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Big Antique Adventure

Duration: 5 x 60'

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This entertaining series follows Susan Calman as she travels around Europe’s biggest antique market and reveals the tips you need to make a pocket load of cash from antiques and collectibles.

Alongside some of the best experts in the business, Susan will help viewers buy, sell, haggle and restore their prized possessions, as well as picking up a few bargains along the way. 

Building to a high stakes charity auction at the end of the week, the team will be putting their reputations on the line to find objects they think they can flip for big sums!

Episode 1:

Susan becomes a Dealer’s Apprentice, as she learns how to spot potentially priceless items straight off the shelf and how to turn them into cold, hard cash. One owner gets a shocking valuation for his antique perfume bottle and Susan’s team discover whether the pile of old videos in your loft could actually be worth a small fortune.

Episode 2: 

The Expert Team reveal a unique way to pick up a prized possession down at your local farm and how the old mobile phones you have in your kitchen drawer could be the real antiques of the future.

Episode 3: 

Could your kid’s trainers be worth a pretty penny? In this episode, Susan uncovers how to find a relic that’s right for restoration.

Episode 4: 

The team investigates the murky world of fakes and forgeries and take a trip down the red carpet to a film and TV prop shop. 

Episode 5: 

It's Auction Day! Susan takes the gavel and sees if the expert's lessons have paid off. Also, are the arcade games we spent a fortune playing as kids could be about to pay us back as the antiques of the future?

 

 

For Channel 5

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