Stapleford,
Nr. Melton Mowbray,
Leicestershire,
LE14 2EF, England.
FLOG IT! COMES TO LEICESTERSHIRE!
The popular BBC2 antiques programme, Flog It, presented by Paul Martin, is coming to Leicestershire.
Flog It! – the major BBC2 antiques series – regularly gets an audience of 2 million viewers each weekday – around 25% of the television audience.
Stapleford Park 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 to be filmed, it is sold a few weeks later – often with the owner making a tidy sum. The resulting programme will be broadcast later in the year. Admission to the Valuation day is free, and everyone who goes along 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! So if you've ever wondered how much those boot sale bargains or clutter in the loft might be worth, now is your chance to find out.
Presented by Paul Martin, Flog It! will be at Stapleford Park, Stapleford nr. Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, LE14 2EF on Thursday 21st July 2011 from 9.30am until 4.00pm. The auction will take place at Gildings Auctioneers, 64 Roman Way, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7PQ on Tuesday 9th August 2011.
You can find out more at: www.bbc.co.uk/flogit
Notes to press
As our filming days are very busy with a lot going on, we will need the press to fit in around our filming. They will have to refrain from asking for names and address and if the photographers wish to shoot near the filming tables they will have to get permission from the director and please no flash photography.
Notes to editors
To set up interviews with presenter Paul Martin or for further information please contact Eve White on eve.white@bbc.co.uk or call 0117 974 6989 (please use the Flog It general e-mail for the general public enquires).
