The Bidding Room
Trunk, Cocktail Shaker, French Wheelchair
Season 6 Episode 29 of 30
Items include a 19th-century travel trunk, designed in response to the rising popularity of rail travel, a French wartime wheelchair and a 200-year-old pocket watch with an engraving that has auctioneer Simon Bower and the dealers pondering. Nigel Havers also meets people hoping to sell a cocktail shaker and a 1900s railway telephone
The Bidding Room airs on BBC Two HD at 7:15 AM, Friday 16 May. (Subtitles, repeat.)
Topics
Leisure hobbies
Antiques ➝ Collectibles
Nigel Havers
Presenter
Rae Gilder Cooke
Executive Producer
Dave Martin
Series Producer
Harriette Powell
Series Editor