah-- Oh, goodness, see the arrow.

That's in there.

Where's the arrow?

Oh, look, there it is there.

TONY SINGH: See, try to find that.

NATASHA RASKIN: The arrow, so it's from 1960 and it's a Four Oaks Spraying Machine.

In fact, it's the Four Oaks Spraying Machine Company, Limited.

DEREK: That's correct.

NARRATOR: Oh, yes.

The Four Oaks Spraying Machine Company was founded in 1902.

Based in the Midlands, they manufactured a range of products that were originally used for both agricultural and domestic purposes, don't you know.

OK. And what would that be used to spray, anything?

I really do not know.

Maybe it was for fields.

TONY SINGH: What kind of money is it that?

I think he had 140 on it, but I could ask him.

Yeah, OK.

So this isn't your stock?

This isn't my stock.

This is another-- - Ah.

- --[INAUDIBLE] Oh, OK. Yeah, I wouldn't buy at 140.

NATASHA RASKIN: What were you thinking?

TONY SINGH: I'd say 90 quid.

NATASHA RASKIN: 90 quid, not still a bit dangerous?

NARRATOR: Tony and Natasha decide to offer 70 pounds.

And Derek has managed to get an answer.

DEREK: Well, I was talking to the dealer.

He says-- he says, I think you're being a bit cheeky on 70.

But-- but he says he'll do it for 90 pounds.

OK. Mm-hmm, OK. That could still be-- NATASHA RASKIN: It could so be a goer.

TONY SINGH: I think that could be a goer.

NATASHA RASKIN: It could be a goer?

TONY SINGH: Yeah.

NARRATOR: You have to get pumped up though, wouldn't you?

While Tony and Natasha have I think, someone's got a voice like a foghorn.

Hold on.

DAVID HARPER: So hand on, a military garden sprayer?

I don't know were they use that.

I've never come across a military garden spray.

I don't know what they use it for.

DAVID HARPER: Get out of town.

They're, actually, talking about the sprayer.

Oh, come on.

I swear to you, that's David's voice.

He's so loud, I can hear him talking about the sprayer.

TONY SINGH: Great, let's go in.

NATASHA RASKIN: Go, go, go, look.

Eh, see.

Excuse us.

Did you see our sprayer?

- Sorry to interrupt.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- Hello.

What was that?

The sprayer we were going to buy.

You're not buying that, chef.

We have no use for that.

I like the smell of the kerosene oil in there.

[LAUGHTER] - Kerosene?

What do you wanna do with that?

What are you gonna do with that?

See.

Have you bought it, Tash?

- Yes, we have.

- Oh.

Oh, well.

There was a wink there.

There was a wink there.

No, it wasn't.

Hang on.

- Do it again.

- What?

DAVID HARPER: The wink.

Yes, we've bought that.

[LAUGHTER] Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Are you the owner of the item?

- Absolutely.

OK.

Sorry, we came first to the owner of the item.

- How much is it?

- No, it was another one.

Ah, I think we were first to [INAUDIBLE].. NARRATOR: Oh-oh, this could get messy.

Is this gonna come down to who makes the best offer?

Yeah.

Well, we were told it could actually be 90 pounds.

(GASPS) That's the wrong way.

It doesn't work like that.

[INAUDIBLE] But hang on.

You don't know Jim, I know Jim.

Right, Jim-- Let's shake on it.

No, no, no.

What-- what-- what-- what's all this going on here?

What are you talking about?

NARRATOR: It's chef wars.

NATASHA RASKIN: What's happening?

What's happening?

NARRATOR: And now Derek's joining in.

What about a fresh offer then?

CYRUS TODIWALA: No, no, no.

We were here for 100 pounds.

There you go.

- So that's it.

- 100 pounds.

TONY SINGH: A C-note, cash, 100 quid.

So that's your bid, a 100 quid, mhm.

Cyrus?

Well, I could match that, but it depends what, ah-- NARRATOR: Only one way to settle it.

Heads I win, TLC loses.

Ha, we're fallen for that one before.

All right, heads.

Heads.

Ready?

Sure.

DAVID HARPER: Its head.

Hooray!

[CHUCKLES] Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

Thank you, chef.

NARRATOR: Wow, that was tense.

There you go.

NARRATOR: The Four Oaks Spraying Machine for 100 pounds then four Tony and Natasha.

This doesn't faze Cyrus and David.

They've got their eye on something else.

Mantelpiece clock.

DAVID HARPER: I quite like that, actually.

That's a bit of a novelty clock.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Made in England.

And a light on the top.

DAVID HARPER: It's quite cool.

It's a bit twee, isn't it?

CYRUS TODIWALA: And it's Bakelite.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah, which is sort of stylish.

And knowing Jimmy, it's gonna be so cheap, it's unbelievable.

Yeah, I think he's in a good-- good mood today.

[CHUCKLES] So I mean, Bakelite-- I mean is, actually, a very sought after material because it has its own unique look.

Yeah, it's had it's day.

NARRATOR: Yeah, it's dirty.

Not very many of these clocks were made for the simple reason they weren't terribly popular.

DAVID HARPER: What sort of money is it, Jim?

JIM: I don't-- what's the price on the bottom?

The price on the bottom says 20 pounds, but the zero's has been rubbed off.

JIM: Are you sure?

So shall we take it as two pounds?

NARRATOR: Cyrus!

JIM: Fiver.

DAVID HARPER: A fiver, a fiver.

JIM: Four quid, four.

What do you think?

Well, I don't know, but he just keeps coming down.

And eventually, we'll get down to one.

Good trade price.

Give-- give him 10 seconds.

He'll go down another pound.

Well, something like this-- Three quid, that's it.

See, I told you, that was five seconds.

No, wait, wait, wait, wait.

That was five seconds.

Give him another five seconds.

Just look at him.

Jim.

What did I say, three quid?

Two quid.

[CHUCKLES] It's brilliant.

It's brilliant.

I don't know whether he'll have the heart to do it again.

No, can't do it anymore.

No, OK. Jim, thank you very much.

- All right.

- Thank you very much, Jim.

- Thank you, sir.

You're brilliant.

I love you.

You're fantastic.

- Yeah.

NARRATOR: Gosh, this is unusual.

And Cyrus is proving to be the negotiator of the year.

Two pounds, God, for the Art Deco Bakelite lamp-cum-clock.

Over now to Tony and Natasha.

NATASHA RASKIN: Can you play that?

Eh, no, but [INAUDIBLE].

Can I play it?

[MUSICAL NOTES] [LAUGHS] Need a basket.

That's good, good.

That's good.

Hold on, that's terrible.

NARRATOR: Where's the snake?

Now back to business.

What's this?

I've never seen one like that.

So it works to warm your Brandy or your Cognac.

Literally, put the Brandy and-- do you know what it does?

It also stops you from drinking too much at home because you have to have an angle.

Too much, it would just flip out.

It'd fall and catch fire.

So one measure, you lay it over the flame, which is lit.

Some oil in there.

- Yeah.

And it just gently and heats the Brandy.

Warms it.

But see the aroma when it comes out.

It's just-- [EXCLAIMS] So it's so much fun because it's almost as if if this were to start evaporating, it would be like the steam coming out of the train.

Yeah.

That's a quirky little thing.

I think people would go wild for that.

I think [INAUDIBLE],, we got a deal on it.

NARRATOR: Only one way to find out.

Oh, Derek.

- You've got your lines?

- Derek.

Hello.

Right.

We'd like to buy the get rich express that you've got in a room next door.

The what?

That we got near the what?

The what?

The Choo Choo train with the Brandy warming glass.

Brandy glass.

NARRATOR: That's the technical term.

The ticket price is 10 pounds.

Don't buy it.

All right.

Once-- once only, five pounds.

We're thinking four or three pounds.

- [LAUGHS] - Gee whiz.

I know.

NARRATOR: He's like Cyrus.

TONY SINGH: How long have you had that for, Derek?

Uh, about three weeks.

See, it's not gonna go anywhere there.

[LAUGHTER] - It's stuck in the tracks.

- It's there.

It's stuck on the tracks.

You know what I mean?

It was a fast moving out, I'd be gone.

You know what I mean?

Gone.

OK, you can have it for four pounds.

Great, done.

- It's a deal.

- Excellent.

It's a deal.

Oh, brilliant.

Derek, thank you so much.

NARRATOR: That's the novelty Brandy warmer for four pounds, but Tony's not finished yet.

TONY SINGH: Is that the [INAUDIBLE]??

JIM: Yes.

That's what I thought it was.

NATASHA RASKIN: Is that what that is?

TONY SINGH: Yeah, just quite that corner of my eye.

OK.

So are these little shoulder badges, these used to epaulets?

Well, this one's a cat badger.

Yeah, they are cat badgers.

Oh, they're super cute.

Quite a charming [INAUDIBLE].

They just-- I don't have a clue.

Are these wheat-sheaf on the top?

Well it's flames and that's the pot, marked once off.

But that's the thing here, an army marches on its stomach.

So we're the most important people in the army, are the chefs.

Of course.

NARRATOR: Yep, easy mistake, Tony.

This is actually the Royal Artillery emblem and is a bomb with flames, rather than the catering corps pot.

Still, it's a collectible nevertheless.

DEREK: I'll make it easy for you, two pounds for the pair.

TONY SINGH: Two quid?

I don't know, it's up to you.

But we're not playing much of a risky game.

We've got one four and then another for two.

Then go on then.

Two quid, there you go.

Did that just happen?

Yes, it just happened.

I'm gonna need your advice when it comes to cataloging these because-- Yeah, I'm gonna to have to check on-- You're gonna have to educate me.

And in case I was completely wrong-- It only cost us two quid.

- There you go.

- So that is OK.

Sour winner.

Silver linings and all that.

NARRATOR: Thank goodness for that.

That makes a grand total of three items for 106 pounds.

Back to Cyrus and David.

Can they splash a bit more of their cash?

They spent three pounds on two items so far.

[CHUCKLES] Wonderful, OK.

So what do you have here, sir, that could be interesting?

Nice little mouse for a stool.

CYRUS TODIWALA: I like that, actually.

DAVID HARPER: Do you like that?

Tell me why you like that, Cyrus.

I like that.

I like that for a couple of reasons.

One is the finish is good.

Yeah.

But I like the mouse.

I like the mouse.

Let's-- it reminds me of school.

Does it?

Tell me, why?

Yeah, because you know, you had stuff like that.

And we always ended up breaking them.

DAVID HARPER: And do you know who made it?

CYRUS TODIWALA: No, I wouldn't have a clue.

OK.

But you spotted it from feet away because it was great quality and you like the mouse.

And the mouse-- Yeah, because--see the grain of the wood, once you touch it, it talks a language.

NARRATOR: Impressive, hey?

DAVID HARPER: This was made by a company very close to where I live called Robert Thompson of Kilburn.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Really?

Yes, Mouseman Furniture.

He is famous worldwide.

They are known for their exquisite pieces of basic furniture, each carved with a unique, individual mouse.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Really?

Mr. Jim.

Oh, yeah, right.

What do you think?

Five bucks, four bucks three bucks, two bucks, one-- It's one of the other traders, ah-- Sorry?

It's one of the traders stools.

I think this has got 110 on it, 110.

CYRUS TODIWALA: 110?

JIM: I think so.

DAVID HARPER: It needs to be 80 quid.

Really?

I-- I feel.

To buy from Mr. Jim?

Yeah.

It depends if there's anything else you're interested in looking into.

Ah.

A package, a package.

But was it like a buy one, get one free, Jim, is it?

It's not a bundle.

NARRATOR: Listen, don't push your luck, David.

But encouraged by a combo deal-- Well, that looked interesting.

OK, tell me why.

Now I mean, old fashioned?

Yeah.

Well, you've hit the nail on the head right there.

It's old fashioned.

Birmingham and we have the letter A, which gives us a date of-- Jim?

The dates, I don't know.

The '20-- is it something like that?

'25, '26?

- '27-- - Is it?

[INAUDIBLE] 1927.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Look at how beautiful it is made.

Salt because it's got a glass bowl inside.

I think that's pepper.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

That's mustard, I think.

DAVID HARPER: Mustard, absolutely.

CYRUS TODIWALA: So it's a Cruet set.

DAVID HARPER: It is in its own original presentation box.

NARRATOR: The original ticket price on the Mouseman's stool is 110 pounds and the silver Cruet set is priced at 80, totaling 190 pounds for both.

DAVID HARPER: For me, that needs to be-- CYRUS TODIWALA: We are hoping that you'll do us a fabulous deal on this one now.

I think, with Cyrus's permission, the bid is 120.

Do you want to speak to the owner?

That goes over, above or a little over budget.

I gonna walk.

Just give us a minute.

NARRATOR: So Jim goes to have a quick chat with the dealer on the combo deal for the two items.

JIM: Yeah, you're all right?

CYRUS TODIWALA: Sir, we are all right.

Sir-- - Yep.

It's all in your hands.

135.

It's all or nothing.

We walk out, you just-- 135?

I'm on for it myself.

All right, then.

You gotta go on.

If you're on for it, then I'm on.

Thank you very much, sir.

Thank you.

I'm on for it.

NARRATOR: Well, this is certainly a day for unique haggling, a bumper haul of four lots for 138 pounds.

Meanwhile, it's hotting up in the Jag.

It's boiling.

It's boiling.

You must be boiling in your denim kilt.

(SIGHS) It's got it's built in ventilation.

It's OK.

Thank you.

That's enough information.

Yeah.

Thank you, chef.

NARRATOR: Quite.

Tony and Natasha are heading from Dundee's rural suburbs into the city center.

Towards the end of the Victorian era, Scotland was a powerhouse of production.

But it was right here in Dundee that the phenomenal boom of a natural fiber from India would prove to be so versatile it would become a global essential.

When the first bales of jute were unloaded at Dundee's docks in 1820, nobody could predict the magnitude of its success.

Tony and Natasha have an appointment at Verdant Works, one of the 150 mills once involved in jute production and which helped to change the city's destiny forever.

Tony is passionate about his Indian heritage and wants to find out more about the plant grown in the Indian subcontinent that in the 19th century made Dundee the jute capital of the World.

Education officer, Brian Kelly, is the man with the answers.

Lots of things sort of came together at that time.

First of all, Dundee is already producing linen from flax-- TONY SINGH: OK. --at that time.

So they had the mills and they had the workers.

Dundee was also a whaling port and it turned out that whale oil was really good for softening the jute.

NATASHA RASKIN: Mm-hmm.

BRIAN KELLY: And that was really the breakthrough that allowed the jute to be produced in the large scale in Dundee.

NARRATOR: Jute is one of the most versatile fibers known to man and can be spun at a coarse strong threads to make a multitude of products cheaply, including durable and strong sacking.

You can see how far it travels from Dundee all around the world.

So it was everything-- Australia, everything?

Yep, you'd have some wool from Australia.

You would have spaces from the Far East, grain from South America, cotton from the US.

All these things were transported in jute bags that were sent out from Dundee.

NARRATOR: Dundee cornered the jute market.

And in the 19th century, the city had more millionaires than anywhere in Britain if not the whole of Europe.

But with huge riches, there was also a high degree of poverty.

A huge population rise during the 19th century.

At the beginning of the jute boom, around about the 1850s, the population of Dundee was maybe around about 60, 70,000.

By the start of the 20th century, that was up to almost 170,000.

TONY SINGH: Wow.

BRIAN KELLY: So you had all these people moving into the city, and the living conditions were very, very cramped, small number of rooms per family.

NATASHA RASKIN: Mhm.

BRIAN KELLY: So it was a high population center, but-- but not a great place to live.

NARRATOR: The recently restored High Mill was built in 1833.

Tony and Natasha are getting a bird's eye view of what it would once have looked like.

This is amazing.

It's massive.

It's a grand hall.

But was this the main production area or-- Yeah, this is-- the High Mill, here, is where the machinery was in Verdant Works when it was a working factory.

So there were three floors of machines in here.

So it was a very, very bustling factory.

500 people worked here at its height.

NARRATOR: Conditions improve for workers, but the mill owners looked for a cheaper labor market.

And eventually, managers and machinery moved to India itself.

Even by 1900, for example, Kolkata was overtaking Dundee in the production of jute.

As the 20th century went on, it just continued to decline.

And by the 1970s, practically everything was gone in Dundee.

NARRATOR: Time now to walk in the footsteps of the Dundonians who once worked here.

Right, so this is it.

This is where you would have started your day in the jute house.

All right, Tash, clock in.

[CLICK OF MACHINE] Now [INAUDIBLE].

Look at that.

This is what I did.

[CLICK OF MACHINE] NATASHA RASKIN: So I'm in?

Thank you.

Right, I'm following you, chef.

Let's go.

Chop, chop.

NARRATOR: In the 1950s, Lily Thompson was clocking in to this very factory when she was just a young girl.

I left school on a Friday and I went into that one on the Monday.

I didn't have a clue what we're going to be.

Were you nervous?

Yes, because you're only 15.

Uh-huh.

And you heard the mills and you talked about the mills, but you never saw what they looked like inside.

Right.

But you didn't-- it wasn't long to get woken up.

NARRATOR: The loud clattering machines made it very difficult to hear.

Workers developed their own way of communicating.

Can you give us a little bit of sign language there.

What did things mean?

A man in the brown coat come in.

Uh-huh, so I'd be a foreman?

Yeah.

Oh, you would just go-- I'd be a man.

Beardie's coming.

Beardie's coming.

It wouldn't be-- [LAUGHS] it means foreman's coming.

Foreman's coming.

Man in white coat, the manager-- Uh-huh.

--the same thing, white top man.

Top man.

White man, coat.

That is fascinating, your own language.

But we're standing in front of the machine that you worked since you were 15.

So Tony, we've got to see Lily in action.

I can't wait to see the skull.

I wanna see the action.

NARRATOR: In the early days, women outnumbered men, three to one, and earned Dundee the nickname of the She Town.

After six weeks of training, Lily would have eventually looked after as many as six machines.

[CRANKING OF MACHINERY] TONY SINGH: Yeah, that's loud.

[INAUDIBLE] That's so noisy.

See the string came off and just nipped that [INAUDIBLE] in there.

LILY THOMPSON: I need to get the shell to stop there every time.

NARRATOR: The once jute capital of the world employed over 50,000 people during its peak and saw a triple-fold rise in the population.

The industry may be long gone, but this hard wearing thread provided the solid foundations of success and ensured Dundee became a giant of industry on an international scale.

Meanwhile, Cyrus and David are musing over their shopping thus far.

Now any regrets on the coin toss?

Yeah, 100% because Tony's always lucky.

Is he?

He gets it every single time.

DAVID HARPER: [LAUGHS] Maybe it's been some kind of power, you know.

NARRATOR: Maybe he does.

Cyrus and David have traveled west to the city of Perth in Central Scotland.

Fair City Antiques is next on the fellas hit list for hunting down some antiques and plunder.

[DOOR CREAKING] NATASHA RASKIN: Yeah, OK. Ooh, a slight hello.

Hello.

It's interesting.

Hello, hello, hello.

Hello, I'm David.

- How are you?

- I'm Karen.

- Karen, hi there.

- I'm Max.

- Hi, I'm Cyrus.

- I'm Karen.

- Hi, Karen.

- I'm Max.

- Hi, max.

- Hi, Cyrus.

- Wow.

OK, shall we just dive in?

Certainly can.

All right, should we go diving?

Absolutely.

NARRATOR: It's not a swimming pool, David.

Thank you.

Very interesting, though.

NARRATOR: Ah, plenty of potential booty in here though.

But like a hunter with its prey, Cyrus has pounced on something.

That one's got a royal feel to it, isn't it?

DAVID HARPER: Yeah, that is a royal feel.

That is the, um-- CYRUS TODIWALA: That's like a crest, isn't it?

A royal crest of-- DAVID HARPER: It's the royal coat of arms, isn't it?

It's a royal coat of arms, yeah.

- What's it made out of?

- And the crown there.

Alabaster.

Alabaster, is it?

So hand cut, perhaps?

Absolutely, absolutely hand cut.

But alabaster is a soft stone, so it's quite easy to-- to carve.

CYRUS TODIWALA: It's almost like soapstone, isn't it?

You never seen this before.

So that it's quite a grand thing, isn't it?

Oh, wow.

DAVID HARPER: OK, look at the carving, look at the detail.

So we have the lion-- Yeah.

--to the left hand side.

Then we have the chained unicorn.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Yeah.

NARRATOR: The royal arms of Scotland have their origins in the 12th century and are still used widely today as a symbol of Scotland.

Now look at the face itself.

Now this is an indication as to its age because the alabaster itself is millions of years old.

When it was carved, we're not sure.

But I think that sort of style of decoration-- CYRUS TODIWALA: Most art Deco style, maybe?

All Deco-y, yeah.

I think it's all Deco-y.

Yeah, art Deco-y.

Again, it's art Deco-y because it is very fancy.

Isn't it?

Yeah.

It's a really interesting thing.

I think that's 1950s.

It's a real celebration of royalty, isn't it?

CYRUS TODIWALA: It could be from the coronation time?

It could be 1953.

I-- I-- I'm intrigued by that.

I've never seen that before.

It could be mocked at.

At the same time, it could be appreciated.

DAVID HARPER: You're so right.

NARRATOR: It sports a price tag of 120 pounds.

Manager, Max, has called the vendor who's willing to knock 20 pounds off.

It's 100 quid or nothing.

What's your gut feeling?

NARRATOR: He'll want it for a fiver.

My gut feel, probably, says it might go.

DAVID HARPER: You, I know, Cyrus, after knowing you only for a few short hours, are a real risk taker.

[CHUCKLES] You really are.

You know that could make 20 quid, but it could make 200.

Yeah, well, that's the fear, isn't it?

But-- That's the fear.

But doesn't fear make you feel alive, Cyrus?

Well, it does.

You're-- you're drawing me into this, yeah.

You're drawing me into this.

NARRATOR: Come on, make your minds up.

DAVID HARPER: Are we gonna do it?

Cyrus?

What do you think?

Let's take a chance.

All right, then let's do it.

Max.

All right, thank you.

OK. NARRATOR: Well, Cyrus seems to have calmed down on the tough negotiation front.

But for how long, I wonder?

The alabaster Mantel clock for 100 pounds, then, for better or for worse.

DAVID HARPER: It's pretty good going now, Cyrus.

You think so?

Very well done.

Amazing negotiating.

Really?

Yeah, amazing negotiating.

I'm hopeless.

Bizarre negotiating, but nevertheless, amazing.

NARRATOR: Amazing, indeed.

I think you should call it a day.

Nightie, night.

[MUSIC PLAYING] What's on the menu, today then, for our excitable chefs?

I think I might get something frivolous.

Yeah-- TONY SINGH: You know me.

--suit your-- suits your nature, chef.

Go for it.

A mint trimmed toilet holder or something.

[LAUGHTER] That's what we'll go for.

if I can get one, I've having one of them.

NARRATOR: Mhm, I'm not so sure, Tony.

Our experts are swapping notes on yesterday.

I can't really vocabularize-- [CHUCKLES] --how the negotiating went yesterday, but it worked.

Is it sort of loud and brash and he just kind of throws fire?

I don't know.

It was out of control, but I loved it.

NARRATOR: Yeah, so did we.

DAVID HARPER: [CHUCKLES] NARRATOR: Yesterday, our bold and super confident chefs took to the world of antiques like ducks to water.

Cyrus and David bought like there was no tomorrow.

They've got the 1960s vase, the Bakelite Mantel clock-cum-lamp combo, the Mouseman stool, the silver Cruet set and the alabaster Mantel clock.

They have 162 pounds left in their wallet.

Tony and Natasha, with the flip of a coin, walk the Four Oaks Sprayer, the novelty Choo Choo Brandy warmer and the pair of Royal Artillery badges leaving them with a mighty 294 pounds to splash today.

Right then, chaps, time for everybody to catch up.

How's it going?

How are you this morning?

Are you well?

Nice to see you.

- How are you doing?

Hello, I'm very well.

Nice to see you both.

Good to see you.

DAVID HARPER: We've been tootling around the countryside.

I know why you don't want me to drive that car.

Why?

That thing is great, man.

[CHUCKLES] DAVID HARPER: Have you been driving it?

- Yes.

- I love it.

No wonder you won't let me touch it.

- Am I driving?

- No, no, no, no.

DAVID HARPER: Are you sure?

NARRATOR: While Cyrus and David sort themselves out, let's follow Tony and Natasha.

They're making their way to the town of South Queensferry in West Lothian.

Tony, we do not need to be tight with purse strings today.

But I say let's go for it.

But we can haggle, though?

Oh, sure.

I'm not gonna stop me from haggling.

That's OK. NARRATOR: Tony loves a bargain.

Did you know sea kist was a chest which held all things dear to a seafarer on his travels?

Hopefully, this pair can find a precious and nautical antique here.

The shop's called Seakist.

Get it?

Tony, you're already straight in.

What have you got?

TONY SINGH: Well, half a ship's-- ship's plans.

NATASHA RASKIN: [CHUCKLES] TONY SINGH: The plans look quite cool, but definitely the blueprints.

- They do look quite cool.

What have we got?

It's for the-- oh, it's for the Royal Yacht Britannia.

TONY SINGH: Funnily enough, I was the first civilian chef on the Royal Yacht Britannia.

So you where.

I think we should have a look at that.

NATASHA RASKIN: OK, let's have a look.

NARRATOR: Amazing, but it's priced at 500 pounds.

And even with Tony's magical haggling, I think it's best if we maybe move on.

TONY SINGH: Well, here we go.

Tash.

NATASHA RASKIN: Yes.

Come and look at this.

I think I've got something.

NATASHA RASKIN: What have you got?

It's a quacker.

[LAUGHTER] NARRATOR: [CHUCKLES] A pair of novelty bookends.

TONY SINGH: Cool, I like that.

NATASHA RASKIN: I'll tell you what, Tony, you and I get along.

I have a serious penchant for ducks.

Yeah, ducks are good.

NATASHA RASKIN: Especially, a mallard.

A mallard, great.

NATASHA RASKIN: And they're quite nicely done.

Do they come as a pair?

TONY SINGH: What does that say?

NATASHA RASKIN: It says 20 quid.

TONY SINGH: Oh, so we have to got a deal on that.

We can get a deal on that.

NARRATOR: That's one possible, and Natasha has rooted something else out.

NATASHA RASKIN: And here you have a wee viking ship.

Oh, yes, different.

NATASHA RASKIN: And we really want this to be Scandinavian silver.

But we've got is an enamel brooch here.

I love what you brought just, Tony, I can't deny it.

See, that looks quite cool-- NATASHA RASKIN: Everything about this smacks of quality.

TONY SINGH: It is.

NATASHA RASKIN: So Tony, 55 pounds.

TONY SINGH: We'll get a deal.

NARRATOR: Righty-o.

Let's get owner, Jenny, in to talk cash.

JENNY: These I could let you have 18.

How does that sound?

It sounds pretty tasty.

Yep.

I mean, $0.15 nicer, that's all I'm saying.

Just roll numbers, yeah.

NATASHA RASKIN: It just sounds, you know?

JENNY: Roll numbers, yeah, that's easier.

Right, OK, 15 on the dot.

NATASHA RASKIN: OK, so generous.

JENNY: OK. You Viking brooch, that could be 40.

TONY SINGH: I would say 50 pounds for both of them.

Oh, I think that's fine.

Yeah?

I'm happy with that if you're happy with that.

50 pounds for two.

So 35 on the brooch.

TONY SINGH: 35 on the brooch and 15 on-- NATASHA RASKIN: 15 on the bookends?

TONY SINGH: Yeah.

You're quite relaxed.

Yes.

OK, 50 pounds.

Jenny, thank you very much.

That's a good deal.

There we go then.

Another two items to add to their haul of goodies.

Let's leave them to it for the moment.

Now how about Cyrus and David?

Being your partner, I want you to win.

I think we are going to win.

DAVID HARPER: I feel pretty confident.

I don't know what they're bought, but, yeah.

Something's telling me we will win.

OK. OK, we will win because I think we have got some unique pieces, and we haven't squandered our money.

NARRATOR: Loving your confidence there, Cyrus.

The gents have traveled along the East Coast to the town of St. Andrews in Fife.

They already have five lots from yesterday's mammoth shopping haul, but they still have 162 pounds in their road tripping purse.

Immediately, I see cooking utensils-- CYRUS TODIWALA: Yep.

--a fantastic Victorian jelly mold.

That is fun, isn't it?

CYRUS TODIWALA: Look at that.

DAVID HARPER: Isn't that gorgeous?

It's gorgeous.

Imagine making jellies in that.

And you know-- and the-- the most the professional chefs still like to use copper.

DAVID HARPER: Do they, why?

CYRUS TODIWALA: And when they can get the tinning done, they love using copper.

Because copper is always cold.

It has an amazing way of working with cold things.

So if you're setting a jelly, this will chill faster than aluminum or a coated steel dish.

Imagine that coming on a big plate on the table, and your mom's shook it like that.

DAVID HARPER: [CHUCKLES] And lifted it-- [SLURPING SOUND] Wow.

And the jelly came out.

You know that sound?

DAVID HARPER: Yes.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Good clotted cream or just fresh cream on the top.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah, yeah.

CYRUS TODIWALA: There's nothing quite like a good jelly sometimes.

NARRATOR: I agree, Cyrus.

But after a good mooch about, the boys decide they don't want to add to their already full bag of five lots.

Meanwhile, Tony and Natasha are still in South Queensferry.

TONY SINGH: How much for you destroyer?

The plastic model?

TONY SINGH: The-- that's what I mean.

It just doesn't fit with all this great stuff that you've got.

JENNY: No.

TONY SINGH: I'll talk it off your hands.

JENNY: You-- you could do-- I could meet at eight pounds.

NATASHA RASKIN: No, Tony.

- Yeah, go one then.

- Tony, Tony!

- We'll take it.

Eight pounds?

Honestly, something-- NATASHA RASKIN: Tony, that's plastic.

That is literally-- But how will they put it on the block when they talk about it?

They will say this is a plastic toy.

Don't do it.

Don't do it, Tony.

No?

Don't do it.

Don't do it.

- Gone.

- Don't do it.

Done.

OK, so you're saying, no?

I'm saying do what you feel is right.

Yeah, we'll take that.

[LAUGHS] NATASHA RASKIN: OK, really, actually?

Yeah, we'll take that.

NATASHA RASKIN: Sure, we've-- Jenny, that's another sale.

JENNY: Yeah.

TONY SINGH: It's sorted.

Tash, you get the boat.

NATASHA RASKIN: OK. TONY SINGH: I'll get the crackers.

How much are we due you?

That makes 58 pounds, altogether.

NATASHA RASKIN: Tony, this doesn't bare close inspection.

TONY SINGH: It's just a bit dust-- [BLOWING SOUND] What [INAUDIBLE].

It's got a hel-- it's got two helicopters on it.

We've won a watch.

NARRATOR: If you say so, Tony.

TONY SINGH: Yes.

NARRATOR: The mixed bag of the bookends, the brooch and the plastic battleship, and Tony's happy.

We will destroy them with that.

Look at in the daylight-- oh, my God.

It's even worse in the daylight.

It's cracking.

It's definitely plastic, Tony.

TONY SINGH: No, no, it's plastic.

NARRATOR: Enough said.

[CHUCKLES] Let's catch up with the other bunch.

In the pursuit of food, man has created and man has achieved.

I mean, a sideboard is a beautiful piece of furniture.

It's made for serving food.

A dining table for eating.

Yeah.

My gosh, it's something I'd never really thought about.

NARRATOR: Blimey, David's really on the ball today.

Cyrus and David have traveled to the Fife town of Anstruther or Anstru as the locals pronounce it.

For thousands of years, Scotland's East Coast has had a long association with the fishing industry located in the East Neuk of Fife.

Anstruther was one of the busiest fishing harbors of the 19th century.

During this time, as many as 30,000 boats would be fishing for herring along the East Coast, making the Scottish fishing industry the biggest in Europe.

The beating heart of the fishing trade, this town became a leader in innovations in boat design.

DAVID HARPER: So what is it, Anstrather?

Or Anstruther.

Anstru.

Or Anstru?

Ansta?

Anstruther.

NARRATOR: Cyrus and David a meeting with former fisherman, Davie Todd, who is a trustee of the Scottish Fisheries Museum based here.

Fantastic.

You're gonna teach us all about the Fife fishing industries.

Well, I'll try.

I'll try.

A little bit more.

DAVIE TODD: This is the type of fishing boat they used 100 years ago.

DAVID HARPER: Can we get on it?

DAVIE TODD: Certainly.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Do they still use it?

NARRATOR: This is the Reaper.

At 115 years old, it is a wonderful example of the Fife boat design that as the name suggests, was developed right here in the kingdom of Fife.

All right, fellas, let's clamber aboard for a better look.

CYRUS TODIWALA: You can fall on somebody's head, isn't it?

Well, exactly.

We don't be doing that, do we?

NARRATOR: Watch you don't get your lemon trousers all mucky ducky.

Right.

NARRATOR: Fishing boats were constantly being improved in the 19th century.

And after a treacherous storm of 1841 when many lives were lost, the government placed a ban on all open deck boats.

Locals developed their own vessel, a revolutionary boat that has many unique features.

So what was so good then about the design of the Fife?

DAVIE TODD: It was wide of beam and a deep keel.

It was very stable.

DAVID HARPER: Yeah.

DAVIE TODD: This East Coast of Scotland mostly were Fifes.

NARRATOR: Herring was a delicacy on the continent and could be easily caught along the East Coast of Scotland.

At the peak of the herring boom in 1907, two and a half million barrels of fish were cured and exported to Germany, Eastern Europe and Russia.

Wow.

DAVIE TODD: Every book when it came in and landed, they would take a scoop full of herring up to the ceiling, and that was sold and the quality of-- of the sample.

And if there were a good quality, these bottles had a brand on them with a crown on it.

And these were the quality fish that were exported.

NARRATOR: The fishing industry supported the whole community with women helping to gut the huge loads of herring that would arrive at the harbor.

Hence the term, I guess, fish wives.

I saw a picture where women have got bandages on their fingers and they're cleaning herring.

DAVIE TODD: Yes.

CYRUS TODIWALA: What are those bandages?

DAVIE TODD: To protect the fingers from being cut.

Ah, by the-- By the knife.

By butter knife.

The knife, yeah.

They can guy about 30 herring a minute.

30 herring a minute?

Yeah.

That's one every two seconds.

My goodness.

Two seconds a fish.

DAVIE TODD: Their hands flew.

[CHUCKLES] NARRATOR: As the 20th century developed, the herring industry gradually disappeared and so, too, did the fleets of fishing boats.

Anstruther may no longer be the busy port it once was, but the history of the Anstruther seafarers and their key role in boat development certainly helped the evolution of the fishing industry of today.

And just before we pack up and leave-- Are these good fish and chips or what?

I love the fish.

I think it's pretty good.

Not only that, it's fresh as fresh can be.

Yeah.

You can taste that, you can taste the fish.

There's no smell in the fish-- Yeah.

--which is when you know the fish is really fresh.

Right.

It doesn't have any smell in it.

And thanks for bringing me here because now I can prove that Scottish produce is fabulous.

DAVID HARPER: It is fabulous.

NARRATOR: With all the shopping done and dusted, it's time to give one another's buys a good once over.

How was it, guys?

- Fabulous.

- Wonderful.

Yes.

I can-- I can see, Cyrus, you've adopted a uniform since we last met.

Are you know a full bona fide antique dealer with your hat and everything?

TONY SINGH: Atta boy.

What do you think?

NATASHA RASKIN: I think you look the part.

It is definitely the Del Boy look.

Don't you agree?

NATASHA RASKIN: So you're walking the walk, but we wanna find out if you talk the talk.

Shall we show you or should you show us?

Are you ready for battle?

Well, are you confident though, Tony?

Of course.

[GROANS] [CHUCKLES] Smash it.

Go on then, smash it!

NATASHA RASKIN: You wanna see it?

NATASHA RASKIN: OK.

I'm gonna show you this beautiful piece first.

[WHISTLING] NATASHA RASKIN: Yeah, we all remember him.

Woohoo.

OK, [CHUCKLES] I'll get rid of this.

DAVID HARPER: Woohoo.

NATASHA RASKIN: Come on, have a look.

OK. TONY SINGH: Come on.

NATASHA RASKIN: I mean, quality is really the key word here, is it?

Oh, no, it is as far as the eye of the beholder.

DAVID HARPER: Why are they showing [INAUDIBLE]??

NATASHA RASKIN: He put these on their side.

[LAUGHS] - Because they're suicide ducks.

- What are they?

- Oh, they're ducks.

- They're ducks.

Oh, they're suicide ducks.

They're cool-ish.

That's what I thought.

Why were they upside down like that?

Maybe it's ominous that they're taking a nosedive.

I'm not sure.

Cyrus, are you-- And this is a piece de resistance.

Oh, this is it, is it?

is this the big one?

TONY SINGH: [INAUDIBLE] breeze out the water.

Oh, you-- It comes back to profit, ey.

Eh, you're right there.

There you go.

Quality means nothing.

So [INAUDIBLE],, blow yourself out of the water?

Yeah, it's a steal.

It's a deal.

NARRATOR: Eh, what about the [CLEARS THROAT] choo-choo?

NATASHA RASKIN: [LAUGHS] TONY SINGH: The get rich express.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Well, if you light this, does the glass move forward?

NATASHA RASKIN: It explodes actually.

What-- what-- what does-- Brandy-- Brandy warmer.

NATASHA RASKIN: It's a Brandy warmer.

- Right.

- [CHUCKLES] It's very sophisticated, I've got to say.

- It's very-- mhm.

- Sorry, is this quality?

TONY SINGH: Of course, it's quality.

OK. TONY SINGH: Don't you damage it.

[GLASS SHATTERS] NATASHA RASKIN: [SCREAMS] NARRATOR: Lordy, dramatic jump from David there.

NATASHA RASKIN: Cyrus, is this your game plan, sabotage?

What are you doing?

Listen, he's just added value, all right.

NATASHA RASKIN: [INAUDIBLE] That's the most expensive thing that's back of that crystal.

NARRATOR: Tony jests.

It was a cheap Brandy glass only for show, and will be replaced at no extra cost for auction.

Moving quickly on.

Very gently, there's lots of valuable objects here.

OK, [CLEARS THROAT] feast your eyes.

Quite traditional, let's go have a gander.

DAVID HARPER: Please.

Try not to touch anything.

TONY SINGH: It's a unicorn and a lion.

NATASHA RASKIN: Well, this is quite cool, isn't it?

DAVID HARPER: And what does that tell you?

Royal Scottish, ah, stag-- stand-- stand-- No, it's union, yeah.

OK.

The best thing was the clock works perfectly.

It works.

You can hear it ticking.

It is?

Yeah, it works perfectly.

Not at the back of the hall when they're bedding.

And just like our Brandy glass, they're going to self-destruct.

[LAUGHTER] Boo!

Hey, well, if Cyrus picks it up.

But-- DAVID HARPER: I know.

--where you get that and for how much?

DAVID HARPER: That's a Mouseman.

That is Robert Thompson of Kilburn Mouseman special.

This is a three-legged stool.

CYRUS TODIWALA: I like the mouse.

I said what a finish on the mouse, you know.

Yeah.

And he said, that's what adds all the value to it.

NARRATOR: Oh, yeah, great spot, Cyrus.

Tony, lots of luck.

Thank you.

NARRATOR: You can tell me what you really think.

I won't tell anyone.

- Thank you.

- See you there.

Thank you.

How do you feel about their diabolical collection?

[LAUGHS] I feel a lot more confident.

I think they're Mouseman will do quite well.

The Mouseman will fly, yes.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Would you swap any of their objects for any of ours?

No.

Good, neither would I not.

I think we're on a wooden.

We'll see them at the auction and we'll see what we can do.

Yeah?

Do you reckon it's gonna be OK?

Of course, it's a battleship.

I like your attitude.

Battleship.

NARRATOR: Off to auction we jolly well will go.

The mining village of Rosewell in Midlothian is where the cars are all pointed.

TONY SINGH: Great, chef.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Yeah.

TONY SINGH: None of the skulduggery, OK.

Smash my glass and everything-- I need all the help I can get.

Listen, chef, I gave you a better glass.

TONY SINGH: Honestly.

CYRUS TODIWALA: That glass wasn't that good, you know.

NARRATOR: With glass replaced, Tony, you've every chance of a profit at auction.

Now back up-- - Fashionably late.

Fashionably late.

NARRATOR: --Natasha and David are keen to get on.

Well, hold on, wait a minute.

The auction is on, gentlemen.

You got the memo to wear red.

Cyrus, you got the memo.

We got the memo.

We're all in red.

Remember, it's a Thursday, it's red.

[LAUGHTER] All right, come on.

Let's get in there.

It's very good to see you.

Get in.

NARRATOR: I don't think I've seen so much red before.

NATASHA RASKIN: [CHUCKLES] NARRATOR: Bold rascal Tony and Natasha spent 164 pounds on five lots.

Cyrus, king of negotiating, and David, king of the trousers, spent 238 pounds on five lots.

Thomson Roddick Scottish Auctions is the venue for today.

And Sybelle Thomson is the lady in charge.

What do you think of our road trip lots then, love?

SYBELLE THOMSON: An interest in battleship, I wasn't sure whose son had made it.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it goes today.

The Mouseman of Kilburn stool, very nice indeed, lots of interest in it.

Already, we've lots of commissions in it and it will probably be the highlight of the day.

NARRATOR: Now that's what we like to hear.

I told you, It started.

NARRATOR: Ooh, it's a tight squeeze for the Scarlet bunch.

[CHUCKLES] Oh, dear.

I'll remove this, it might help.

NARRATOR: Yeah, great help, David.

First up is Cyrus's bargain glass vase.

That's where you start with your one pound item.

Shh.

Oh, sorry, I'm sorry.

NARRATOR: Natasha.

And I've got two commissions.

I'm going to start at 10 bids.

10 bids, 10 bid, 10 bid.

Anyone else?

10, 15, 20, 5, 25-- TONY SINGH: Oh, [INAUDIBLE].

Come on, come on.

Push, a bit more.

SYBELLE THOMSON: Anyone else going at 25?

That's-- that's 25%.

25%, no, it's 42 million percent.

NARRATOR: Eh, slight exaggeration, David, but a tidy profit nevertheless from the get go.

Well, I'll tell you, if we can keep in that theme-- Mm-hmm.

--we'll be all millionaires by the end of the day.

Well, you may.

You think so maybe?

[LAUGHS] NARRATOR: I doubt it.

Now Cyrus, again, this time with the silver Cruet set.

Straight in at 35 bids.

35, 40, 5, 50, 5, 60.

60 pounds-- The only way to go, but-- SYBELLE THOMSON: --60.

Anyone else going on at 60?

You're all out on line.

Come on, folks, a bit more, a bit more.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 60, with the lady at 60 pounds.

504.

Good, Cyrus.

Thank you.

[LAUGHS] He's very cool, isn't he?

I've got to say he's very cool.

Cyrus is super cool and he's just banked another profit.

Well done.

Happy?

NARRATOR: Right, Tony, it's your turn now with the novelty Brandy warmer and the replacement glass.

That you forgot gravity, it works that you do that and it falls off.

That's a universal law.

--straight in at 10 pounds.

Woo!

SYBELLE THOMSON: 10 bid, 10 bid, 10 bid for-- 10 bed.

15 on line.

No.

15, 15.

- Come on.

- There we go.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 20, 20-- CYRUS TODIWALA: There you go.

[LAUGHS] Bet you another train impression.

Choo-choo!

SYBELLE THOMSON: At 20, 20.

20 pounds.

In the front row at 20.

Anyone else going on at 25?

30, 5.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Somebody likes Tony very much.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 40, 5, 45.

Anyone else going on at 45?

Lady in the front row at 45.

NATASHA RASKIN: Yay!

- Yes.

Sorry, I've got to give you round of applause for that because that is ridiculous.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Blimey, Tony's a bit hot to trot too.

[CHUCKLES] Great profit.

My glass did it.

I told you.

- Yeah.

- Do you reckon?

Yes, Cyrus.

Thank you.

NARRATOR: It's Tony again with the big money buy of the military sprayer.

A lot of interest in it, and I'm a start it at 45 pounds.

Oh, we need more, we need more.

45, 50, 5.

Oh, it's going.

60, 5, 70, 5, 80.

Tony, Tony, Tony!

Yes, it's going.

90, 5, 100.

Why?

On commission at 100.

Oh, we need more.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 100.

Anyone else going on at 100.

At pounds.

928.

If only we'd paid 90 for it.

I know.

NARRATOR: That will teach you to haggle a price upwards, Tony.

What a shame!

After commission, we've just made a wee loss.

What a shame!

But can't believe it made that 100 pounds.

NARRATOR: Onto the Mantel clock that Cyrus loved the look of.

Is this your taste, Cyrus, the clock?

- My taste.

- Yeah, you like it?

You'd have it?

Well, I'd have it.

I like it.

We both-- the thing's we went with our heart on this one.

- Yeah.

- We didn't go with our heads.

We knew [INAUDIBLE]-- We didn't use our heads up on.

--we knew it, but we loved it.

Straight in at 50 bid.

Oh.

Come on.

50 bid-- NATASHA RASKIN: It's gonna claim.

it's gonna claim.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 50 bid, 55.

That's no.

60, 5.

Come on.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 70, 5, 80, 5.

It's really nice.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 90, 5, 100, 110, 120.

That's it that's it.

Come on.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 120, 120, on commission.

You're all out in the room at 120.

Go on.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 120.

At 120 pounds.

920.

Well done, you guys.

Thank you.

TONY SINGH: Well done.

NARRATOR: It pays to go with your heart sometimes.

Excellent work.

See, sometimes passion works, doesn't it?

Yeah, passion works.

Yeah, the person who bought it had passion.

Yes.

NARRATOR: And a passionate person needs to buy this lot.

It's Tony's battleship and the Royal Artillery badges.

20 pounds for it.

Oh, come on.

20 bid, 20 bid, 20 bid, 20 bid.

20 bid.

20 bid.

25, 30, 5, 40.

40 pounds in the second draw.

Anyone else going on at 40?

At 40 pounds 243.

Yay!

NARRATOR: Well done, Tony.

Whether the bidder bought it for the boat or the badges, that's a neat profit.

Sticking with Tony, his novelty duck bookends are next.

20 pounds for them.

20, 10 pounds.

Unusual bookends.

10 bid, 10 bid, 10 bid, 10 bid.

Anyone else going on?

10, 15, 20, 20 pounds.

In the front row at 20.

Any one else want in?

You're all out on the screen at 20.

At 20 pounds.

NARRATOR: It's a close one, but Tony's just creeping ahead.

It's very level [INAUDIBLE].

I know it is, isn't it?

It is.

NARRATOR: Tony's rather lovely Scandinavian brooch is next.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Now it's a Tiffany, you know, you're gonna-- c'est la vie, c'est la vie, c'est la vie.

[LAUGHS] That's gonna be stuck in my head all day, won't it.

I think you've got auction fever.

[CHUCKLES] I'm gonna start straight in at 40 bid.

40 bid, - Ooh.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 40 bid, 40 bid.

Who's 45?

50, 50.

Yes.

Still on commission, you're all out in the room at 50 and online.

At 50, at 50 pounds.

55, new bidder.

55, I'm out on commission now at 55.

Gentleman in the front row at 55 pounds.

He's gonna to have a happy wife.

NARRATOR: And we have a happy Tony.

That result pushes you further into the lead.

Well done.

It's well done [INAUDIBLE].

All right, well, you too can sit back and relax now.

- (SIGH) - We'll do all the performing.

Ready, Cyrus?

C'est la vie, c'est la vie.

Oh, my God.

NARRATOR: Lovely baritone.

[CHUCKLES] The Bakelite lamp clock is next.

So it's an oddity.

It's a real-- It's an oddity.

It's a real oddity.

So it could go-- Yeah, yeah.

20, 10 pounds?

10 pounds for the clock.

10 pounds, [INAUDIBLE] for 10.

Go on.

- 10 bid, 10 bid, - Ooh.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 10 bid.

That's quite a big profit.

SYBELLE THOMSON: Anyone else going on that 10, 15, 15, 15?

Come on.

SYBELLE THOMSON: 20.

Go on.

[CHUCKLES] SYBELLE THOMSON: 5, 25.

At-- oh, they're hovering on line.

Go on, online.

Get the hammer down.

[LAUGHTER] SYBELLE THOMSON: Hovering at 25.

Cyrus.

Good work.

I'll have to say congratulations.

Thank you very much.

NARRATOR: Love it or loathe it, this clock definitely helps you to climb closer to Tony.

Right, it all comes down to the final item of the day, the Mouseman stool that Cyrus absolutely adores.

This is our last one, the Mouseman.

Yeah, but this is the one where I learned about the Mouseman.

Mouseman.

And I have six bids on it.

Good.

And I must start straight in at 150.

Whoa!

SYBELLE THOMSON: 150.

NARRATOR: Eh, you're not meant to shout, Natasha.

It's not even hers.

NARRATOR: Exactly.

170, 180.

Well, it's beautiful.

It's-- it's just gorgeous.

200, 210, 210.

On commission at 210.

220, new bidder.

220, 220.

Selling in the room at 220.

Selling to the gentleman at the back at 220 pounds.

That's the way to do it.

Well done.

Very good.

Good buy, sir.

whoever bought it, good buy.

I dinna ken which hand to use.

NARRATOR: Never mind about that.

Well done!

Another purchase guided by the heart has earned big money.

You guys are amazing.

That was the way to finish it.

Well done!

Cracking [INAUDIBLE].

So pleased.

Right, should we go and do some numbers?

Mhm, I don't think we have a lot of-- Led the way, ma'am.

--math to do, but well done.

Come on, then.

Let's go do some numbers.

Thanks for teaching me that much.

Thank you very much, guys.

NARRATOR: I think Cyrus has enjoyed his road trip.

Now time to tot up the numbers.

Tony and Natasha began with 400 pounds.

After all sale room costs, they made a profit of 49 pounds and 20 pence.

Their final takings are 449 pounds and 20p.

Cyrus and David also kicked off with 100 pounds.

And after all auction costs, they have made an excellent profit of 131 pounds exactly.

The final earnings are 531 pounds, making them clinch today's road trip crown.

All profits go to children in need.

We're very close.

Yeah, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

But I tell you what, we've all done well.

Yes.

Well, I have figured it out and I refer to myself as a genius, actually.

NARRATOR: You'd be modest then, too.

TONY SINGH: Scores on the doors.

OK, remarkable.

You two are coming out with a profit of 49 pounds.

- OK. - Is that all?

That's all right.

DAVID HARPER: You and I, Cyrus, how much do you think we've made?

I think we've made 100 bucks.

We've made more.

We've made 131 pounds.

- Oh-- - Very good.

NATASHA RASKIN: Well done.

He's job is secured.

C'est la vie, c'est la vie, c'est la vie.

Well done.

- Tony, well done.

- Well done.

Thank you.

- OK. - C'est la vie.

- I think it's-- I think it's time for you to sail off into the sunset.

- Are you driving?

- I'm driving.

- Cyrus.

- Come on, let's go.

NARRATOR: It's been a delight, gents.

Goodbye, we love you.

See you later.

CYRUS TODIWALA: Bye.

All right, ciao.

Arrivederci.

We'll miss you.

Goodbye.

TONY SINGH: I'd do that again.

CYRUS TODIWALA: I would do anytime.

TONY SINGH: Yeah.

Maybe get more bold next time.

A little bit more gutsy.

TONY SINGH: Gutsy.

NARRATOR: I think he did a sterling job.

Bye-bye.

We'll miss you.

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