The Greatest Auction - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
Banksy experts take a risk on a piece of wall featuring work attributed to the anonymous artist and Tommy Cooper's iconic fez goes on sale. Plus, a jar of pickled pig foetuses and an array of Buzzcocks memorabilia.
Episode 2
AJ Odudu hosts as collectors bid for a pinball machine signed by Elton John, a fork liberated from Saddam Hussein's palace and a prototype mid-century chair brought in by two sisters who have different feelings about it but are equally desperate to sell it. Plus a 1940s `fly-o-plane" fairground attraction that was once used to train fighter pilots.
Episode 3
The bidders compete for two vintage Hermes handbags and a print by street artist Invader sells for 100 times what the seller paid for it. A 1970s illuminated furniture shop sign sells on the flip of a coin and a skateboard designed by Virgil Abloh goes up for sale.
Episode 4
AJ Odudu hosts as buyers bid for the neon sign of a Soho sex shop and a piece of the wedding cake of William and Catherine, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Plus, one of only five remaining copies of Henry Beck's redesign of the London Tube map dating back to the 1930s.
Episode 5
AJ Odudu hosts buyers bid for Oasis lyrics hand-written by frontman Noel Gallagher for his brother Liam, a pair of Nike trainers with a £4,000 reserve, a sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor and some vintage Louis Vuitton luggage with an interesting history.
Episode 6
AJ Odudu hosts as people bid for the work of an art forger, a Leeds football programme from 1904, a taxidermy unicorn and a set of drums from the 1970s.
Episode 7
Buyers bid for a guitar amp used by Jimi Hendrix and a bizarre collection of celebrity hair. An ornate chair with pagan carvings sparks a bidding war and a vintage travel trunk from the 1930s goes under the hammer.
Episode 8
AJ Odudu hosts as buyers bid for a piece of a Formula 1 car driven by Ayrton Senna, a gold and platinum-plated Toyota Supra engine and a poster and ticket from a Sex Pistols tour that never happened. An ornate brass palm-tree light from the 1970s also goes up for sale.
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