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On Salvage Hunters,

sparks fly...Wow!

...and the earth shakes
for Drew and Al.

You feel the whole ground moving.

But every relationship
has its ups and downs...

The things I do for you, Pritchard.
You're making a bit of a meal of it.

Could you actually get a hand
in at all or?No cartridge?

...which can lead
to unexpected rewards.

Remarkable.
I cannot believe my eyes.

Drew Pritchard
is one of Britain's leading

antique and decorative
salvage dealers.

It's a great looking thing,
isn't it? Fab thing.

Joined on the road by Queen
of the haggle and quick flip,
Viki Knott...

Two seventy-five the lot.
Yeah.I'll take them.

...and lover of all things weathered
and wonderful, Alister Dryburgh...

Just needs a load of cleaning.
You clean it, I'll sell it.

Can we do it the other way round?

Drew is sharing the knowledge.

What are those over there, Drew?
They're great little mill carts.

...and expertise...
Three-step anglepoise. Rare as hell.

God, it's an education already.

...he's gained
over the past three decades.

It'd have to be a really
buy me now price,
but I don't think it will be.

Five fifty, Drew.

We're going to Sherborne.
Not been there before.

I have. It's lovely.
Full of dealers.
Okay.Really good.

There's a couple I want you to go
and see. Spencer Robertson.Okay.

Antique restorer
extraordinaire and dealer.

He's got a shop right
in the centre of Sherborne.Nice.

Really, really beautiful shop.

And the antique centre
Sherborne Antiques Centre.

We've got to pay that a visit,
haven't we?Always.Yeah.Always.

You can't, antique centres,
you just don't know
what you're gonna find.

Today, Drew and Alister
are taking a 275-mile drive

southwards into Dorset,

where the unusually high
concentration of dealers

means better odds of a lucky strike.

Okay, so just a walk through
in Sherborne.

Yeah. It's go see Spencer, then,
we're gonna nip down the road

and go to Sherborne
Antique Centre as well.Brilliant.

Sherben?Sherborne.Sherborne.

With its famous abbey,
founded in the eighth century,

Sherborne's importance
in the Dorset landscape

dates back to antiquity.

Prosperity, which began with
mediaeval clothmakers,
continues today

with both tourists
and affluent local homes

catered for by concentration
of fine antique shops,

including an elite collection
gathered over 35 years in the trade

by dealer Spencer Robertson.

So, I specialise
in really high quality,

country house-type furniture.

I'm quite eclectic in my tastes,

from early walnut Chippendale
through to Linnell, Regency.

I like a bit of arts and crafts.

And it's quality.
Quality always sells.

I'm really looking forward
to seeing Drew and Al come round,

maybe buy a few things.
He's got great taste.
He likes a bit of country house.

So, we'll wait and see.
Who knows?

Spencer.Oh, hi, Drew.
How're you doing?

Nice to meet you. Al?
Morning, Spencer.

It's very you, this, isn't it?
Yeah. No. It's lovely.

As I walked through the door,
it looks as good on the inside

as it does through those
beautiful mullioned windows.

What we have here
is absolute classic

pure English country house
furnishings all over it.

Lovely. I adore this stuff.

Yeah, there's benches and there's
benches, and that one's lovely.

That's in the manner
of Tatham and Marsh.

Can I get that out?
Yeah, sure.Do you want a hand?

Yeah, if you could
take it off as well.

I would pick that,
wouldn't I?

I've just seen the price.

Five thousand eight hundred quid.

At least I'm picking right things.

Something I really love
and you very rarely see,

which is one of the best forms

of hall bench you're ever gonna buy.

It is achingly beautiful.

I really want it.
I really, really want it.

But I can't pay five eight for it.

How much can it be?

I can do it for four and a half,
and that's the death.

That's it?That's it.

I'll think about it.
Yeah, it's fine.

Shall we wander around?

I love the condition of that
hall chair.I was looking at it.

That one, it's lovely.Yeah.

What are you asking for that?
Nine eighty.

It's this wonderful shield
back mahogany hall chair.

There's hall chairs
and that's a good one.

Hmm. You've got two things in here
I really love, but I can't,

I can't get near on the money-wise.

Well, the hall chair, six eighty?

It's just, there's no juice left
in it. What about four and a half

for the bench and the chair?

Four eight.No.

Four and a half.

Mmm,

I'll think about it.

Okay, that's a no.

Throw him out of price,
4,500 for the two pieces.

I feel very comfortable
with paying that for those

but don't feel comfortable
with paying even £200 more.

So, we have nowhere left to go.
That's that.

Can we've a look at the back?
Yeah.Is there more stuff there?

Yeah, there's a few bits in there.

Bank of drawers you might wanna
have a look at.

Yeah, yeah, please.Good.
Come have a look.Ah, here we go.

Oh, they're nice. They're lovely.

I like the old writing
on the drawers.

I love that. I love that.

Yeah, grease nipples.
Grease nipples, huh.

So, originally, these would've come
from a shop, from a retail outlet.

And, then, they've had another life
within a workshop.

Hence all the industrial names,
grease nipples, bolts, nuts.

The paint is knackered,
but brilliant.

And they're definitely,
definitely saleable.

What've you got on that one?
Three eighty.

Three hundred and eighty? Hmm.

I don't think I'm gonna
knock you on that.

If you don't buy it, I will.
I'm gonna buy it.

Thank you.Get on with it
before he shakes your hand.

Thank you very much.
It's lovely, that.
Yeah, it's very me.

Spencer says,
well, you know, 380 quid.

I'm thinking, "Al,
if you don't buy them, I will."

Because that's a bit of a gift.

We're gonna tour around the town.
We'll come back.
Can we pick that up later?

Yes.Bank of drawers for him.
Brilliant.Thank you.Pleasure.

Right. See you again. Bye-bye.
Cheers. Thank you.
Thank you very much.

From the edge of town,
it's a short walk to the centre

and Sherborne Antiques Market,

a vast emporium stocked
by around 40 dealers

with diverse interests
and expertise

from fine furniture
to artwork and curiosities.

If I'm driving past
an antique centre, I'll stop.

My kids, it used to drive them
around the bend.

We go on holiday,
I'd stop at every antique shop
and every antique centre.

You've got to stop
because there's thousands of items

and there's dozens and dozens
of people out there every day,

refilling the place.
So you just can never tell.

You've got to keep looking.

Phil.Hello.How you doing?Hello.
Very good. Thank you.

How you doing? Alister.
Hello, Alister.Okay, right. Great.

I love an antique centre.
This is your place?

It is, yes.So can we have
the grand tour, please?

Yes.Where do we begin?
Yes. Come down this way.

What a place. So, how many dealers
do you have here?

Um, we've got just under 40
at the moment.

It's a vibrant feeling in here.
Yeah.

You can go to some places
and they feel a bit, a bit dead.

Yeah, well, stock genuinely changes
every day, you know.

Good, keeps it fresh.
A busy old store.

Matching pair of console tables
with decorative marble inlay tops.

As we're wandering up there,
we get to the end here,
round the corner,

and I cannot believe my eyes.

Who's this?
This is our new dealer, Tony.

Right.Um, unfortunately for you,
he's on a cruise

in the middle of nowhere
at the moment.All right.

And he's told me strictly 10%
on all of his stocks. So that's all.

I looked at them and I went,
"Nah, it can't be."

And I looked at them again,
and I saw at the back of the marble

there's sort of
a fan like shape at the back.

And I thought,
"Wow, they're dead right."

Can we take some bits off?
Definitely. Actually, lift off

the tops and have a proper look,
cos then you can see what's what.

We don't know who made them,

but they're sort of
nicknamed Bossi work,

which is that infill.

Now, Pietro Bossi was an Italian
who, as far as I can remember,

moved to, moved to Ireland

and he would do this wonderful
inlaid or pietra dura stone work,

um, most famously
in chimney pieces which are worth

tens of thousands of pounds now,
if you can find one.

They're beautiful, beautiful things.

This pair of console tables
were likely made

by an unknown late nineteenth
or early twentieth century artisan.

Highly skilled and seeking
to replicate the work

of the eighteenth century
master craftsman, Pietro Bossi,

created by mixing plaster of Paris

with pigments
to simulate marble inlay,

are typical of Bossi's designs.

Because his work is so prized,

a pair of such high quality replicas
is an extraordinary find.

Drew thinks they could be
worth up to £3,500.

Eight hundred and fifty the pair.

Can we tip this one
upside down, have a look at it.

I know what they are anyway,
but, uh...

Yeah?

Never knowing where they might
unearth a lost treasure,

Drew and Al have only just walked
into a Dorset antiques emporium,

and Drew is finding it hard
to believe his eyes.

Matching pair of console tables
with decorative marble inlay tops.

Extraordinary simulations
of the work

of Italian master Pietro Bossi,

these tables could be
worth thousands.

Eight hundred and fifty, the pair.

Can we tip this one upside down,
have a look at it.

I know what they are anyway,
but, uh...

Yeah?Yeah.

You know week, month made.

It's these finds that I cannot
tell you how exciting

when this happens,
when you find things like this.

Er, sold.Yeah.Thank you very much.
Much appreciated.

Remarkable. Absolutely remarkable.

A pair, a pair, roaming free.

Where have they been?
Where have they been?

These once great things were lost.
Certainly aren't now.

These will get the due deference
that these deserve, now.

I was looking
at that paperweight.Yeah.

That's quite interesting.Yeah.

This is a rather beautiful
little thing, 150.
What will they do?

We'll give him a shout.
See if he can do anything.
Lovely. Thank you.

There's a large tri stone
cameo-type paperweight.

Grand tour, early 19th century.
And the quality of it was good.

I was looking at the stone
and thinking, that's nice.

Not been over polished.
Not been repaired.

And, then, the sort of
cameo at the top. Very good.

A hundred and twenty is his best.

Sold. Thank you very much.
Fabulous.

It's 120 quid.
Well, I think it's worth 240.

So, yeah, we're having that
all day long. It's a lovely thing.

Okay, this is good. I think
we've seen everything now.

Yeah. Okay, well,
we do have a store upstairs.

Um, it's where things go
to be restored or abandoned

if you fancy having a look.
So, can we see?

Yeah. It's very cold,
but I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

That's all right, I'll manage.

Blimey. Right. Okay.
That's quite a lot of storage.

Yeah, there's lots in here.

What are those over there, Drew?
You see those glass signs, ladies?

Oh, God, they're good, aren't they?
Yeah.

Reverse painted and gilt

and brilliant cut and bevelled.
They've got the lot.

The condition is really good.
There's hardly a mark on them.

We had to look at them close
to see if they were right.
They're dead right.

They could be 140.For the pair?
For the pair.

Yeah, they're lovely.
They're lovely.

Yeah. I was wondering
which hand I should shake.

There from the 1920s.

You try finding another pair.
Because they're made of glass,

most of them have broken,
but these are intact.

It's great. I love it in here.

I don't know,
there's something really magical

about rooms like this, you know.

That's nice.What is it?
Back of a cart.Is it?

That's fab.
What a piece of wall art.Yeah.

There's just this long,
dark wooden panel.

It's quite intricate.
It's got mouldings.

It's got old wood,

it's got old iron nuts and bolts,

and it's just got that look.

How much is it?

Um... 150.

One thirty?Yeah.Yeah?Yeah.
Cool. Thank you. I like that.

What a fantastic thing.

You know, it's a bit macabre,
it's a bit gothic-y,
it's a bit dark.

Put it in a pub,
put it in a restaurant,
put it in your own home.

It's gonna look brilliant.

I think we're done. Can we start
packing everything away

sort out some paperwork,
money, etc.?Yep, absolutely fine.

Obviously, finding
the pair of console tables

has made the day, the month,
and in some ways, the year.

Sooner or later, if you keep
doing something, you'll drop lucky.

Today we did. I mean,
what an extraordinary find.

They're the ones you,
sort of, dream of.

When you get into this business,
you dream of finding
extraordinary things

that lost treasure,
you know, lost things.

We did it. We did it today. Amazing.

Fantastic day here
in Sherborne Antiques Market.

We bought really well.

Definitely worth paying
this place a visit.

It's good. Brilliant day.

How was that then?I loved it, mate.

I like Spencer.
Nice bloke.Very nice man.

Nice bloke.Yeah.
That antique centre was good.

That made up for not getting
the hall bench, didn't it?

If I'd got the hall bench
and pair of consoles

within an hour of each other,
my word, I mean,

people say to me, "Oh, you're
so lucky you find amazing things."

But how many shops
do we go into before you find...

How many miles?
...something like that?

And then to find those.
How many hours?

They've been in there weeks.

That's mad. That is.
That is insane.

It's not the first time
in recent months

that Drew's discovered lost treasure
in an antique centre.

This overmantel mirror, I found
in the Newark Antique Centre,

and it was covered in, sort of,
gold car paint all over it.

I'd Ruth restore it for me,
and she did a beautiful job.

What she managed to find was 95% of
the original gilding was underneath,

and that is still
the original plate.

Things like that you might find
once every few years

if you are very, very lucky
and you recognise it.

And at first, I have to be honest,
I walked past it twice,

it was only the third time
I walked past it and thought,

let's have a proper look at this,
I had a split second look

at the back and thought,
oh, my word, it's real.

Finding something like this,
when you find it, right,

it's nothing to do with money.
It's not. It's the joy

in just seeing something
that nobody's found before.

Like you found this thing,
"look, everybody, look at

"this wonderful thing I've found."
And it's that. It never gets boring.

With forgotten gems still out there
waiting to be found,

miles need to be covered.

This time, Drew and Al
are heading east into Yorkshire,

to visit a site which is itself

a treasure
of Britain's industrial past.

We're in Sheffield.
We're off to Footprint Tools,

which I believe are the last

drop forge tool makers
in the country.

In the country?In the country.

By drop forge does that mean
a big hammer or something?

Great big hammer.Really.

So it's gonna be noisy.
GBH, yeah. Great big hammer.

Yeah, it's gonna be noisy,
but, um, they have been

trading in Sheffield
for a long time.

Proper British manufacturing,
handmade.Good.

And still...Still going.
Still going.

Centuries of the city's great
metalworking prowess

are celebrated by the statue
of Vulcan, the God of the furnace,

which stands with hammer,
anvil and arrows

on top of Sheffield's town hall.

And for almost a hundred years,

a single local family has kept
the torch burning
at Footprint Tools,

a hand tool manufacturer
with an international reputation

now in the hands of fourth
generation toolmaker Richard Jewitt.

My great grandfather
bought a business in the 1920s,

and then after the Second World War,

him and my grandfather
bought Footprint

and we've been running it
ever since as a family.

Our site is the last site in the UK

that is dedicated
to drop forging hand tools.

We're very proud of that fact.

So the main products
that we make are brick bolsters,

which are for cutting bricks.

We also make the Footprint wrench,

which was the product
that the company

was founded on in the 1870s.

And then we also make some tools

for decorators
and woodworkers as well.

We've invited Drew
and Alister along today

to have a look to see if there's
any items that they'd like.

We've got lots of old furniture
that we don't use any more,

old industrial furniture,

hopefully, they'll find
a good home for it.

Hello.Hello.How're you doing?
Morning, Drew. Good to see you.

Hi, Richard.
Nice to meet you. You all right?

Yeah.Welcome to Footprint.
Thank you very much.

You wanna look around?Love to.
If you don't mind wearing

some hearing protection, please.

I can hear something
going on in the background.

Oh, it will get noisy
as we walk around.

Wow!

This is our drop forging hammer.

This is how we make the tools.

Basically, we heat bars of carbon
steel up to about 1,200 degrees.

Yeah.The stamper takes it out,

places it over
an impression of the tool

that we're making in the die.

The top die travels down
and spreads the steel

into the shape of the tool.

You feel the whole ground moving.

Yep, the whole ground moves.
And it's sitting on springs as well.

And underneath the springs
there's 6 ft of solid,

reinforced concrete as well.

So you need good,
strong foundations.

I can't believe how much
it's vibrating, the whole thing.

It's a bit like Jurassic Park.

There's a puddle of water where
there's dinosaurs walking,

you see all the ripples
in the floor.

It feels like
it's a hell of a thing.

There was the most like a shudder.

Like a shudder all around you.

It's this incredible drop hammer.

Huge, hot, you know,
piece of steel going in,

bang, stamping things out.
And it's, it's primal.

You know, it's a very,
very basic thing. Fire noise, bang.

So, this is our tool room.

Got a few things,
might be of interest to you.

Okay. Brilliant.Some old furniture
and what have you.

I've never seen one of those before.

Not that type. Counterweighted.

What's that? A weight there?
Counterbalanced, yeah.

Look at that. Beautiful.
Cool, isn't it?That's super cool.

It was made in Sheffield as well.
That's super.

Soon as we walked through
the door, start looking

within a split second, I'm like,
"Look at that" and it's a magnifying

desk lamp or a magnifying,
to call it correctly,

it's a magnifying task lamp.
You'd use this to work under.

That's a great thing. Love it.

It's a great looking thing isn't it?
Fab thing, fab thing.

What makes this unusual is
lots of different things.

The lens on the top is really nice,
big, thick, chunky magnifying lens.

It then has these two very
directional lamps going to the side,

so you concentrate the light
directly where you're working.

They're in their own
little individual canopies,

and bolted to the side,
which is charming.

Made by another Sheffield company,

specialised optical
instrument maker, Kayfro,

this magnifying task lamp
has been engineered for close work.

Similar Kayfro lamps were supplied

to police forensics teams
to examine fingerprints.

But this one was probably used

for the precision hand carving
of dies to make tools.

Dating from the mid-20th century,

once restored, Drew thinks
it could be worth around £550.

I'll give you 150 quid for it.

A tiny bit more?

Um...

In Sheffield, Drew and Al
have a hot ticket

to the last of its kind
toolmaking forge.

I feel the whole ground moving.

And sparks are flying
because Drew's discovered

forgotten in a back room
an extraordinary
magnifying task lamp

with an unusual level
of engineering.

I'll give you 150 quid for it.
A tiny bit more?Um...

Have you seen one before?
Not that one.No.I really want it.

I'm going to pay
over the odds for it, 200 quid.

I'll take it. Done. Thank you.

I'll put it down now.All right.
It weighs a ton.

It's a great buy. That's why it pays
to come to the factories.

It's totally fresh to the market.

It's exciting, it's interesting,
you're gonna want that
when it's finished.

I want that for myself
when it's finished. It's that good.

Yeah. See, that's a nice colour,
isn't it?

Yeah.Isn't it?Yeah, that's great.

Green's always popular.

It's the old traditional
factory colour, that green.

Well, it's originally from a company
called Stanley, which we bought.

Stanley?Stanley Tools, yeah.
When they used to make--

As in the Stanley...Stanley Knives.
Stanley Knives.

Big tool brand.
So that was retailed?

No, it was originally one of their
benches in their factory.Really.

When they closed
their Sheffield factory,

um, we bought some kit
off them and this came with it.

Thank you very much.
That's a great bit of information.

It's nice to know the history,
isn't it?Yeah.

That adds a lot. That adds a lot.
People will want to say that

came out of Stanley knife factory.
Makes it very cool, doesn't it?

But it's also a saleable
in its own right.

Great colour. The paint
that's on it. It looks good.

So, I think we both want this.
Do you wanna go halves on it?

Yeah. Okay.

Just need to do a load of cleaning.
You clean it. I'll sell it.

Can we do it the other way round?

Pritchard, Mr Pritchard,
his eyes light up.

I didn't think he was
interested in that table

but as soon as
the name Stanley was mentioned.

"Oh, let's go halves on it,
Alister," he said.
I thought, "Oh, great."

This steel and chipboard workbench

has earned its perfectly
distressed finish the hard way

from a life in the factory
of the Stanley Works of New Britain,

which founded in the USA in 1843,

made Sheffield its UK base in 1936.

There its celebrated range
of Stanley tools was developed,

including the famous
retractable blade knife.

With a backstory
that gives it an edge,

the boys think this workbench
could be worth around £700.

Do you want to bid him?Yeah.
I'll let you make me the offer.

Yeah, £200.Two hundred pounds.

That's not each.I thought
that was each.No.Come on.

Yeah, I'm happy with 200.Is that
all right?I can do that. Yeah.

Cool.Fine with me. Deal.Thank you.
All right.Thank you very much.

Because it's got that good history,

it's gonna do nothing
but add value to it.

And that's why we bought it.
That's why Mr Pritchard wanted

to go halves on it,
which I'm fine with.

Totally fine with as long as he

keeps his side of the story
and cleans it.

Antique dealers will very often
go in on something together.

Generally, no matter how much work
one or the other puts in,

we'd split it down the middle
anything left at the end.

We need to get it bought.
We just buy it together.
It makes perfect sense.

A couple of trolleys behind there?
Yeah, there is.

There's some trolleys there
we can have a look at.Okay.

Yeah. They're great little
mill carts. They're fab.

Yeah. There's three trolleys there.
Three mill trolleys.

Drew's bought loads of these
over the years.

Loads and loads and loads.
I've had a few. They always sell.

Seventy quid each.

Make it 80 and we've got a deal,
80 quid each.

Yeah?Yeah, sure.
Thank you. Yeah. Cool.

They're fresh.
They haven't been anywhere.

No other dealer's
had their hands on them.

And I can buy them
at the right price,

and I can make a good turn in these,

just with a little clean.

Today at Footprint Tools
in Sheffield has been great.

Two really good buys today

the Stanley factory bench with Al,

and we'll get that sorted
between the two of us.

And then that light,
that magnifying task light.

Really interesting,
Never seen another.

It's just a great thing.
And I got to hang around

in a great big, noisy,

you know, fire breathing factory
as well. It's been a wonderful day.

Happy?Yeah. Good.
I think we did all right there.

Love that lamp.Yeah.

I really, really love that lamp.

You did well, you were
on that straight away.

Yeah. But still 200 quid.

By the time it's finished, 300 quid.

Hmm.Well, you know,

but I'm still happy with it.

Yeah.It's lovely.Yeah. Um,
and the table with the connection?

Yeah. We need to, um,
clean that up. It'll look sharp.

You do need to clean that.
That was part of the deal.
You're right.

I'm not doing it.

We're busy. I'm busy.
I've sold the warehouse.

Not got anywhere to put it.
Going to yours.

You can come
and clean it down there.

It's turning into a week
of outstanding finds,
and it's not over yet.

The boys are heading
140 miles southwards

into Gloucestershire,
where Drew's heard of

an extraordinary barn stash
ripe for picking.

Right. So we're in the Cotswolds?
Yes. Fairford.Fairford Barns.

Yes. Fairford Barns.
Gunter and Maggie, is it?Yeah.

Restorer. Stroke dealer,

so he's got unrestored stock which
is always, to be honest with you,

better for me.
I'd rather, whenever possible,

buy stuff that needs doing
so we can do it,

you know, the way we wanna do it.
Um, but you never know.

He's got four barns full, has he?
Apparently so.

Named after an ancient ford
across the River Colne,

which by the 12th century
was replaced by a bridge,

Fairford has long been
one of the Cotswolds

prosperous market towns,
an important coaching stop

on the London to Gloucester route.

Today, it's the site
of an extraordinary hoard

of antique furniture reaching
the rafters of a giant barn,

amassed during a lifetime's
dealing by Gunter Dove

with help in later years from wife
and fellow enthusiast Maggie.

Well, I collected coins
when I was about eight years old,

and I bought my first piece
of furniture at the age of 13.

And that's basically
when it started,

you know, it took over my life.
It's just been a passion.

And, now, it's almost a curse.
But I still love it.

There are about four rooms that are
actually full of antique furniture.

Some of it is in excellent condition
that we've now got for sale,

and some of it
is waiting to be restored.

At my age, I haven't got time to
do it up, let's put it like that.

So, I need to get rid of most of it,
unfortunately, but that is life.

Morning.Morning.
Good morning.

Pleased to meet you. Drew.Drew.

Hello. Alister.Pleasure
to meet you.Hello. Hiya.

Thanks for having us.
So, where are we looking?

We'll start here, I think.Okay.

Right.Okay.I'm afraid it's...
Plenty of stock.

Plenty of stock. Yeah.
Too much unfortunately.

Gunter is a dealer and restorer.

Everything through
from Georgian furniture

all the way through
to the Edwardian period.

Probably best we show you, then,
you've a look yourself.

Yeah.Yeah. You go
and have a sit down.

And if we see something,
we'll shout.

It's getting to everything
is the trouble.We'll get to it.

God, he's got a load
of gear in here.

There's hundreds of pieces in it.

Hundreds of pieces
of unrestored furniture.

Got to go through it all.
This is the job.

I'm not gonna lie to you.
I enjoy it.

What about that country chair?
That's nice. That one there.

Do you want to turn it around?

Great looking chair.
One chair struck me straight away.

I thought, hello, I'm fairly sure
it's Scottish and it's a belter.

There's this thing here.Yes.

Anything you can tell about it?
Also, a price.

You tell me what you wanna pay.

Would you sell it for...

...100 quid?

Deep inside a densely packed barn
in the Cotswolds,

Drew's unearthed a country chair

with well-crafted walnut arms
and tapered square legs.

Would you sell it for...

...100 quid?

Yeah.You would. Fine.
I think that's more than fair.

That chair has become worthless
in the past, been thrown around.

Now it's quite a desirable thing.

Hundred quid. Thank you very much.
We'll have that.

There's that one there.
See that one hanging on the back?

That big beast there
with the Chippendale back splat.

I believe that's a set of four.
Oh. Is it?

And they're all in...Bad nick.

..Bad nick. They're Chippendale
style, I think of that period.
They are, yeah.

These chairs,
unless you set fire to these,

they are in the worst condition
you could possibly be in.

But they're worth saving.
This is like finding

a really good old, um,

really good old Jaguar in a barn.

Like, if you found, like,
a nice old XK150 in a barn

in terrible condition,
you'd save it, wouldn't you?

What would it cost?

I'd probably let it go for 300.
It's worth having a look at then.

You want me to climb up here,
do you?

Well, you're younger than me.

Just hold me then.

Yeah, hold me.Go on.

You don't have to hold me
that tight. Or there.

If I had to describe that chair,
It's had its day.

You got it?Nope. Yes.

Me? I think I probably
would have left it up there,

because if that's the best one

and the other ones are worse,
then there's not much hope.

But we've got to keep looking
because if they are

as good as Drew says, then,
we've definitely gotta find them.

Did you say you'd seen
another one, Gunter?

I think I can see three more.
Right. We need to get in there now.

This one hasn't even got a back.No?

And it's tangled around.
They're bad, aren't they?

Really bad, mate.
They're really bad.

They're worse as you go in.
All tangled in each other
It's a nightmare.

Al. Al?Yes, mate.
Al. Hurry up!

Shut up!

Things I do for you, Pritchard.

You've climbed over
two tables and a chair.

It's not much. You're making
a bit of a meal of it.

Could you actually get a hand
in here at all or...?

No, can't reach.

Right.Yeah, happy?
Watch that lamp. Oh.

And then we start to get them out,
and at first I think we've got four.

Then all of a sudden, bang, there's
two more tucked under to the left.

We've got a set of six.

Brilliant. Now we're talking.

One, two,

three, four, five. There's five.
Six. There's six.

Is that, is that...
It's a reading stand.

Yeah. Is it any good? No.
That actually could be for you.

Do you know this piece here,
that's tangled up.

Yeah, that's that, isn't it?
That'd be that.

It's early 20th century,
but still a good thing,

thing you'll get rid of easily.
Let's have a look.

I spotted this adjustable
bedside draftsman's table,

whatever you want to call them

while we were finding a chair
for Drew. It was getting in the way.

It's quite a nice looking thing.

It's got a metal structure
painted in black.

The black is all worn,
and it's got gold detail on it.

And casters. Two brass casters.

Can you get in here, Drew?
Yeah, I'll have to move this lot.

Put your torch on.
Yeah, yeah. Ah, look.What?

Oh, that's all the bits.

The bits for that chair
we pulled out. Well done.

That's a stroke of luck.
Total fluke.

There's a bin liner
with all the bits in.

The two back splats
and one of the top rails

that are missing are in this bag
right in front of me. Brilliant.

A really country tavern table here

with some real nasty
old repairs on it.

It's got a nice top, isn't it?
I can't see the top. Is it any good?

Let's have a look. Oh, yeah, lovely.

Take it out, have a look.
I would.The tavern table,

I've sold a lot
of these kind of tables

back into the brewery trade,
and it's nice to see them.

It's nice to go back into these pubs

and see them looking
like they did years ago.

So, I'd like to have a look
at that tavern table.

I think that's great.
That writing table?Yeah.

You got your chairs?
Yeah. The one upstairs as well.

Should we get out now?
Yeah.Right. Okay.

I feel like the great train robber
coming out with two bags.

How many have we got?
That's the sixth one.

And the bits?
Is that the six you remember?

I thought four. So I'd like
an adjustment on the price for six.

If that's all right.You want more?
Hm-mm. I want more, please.

Really?Yes.I was going to go less
because the condition's even worse.

Took an hour to get them out and
got them laid out in front of them.

He goes, "I think they're worth
a bit more now."
I'm thinking, blimey.

Thomas Chippendale was
the undisputed greatest

of English cabinetmakers.

Even though in need
of major restoration,

these mahogany chairs have
graceful carved back splats

which were in the style
of the eighteenth century master.

A rare and special find.

As a set of six,
once fully restored,

Drew thinks they could be
worth around £6,500.

They're really good.They're
really good.And they're
really, really bad.

I'd like five.
I think that'd be fair.

To fix those properly...
I know that costs a lot.

Five thousand.Yeah.

All right. Will you do four?Four?

Yeah, they are beautiful.

Yeah. Come on.
Yeah.Thank you very much.

We agree on £400. I just have to
buy them as cheap as I can.

Because these will cost you,
me, five grand to restore.

They will. And I'm talking
horsehair squabs with period linen.

Perfect patination,
colour matching throughout,

height matching,
all the way through,

invisible repairs, oil wax finish.

All of that needs doing
on every single chair.

You ain't gonna do it
for few hundred.

What about these Gunter?
The table?

It's quite crude that, isn't it?
It is quite crude.

What do you wanna pay for it?

Fifty quid.Sixty?Go on then.

That's fine. It's a nice,
honest early table.

For £60, there's a profit in that.

There's, you know, there is.

Feel like I'm working in an auction.
Yeah.

Showing now, sir.You're working
for me.Showing here. Sir.

And now it's your turn.

My turn?Yep.Eighty.Eighty?

Seventy.Seventy-five.

Seventy-five. I know what I paid
for it. I'm not making much on it.

Yeah. Cool, £75 for the table.
That's okay.

There's £100 left in that, there's
not a lot of work to do to that.

Just a wipe down and a wax,
and it's good to go.

And then I've bought
the other one upstairs as well.

Yeah. Brilliant. Bought a load
of chairs, got nowhere to sit.

Yeah. Thank you, Gunter.

You can always come down here.
You're always welcome.

Yeah. No, thank you for that.

Fairford Barns today. Great fun.

Cold. Dirty. Fun.

I still get a kick out of it.

I bought those chairs
and they were a great find.

When they're all finished
and beautifully done

and photographed
and looking a million dollars,

they hold a promise.

The promise of what they can be,
and any barn find always has
that magic.

It's been good to have Drew and Al.
Thoroughly enjoyed it.

The best thing I thought
Drew bought were the chairs.

The six chairs, done up,
they'll be lovely.

It's good to get in those barns,
isn't it?It's great. It's great.

It's always tricky when you
spend money and you don't get

to spin it straight away.

Yeah.You know,
but if somebody says to me,

have you got some particularly good
18th century chairs?

I go, yes, I have.

In Dorset, specialist lighting
restorer, Jez Speed

has examined
the extraordinary task lamp

which Drew unearthed
at Footprint Tools in Sheffield.

This particular lamp
would've been a really

quite an expensive thing
when it was new.

So as far as I'm concerned,
quite rare, quite an unusual thing,

made in Sheffield, England,
makes me go warm and gooey

when I see that on the outside.

I'm going to cut the old wiring,
remove that, discard that,

and then I'm going to strip
the entire light

down to every last nut and bolt.

And I can start now to begin
to remove the head section,

which is the lens itself.

Yeah. There we go.

So this is the actual magnifying.

You can see this is like
at the end of an old telescope,

so this, this will unscrew.

It's just gradually been loved less
and less and less over the years.

And it's fabulous. I love it
and it needs to live again.

I just need to remove the beautiful

Arrow, made in England,
Bakelite switch,

which I'm in love with
and I'm desperate to save if I can.

Here we go.

So now begins the laborious task
of cleaning everything.

So I've got my grandfather's
old copper pot

with an inch of paraffin
in the bottom,

just trying to loosen
the accumulated grime really.

Liquid paraffin,
a component of petroleum

is a powerful solvent
for old grease.

But after decades of neglect,
further treatment will be needed.

I'm gonna clean it now
with a homemade mixture.

So this is a well known
car paint work

very gentle, abrasive polish, WD40

and a good slug of ammonia,
household ammonia.

I've used it for years
and it's a very effective cleaning.

It puts a very nice sheen
on the top of all of the parts,

and by the time I've waxed it again
afterwards, they'll sparkle.

This kind of finish
that I'm going to leave this in

is not to everybody's
taste, actually.

It needs to show its,
show its battle scars and its age.

Apply a layer of the wax to it,
leave it for the solvent
to evaporate,

then we'll polish it.
And that's it. That will be
its finished finish.

After the painstaking cleanup,
the next step is to rewire the lamp

to meet modern safety standards

without affecting
its sleek 1950s design.

It's not the first time I've spent
five hours doing a two-hour job.

I managed to save Drew a really nice
old MK white Bakelite plug

perfectly in period
in keeping with this lamp

and the last thing to do now is
I've got some two watt LED pygmies,

some tiny little LED bulbs for it,

and we are good to go.

We have our illuminated desk light.
I really like it.

I like the way it's made.
I like its movement.

Yeah. It's cleaned up
really nicely, actually.

I think Drew will be very happy.
I hope so.

It's a bright ending to what's been
an outstanding week of buying.

An interesting and varied week

with a couple of
really spectacular finds.

Those extraordinary chairs
at Fairford,

which we have shelved for a while

until we've got room
with the restorers
to get them done properly,

but still a very, very fine set of
18th century chairs once finished.

And, then, that extraordinary
find in Sherborne.

The two little demi-luna
console tables. Love those.

The lamp I bought at Footprints.
Gave it to Jez,

and he has done
the most beautiful job on it.

So that lamp is now on my desk
because I'm not selling it.

It's far too good.
To find things like that now

as I say out in the wild is hard.

It doesn't happen very often,

and it really gives you
a little boost

that you'll hang on to for a while.