FLOG IT

his dark brown jacket must have more hours on tv than any other clothing item in tv history

I love the antiques roadshow ,but this crap should not be having peoples money thrown at it the quicker the fee is abolished the better, people can subscribe if they want to sit watching this dross ...

Dates and locations of valuation days for 2015 are as follows, and there are more to come. Doors open from 9.30am to 4pm unless stated otherwise. Please come prepared if you wish to attend any of our outdoor events.

Date    Location
Wednesday 17 June    Highcliffe Castle, Rothesay Drive, Highcliffe, Dorset BH23 4LE

Wednesday 1 July    Margam Country Park, Port Talbot, Wales SA13 2TJ

Prepared as in come with some old tat you found in a box in the shed

Of more interest to the working class than AR.
People at home are more likely to have something that appears on FI rather than AR.
A far better show than any of the reality chyte that we are bombarded with.

Too many would be snobs on here.

How dare you - I live for that programme!!  You want to kill me off!!??

the antiques roadshow ! how many people come on with something worth a good few bob and say things like "this china vase I didn't think it was worth anything we used it as a doorstop for the last 20 years "or the old chestnut I was going to throw it into skip ,oh yeah sure you were ! they like to get a reaction from the audience and also way overvalue items for the wow factor ! flog it is more likely to have normal working class people on who may have something of value lying around hence the usual lowish value items for sale . of the 2 I prefer flog it, more real imo

plenty of items still turning up at car boots I go to at least 3 a week weather permitting and have had some cracking finds at bargain prices ,bought some old cinema  posters a few months ago wizard of oz one could be worth a good few quid if genuine looks o.k to me !

This one on sale for a grand

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https://uk.movieposter.com/poster/MPW-83894/Wizard_of_Oz.html

agree AR is full of people who know what its worth and want to show off. "I had it valued 5 years ago" is typical comment

cheers pumphol in all likelihood mine is a repro but it does look to have a good bit of age and It looks right to me but I will take it to one of the auction houses ,one positive is that the woman who I bought it from  at the car boot had loads of old stuff which she said came from her parents house the other stuff I bought from her all turned out to be genuine so fingers crossed !cant wait for the weekend and more carbooting !

Fingers crossed for you Foyle. Would be a nice pay day.
I enjoy the car boot sales as well and had some good buys.

agree Brendan ! sometimes you see a posh type take something on and have it valued and the presenter says its worth "£20-£25 grand " to gasps from the crowd , and the toff bloke says something like "oh that's good to know "as though its fecking peanuts and in reality it is ,as £25k is just pocket money to these types !much rather see the working class man or woman have something sell on flog it for £6-7 hundred and see them genuinely pleased !

cheers akbula have had some great  finds not fortunes but an example  went to a stall and bloke was looking in a carrier bag on a stall and he put it back down on the stall so I looked in the bag and it had coins and set of medals from the crimea war going ito the 1st world war so I asked the stall holder how much he wanted and he said " I know exactly how much I want for those " here we go I thought he is going to want hundreds of pounds , how much then said I .........£20 and not a penny less he said ,I smelt a rat and said" they are repros arnt they " no he said they were my granddads and ive had them for about 5 years after he passed away ,so I gave  him the £20 and later took them to an auction house who valued them at around £5-6 hundred also sold some of the coins in the bag for decent money also in the bag were some other goodies !

Foyles it could well be a reprint from a re-showing in the 1950's or 60's

I'm into coins as well. Got nothing fantastic but reasonable.
I'm no expert but probably got a better idea than those selling them unless that's what they specialise in.
Postcards and cigarette cards are other favourites although I made my biggest profit a few years ago on a piece of Lalique.
Bought for £3ish and sold for £420.

pump that's what I am thinking more 50s when film was re-released still think it has some value if not a repro ,it only cost me £2 with another eroll flyn poster  so even if they are worthless Its not the end of the world ,they are French posters " le magician da oz" or something will have to get them out but they have" printed in Belgium on the bottom " and to me they look the part !

nice one akbula I liken bootsales to treasure hunting you never know what will turn up ,I live in London and there are lots of dealers/or similar minded people on the hunt at my local carboots  so the competition is fierce but I also go to the south coast a lot in the summer and it is much more relaxed and you stand a better chance of finding something ,but can still do well at the London ones but need to be in the right place at the right time as if anything of value will be snapped up as soon as its on the table or sooner !

i am not really into coins akbula but in that bag were about half a dozen "cartwheels "big old coins well  over a 100 years old ,silver sixpences etc , even had a gold locket !

I have quite a few books on coins and they all have sections on cleaning coins and what to avoid.
Was reading one yesterday and it told a story of someone who inherited his fathers silver coin collection.
He decided to give them a good scrub and brighten them up with silver polish.
Were worth 7-8 grand now worthless.

yeah similar with them old bronzes some ol bird wants to get her one valued  cleans all the patina off to make it nice and clean and wipes the value off !

Was a guy had a bagful of old pennies which had been dipped in vinegar.
I brush them with a soft toothbrush but that's all. Verdigris is the worst condition though and I a void them like the plague no matter how rare.

re silver coins

there are so many good forgeries coming out of china these days that the old tatty ones
are often better value,

fairly simple to value your british coins


http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/values/index.html#index

Not that simple Donny as condition is all important and a casual collector won't have the same handle on it as an expert collector/dealer.

yeah, oh course but if you can grade a coin, you can value it yourself

the charts give prices through the grades, and whilst few coins fit exactly into any grade
its not too difficult to get a good estimate for yourself

Really difficult with older coins.

I have quite a few books on coins and they all have sections on cleaning coins and what to avoid.
Was reading one yesterday and it told a story of someone who inherited his fathers silver coin collection.
He decided to give them a good scrub and brighten them up with silver polish.
Were worth 7-8 grand now worthless.

I don't think this can be true.  If a tarnished silver coin collection is worth £8k, it's still going to be worth £8k when cleaned imo, and certainly not worthless.  Most of these collections sell for the scrap value of the metal anyway, and the rare ones that are worth more wouldn't be reduced to nothing just because some old bint got the brasso out.  What did she polish them with, wire wool?

I have organised car boot sales since 1986 and my huge regret is that I took no interest in buying and selling in the early days. Looking back it is amazing the stuff that came  out of car boots. We had one in London where the dealers would be mooching about at 3am and I thought they were crackers.

They were looking for treasure and found it on a weekly basis in those days.

an old coin is graded to exactly the same standard as a new one

You're wrong Tor on a few points Tor. Firstly only modern coins as produced by the likes of the so called 'royal Mint' would be scrapped.
I've various coins from the 18th century which wouldn't raise a good night out in scrap but are worth about £1k+.
In all cases an aged coin will make more than a cleaned coin so no point in cleaning. In the case I mentioned he had scrubbed the coins and damaged the surface. No collector wants coins like that.

Donny the rarity of a coin is a factor in it's grading.

a rare coin may be more valuable in a lower grade, but a rare coin is still graded
to the same standard as an old coin, a new coin or a common coin