Bargain Hunt 

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Two teams of amateur collectors have an hour to acquire the best bargains.

Antiques experts help the reds and the blues race against the clock to uncover hidden gems. Will they make money in the auction room - and win the coveted Golden Gavel?

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Bargain Hunt: Series 68: Exeter 23

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Caroline Hawley finds out how they put the bounce in the humble tennis ball.

Experts Ben Cooper and Kate Bliss lead two teams of friends around a huge antiques fair in Exeter before the items are sold at Tim Weeks’s auction in Wiltshire.

Will it be game, set and match for Ben Cooper’s or Kate Bliss’s team on this episode? In Box, near Bath, presenter Caroline Hawley visits the UK’s only tennis ball manufacturer, where she learns about the origins of the tennis ball and how it gets its all-important bounce!

Hoping to ace it at the fair are friends Helen and Marsha on the red team. Their opponents in blue are pals Clark and Michele, who are in it ‘for gavels and fame’. With 60 minutes on the clock, they take a shine to a Georgian-style silver serving dish – but not the three-figure price tag! The reds’ first stop is a striking pair of Arts and Crafts copper candlesticks, but the cost quickly snuffs out their interest in them.

At Tim Weeks’s auction in Wiltshire, the bidders snap up the teams’ items. Will it come down to a battle of the bonus buys?

Bargain Hunt: Series 68

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Two teams of amateur collectors have an hour at an antiques fair to acquire the best bargains possible.

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