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Episode 22

Episode 22 of 25

Izzie Balmer and James Braxton visit Wales and Shropshire to buy a rare item from 1832. Expect stories of forbidden love and a forgotten Welsh cycling hero.

Experts Izzie Balmer and James Braxton are back on the road, travelling through Wales and Shropshire on their quest to find profit-making antiques. Their nippy 1970s two-seater is perfect for the twisting miles of bucolic back roads. There鈥檚 even a spot to pull over for a picnic.

Chocolate tiffin consumed, it鈥檚 soon time for shopping. Izzie splashes a three-figure sum on an 18th-century oak coffer and falls in love with a sampler stitched in 1832, both of which she thinks will make her a profit at the auction in Tring. James, meanwhile, has high hopes for a pair of 1911 silver scallop-shell butter dishes and an Edwardian mahogany table.

In a break from buying antiques, Izzie heads to Oswestry to find out how a forbidden love story set during the Second World War was uncovered. James takes a jaunt to Llandrindod Wells to learn about one of the first professional Welsh cyclists, who became a 19th-century world champion.

Then it鈥檚 off to the impressive Gwrych Castle to find out how well their purchases perform at auction.

44 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Expert Izzie Balmer
Expert James Braxton
Executive Producer John Redshaw
Series Producer Stuart Stanley Harrison
Production Company STV Productions

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