The Bidding Room — Season 5
Sellers come face to face with five dealers who battle it out to make the highest bid.
About this season
Sellers come face to face with five dealers who battle it out to make the highest bid.
Episodes (30)
1. Jack-in-the-Box
Aired 6 March 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as sellers aim for top prices on items, including a film vending machine, The Bridge Over the River Kwai model, a gold changer, a jack-in-the-box and a chemistry set.
2. Theatrical Clown
Aired 7 March 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a dressing screen, a coracle, a toy steam engine, a car mascot and a theatrical prop clown.
3. Leather Pig
Aired 13 March 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim for the best price for their items, including iconic London signage, a footstool, a musical decanter, a wind-up tin toy and a dental polisher.
4. Skeleton Statue
Aired 14 March 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a village fete sign, a telescope, a Martaban jar, skeleton statue and a bird automaton.
5. Classic Car
Aired 20 March 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a bard chair, a Bob Marley poster, WWI postcards, an antique golf caddy and a classic car.
6. World War II Compass
Aired 21 March 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a music box, chess mould, a gallery painting, a zoetrope and a World War II compass.
7. Anatomy Torso
Aired 27 March 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a needlework book, a postbox, an anatomy torso, a stereoscope and a Troika pot.
8. Autocycle
Aired 28 March 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a wash tub, an autocycle, a Rowntree’s advertising sign, a Victorian glass ship and a rocking horse.
9. Astronomical Clock
Aired 3 April 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim for the best price for their items, including an astrolabe, photo enlarger, Murano glass, a ruler collection and Beatles memorabilia.
10. Cellarette
Aired 4 April 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a cellarette, a hoover, a brass dog, bakery items and a theatrical prop chair.
11. Scandinavian Glass
Aired 10 April 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a 6ft statue, a chopping block, Scandinavian glassware, a sideboard and some colourful vases.
12. Vintage TV
Aired 11 April 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including Murano glass fruit, a TV, a cocktail cabinet, a 1920s purse and a dentist’s lamp.
13. Canoe
Aired 17 April 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a 15ft canoe, an iconic bookcase and some pottery.
14. Murano Vase
Aired 18 April 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim for the best price for their items, including wind-up toys, a Murano glass vase, a gentleman’s companion, industrial lamps and a filing cabinet.
15. Spinning Top
Aired 24 April 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a spinning top, a rickshaw, a 19th-century vase, airline seats and a religious carving.
16. Boxing Game
Aired 14 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a boxing game, dressing table, coffee table, French lamp and a WWII rattle.
17. Motorbike
Aired 15 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a rocking horse, a motorbike, an apple press, fruit bowl and some medical eyeball models.
18. Birdcage
Aired 16 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a bird cage, marriage cloth, model car, arcade horse and a picture of Earth from space.
19. Accordion
Aired 17 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a picnic set, German lamps, dining table, an accordion and Lego structure.
20. Cash Till
Aired 18 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim for the best price for their items, including 1950s swimwear, a WWI memorial sculpture, mourning jewellery, a brass till and a rare fashion doll.
21. Dairy Separator
Aired 21 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim for the best price for their items, including golf clubs, a chandelier, a veterinary chest, a Ray Lonsdale sculpture and a dairy separator.
22. Welsh Blanket
Aired 22 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a set of Hovis signs, a Welsh blanket, brailler, an antique travel cot and some pedestal paper weights.
23. Circus Sign
Aired 23 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including Italian paintings, a doll's house, a circus sign, an advertising elephant and a Tri-ang train.
24. Pigeon Clock
Aired 24 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a Georgian painter’s box, a butter churn, some WWII silk maps, a wooden stool and a pigeon clock.
25. Fairground Sign
Aired 25 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a meat press, a whisky bottle, some fairground signs, a 1930s vanity case and a Chinese card box.
26. Toy Phone
Aired 28 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim for the best price for their items, including stilts, perfume bottles, furniture locks, a ranch phone toy and a nautical trio.
27. Accounts Ledgers
Aired 29 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a mini sewing machine, a silver canteen, an accordion, gingerbread moulds and some old accounts ledgers.
28. Exercise Bike
Aired 30 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim for the best price for their items, including an étagère, a German pendant light, some napkin clips, a spinning wheel and an exercise bike.
29. Football Table
Aired 31 October 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as four sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a vintage poster, a football table, a globe and a box of ephemera.
30. Tram Sign
Aired 1 November 2024 • 43 min
Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim to get the best price for their items, including a butter churn, a pair of binoculars and a tram sign.