Flog It! comes to Discovery Museum

The popular BBC One antiques programme Flog It! presented by Paul Martin, is coming to Newcastle. Flog It! – the major BBC antiques show is now on its twelfth series and regularly achieves an audience of over two million viewers in its weekday afternoon slot. The Discovery Museum will be hosting the Flog It! Valuation Day.  Rather like a treasure hunt, members of the public are invited to bring along up to three antiques and collectables they might be interested in selling. Once valued, the owner and a team of experts decide whether an item 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 free valuation – even if their antiques are not chosen to go forward for auction. Last year the show made a significant find when a rare Aboriginal Broad Shield that had been kept hidden away in a Flog It! viewers wardrobe was brought along to a valuation day in North Lincolnshire and went on to sell at auction for £30,000! The series also uncovered a rare Royal Doulton Spook figurine in Blackpool which had been bought at a car boot sale for £2; it went on to sell at auction for £5000. Louise Hibbins, Series Producer says “Paul Martin and the entire Flog It! team are really pleased to be bringing the show to Newcastle, Discovery Museum will provide the perfect setting for our valuation day event; our experts are all looking forward to welcoming people from across the North East through the doors for their free valuations.  If you’ve ever wondered how much your boot sale bargains or clutter in the loft might be worth, now is your chance to find out.” Hazel Edwards, Museum Manager, Discovery Museum, said: "I am very excited to be hosting Flog it at Discovery.  We're looking forward to welcoming new and regular visitors to the museum and seeing what treasures they bring from home for valuation.  There's lot to see and do at Discovery for all the family so we're hoping people will make a day of it and marvel at our own treasures from the Turbinia, the first ship to be powered by steam turbine, to some of the world's oldest electric light bulbs." Paul Martin will be joined on the valuation day by Flog It! on screen experts Anita Manning, Adam Partridge and Nick Davies. Flog It! will be at Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA on Saturday 25^th May between 09:30am and 4pm. The items selected at the valuation day will go under the hammer at Boldon Auction Galleries, Front Street, East Boldon, Tyne and Wear, NE36 0SJ on Wednesday 12^th June 2013. Contact:          [email protected] www.bbc.co.uk/flogit