Salvage Hunters

Of all the various television series that followed the American Pickers approach this for me is the most enjoyable.

There are several reasons I think this show works so well, first would be the concentration on architectural salvage. This sets the show apart and also allow for some really interesting finds, they also focus on furniture which can also be equally impressive.

Another reason is the greater breadth history that is available in Britain which allows for much older artifacts and often of more significance. When looking at architectural salvage and furniture this history can make for truly impressive finds. This history also allows for some incredible locations including castles and industrial sites that are hundreds of years old.

Still another is the restoration and re-purposing aspect which allows the viewer to see the final product - and perhaps better understand what Drew saw when he made the purchase.

The final reason is a strong host an also the addition of a narrator which adds to the presentation.

I dig this kind of show but after watching a few episodes, this just felt a bit lazy. He didn't actually go out and find anything in the wild, just drove around visiting other junk dealers and actual demo reclaimers that do all of the real eyeballing and work. It is well-produced but I did not really enjoy the host nor the premise of a blowhard "brain" not really doing any hunting just going to known contacts and beating them down on the cameras for their best bits. It would be more interesting to actually go with the demo crews and junk dealers who actually find the things this guy buys to sell. Oh well, plenty of other shows in this genre and I gave it a chance.

This Pritchard bloke is a wiered looking thing, is he not ,so IRRITATEING ,we all have names for him, stupid hat ,he must try to look a Pratt I,but does seem to pay fair prices sometimes, we looked at his shop reviews one * ,alot of people said he was rude offensive, well takes all sorts ,I bet his driver can't stand this bloke Pritchard ,but he pays his wages so can't voice his opinion, yeah we watch it ,we all are rude to him on TV , but we have laugh.

I saw this series only for objects and places. For the stuffs stories and for stories of the owners. Obvious, it is a series for marketing about a business , so apparences are not more than the crust. But beautiful things and their travel across time are just good things and enough, against doses of selfishness, arrogance, greed or supperficiality of great Drew Pritchard.

Could anyone please help me out with one particular episode in which Drew picked up a collection of Otto Keramik ceramic bulls. I'm just trying to find out what season and episode this featured in. If anyone can remember or has a link to the clip or the full episode then that would be great. I could watch all the seasons and episode but that would be over kill for just on 2 min clip.

Thanks.

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