Antiques vendor David Dickinson admitted there may be one place he would by no means go if he was on the hunt for a cut price. The TV presenter, who turns 84 right now, has been a family identify since he turned the presenter of Discount Hunt in 2000. He left the favored BBC programme behind in 2004 and went on to entrance Dickinson’s Actual Deal from 2006. Having been concerned with antiques for a number of many years, the star shared his skilled suggestions for these seeking hidden treasures.
“My recommendation to folks is go to your native salesroom. It does not price you something,” he stated. “You possibly can have a wander round. You possibly can choose up a listing.” The host continued: “You possibly can have a look at objects which presumably one thing would attraction to you in your dwelling that may very well be ornamental and one thing that you will get pleasure from. I feel that is a extremely good start line.”
Revealing the one place he would advise folks in opposition to going, Dickinson added to MailOnline: “I would not even take into account automobile boot gross sales. Though I am not saying that some fortunate individual does not exit at 5am within the morning and discover what seems to be like a bit of costume jewellery that seems to be a useful piece of jewellery.
“Additionally use high quality as your yardstick. I’ve discovered high quality is all the time dearer on the day, however it by no means enables you to down in the long term. I feel you are safer with that.”
Years earlier than touchdown his breakthrough TV position, Dickinson was sentenced to 4 years in jail for a mail-order clothes rip-off. He served three years primarily at Manchester’s Strangeways jail, following his arrest on the age of simply 19.
He has been open about his time spent behind bars, beforehand telling The Mirror: “I hated each second however I knew I needed to get by means of. I vowed I might by no means do something to place myself again on this place. I had introduced disgrace on my household, I might been a cocky younger factor. The worry was horrendous. All I may suppose was, ‘what have I carried out?'”
Dickinson spoke of his “worry and despair” after being locked away with murderers, gangsters and spies, together with Peter Kroger, an American undercover agent who spied for the Russians within the Fifties and stole atomic secrets and techniques.
“The one method to survive every day was to take it on the chin,” he stated. “It was like going through the bullies in school, however far worse – day-after-day there was a brand new dragon to defeat.
Dickinson added: “The largest ones have been despair and worry – there are males who don’t have anything to lose by hurting or killing.”
Reflecting on the previous, his spouse Lorne Lesley, who he married in 1968, beforehand revealed: “Jail was harder in these days and he went by means of it at a younger age. It was 40 years in the past and he does not speak about it, however it had an enduring impact on him.”
