Type: Participatory Event
The popular BBC2 antiques programme Flog It! presented by Paul Martin, is coming to Bath on 16 February 2012.
Flog It! – the major BBC2 antiques series – regularly gets an audience of 2 million viewers each weekday.
Bath Assembly Rooms will be hosting the Flog It! Valuation Day. Rather like a treasure hunt, members of the public are invited to bring along the antiques and collectables they might be interested in selling. Once valued, the owner and team of experts decide whether it should go forward for auction. If the item is chosen it is sold a few weeks later – often with the owner making a tidy sum. Everyone who goes along to the Valuation Day will receive a valuation – even if their antiques are not chosen to go forward for auction.
Previous programmes have seen a small cream jug sold at auction for £1,300; a ceramic bowl, bought for £4 at a car boot sale, achieving £1,500; and a lady in Aberdeen sold a Shelley tea set for a huge £3,400! More recently we surprised a gentleman who brought in a ceremonial cup made from Rhino horn; it later sold for £44,000!
The Bath editions of Flog It! will be broadcast as part of the eleventh series of the antiques show. Admission to the event and valuations are free.
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