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On Salvage Hunters...

Wow, look at that room.

..an incredible backdrop for an incredible collection.

The decoration is fabulous.

Viki meets her match at a 200-year-old blacksmith's forge.

Sixty quid.£75.You're hard.

And at the home of a private collector,

Drew has a glimpse into the future.

If I carry on eating a full English breakfast,

I will look like that.

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...

£275, the lot?Yeah. 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 around?

..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.

Good, it's an education already.

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

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

£550, Drew.

Do you know where you need to be today, on a really hot day?

Yeah?In a smithy. Yeah, I know.Yeah.

We're off to Gunnerside in North Yorkshire.

And we're off to meet a guy called Stephen,

who is a sixth-generation blacksmith working from the same smithy.

Right. Okay.

With Viki's business based on selling lots

of items at small profits

and Drew catering for a more select customer base,

it's crucial they buy at the right price.

Today they're heading north-eastwards,

where they're hoping a centuries-old collection

will have items that suit both of their business models.

He's got a museum in there. Right. Okay.

And he's got loads of stuff he wants to get rid of.Oh.

Well, not loads. He's got stuff he wants to get rid of.Okay.

And it's quite unusual to be invited

in at these type of places now. Yeah, yeah.So, yeah...

..let's do this.

Set in the stunning Yorkshire Dales 40 miles east of Kendal,

Gunnerside became a hub for lead mining

from the 17th to the late 19th century.

When mining in the area declined,

many of the workers left in search of employment elsewhere,

but the village still boasts a forge

that's been in the same family for over 200 years,

and a museum about the history of lead mining in the area.

It's owned and run by Stephen Calvert.

I'm the sixth generation of Calverts

to own the blacksmith's shop.

It's been running since 1795, er, when, I think it was my

great-great-great-grandfather was here.

And then every generation since then

have been working the blacksmith's shop

in some capacity.

A few years ago, we decided to make a museum.

Drew and Viki are coming today to have a look around.

It's always nice to meet new people.

Er, so might find something that they might be interested in.

Maybe to... Might buy it. At the right price, obviously.

What's going on in here?I love that noise.

Hello?

Hello!How you doing? I'm all right. How are you?

Stephen?That's right.Viki. Drew.

Nice to meet you. And you. And you. I love that noise.

So what are you doing? Just bending it?

I'm just putting a point onto this piece of round...

..which obviously, just keep hitting each side.

That's brilliant, eh?Yeah.

But as you can see, it's cooling down too much now,

so it needs to go back into the fire.

But that looks like gas, doesn't it,

with the air coming up through it? Yeah.And it's hot.

It's just, er, obviously, just the air from the bellows,

which comes through what they call the two iron

in the middle of the fire.

God.Mm.It's wonderful, though, isn't it?Yeah.

And it wouldn't have changed much. It hasn't changed a lot, no.

A lot of the old tools which are hanging up there

would be made by my great-great-great-grandfather.

We've come because you've got a museum.

We have a museum, yeah. You're closing it down?

It hasn't been running for the last few years.

Different circumstances, but it's all still set up.

Can we go and have a look? Yeah, if you follow through.Okay.

Today, I've come to my first ever smithy,

and it's just, yeah, it's amazing.

Oh, now you're talking. Look at that.

I just love coming to places like this.

I've possibly overdressed.

I should have come in a jeans and T-shirt. But it doesn't matter.

It's gonna be an amazing day,

and I can't wait to get raking about.

All these are mining tools.

Some of them were made here, then went to the mines.

And when the mines closed, they came back.

Just imagine being down a mine. "What are you doing today?"

"I'm spending ten hours with an axe in a hole in the ground."Yeah.

Gelignite?Yeah, a gelignite box. Is that -

Oh, look at that. Yeah, gelignite box.Cool.

Gelignite isn't that stable, is it?

They found that it worked better when it was warm,

so they used to keep the bloody stuff

in their pockets to keep it warm.

We need guys like Stephen finding this stuff,

keeping it, putting it all together,

spending ten minutes writing something down,

and it's safe forever.

And a little kid could walk in here because of that

and it'll change his life. You never know.

Museums, I'm the biggest fan.

This wee staircase...

..is so cute.Yeah. I know, right? Ain't it?

God, this is a good room.Oh, yeah.

So, I mean, all this stuff here,

you're gonna keep hold of all of it, really?

Well, I feel like I should do. You know what I mean?

'Cause it belongs to the family.

If I'm gonna run it, I do need to make money from it.

Can I have a quick look at that?Yeah.

I've got a set of stepladders here, might help.

Just lean them again there.

He apparently does this stuff all the time.Yeah, yeah.

Oh!Oh, yes. Come on. That's better.

He'll not get down, though.

No, no. Just leave him there.Oh.

God, it's full of stuff up here. Is it?Yeah.

Oh, you've got lots of things.

We've been through the whole blacksmithing place.

And then I saw all those boxes on top

and I thought, "Well, I really should

go and have a look up there."

He's in his element up there, isn't he?Yes.

Rooting around.

Lovely copper bucket. That's a copper, yeah.

What are these?

They're for lamps, oil lamps.

Can you use that type of thing?

Well, I don't know. There's loads of them.

Fantastic.

My absolute favourite thing to do

is digging through loads of old junk to find things.

I'll tell you what is up here, loads of curtain rings.

Yeah, they are, curtain rings. Is there, really?Any use to you?

They might be. What are they? Wooden ones.

They'd be original wooden curtain rings.

If you know an interior designer,

probably bite your hand off for them.

I was like, "Random, but chuck them down."

Vik.Are they something you'd sell, Stephen?

Oh, Christ.Yeah, possibly.

So then it was, literally, started to rain curtain hooks,

and he just keeps chucking more and more and more of them down.

And actually, they're really old ones and they're really quite nice.

We've got a curtain pole for your curtain rings.Oh, so it is.

The size of that bugger.

Perfect.

So I thought, "Do you know what? Getting warmer.

Could take a punt on this, but we'll see how much

Stephen will take for it."

Found something.

Yeah.Wait, wait, whoa, whoa.

Is it heavy? No.

It's part of an old lamp, innit? Like, old chandelier?

Hey, wait a minute.

And all of a sudden, I see a bar looking at me

with a floral finial at the back, and I thought,

"My word, that's a piece of a colza lamp."

I couldn't believe it.

We're just gonna empty it there. Hey, wait a minute.Yeah.

And then there's another one and another one

and another one. Exciting.

It's like... It is treasure hunting. It is, it's treasure hunting.

I think that's the final bits of that lot.

Right, then, I'll come down. All right.Yeah.

So you couldn't put everything back

as you found it, right, could you?

These are all parts of that.

Oh, so it went like that.Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

This is a very basic version of it. They're called colza lamps.

It's a good collection of bits. I might be able to make something out of these.

These go with these? Don't think so.

Yeah, they do. They're the same - Oh, hang on a minute.

No, there's four of these.

Hey.You found something really valuable?

No, but really interesting.Right.

Potentially valuable. They'd go on there.

Invented in France by the Swiss chemist, Aime Argand,

lamps like this one burned colza oil,

another name for rapeseed oil.

And their efficiency revolutionised lighting

in the early 19th century.

Their widespread use continued until the advent of paraffin lamps

around half a century later.

Although in need of substantial restoration, once completed,

Drew thinks these chandelier lights could be worth around £800 each.

So, it's all down to money, then, innit, really,

whether they leave this establishment or not?

What would you like for 'em? Well, I'm open for offers.

It's not gonna be big, because it's a project and they're bits,

and I'm taking a bit of a chance.

I think I might get two whole ones minus the chains.

Two hundred quid on the lot.

Against the inspiring backdrop of a centuries-old blacksmith's

in North Yorkshire, Drew and Viki have discovered a forgotten stash...

Gosh, it's full of stuff up here.

..including a 19th century colza lamp

whose owner doesn't want to let it go.

Two hundred quid on the lot.

No, you can do a bit more.

All right, I've got to start somewhere, haven't I?Yeah.

I'm not gonna go a great deal more. Gotta be honest with you.

You said £200.Yeah.

£300.

I could be hard and say £250, couldn't I?

£275, we have a deal.

Thank you very much.Cheers.

Right, then.All right.

Can I have a bit more of a look up there?Yeah.

Can, er... While you're doing that, maybe we could talk.Yeah, yeah.

So you're interested in the curtain pole, the curtain rings?

I'm thinking £40.

What, for it all?Yeah.Bloody hell.

How many rings are there?24.24.

So they've gotta be a couple of quid each, haven't they?

That's... That's 50 quid.

Right. Fifty quid, and the pole, 60 quid.

£75.You're hard.

Well, it's hard making a living in these dales, you know.Right.

£75. I'll take it.Great.

Perfect.Thank you very much. Thank you.

I was possibly a little bit cheeky going in at £40.

But I thought we'll test the water.

He's a Yorkshireman. I'm a Scots lass.

There might be some type of connection,

but no, he was having none of that.

Right. There was a...

Something here I quite fancy to having a wee look at.

What you're looking at there, that's...Yeah, what is it?

..like a Victorian window guard, isn't it?

So you could imagine it against that window, you'd bolt to the wall.

So it would be something like - Might not be wide enough for that.

It would go like that? That's right, yeah.

Right away, I don't really see window bar.

I see, like, towel rail or something in a kitchen to hang,

you know, your pots and pans from and things like that.

What's it worth? Do you know what I think?

You're a man that knows his own prices.

I know what I'd like to pay for it. Aye, well, tell us.

Fifty quid.No, it's worth more.

That's why I knew that you would know your prices.

How much do you want for it?

It'll have to be 100 quid, that one, wouldn't it?

£80.

It's not even halfway. I'm coming a wee bit.

You are. But if you ask me to make that for you,

it would have to be more than 100 quid.I know.

So I think the 100 quid's quite fair, to be honest.

God, you're tough.

£95, then. Go on. It'll have to be that.

So it has to be £95? Yeah, it does.

Right. I will take that off your hands. All right. Thank you very much.

I could not in a million years leave it in that scrap pile.

But it'll come in the shop, we'll hang some pans from it.

Everybody will get an idea of what you can do with it.

And, yeah, it'll go out the door really, really quickly.

Drew and I have learned so much

about this old building and about Stephen's family.

And do you know what else?

Drew back to his old roots,

rummaging about in boxes

and came out with gold.

Take care.You as well.See you again.Thanks a lot.Thank you.

Yeah, it's been a good day, really. It's been nice to meet them.

Er, nice people.

And, yeah, they've found some things which I didn't even know I had.

Can I just say that was quite old-school today?

I was concerned for you at one point. I won't lie.

I thought, "Is he all right?"

I'm gonna have to go up there and help him.

It's what I've traditionally always done,

which is, "Don't worry about getting your hands dirty,

and getting in all the rubbish." And your face and your shirt covered in sweat.

Jeans, filthy. Everything's filthy.

It's a great haul from the smithy.

But having faced some tough bargaining from Stephen,

Viki needs to buy at the right prices from now on.

Today, they're heading 180 miles southwards into Leicestershire

to explore a giant hoard temporarily crammed

into a dealer's home and garage.

Right, today we are off to...

I think the place is called Gilmorton,

and we're off to see a guy called Richard.Yep.

I've had a quick look at his online profile,

and he's got stuff at his house and storage units,

which we're gonna go and have a look at.

From what I could see on socials, I could do well today.

It's just gonna be down to price.

At least the sun is shining. Is it always like this down here?

As soon as you come out of Scotland,

hot and sunny all the time. All the time?All year-round.

Tropical, you know.

Dolphins, palm trees.

Why have I stayed in Scotland all these years?No idea.

In the 1930s and '40s, Lutterworth in Leicestershire

was the test and development site

for some of the world's first jet engines,

thanks to pioneering engineer, Frank Whittle.

And over the last 18 years, an eclectic collection

of vintage objects has landed locally...

..gathered together in his own home

by graphic designer-cum-dealer, Richard Herne.

I've always loved antiques.

When my mates were all playing football and doing things like that,

I was exploring disused factories and country houses

and all that kind of thing.

We are at my house, basically.

I had a shop which I've recently closed,

and so, at the moment, this is kind of my storage area, as it were.

I love more than anything the items.

So fascinating, just the history behind some things

and then other things, just because they're so weird, quirky, off the wall.

And then, yeah, just, yeah, love it. Can't stop.

Hi.Hi. How are you doing?

Richard.How are you? Viki.Nice to meet you.

How are you? Not too bad, thanks.

Right, well.

Straight in?Yeah. Have a look around. Fill your boots.

What's the deal here? You're packing in or moving or what're you doing?

So I had a shop and I closed the shop,

so I've brought all the stock into the house.Okay.

And a storage unit and kind of still selling online

and keeping things moving.Yeah.

The interesting thing these days is if you're gonna go and see somebody,

you can generally have a look at their Instagram profile,

or their Facebook, or their Twitter, or they're whatever it is, TikTok,

and you're able to gauge what they've got.

But that only might only be 50, 60 items.

You know, they've usually got ten times more than that.

Got a little fat fella's head on it, I like that.

Watch it.Sorry. The top will fall off it, will it?

Is that supposed to come off?Yeah.

He's a little Franciscan monk, isn't he?

I think that's quite you, actually.

Let's say it's a rotund gentleman with a little head stuck on the top.

It's a beautifully-made thing, actually.

If you look inside, all the timbers they've used, it's very, very well-made.

Very expensive timbers chosen.

It's just an odd... It's an odd thing.

How much is he?He is £35.Well...

Nice one.Thank you very much.

He's fab, isn't he?

If I carry on eating a full English breakfast, I will look like that.

No, I like that, that's nice.

I say yes to it because it makes me laugh. And I really like the colour.

It's remarkably well-made. And for 35 quid?

Yeah. Go on, I'll have it.

What about this, Viki?

Dental cabinet. Good in the shop.

How much is that? I've got £695 on it.

Yeah, I... Hm.

You don't sound enamoured. Not at £695, no.

It's got a really nice... The base is a nice green marble as well.

Oh, I see it, yeah. To be fair, it's a nice thing.Yeah.

You look at the interior of that, look. All ceramic.

Do you smell it?Yeah.

I think what's amazing about these old cabinets is, you know,

even with that one, for example, you just open the top glass doors

and just that sort of medical smell hits you,

and it's... You don't get that on a new bit of furniture.

Made in the 1920s

by a Wisconsin-based manufacturer called the American Cabinet Company,

which specialised in furniture for dental surgeries,

this piece is crafted from ebonised mahogany

with pressed glass windows,

milk glass top, and a heavy marble base.

The elegant materials and design may reflect an era when US dentists

were successfully pioneering the use of gold,

porcelain, and even the first implants.

With 22 drawers and original glass handles,

Viki thinks it could be worth around £895.

I'd give you 500 quid for it.

£525.Come on.

Yeah, I'll take it.Yeah? £525.Nice one.

Brilliant. Thank you.

It's an absolute nightmare for me to own.

It's a nightmare for me to move it.

It's a nightmare for me to deliver it.

It's just a headache from start to finish.

But I just couldn't not buy it.

For Viki's shop, this is dead on.

Obviously, there's time and effort to get it up to Scotland,

but after that, it's good to go, and that's a great buy.

There's money left in that all day long.

Inside, please, if we can, that'd be lovely.

I quite like that sign for the shop.

What do you think? Do you think it's too far?

No, I think it's bang-on.

It's to the point, Vik.Yeah.

There's nothing aesthetically pleasing about it.

Is there?But if you own a shop...

How much is it? ..it's essential.Er, £25.

God, I think that's a bit of fun.

Yeah.Yeah, I'll take that. Nice one.

Thank you.Cheers.

Just as we were going into the house,

there's, quite honestly, the most awful-looking sign

I think I've ever seen in my entire life

that has absolutely not one ounce of beauty in it whatsoever.

However, it is telling people

to keep their children in their cars.

So as a little bit of a jokey piece at the front of the shop,

it will be a talking point, it will break the ice.

It's exactly what I like. It's so me.

Where do we go? Oh, my goodness me.

Oh, God, it's the whole house.

Your shop must have been great fun.

Er, I tried, yeah.

We've gone to the classic place of an online dealer.

We're in their house, in spare bedrooms,

and having a good rake about.

It is where we all store stuff, let's be honest.

I like that.It's great, isn't it?

How much is that?Er, £15.

£15?Yeah.

Nice one. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Look.

Yeah, I see that.Out. Out. Out, out.Out, out.

There's one thing that immediately grabs my attention,

and it's what we call a desk tidy.

So it's an in and out, and it's just out.

And I just like it.

If you ever see these, and it says American on them

or you think it's American, yeah? Mm-hm.Buy them.

They are highly, highly, highly desirable.

This is beautifully made. The American ones tend to be square

and painted, and they're really valuable.

And there's lots of them around.

Gorgeous. Condition's against it...

..but beautiful colours. It's a bit battered.

But the colour is fabulous. Imagine that hanging up.Yeah.

Do £35 on it if you want it.

Do you know what? I'm going to take that at 35 quid.

Nice one.Thank you. Thank you. Cheers.

I just think that, up on a wall...

It's great, isn't it? Yeah. The colour.

We've got this oriental basket...

..in its original paint, and oh, God, I just love it.

I cannot tell you how much I love that basket.

We'll hang it, put it up on the wall.

We'll do something with it.

Or it's just sitting with your fruit in it.

It's just perfection.

Having trawled through the house and garage,

the next stop is just a mile up the road

at Richard's overflowing storage container.

There we go.

I like that.This is good.

I don't know why I keep looking at these lights,

these traffic lights.

I like those.They're quite - They're fun, aren't they?

I was told they were from a fairground for kids.

I'm not disrespecting what the fairground stuff was made,

but they wouldn't make it to that standard

'cause there would be no need. Right.

Erm, so I think they're genuine, genuine things.Okay.

There's this strange pair of traffic lights,

and to be honest, I wasn't sure what to make of them,

but they're a real cool colour...

..and they were a bit different.

They're great. What are you asking for them?

Er, I've got £65 each on them.

Do a deal on the two, obviously.

What would you do for the two?

Do £110?I saw them at 75 quid.

For the pair - For the pair?

Sausage. I'm going home. She's tough, isn't she?

Might as well throw the towel in now, mate.

It's warm in here, that's making me sweat.

That was just my initial... Look. Look.No, look, you're not far off.

That was my initial thought. When I first saw the pair,

that's what came to mind.

I'll go £90 on the two.Hm.

In Leicestershire, Drew and Viki

are combing a dealer's home and garage

stuffed with rare finds from his recently closed shop.

Your shop must have been great fun.

And in a storage container, Viki's trying to get the green light

on a deal for an unusual pair of traffic lights.

I'll go £90 on the two. Hm.

Let's see if there's anything else. We can maybe just sweeten it up.

There's a mirror there, actually. See that mirror?

Which one? The circular one or the oak frame one?

No, the circular one.Yeah.

That's just a modern one, isn't it?

But it's like - Just a modern garage one,

just for reversing around the corner type of thing.

Really?Okay.

Do you want to get it out for me or will I?

No, I'll do it. I'll do it. Really, Victoria?

Yeah. It's great.

Yeah.

There's a cracking chapel chair as well.

Yeah. See the red thing, the red pot?

Yeah. I like that. Has that got a bit of age?Yeah.

Yeah, that's great, that red bucket.

It's great, isn't it? Yeah.That's fab.

So what were you looking for, for the mirror?

Thirty quid.And the bucket?

£20.Fifty quid, and you wanted £90 for them?Yeah.

What is that?It's a caged lamp, so your baby can't get to it.

I've not seen one of those before. That's pretty cool.

I like that.It's great.Yeah.

I quite like those wee shelves.

The shelving unit?Yeah. From a chapel.

For a church, this, actually.

A church in Leicester.Yeah.

The church that was next to my school when I was a lad.

How much is that?How much is that? If we're on £140...Yeah.£150.

And this little bad boy?£170.

What's that, 20 quid?Twenty quid. And this is a tenner?Yeah.

Yeah, I'll take that little pile. Nice one.Thank you.

Happy with that?Cool.

Everything just gets massaged slightly

when you put things together.

So we managed to find a mirror...

..a red bucket, some shelves.

Sounds like a game show, doesn't it?

And anyway, we've got them all together.

I asked him the price, and then we agreed

on a sort of package deal,

which is the best way to do it, I reckon.

"Sera, insulin, antibiotics, and chemicals." That looks okay.

The carboy bottle shape, it's just, number one, colour.

Number two, size. Number three, it's not very well done,

which is attractive in its own way.

It's imperfect perfect.

How much is it? Er, that can be...£75.

Yes.Yeah?There you go.Okay. Thanks very much. I'll have that.

I think it's loads of fun.Yeah.

If you're doing a photograph for your website...

..which we're doing all the time, having that in the back of the picture,

even just half of it with that splash of colour,

will help and we can sell it.

Potentially, there's money to be made out of it as well.

Are you done? I think so, yeah.Sorted.Are you?

If we chuck all this on the van now, we'll sort you out some money, and we're done.

Lovely. Great.Thank you very much. Nice one.Thank you.

Fab day with Richard.

It's always good to poke around the dealer's sort of house

cause they'll always keep the better things there.

I bought a nearly four-foot-tall

hardboard carboy.

I bought a wind-up musical monk

whose head comes off and an out tray from an office.

Er, all makes sense to me.

So you did well there, missus.

Yeah, I was very happy. Very saleable.

Yeah.Very saleable stuff.

Do you know those little traffic lights?Yeah.

I looked at them and I thought,

"If Viki doesn't buy them, I'm having them."

Well, I said exactly the same thing in my head about that chemist sign.

Oh, really?I thought, "If Drew doesn't have it, I'll have it."

With Viki's business model dependent on selling

large numbers of small profit items,

there's no time to waste in getting the new purchases

in front of as many customers as possible.

We've found that in all this

2,200 square feet of shop,

this corner is the corner for the photographs.

We get this fantastic natural light,

and then we've got these amazing doors...

..that we can use as a backdrop.

And you just set something in front of it, it just looks brilliant.

You coming to do some work, Annie?

I have a massive deal about sizing in photographs,

and it annoys me when you look at photos or scroll through Instagram,

and you don't know the size of something,

so I have this amazing black lab

who we use in photographs for sizing.

And she gets treats, and that's how she earns her living.

Yes.

So I've got this basket. Now...

..it could be any size, but it's really lovely and big.

Right, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna get set up

because you have to do everything really quickly

when you're working with a dog.

Yes, who's a good girl?

Right. You're such a sook. Right.

Come on, you.

Come here. Good girl. Sit down.

Over here. Over here. Over here. I'll feed you in a minute. Sit down.

Good girl. Now, stay. Stay. Good girl.

Right. Stay. Stay, stay, stay.

Stay.

Good girl.

Oh, you are a star.

You're so cute.

This is literally how I get no work done.

Now, this this is one of the favourite items

that came off the van this week. And it is so heavy.

We literally photographed it yesterday.

We brought it in, took a photograph of it where it was.

When you're starting to deal with bigger bits of furniture

and slightly more unusual, rarer...slightly harder to place,

they take longer.

So that's where the website sort of comes into its own,

because once this is up on the website,

it's not just being shown to my customer base in Edinburgh here,

it's being shown to across the UK.

So we have to take the sizes,

because realistically, there's nothing worse

than not knowing the sizes when you go to the website.

But I will make apologies now, actually,

'cause there's, potentially, items in my website without the sizes.

All the photos have been loaded up.

I've done my description. I've done my sizing.

Got my pricing, title.

So we just save it...

..and then it should be in the website,

up and ready, looking beautiful.

Do you know what kills me? Is people say to me, "What? You're only open Saturdays.

What do you do for the rest of the week?"

Yeah, well, let me tell you, it does not stop.

I would do seven days a week. Website, unloading van,

new stock, photographs, unloading van, photographs,

sizing, repeat, and I do that every single day, all week long.

And then I get to open the shop on a Saturday for one day a week

and do the thing that I truly, truly love.

Last pick of the week is an elite antique collection,

which, due to the price tags,

may turn out to be more Drew's market than Viki's.

Where are we? We're in Scotland.

Are we in Dumfriesshire? We're just -

Yes.Right.So we're literally heading to somewhere

that's between Dumfries... Yeah...and Kirkcudbright.

Where?Kirkcudbright.

Did you lot up here, did you just, like, get a load of whisky,

sit around the table and thought, "Let's make some names up"?Yeah.

A little bit like the Welsh, actually.

Fair enough. You've got me on that.

But we're going to Auchencairn House.

So we're gonna go and see a guy called Henry Baggott.Mm.

Now I believe... So his place... I know his dad.Yeah.Jack. Yeah.

I've known Jack, you know, for a while. For years.

Right, okay. But I've never met Henry.

But I knew he was in the business, and I knew he ended up in Scotland.

Right, okay.I mean, he's right...

Look how beautiful that is. Yeah, I know.

On Scotland's famously beautiful South Coast,

a few miles from the fishing town of Kirkcudbright,

is the Bay of Auchencairn,

with a secluded estuary that made it a favourite route

for smugglers in the 18th century.

Tucked away in this remote setting is another local secret.

A 19th-century country mansion that's home to a remarkable trove

of rare antique furniture and artwork

amassed by second-generation dealer, Henry Baggott.

I've been an antique dealer since I was about 20,

so it's about 20 years now.

I was always with my father,

following him around, going to auctions.

He was pointing out details of furniture

and how they were made. Going to the restorer,

talking to them, learning how to put things back together again,

and learning the finer details of antique furniture, really.

Our stock is displayed here in the family home.

I also have a warehouse

where the majority of the larger stock is,

and I have a showroom with items in showroom condition.

- Quite a pile of bricks. - It's not bad, is it?

Hello.How are you?

I'm Viki.Nice to meet you. Henry.

Drew.Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

Come on in.What a pad. Yeah.What a pad.Amazing.

Obviously, I know your dad.

Yeah, absolutely. You've met my father, yeah.

Yeah, I've been going into his shop for years.

Years and years and years.

Now, Jack Baggott is a dealer who I have a massive amount of time for.

With a father like Jack, you're gonna pick stuff up.

It's in the same vein. Very, very good-quality

traditional furniture with a slight edge to it.

A little bit different.

Okay, so what's the deal in here?

Obviously, the house is incredible, but we're here to have a look,

see what you've got for sale.

Er, well, some things in the house are for sale.

And some things are not. And some things are not.

You can't ignore this house, can you?

It's quite a pile.

And as you walk in, it's instantly about the best place

you could sell these pieces from.

Whatever you put into this house, it's going to look fabulous.

The light is so good. The floor, the space, everything about it.

And immediately, I see something, and I am like,

"I need to know more about that. That's a fabulous thing."

So tell me about this.

Rosewood sofa table

with the most fabulous carved paw feet.

Yeah, lovely quality.

Just the best of Regency furniture, really, isn't it?

Mm. Nice. Nice thing. What are you asking for that?

Er, that could be... That could be £12,000.

Er, it's just all there.

The carved feet, the quality, the name.

It's a good thing.

There is a Regency sofa table.

Exceptional form. Really good foot.

It's £12,000. I think that's what I can get for it.

So there's no point in me buying it, really.

You know, I'm here to make money.

I'm liking everything I'm seeing, to be honest.Yeah, I know.

The thing for me here is it'll be interesting to see what appears,

because on first inspection,

it's looking a bit punchy in the prices for me.

You know, this sort of gear,

you can get it in, but you sit on it.

You know, I don't wanna do that. I wanna get stuff in and out.

But what I'll take from today is I will be listening constantly

and picking up bits of information

and just keeping it in for a future date.

So how did you end up here?

How did I end up living here?Yeah. Er, my wife's family home.Okay.

So, erm, when we got married here,

I ended up moving up to live in Scotland,

and we lived in Glasgow, Edinburgh.

And then we came back to live on the farm about ten years ago.

Wow, look at that room. The dining room.

The decoration is fabulous.

Isn't it quite something? Yeah.

What do you think of the marble-top table?

That's what I was just looking at. Okay, good.

I thought that might appeal. That is a piece of stock.

It's polished at the back as well, which is nice.

So it would stand happily in the middle of the room.

That's got a good look, isn't it?

How much is that?

Er, what could that be? £1,200?Oh, okay.

Can I take these off? Yeah, of course.

It's really, really nice of your in-laws

to buy you a fabulous showroom, isn't it?

Can I have the house as a showroom? You can. Yeah.

The best thing about this table, it's in the round.

So the work and the finish

are not just finished on the front face,

front frieze and down both sides,

it's finished at the back as well, so it will free stand in a room,

and the marble is finished as well.

So as a whole, it really works.

Known as Fossil Marble, the stone top of this table

is actually made from a type of decorative limestone

found across the UK.

This particular stone comes from a Derbyshire quarry

known as the Once-A-Week Quarry, so named in the 18th century

because workers were paid once a week rather than once a fortnight,

which was more common in the area.

Dating from around 1840,

Drew thinks this mahogany-based serving table

could be worth around £1,800.

£1,000, buy it.

£1,100.

The prices at an elite collection in Dumfriesshire

may be too much of a stretch for Viki,

but a mid-19th century Fossil Marble top table

has got Drew's attention.

£1,000, buy it.

£1,100.

Yeah.Yeah, okay. Thank you very much.

Ask a price, £1,200. Offer £1,000. End up at £1,100.

There's some money in it for me. Not a lot.

There's not loads of profit in that, but there is a profit.

As we drove in, you've got huge sheds as well.

Are those yours? The big barn.Yeah.

That's our warehouse there. Yeah.Okay.

Would you like to have a look in there?I'd like to have a look in there.

So this is purpose-built, yeah?

Yeah. Absolutely. This is purpose-built.

After you.Oh, thank you. Come on in.

Oh, this is good, isn't it? Wasn't expecting this.Fab.

We open the door, and it's literally full

of even more gorgeous stock.

You know, it's like... And it's not really set up like a warehouse, if we're being honest.

It's bordering on quite a nice showroom, actually.

See that little table?Yes.

They're just one of those, really usable.

You're always gonna get rid of them.

They're just handy, handy, handy. Handy lamp table.

Lovely-shaped design. Simple.Can't go wrong with them.

How much is a little table like that?

£275?Hm.

When you come in here, there is...

There's lots of different styles of stock.

But what I would suggest is that

there is a very clean line through it all, and that's quality.

And in all honesty, I'm sort of looking about

and I'm thinking, "Will there be anything in here for me as well?"

But there was a little table that caught my eye,

but unfortunately, it's just, it's priced at retail for me,

so there's no money left in it.

So unfortunately, I'll just have to leave it.

That's an odd one.

Yeah, one of the best bits is the leather back.

Which you definitely wouldn't want to get rid of.

It's just big, you know. It's of that size where it was...

It could have been a bespoke one because it's such a whopper.

Very good-quality timber to the frame that you can see.

And, yeah, the leather.

Did you pick it up locally?

Er, it came from a local country house, yeah.

What are you asking for it?

£750?

It's a two grand restoration job on that.

Really?To do it right. Yeah.

So you've got two choices for that. Yeah.Punt it as it is.Yep.

Hang around till you've got a customer for it.

Or bite the bullet and do the whole thing.Bite the bullet and do the whole thing.

£600?

Hm.Mm?£700?

£650? I'm sorry to be so hard.

£650, okay. There we go.Thank you.

God knows.

I haven't bought a really tatty, old, huge armchair in ages,

and it felt good to get back in the saddle and get another one bought.

It's in a terrible state. All the insides of the seat have collapsed.

But the scale and the leather to the back...

Sold. Thank you very much.

For me, if I look at that chair,

all I see is money sitting in an item

that's got to go to place, to place, to place...

..with the end not even in sight.

You know, and I just... I don't know, maybe...

..through experience and maturity,

my brain might work that out, but right now, it doesn't at all.

Very much enjoyed meeting Henry today. A really good ethos.

He's prepared to sell things that need work,

so he'll trade stuff out.

He's living in the perfect

property to sell from.

It couldn't be any better.

You could not find a better backdrop

for selling things than the hallway of that house.

Well, you did a little better than me today.

You know what I mean?I mean, I didn't buy loads, did I? No.Two things.

But I just... You know me, I like to get something under my belt, but there was just nothing...

Nothing for me, and,

you know what? Sometimes you just gotta walk away and go,

"No. Today wasn't the day for buying."

We didn't buy much.No. At all. Two things.

But...highly profitable in their own way.Yeah.

So we've done all right. It's fine. It's fine.

I'll pay the petrol today and buy lunch. How's that?

I think that's quite a good deal, actually.

Good deal?Yeah.

With three fascinating but diverse locations,

both Drew and Viki have had their work cut out

to buy at the prices that work

for their individual ways of doing business.

So, myself, and Viki, and Al, we all do the same thing, right?

But we all do it differently. So, Viki has her margin.

She looks at an item, knows what she's gonna get for it.

She has to work back and buy that so it gives her her margin.

But my business model is different.

I would have to wait for months, sometimes years to sell a piece,

and I'm making my money from my knowledge of those pieces.

That's where my profit comes from.

So hundreds of antique dealers, if not thousands of antique dealers in this country,

everybody does it differently.

You'll have good and bad days, but it's the best job in the world.