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NARRATOR: On Salvage Hunters, hard bargaining from Drew and Viki

to save relics from one of the country's last tanneries...

How about 700 quid the lot?

It's a bit low, that. I know. I'm not going to start high.

...a perfectly formed classic worth bickering over...

I don't want that one. But I like that one. You're too late, aren't you?

...and a record-breaking rodent.

What on earth is that? FRANCES: This is my favourite. That's a beaver.

It's the oldest one in England. (LAUGHS)

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 round? (LAUGHTER)

...Drew is sharing the knowledge... What are those over there, Drew?

They're great little mill carts.

...and the 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.

550, Drew. (ALL LAUGH)

So today, we're off to Bingley to see Rob at Amazing Finds.

His last shop, that wonderful mill, burnt to the ground.

You're kidding.Huge place, made the national news.

Did it, really? Yeah, yeah.

Hell of a shame. It was beautiful.

So he's moved shop, and he's in an old snooker hall.

I think you and him are kindred spirits.

He's quite into how his shop looks. Yeah.

I reckon we'll be able to sit down, coffee together,

discuss moving shops, having a new shop, see how it goes.

Do you think I need to get my notebook out?

(BOTH LAUGH)

Drew and Viki are heading 120 miles northeast into Yorkshire

to see how a creative fellow dealer

is setting up shop in a completely new space

at a time when Viki's business is expanding fast

and she's had to find new premises of her own.

I need to be able to park my van. Yeah.

I need to be able to unload it without being stressed all the time,

I needed somewhere to do my little videos

and all my stuff for socials. Because socials,

let's be honest, are the new shop window.They are.

But I'm looking forward to meeting Rob, actually.

I had a look at his socials and he looks -He is a right laugh,

he's great fun and he's got a very individualistic take

on honestly all of it.

And I think he's got it right.

Climbing 18 metres,

Bingley's Five-Rise Locks are a local landmark

and the steepest staircase locks in the country,

a reminder of the town's industrial history,

with a number of mills still standing today.

A new addition to the town is Amazing Finds,

an incredible collection that spans period furniture to industrial and retro.

It's all the creation of Rob George.

With Amazing Finds, you'll see that it is eclectic

and I really don't have any boundaries when it comes to buying.

Sourcing stock is getting harder and harder.

It takes a lot, a lot of hard work, a lot, a lot of time.

Excited to see Drew and Viki.

Very nervous, very excited and a little bit shaky.

Hey. Hi.Rob. Hi. How are you? Good to see you again.

Drew, welcome. Thanks for having us.Viki.

Hi, Rob. Lovely to meet you. Look.

Wow. Look what we've gone and done.

It's amazing. It looks really, really good.Thank you. What happened with the last place?

Literally, after you guys had been, it burned down two weeks later.

That wasn't us. Yeah, it doesn't happen everywhere we go now. (LAUGHTER)I know.

What was this?You're standing in what was a billiard room

of a Conservative Club built in, I think, around 1915, 1920s.

I like what you've done with the place.Yeah.

It's really cool. I've got major shop envy. (LAUGHS) It's brilliant.

The last place he had,

I was really impressed because it was out of the ordinary.

And the space, what's he going to do next?

And what Rob's done here is the friendly, interesting,

artistic, clever, affordable way into the antiques business.

The only person it's like, strangely, is, it's a little bit like Viki.

You're sort of both masters of display, I think.Really?

(INDISTINCT) Well, there we go.

But it is inspirational, isn't it? Yeah.

It's just the most amazing space.

What I love about here is that it's got a lot of antiques in it,

but it's got mountains of randomness.

I think it must be Rob's brain.

And it screams somebody with an eye has come up with this

because I... yeah,

shop envy on the, like, 110% scale.

I'm looking for some stools, actually.

I was looking at this one. Lovely stool, isn't it? Oh, were you?

What do you mean? Whenever she says things like that to me,

the slight Scottish accent, I feel a bit threatened.

A slight Scottish accent? "Oh, were you?"(LAUGHS) That's English!

That's Scottish! "Oh, were you?" That's not Scottish.

Well, I was looking at this one. Oh.

95 quid.

There's another wee stool there. No, I've seen that one. That one there. You're too late.

No, I've... Look, there's a... That one? I've already seen that one.

It's stools. I don't want that one.

Well, I like that one. Well, you're too late, aren't you?

Pleasantries out of the way, Viki is immediately start diving in.

I thought, "I'm going to lose something if I'm not quick."

And I spotted a normal little turned-legged English late-19th-century stool,

but the top single piece of timber, and it had a little wave to it,

a little buckle. This is a really good thing.

Has that had that top put on? I would say yes.

It's been a chair before, maybe. No, it's been a stool before, and they've messed with it.

Because if you look on the side up here,

you can see how rough it is, right? Yeah.

The rest of this isn't that rough, but strangely, it's the same timber.

It's almost got a burr in it. It has.I think it is a walnut.

Can I buy that? You certainly can, yeah.

Thank you very much. Thank you.Marvellous.

It's an absolute belter.

I like to find exceptional examples of things,

you know, presenting something to the public and going,

"Look what I found." This is really good. And here's why.

Right. How much are these?

Well, I know it's your first time in Amazing Finds,

and I like to look after everybody. And I will take £5 off each stool.

So you'll have a discount of 20 quid there.

Oh, God. So that means I've got to add it up. Yeah. I'll add it up for you.

Do you want me to do it for you? Yeah.

Okay. 33.

I think they might all be the same. 33.

33.33.

That's 132. 132.

How do you feel about that, Viki?

I'll take the lot, four of them. Thank you.

Thinking I can see, like, four stools here.

I'll put them as a wee bundle,

and I've turned my back to go and get another one.

And Drew's grabbed one off the table,

you know, picks it up, he's waxing lyrical about it, blah blah blah.

And I'm just standing there thinking, "He's got my stool."

So I thought, I'm gonna have to do this deal quick

before Drew muscles in on what I was after,

and I just let him have that stool. I didn't want to fight him for it.

He's wee face. He would have been upset.

While I've got your hands in my hands...

I know, it's fab, isn't it?

Oh, that's good. Is it an original? Yeah.

Oh, hello.

What sort of money is in that, Rob?

For you today, the best price I can do with that is £75.

Can I squeeze you a bit? For this?Yeah.

65. That's it.Yeah.

That's it. It's done. It's going to be mine.

I love anything to do with shops and retail in the bygone era.

There's an innocence about it,

and I just love how every detail in old shops

was done by hand, and it was individual

and they were proud of what they did.

And that's what I'm like. It's like an experience,

and you want to give the customer that experience,

and if they can tell that you love it, they'll come back.

That supply sign in the back there...Yeah.

What's that say? "One supply".

This came from Hull.

Do you think it's had another bit of board?

It's part of the sign. Yeah.It's been cut.

It's also had what I like to call a good honest fix.

Because it's been cut. You can't see it,

it's been sawn in half there. You see that now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think it said "Stone supply", looking at the lettering and how it's laid out,

I think the scale works for that.

It's not a high, high quality sign.

That one's, you know, rough as rats, but interesting.

How much is it, Rob?

It's £130.

Do you mind that it's just half of the sign?

No. Sometimes that can look cooler.

Yeah, 130. Thank you very much. Yeah. Done.

We're doing well here in this corner.Thanks very much.

Shall we stay here? This is the good luck corner.

Yeah, I like that. I have a funny feeling that you might...

every corner might be a good luck corner in here.

Traditionally, it's something... Strangely, as a child,

I used to help restore those with my father in the '70s and the '80s.

So I've been around them my whole life.

Just that one, that was just, it was so rough,

so sort of workaday that it attracted me to it.

So yeah. Yeah, we'll have that one.

Handbag?

Viki, ladieswear? The ladieswear department?

Do you know, that's more his department, actually.

I could see him with a little sort of little croc... Little man bag....bag.

Rob. Yeah?

You got two of these? Yeah.

Can I put them together? Are they both for sale?Yeah.

Yes, mate. That's the one.

Let me stick it on there.

So this one needs a bit of work? Yeah, just that bit.

I couldn't see, so I think there's a little rivet -

This rivet's gone, isn't it? Yeah.Yeah.

It's so clever. Yeah.

It's counterweighted, so it will, again, stay...

They're astonishing aren't they? ...wherever you put it.

NARRATOR: An industrial design classic,

the Hadrill and Horstmann modernist counterpoise lamp

bucked the trend for spring-loaded anglepoise lamps of the 1930s,

with British designers GCT Hadrill and Sidney Horstmann

instead opting for a barrel-weighted counterbalance mechanism,

resulting in the seamless fluid movement

that has earned these 1960s lamps

the affectionate nickname of "Rollers".

Hugely popular with collectors more than half a century after they were first made,

once sympathetically restored and rewired,

Drew estimates this matching pair could fetch

around £650.

So you've got 185 on that one. Yeah.Plus...

What would you take for the pair?

Well, as soon as they are a pair, it obviously makes them a little bit more desirable doesn't it, I'd say.

Or is that - Are they your words and not mine?

Well, I like to sell. I know.I like to sell.

I know what I've got in them, and I'd have to take £120 each for them.

240 the pair? Yeah.

NARRATOR: Drew and Viki are visiting a fellow dealer

whose business has literally risen from the ashes

after his last shop was destroyed in a fire.

ROB: Look what we've gone and done.

It's amazing. It looks really, really good. Thank you.

And Drew is mid-deal for a pair of designer Roller lamps

from the 1960s.

So you've got 185 on that one. Yeah.Plus...

What would you take for the pair? I'd have to take £120 each for them.

240 the pair? Yeah.

There's a flaw with these later versions of these lamps,

where they have the shade pop-riveted on

with two little alloy pop rivets.

And when people move a lamp, they grab the lamp shade and move it.

And that's where the weak point is on these.

But Rob has given me the sort of price where it's worth doing.

VIKI: This place is amazing.

It is amazing, isn't it? It's full of amazing signs.

He's really, really good.

I am literally like the cat that's got the cream.

Because I've met Rob.

We... I think we've got, like, this sort of kindred spirit

of what we want to do and what we want to provide

for our customers. He's a brilliant guy.

He's got a fantastic eye, and I'm not going to say anything,

but there's a couple of ideas in here

that I might take inspiration from for my shop.

Amazing Finds Mark 2. It's great.

It's better than before.

It's inventive and different and exciting,

and there's something new every time you turn around.

Big fan of Rob.

I look forward to coming back in a few years

and to continue watching what he's going to do next.

Rob.Yes, mate? We're done. Thank you very much. Good to see you again.

Really nice to see you, Drew. We'll see you again. Viki!Nice to meet you.

You're very welcome. Take care. Safe journey. We'll see you. Bye-bye.Bye.

Amazing, amazing day. And how nice it was to see Drew again.

Yeah, he's managed to, well, once again,

not have me pants down too much. And which is great.

And Viki, what a treat. She's lovely, isn't she?

And I think she's bought really well today, so I'm happy.

What do you think of Rob's place then?

I'm a bit speechless about it all, actually.Mmm.

Because, you're right, he's quite like me.

We're quite like each other. Very like each other.

You both have a similar aesthetic and a similar way

of seeing the worth and the value in something

that maybe somebody wouldn't until you put it in front of them and go, "Look at that."

He's just a great guy. Yeah.

And by the way, his prices were good.

Really, really viable. Yeah.

NARRATOR: An inspirational start to an important week of buying for Viki.

But there's still room in the van.

Next stop is northwards into Cumbria,

where Drew and Viki have landed a rare and exclusive invitation.

So, Victoria, where are we off to today?

Morland House. Morland House?Yeah.

We're meeting Frances. Well, I'm looking forward to it.

My two favourite things are big old factories...Yeah.

...and these, as called, big old country houses.

It never changes. People say, "Do you want to come to a big country house?"

"Yes". It's not, "Where is it?"

It's like, "Yes, yes we do. Yes, I do".

It's very, very beautiful. And it's called the Eden Valley.

And I can't ever remember being in this bit.

And I've been pretty much everywhere, but I can't remember being here.

The amount of time it's taken us to drive on these country roads,

it is in the middle of nowhere. So it really doesn't surprise me you've never been here before.

We got to the middle of nowhere about an hour ago.

NARRATOR: Set among the rolling hills of Cumbria's Eden Valley,

the ancient village of Morland is home to a church

with a rare tower built in Saxon times,

and the neighbouring house, the former vicarage,

also dates back centuries.

Now a Grade-II listed building,

Morland House has been in the hands of one family since 1828.

These days, it's rented out for special occasions

by family trustee Frances Yeowart, the fifth generation of the family.

FRANCES: The house dates back to Tudor times.

I grew up here with my family.

My father was Vicar of Morland and there were three of us,

and we had a wonderful time growing up here.

So the antiques have been collected over the years.

The house has been handed down through various generations

and they've come from Canada, Himalayas,

Ethiopia, Boer War...

you name it, really. All over the world.

Oh, look. Proper old-fashioned doorbell.

Pull it?Yep, pull. (DOORBELL RINGS)And it works.

Oh, I like that.Yeah.

Hello.Hello, lovely to meet you. I'm Viki.Drew.Hi. Come in.

Come and look at the house. Yes, please.

Wow.

They're wonderful. Are those Inuit?

They are. These came from General Fred

when he was in the Canadian campaign... General Fred?

I have many cousins going back in the past,

and he was a bit of a hero.

He sounds like my hero, General Fred.

That sounds great. Yeah, General Fred.

Canada, Himalayas, Ethiopia, Crimea.

He had a busy, busy life... Wow....and died in his fifties.

So he brought many things back. Swords, armour.

Wow. God they're wonderful things.

Love it.

There's sort of what you would expect more in a sort of Scottish hunting lodge.

There's horns and hunting paraphernalia everywhere,

but it's also mixed in with an awful lot of pieces

from various military campaigns that the family were part of worldwide.

There's bits from everywhere.

I like it here. It feels like - It's really nice.

Oh, look at this.

There are a lot of stuffed birds.

Whoa! Look at those.

My word.

What on earth is that? This is my favourite.

That's a beaver. That's a beaver, well done.

He's got a sort of cheeky expression and black teeth.

So he was sent back by the same General Fred in 1805. Oh, really?General Fred.

I wish I'd met General Fred. I know, it was about 1835.

He sent it back to his family... Yeah.

...and my father did all the research,

and he says it is the oldest one in England.

The oldest beaver in England? Yes. Stuffed beaver.

You just took those words right out my mouth.Blimey.

Frances is absolutely amazing,

taking us around the house, showing us it

and giving us some really cool insights to her history,

you know, the history behind her family.

But because I'm opening the new shop,

I want some really lovely sort of standout pieces

that haven't been in auctions and haven't been in other dealers' hands.

So we want to get down into the places

where we can get a little bit of a pop at stuff

and see if we can buy some stuff.

This is the old dairy in here, and then it's a workshop.

That's nice. What this, little cupboard, yeah.

Little set of drawers. I quite like that.

It's nice. That looks like a kit for the electrician...Yes.

...who worked in the house. Yes, it does.

That's exactly what it looks like. Would you consider?

I'd certainly consider it. It's just moving all the stuff.

And actually, I'm worried that it might be rather essential bits

for the electrician et cetera, et cetera.

Why don't we go and have a look in the next place?

Yeah.And think about it. But yeah, that would be something

that we'd definitely want to make an offer on.Yeah.

There was a little set of drawers,

oak drawers, that caught my eye right away,

and I quite fancied giving her a little bit of an offer on it,

but it was still kind of in use.

But I thought, we'll just leave it and we'll go and keep having a look

and we'll see if I fancy it enough to make her a strong bid.

Nice little barn.

It's very sweet.

Oh!So there's a few cobwebs. So, uh, yeah.

Wow. Yeah.

I've never seen anything like it.

It's like 50 years' worth of cobwebs, but it's untouched.

Nobody's been in there. It's exactly what we want.

I can just see there's going to be, like, a 2.5-foot spider's going to come out from behind there.

You're so dramatic. That's not a little spider.

Look at the size of that. It's not going to be 2.5 feet. Possibly bigger.

The biggest spider in the whole world lives in this garage.

Have you seen the cobweb? It's enormous.

But keep going, keep going. Come on, do your job.

Have a proper look around.

(GROANS)Crumbs. Oh, God.Well done.

Blimey, sorry.

It's like the Keystone Kops. Is it new?

It looks new to me. Just a nice colour.

That's nice.That's nice. I like that.Hmm.

Viki's got a really good shop space in Edinburgh.Yes.

Yeah, you could certainly - I mean, that's just a belter.

For just display, isn't it? Just a good thing.Yeah, I know.

It's not worth any money, really, it's just a great thing.

Big brass and copper tray.

Beautifully made, really nicely made.

Late 19th century, early 20th century,

English, super thing.

But I'm thinking for her shop, it's definitely the way to go. And I love the colour of it.

The tray and the pot £50.

(LIP TRILL)

Tray and the pot. What is that noise?

Sorry, that just came out involuntary. I thought, blimey,

that's a lot of money for those. But yeah, okay.£50.Isn't he rude?

It's a lovely thing. Who's going to make that again nowadays, yeah.

It's beautifully made. I was looking at that at 30 and that at 20.

That's fair enough. Yes, that is fair enough.

Yeah, it is fair enough. Yeah.

Yeah?Yeah. Deal?Yeah.Brilliant.

The little bank of drawers with all the electrical bits in.Yeah.

Did you want to have a bid at that? Because it's a good thing, that, you know.Mmm.

I appreciate that it's a little bit of work for you to move the stuff out.

You've got to tip it all into separate containers.

I would give you 250 for it.

NARRATOR: At an extraordinary country house in deepest Cumbria,

Drew and Viki are trawling the outbuildings...

I can just see there's going to be, a 2.5-foot spider's going to come out.You're so dramatic.

...where Viki spotted a century-old cabinet

that's perfect for her new shop

if she can only persuade its owner to empty it.

I appreciate that it's a little bit of work for you to move the stuff out.

You've got to tip it all into separate containers.

I would give you 250 for it.

Yeah, okay. 250.Yeah. And we move the stuff.

Yes.Deal?Yeah.

Let's go back up the garden.

So really fair offer, £250.

There's not actually going to be a huge, massive margin left in that.

I just like it. It's just really, really cool.

We're going into sort of storage facilities in the outbuildings.

This is the stuff that I absolutely love to do.

The potential for a find, never... it never gets boring, you know?

What about those... Antlers?

Yeah.Yeah, they are very, very impressive antlers.

Um, a couple of hundred?

I mean, you can't get those again.

Yeah. I'd give you 150 for it.

Okay.Yeah?Yeah. Brilliant. Yeah, I'll take them.

Thank you.

They're a bit of a showpiece, a little bit of a talking point.

Great for hats. Honestly. I'll put them in the shop,

take a photograph and there'll be somebody out there that wants them.

Do you mind your head, obviously.

So this is the cellar.

It goes right the way under the house.

Look, hang on a second. Yeah.Look at this.

Wow.And this is, I'm afraid, well, you can see what it's like.

There's pictures, rugs, portmanteaus.

Piles of pictures and frames and broken glass and sinks and doors

and broken bits of this, that and the other.

And you just have to go into it thinking,

"Underneath that bit there, there might be something."

Absolutely no way of knowing unless you pick that thing up.

I think it's a street vendor's thing. Yeah.Carrying food in.

You get the smaller ones, don't you? The individual ones, and then...

I think it's a bit tatty. It's quite sweet, though, really, isn't it?Yeah.

In the far corner, there was a basket.

It's actually in sections.

And you see them, smaller ones that come in sections like these,

and they're for going out on a picnic or taking your food somewhere.

But this is a big, big one.

Probably Japanese or Chinese, probably 100-year-old at least.

Oh, I'd say we chuck it out in the daylight

and have a better look at it. Yeah, yeah.

Have a look at that carpet there, Vik?Yeah, the carpet.

Here, let me take these out. We can have a little look.

Oh.Oh.

Oh, man.Okay.

Oh, yeah? See, that really appeals to me.

It's completely knackered, and I really like it.

That is, um, well, it's the real thing. It's the real thing.

There's one thing in here that I like the look of, and it's this extremely worn rug,

and it's just a stair runner or a sort of hall runner.

Not very big in...

Okay, how do we say this... terrible condition? (CHUCKLES)

Really just worn to death, you know.

But I like it for that.

Time worn and loved. Well used. We can use it.What? Like, us?

Yeah, time worn. It's worth 50 quid.

Yes. That's exactly what I was going to say.

It's sort of had it, really, but I like that.

£50, you can have it for 50. Are you sure?

Yeah, yeah.Deal.Yeah, yeah. Thank you very much.

I think I like it a bit too much

because my house is full of things like that,

and my mother has used the words, "It's a disgrace,"

numerous times when she's been around to my house and seen things in there.

I love anything that's just showing its age and battered and just sort of clinging on.

I'm just going to have a little look at these.

They're just little innocent little prints.

Yeah. I like that. That's the best one.

That's amazing. The glass isn't broken, actually.Yeah.

This, are we thinking... I think it's just lost -

a bit of... a little bit of a lost cause.

Look at all this.

Yeah, I know, I know, I know, but it's just -It's pretty, though.

70 quid.Yeah? For these.Yeah.

And throw that in. And throw that in?Yeah.

All right.70? Perfect. Yeah.Thank you.

We came outside, had a good look at them,

I thought, "Yeah, like them, want to take them home."

So I thought, you know, £20 for the wee frame,

50 quid for the three prints,

chuck in the basket, £70 the whole lot.

And then I was thinking, "If that basket goes back into that cellar,

"it'll never see light of day. And I just couldn't let it happen."

So I thought, "Let's try and get a little bit of a deal going together."

And Frances seemed to be up for it, so I was absolutely delighted.

I've had a really, really nice day today, doing my...

One of my favourite things in the world,

which is wandering around a country house in the middle of nowhere,

looking for bits and bobs they've had enough of and they want to sell.

What a day we've had today with Frances at Morland's House.

It's just been absolutely amazing.

You know, we're walking into areas of this house

that nobody has been in.

You know, you can tell by the amount of cobwebs

and the depth of cobwebs, nobody's been in there for 50 years,

and we're getting access to have a good rake about.

And it's just the best, best part of the job.

Fab.Yeah.Thanks for your time. Thank you so much for coming.

It's been lovely. Thank you. Brilliant.

It's been really, really fun. See you.Thank you.Bye.

You did well.

I actually had a little pile before I put it in the van.

Looking altogether, it looks quite sweet, actually.

I was pleased.It's very good. It did look like,

"Right, I've just chucked out stuff from a classic country house" sort of clearance.

It looks like a little tiny country house auction.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

You bought loads, though. I only bought one carpet.

But that's fine, I did all right.

(LAUGHING) Sorry. True.

It's fine.

NARRATOR: For their final visit,

Drew and Viki are heading south to Chesterfield,

where Drew's managed to line up a call

that's a first for both him and Viki.

Right, so an exciting one today. We're off to Chesterfield.

We're going to an ex-tannery at Joseph Clayton.

Been there since the 19th century. Big site.

And they just want it cleared? Apparently so.

I've never been to a tannery, but I heard that they can smell.

Yeah, they're a little bit stinky.

You know, I'd love to say that it was all flowers and roses,

but it's not.

So I really should have possibly...

Are you dressed for it? Oh, yeah.(LAUGHS)

Camel skin coats always go down really well in a tannery. Oh, don't...

I really didn't think this through, did I? Can't wait.

Enjoy. (CHUCKLES)

With its famous crooked spire, the town of Chesterfield

was once also known for its leather-making industry,

with five tanneries here in the 16th century.

Complex tanning processes included smearing the hide with dog faeces

and generating fermentation with stale beer

or rotting pieces of hide,

tough and smelly work which could take up to three years per leather.

A local landmark dating back to 1840,

Joseph Clayton and Sons was known for the quality of leather produced here

for 178 years before it finally closed its doors.

Today, the site is owned by property developers, Seb Perez,

and his son, Seb Jr.

SEB SR: We buy distressed properties

and then we either restore them for alternative uses

but keeping the historical side alive,

or if it's not viable, we'd develop that site into something else.

In the war days, they made the boots for the soldiers, all the belts.

This would have been a hive of activity,

and it must have stunk,

because they would have had skins laid out on the streets

ready for processing coming in.

SEB JR: We've invited Drew and Viki over

just because there's some really interesting, like,

parts of machinery and old tools that they used to use

that have been here for, like, over 60 years.

And the deal is, everything's got to go.Yeah.

Hello.Hello.How are you doing? Very well, thanks. Seb. Yeah.

Drew.Pleased to meet you. Seb Jr. Seb.Junior. Sorry, sorry. Sorry.(LAUGHTER)

Viki.Pleased to meet you. I'm Seb. Big Seb.Nice and easy for me to remember.

Yeah.Can we have a look about? Absolutely.

Start in here?Come. Oh, look at those.

This is where they sort of started the first process.

Doing the hides, going through the washing in lime,

getting the hair off them. So what are you going to do with these?

So these will get took down and removed off site, basically.

Do you know what they'd - I think they'd make?

Fantastic garden sheds.

I was going to say saunas. (LAUGHTER)Saunas!

I've already thought of that. Yeah.

That's a good idea. Just tip it on its side.

Yeah, yeah. Or stack them on top of each other.

You can have a tower. You could have a tower.

A smelly tower, but you'd have a tower nonetheless.

I can't ever remember clearing out a tannery before.

You've got to learn to see the value.

You've got to learn to see quality, and you've got to learn to see potential.

Because this is the dirty, smelly, tough, hard work end

of the antiques stroke architectural salvage world.

And this is where the money is made, if you're clever.

It's quite stinky in here, let's be honest.

But also, I'm in the process of moving shops.

So actually, I'm in the market for potentially bigger bits

that I wouldn't normally touch, but I can use them as props in the shop,

so that's what I'm going to look out for.

So in here they did some, uh, production

like for keyrings, belts, saddle brackets.

That's quite a cool thing, but...

We need an expert to tell us what that is.Yeah.

Oh, it's one of them. So you calibrate it at that end...

I don't know what it is. ...and the size of that rolls round.

Has that got a cutter on it?

Is it just made from wood? It's hung.Has it got, like, a...

Wooden surround.(INDISTINCT) when ordering spare parts.

God knows. Cool wall hanger. Yeah.

It's a calibrated thing for something.For something. Yeah, something.

I just think it's got something.

Get that into the shop, put it up on the wall

and customers will come in and they'll go, "What's that, Viki?"

And I'll go, "I have no idea."

And then that's how you get the rapport going

and how you get, you know, a really good relationship with your customers.

Do you want 50 quid for it?

I mean, we're not going to use it. It's not worth a penny more than that. It's up to you guys.

Yeah. We'll go 50 on it, yeah. Perfect.

That's great.Thank you. Perfect. Thank you.

NARRATOR: Probably made in the late 19th or early 20th century,

this device was, in fact, used to measure animal hides.

The small wheel would be traced around the edge of the hide,

and the square footage would be displayed on the calibrated dial.

Sold in Viki's shop, it could be worth around £300.

There you are. What?

That. Is it high enough?

No. We're looking at things thinking, "What can we use it for a retail?"

That is ideal in the middle of a shop.

Yeah.Put your stuff on for sale. And the thing is, and you can wheel it about.

You're right.I think that's great. I think the colour of it is brilliant.

Viki's got a new retail space opening in Edinburgh soon,

and she's been saying, "I need some tables",

and I'm looking at one on the far side over there thinking,

"Perfect". Give it a really good clean,

wax up that old red lead,

wax the top up or put a new timber top on it.

There you go. Super cool, super cool retail display.

Yeah. Why is it that height? That's a bit bigger, over there.

Oh. Oh, that one might be better.

That's better. It's got rollers down the middle.

It's got potential, you know.

The more I'm looking at these tables,

the more I'm thinking that actually, they might do a job for me

in the new shop.

What do you want for them? See what they weigh.(LAUGHTER)

Sell by the weight.

Um, I'd say it's got to be worth 100 quid, that's it.

And that one? And that one... 50.

150 quid for the two? For the pair.

Yeah.Is that a deal? Yeah. Done.

Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you.Thank you.

It has that sort of vibe that Viki's business has.

Funky pieces, stylish.

It's got it. That's exactly what she needs.

There you go. She's just made two big major purchases for her shop.

So in here, yeah, these are quite interesting things.

They're called press plates.

So these press the patterns into the leather. Very heavy.

They cost about, to make them, about £3,000 each.Do they, really?

So put leather down on the thing. Yeah.

And then press, or you put the leather on this and press down.

I don't know. Yeah. There's big presses outside.

They're very beautiful.

But you need to change their environment

to really see the beauty come out.

What would you want for the lot of them?

To call that is... Yeah.

SEB JR: You got three there. How many is that in total?

Seven there, I think. 17.17.

One of the purest forms of architectural salvage you can find

is something that's been made for one purpose and one purpose alone

and reimagine them. That's it.

Is that another one? That's another one.

That's another press, uh, plate.

Yeah, a bit smaller than the last ones.

Is that another one over there?

Yeah, it is actually. Going to get it.

Almost looks like tree bark, doesn't it?

This one's a bit... Like a dead tree.

Hey, watch your back. (GRUNTS)

You just got two of this size?

Yes, yes. I think there's just two that size, isn't there?Yeah. Really great.

NARRATOR: These embossing or pattern press plates

would have been used to pressure imprint patterns on leather,

sometimes adding heat or water to make the patterning more permanent.

As far back as fourth century BC Persia,

the technique was also used to decorate leather saddles, armour and clothing.

In this collection, the larger plates are made of steel,

whilst the smaller pair is copper.

Sold as a complete set, Drew thinks they could be worth around £2,700.

How about 700 quid the lot, including these two?

It's a bit low, that.I know. But we've got to start somewhere.

It's a bit low. I know. I'm not going to start high.

I'm going low at 1,200.

And I'll put them on the floor on pallets.It's a tricky one.

We'll have to meet in the middle.

NARRATOR: On the lookout for pieces for Viki's soon to open new shop,

Drew and Viki are at a former tannery

that's being cleared for redevelopment,

and Drew's trying to agree a price

for a collection of rare and unusual leather presses.

How about 700 quid the lot, including these two?

It's a bit low, that.I know. But we've got to start somewhere.

It's a bit low. I know, I'm not going to start high.

I'm going low at 1,200,

and I'll put them on the floor on pallets.It's a tricky one.

We'll have to meet in the middle.

What, 800 quid? 850.

Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you.

I wanted to end up around eight or nine

because by the time I've moved, cleaned, photographed them,

I'm going to be two grand in.

Have they got potential? Hell, yeah.

Are they the best quality you could imagine? Yes they are.

I have never seen the like.

Right. We're done, I think. Okay.

We need to discuss getting all this shipped, do some paperwork, et cetera.

But thank you very much. Thank you.

I secretly hoped I might be able to get something for the new shop.

And yes, I did.

Two tables. Hopefully they work in the new place.

Fingers crossed.

Been to my first tannery.

And you know what? It's been a brilliant day.

I just love this job. We bought some extraordinary things.

Viki's bought some great pieces as well.

It's a nasty, dirty, icky, dangerous, smelly, cold, damp site.

It is not nice.

But what we found in there is something that potentially

is really, really quite beautiful, useful, different.

That was brilliant. Those panels.

That's it, that's it. That's the game.

What we found there today encapsulates everything I like about business.

I bet you didn't even think for a minute

you'd walk into something like that there.

I didn't even know they existed. No, neither did I.

I didn't imagine they'd leave such an expensive thing there.

I think your tables were incredibly good value,

because you're going to use them. Yeah.

If I had time, I'd like to restore those

because they're a really easy job to do.

Yeah. Clean and a polish, you know.

I think it's interesting because realistically,

would I necessarily pick industrial type tables for the shop?

But once I had a good look at them,

I think once they're cleaned up, I think they're going to be great.

NARRATOR: Businesses moving in a new direction

are often great opportunities for antiques dealers,

but today, it's Viki's business that's on the move

as she's got the keys to a former butchery, soon to be her new shop.

Oh my God, this space in here.

Oh, it's just unbelievable.

And just the views, like, just as even I was standing here,

I can just totally see how that's going to photograph.

And it's just layers and layers and shadows and just... Oh.

Ooh. I'm actually really excited.

This was the butchery.

Upstairs was the shop, was the retail part of the butchery.

So this, this is some type of lift which would be used

to move the meats up and down.

It's quite a cool feature. So I'm going to have to start

to think about what I'm going to do with this.

Now, these glazed brick walls,

I have to be honest and say,

apart from the square footage and the location,

these bad boys sold it to me.

Honestly, they are just gorgeous.

Okay, granted, they're not that gorgeous just now,

but we'll clean them up and they are just going to look amazing.

This place needs quite a bit of work done.

I need to get the tradie guys in.

I need an electrician, I need a plumber and a painter and decorator.

But I am beyond excited to get started.

The trend over the last 5 to 10 years in the antiques game

is to be closing your real shops and going online,

and it is something that I seem to have swam against, to be honest,

because I opened up my real shop five years ago

and I sold online for 20 years before that.

So there is something about being a shopkeeper.

It's the interaction with customers.

And you do not get that online.

And that's what's really important to me.

I could have had a beautiful front-facing shop,

and I could have had wonderful window displays.

Instead, I took the basement

that has limited light when the doors are closed.

And it does have challenges.

But what's going to happen is, once I get all my items in here

and I get my textiles in here,

it's just going to soften it all up,

and it is going to look amazing.

This space, I can see it now.

There's just a little bit of work in between to get that,

to achieve what I want to achieve,

but it's going to look amazing.

Another fabulous week on the road.

Went to see the wonderful Rob at Amazing Finds

and bought some fun things.

A great day out.

The massive table on wheels

that I talked Viki into buying, basically, at the tannery,

I look forward to seeing it when it's all laid out

with all her stuff and looking fabulous.

I think Viki is making good choices with the shop.

She does what she does particularly well.

She's not doing what somebody else does. She's not copying.

She does what she does and that's what's important. And that will make it brilliant.

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