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This story is about a knocker and a
commode.

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You'll find out what a knocker is as the
story goes along.

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But a commode, in the meantime, is an
old English word for a chest of drawers.

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Now, an absolutely top -quality
Chippendale commode is an immense

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Only three of these beauties have turned
up at auction in this century, and all

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of them came out of big English country
houses.

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They fetched astronomical prices.

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And ever since then, it has been the
ambition of every dealer and collector

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find yet another of these great
Chippendale commodes.

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Now watch the story.

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Keep us, feed us, for we have no help
but thee.

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Good afternoon.

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I'll just get him.

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Excuse me, sir. A gentleman to see you.

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Hello. Welcome.

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My name's Hawkins. How can I be of
service?

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Oh. Oh, dear.

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Wrong house.

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Whose house do you want?

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I do apologize for disturbing you.
Another time, perhaps?

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God bless you.

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Come to Evensong.

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What do you want?

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I do apologize for troubling you,
especially on a Sunday.

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The Reverend Cyril Winnington Boggis...

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President of the Society for the
Preservation of Rare Furniture in

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with the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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It's all on the card.

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I can see that. What do you want?

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I'm presently on holiday.

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Travelling round as a labour of love for
the Society.

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Compiling an inventory of the treasures
that lie hidden in the country homes of

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rural England.

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This wouldn't by any chance have
something to do with associates.

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I never do business as a socialist.

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I bid you good day.

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I'm not a socialist, dammit. I thought
you were.

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I, madam, I.

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Society, cataloguing treasure, tests,
all that sort of thing.

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Thought you were some kind of snooper.

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Oh, no, no, madam. I'm only interested
in furniture, the past. Dear lady, our

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glorious heritage.

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But you should mistake me for a
socialist. Oh, dear me.

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Wait till I tell that to my sister, Lady
Agatha.

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Excellent horsewoman, incidentally.
Rides with a Rutland.

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Come in. I don't know what the hell it
is you want, but come on in.

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All right, Mr. Boggess, £350, the table
and the chair. I don't know how you do

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it, Mr. Boggess, I really don't. You do
find some lovely stuff.

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You know, my guess is you have a secret
sauce, am I right?

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No, no, no, nothing like that.

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Good luck.

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I keep my eyes open, of course.

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£350.

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You drive a hard bargain. Oh, come
along, Mr. Talker. I think that's a

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fair price for someone in the trade like
yourself.

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You'll do all right when you unload them
on your rich Japanese.

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Or your tame chic of Arabi, eh?

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Well, it's extremely kind of you always
to give me first bite of the cherry.

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Oh, I say.

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This is right, isn't it?

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Yes, Colport, 1805.

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Made for the d 'Alembert family.

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Not a complete set, unfortunately.

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My word, you do find some wonderful
things. I wish I knew your secret. No

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secret. I always pay a pretty good price
for the stuff myself.

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Yes, but your source, Mr. Fockish. You
know, everyone in the trade would like

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know how you come up with all these rare
items, and so regularly.

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Is that so? Well, one of these days, I'm
going to find something really

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spectacular.

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Such as?

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Well, something by Hepplewhite, perhaps.

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Even some rare piece from the workshop
of old Thomas Chippendale himself.

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Well, I suppose you're entitled to
dream.

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Well, why not?

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Everyone dreams, don't they? Everyone
has dreams that one of these days

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find some old envelope with a rare stamp
in the corner of it, or find some dirty

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old picture, clean it up, and find that
they've got themselves a Rembrandt or a

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Rubens. And I'll know at a glance.

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I say that's pure Chippendale of the
finest quality.

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Oh, it's William Kent.

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I look at the legs and the crispness of
the carving, and I'll know I must be

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right.

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And that'll make a bit of a thread in
the trade, eh? Oh, not half.

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Though I'd be surprised if there were
any undiscovered treasures left like

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However, if you do find something, I'm
one of the few traders in London who can

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lay his hands quickly on a large sum of
money.

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In cash.

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Cash, Mr. Boggis.

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Good afternoon, ladies

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Good afternoon.

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Isn't it a lovely day?

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May I ask who is the owner?

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What do you want to know for?

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I do apologize for troubling you,
especially on a Sunday.

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This is the idea of preservation.

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I can't make head or tail of this.

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What exactly might you be wanting?

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I'm presently on holiday, travelling
round in a labour of love for the

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compiling an inventory of the treasures
that lie hidden in the country homes of

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rural England.

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What?

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I'm making a list of hitherto
undiscovered rare furniture.

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Oh, we haven't got none of that. No,
you're wasting your time.

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No, just one minute, sir.

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The last man who said that to me was an
old farmer in Sussex.

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And when he finally let me into his
house, do you know what I found?

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A dirty -looking old armchair worth 400
pounds.

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I was able to show him how to sell it.

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And with the money, he was able to put
down a deposit for a new tractor.

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What on earth are you talking about,
Parson?

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There ain't no chair in the world
worth...

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400 pounds. Excuse me. You mean all you
want to do is to come inside, stand in

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the middle of the room, and have a look
around? Exactly.

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And if you should have any treasure, I
could write about it for the Society's

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magazine. And should there be something
to which I took a great fancy, and it

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wasn't beyond my modest means, I might
even be tempted to make you a small

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offer.

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But, of course, alas, that very rarely
happens.

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Suppose there's no harm in him having a
look around.

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If that's all you want.

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That's all I want.

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Great. Follow me.

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Thank you.

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I'm a farmer's son myself.

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We've got some nice chairs upstairs.

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Oh, thank you. This is

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the only room with any proper furniture,
isn't it?

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Someone's upstairs.

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Come on, lads. Let's get them chairs and
show the parson.

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Thomas Chippendale.

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Parson, you've seen something like that,
eh?

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My heart. I can't breathe.

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Come on out.

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Put your head between the knees. Come
on.

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Down you go.

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Are you all right, Parson?

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It looked as if you'd seen something.

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Seen something?

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We thought perhaps you'd seen a treasure
or something like that. No, no, it's my

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heart. It happens now and again. It goes
away quite quickly, though. I'll be all

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right in a moment.

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I'm better already, thank you.

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Let's see now, the chairs.

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Oh, made in the 1900s, I'm afraid.

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A nice little oak desk.

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Yes,

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but not old enough to be of any value,
I'm afraid.

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That cupboard, not unattractive, but
again, not valuable.

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This little chest of drawers now might
be worth it.

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A few pounds, I dare say, but no more.

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Rather a crude reproduction, I'm afraid.
Probably made in Victorian times.

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Did you paint it white? No, no, young
Bert done it. Very wise move. It looks

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less offensive in white. That's a good,
strong bit of furniture, Parson.

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I've got some wonderful carving on
there.

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Ah, yes.

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Machine carved.

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It's rubbish, I'm afraid.

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Absolute rubbish.

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You know what? I've just remembered.
I've been looking for a set of legs,

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something like those, for a long time.

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I've got a rather curious table in my
own little home.

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A low sort of thing that people put in
front of a sofa.

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A sort of coffee table.

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And last Michaelmas, when I was moving
house, the foolish removal men damaged

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the legs in the most shocking way.

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I'm very fond of that table. I always
keep my Bible on it and all my...

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Herman notes, yes, I was just thinking,
the legs on that chest of drawers might

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be quite suitable. They might indeed. I
could have them taken off and fixed onto

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my own table.

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What's your sign is you'd like to buy
it? Oh, well, I'm not sure. I

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might, but then again, no one's second
thoughts.

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No, really, I think it's all a great
deal too much trouble.

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It's not worth it. I think I'll leave
it.

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How much was you thinking of offering?

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Oh, not very much, I'm afraid.

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You see, it isn't even a genuine
antique. It's merely a reproduction, and

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very good one.

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Ah, for a minute, I'm not so sure about
that.

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That's been up here for 20 years, and
before that, it was up at the manor

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I went to the auction when the old
squire died.

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You can't tell me that's new. No, I
never said it was new. I just said that

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couldn't possibly be more than about 60
years old. Ah, it's more than that, eh?

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Bert? Where's that bit of paper you
found in one of the

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drawers underneath them old rabbit
snares? That old bill.

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You can't tell me that writing ain't
bloody old.

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Edward Montague, that was the Squire's
family name, to Thos Chippendale.

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Thos, that was the old -fashioned way of
spelling Thomas.

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A large, meogany commode table of
exceeding fine wood,

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very rich carved, set upon fluted legs,
to...

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Very neat shape, long drawers in the
middle part, and two ditto on each side.

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With rich cha -cha... Chase. Chase,
brass, ornamentary, the whole

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finished completely in the most
exquisite taste.

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87 pounds.

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May I see?

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Yes.

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Exactly as I thought.

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Victorian reproduction.

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This is the invoice the man who made it
gave to his client and made him believe

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that it was a genuine antique.

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You notice he doesn't say that he made
it himself.

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That would have given the game away.

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Say what you like.

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That's an old bit of paper. Of course it
is, my dear friend.

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Victorian. Late Victorian. I've seen
hundreds of them. That was the time when

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masses of cabinet makers did nothing
else.

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but fake fine furniture of the previous
century.

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Look here, Parson.

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I'm not saying, as you may not know,
quite a good deal about this furniture

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business, but what I am saying is, how
can you be so mighty sure that's a

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genuine fake when you haven't had a
chance to look at it underneath all that

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white paint? Come over here for a moment
and I'll show you.

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There, do you see that?

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What's wrong with it?

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Well, it's processed.

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Anyone can see that.

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I can't. If you'll excuse me, sir, you
haven't got my experience.

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And my experience tells me, without the
slightest possible doubt, that this wood

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has been processed with lime.

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Lime? Yes, that's what they use to make
mahogany, that dark aged color. For oak,

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they use potash salts.

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And for walnut, nitric acid.

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Time and trouble some mortal will go to
to deceive the innocent.

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It's disgusting.

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You ought to be punished.

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Here, just feel it. Put your fingers on
it.

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How does it feel to your touch?

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Warm or cold?

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A bit cold. Ah, you see, exactly.

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It's a well -known fact that fake
mahogany always feels cold to the touch.

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Well, my dear friends, it's been so good
of you to allow me to peep into your

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little home so kind.

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I only hope I haven't been the most
terrible old boy.

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Excuse me, Parson. You didn't say yet
what you was prepared to offer.

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Oh, that's quite right. I didn't, did I?

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Well, you know, on second thoughts, to
tell you the honest truth, I don't think

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it's really worth the trouble.

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I think I'll leave it.

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How much would you give? What was you
willing to offer, sir?

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You mean you really wished to part with
me? No, I didn't say I wanted to part

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with you, sir. I said what were you
willing to offer?

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Well, shall we say ten pounds?

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£10? Well, that's ridiculous, Parson.
£10?

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It's worth more than that in plywood,
Parson. Here, look at this bill. That's

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what it originally cost.

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£87. It must be worth twice that now,
sir. If you'll forgive me, sir, no, it

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not. This £87 is the bill for a fake
more than 60 years ago.

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It's now worth practically nothing.

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I'm so sorry.

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Oh, I tell you what.

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I'm feeling rather reckless, but I can't
help it.

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I might go up to 15 pounds. How's that?

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Might get 50 cents.

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But, dear man, I'm only interested in
the legs.

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I might possibly find a use for the jaws
later on, but the rest of it, the

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carcass, as your friends rightly put it,
that's merely firewood, nothing else.

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35. No, I couldn't. I really couldn't.
It's not worth it.

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And I tell you what, I'll make you one
final offer, and then I really must be

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going.

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Twenty pounds.

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It's a deal.

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It's yours.

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Oh, there I go again. I should never
have got into this.

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A deal's a deal. You can't back out now,
Parson.

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That's right, that's right. A deal's a
deal.

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Here,

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Parson, how are you going to take it?

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Well, I'll just drive my cart into the
yard, and perhaps your kind friend would

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be good enough to help me load it.

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It can't be long. I'll be back in a
jiffy.

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Here, 20 pounds.

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You did well, Mr. Rummy, getting a price
up like that, you did.

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Do you think you'll pay?

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We won't put it in his cart, we do.

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Right.

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Praise my soul, the king of heaven.

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To his feet the tribute ring.

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Oh, a

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thing

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like that is going to go inside a motor
car.

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Beats me.

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Anyhow, let's get it out in the yard,
lads.

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Right. Bert, get out in.

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Get this into his car.

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You're right, Ford.

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He's going to need a van.

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Parsons don't have vans.

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They usually have them little Morrises.

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Oh,

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Mr. Stalker, you can't believe how
beautiful it is.

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When I first clapped eyes on it, it was
like choirs of angels singing in my

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head. Yes.

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Yes, executed.

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by the one and only Thomas himself, made
with his own hand of the most exalted

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period of his career.

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But I can only say I didn't get it
cheap.

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Yes, yes, of course you can.

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It's going to be known as the bogus
commode after the finder. Thank you,

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you. See you later.

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Ah, the bogus commode.

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We've been requested by the London and
Provincial Antique Dealers Association

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make it clear to viewers that the use of
their symbol, shown in the window of

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the fictional antique dealer in this
program, was in no way intended to imply

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that the association condoned certain
dishonest practices of the antique

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which were portrayed in this fictional
story.