The Travelling Auctioneers

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Antiques experts and master crafters help families turn unwanted items into winning lots.

Research, restore and ready for sale! An intrepid team of antiques experts and master crafters help families turn unwanted items into winning lots.

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Robin Johnson

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The Travelling Auctioneers: Series 2: Finding Hidden Jewellery

Finding Hidden Jewellery

BBC One - The Travelling Auctioneers, Series 2, Finding Hidden Jewellery

A painting may be a lost masterpiece. And can a soldier’s medals fund a family holiday?

A Venetian painting and a Glaswegian engineering marvel are found, then fixed in Surrey. Will the sale of a Great War soldier’s medals make enough cash to send a family on a dream holiday?

In Surrey, Alison wants to downsize a lifetime of clutter that has filled the family home and garage. She hopes that by selling heirlooms and treasures she will be able to take her two grown-up children on a holiday of a lifetime before they each go their separate ways - a trip that is thoroughly deserved after a turbulent few years for the family. Her 20-year-old daughter Leah was diagnosed with heart failure after a short illness, and she was unable to complete her university studies. Now recovered, she is determined to help her mum to cash in with a clear-out. 

Auctioneer Christina Trevanion finds a set of very collectable Welsh porcelain in one cabinet, and hidden away in a cupboard, a box filled with jewellery that was inherited from relatives. She also uncovers an Italian painting that, with further research, could make a small fortune at auction.
 
Robin Johnson uses his years of restoration knowledge to repair a Victorian table and a stool that is a health and safety nightmare. A discovery of 150-year-old Glaswegian engineering gets Robin very excited as he sets about preparing it for sale. 

However, some medals from the Great War are the most emotional find, in a box with letters home from the front line. Could they have been won by Alison’s long-forgotten relative? If so, with her dream holiday on the line, is Alison prepared to sell to a collector?

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