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00:00Roadshow is finding flowers and vintage finds in full bloom at Red Butte
00:05Garden in Salt Lake City. I think my dad hosed it off in the sink to get some of
00:10the dust off once so I'll tell him not to do that again.
00:30Roadshow has landed at Red Butte Garden in Arboretum where the diversity of
00:35plant life is astounding. Part of the University of Utah, the garden has been
00:40open to the public and growing in every way since 1985. This interface of urban
00:46and wild land includes 21 acres of managed landscape with about 75 acres of natural
00:53area. Roadshow cameras are ready to record as the lines of eager treasure seekers
00:59weave around the flowerbeds and our experts inspect every object brought to
01:04this gorgeous garden. Which ones were picked for you to see? Take a look!
01:16I brought in an Egyptian revival coffee pot. We're not really quite sure where it's
01:22from or when it's from so we're excited to get it appraised.
01:29I brought a platter of some kind. It was in my grandpa's house for as long as I can
01:36remember and we don't know really that much about it.
01:39When I first saw this you brought it to the table and you peeled back the
01:44packaging and my heart kind of skipped a beat just a little bit because I knew
01:49instantly what it was and where it was from and it's just such a beautiful
01:55example. This is a Viennese silver enamel and rock crystal presentational
02:02centerpiece or charger dating from around about 1880 and we attribute it to the
02:08very very successful maker called Hermann Bohm and he was most well known for
02:15this Renaissance revival which is what we're looking at here. When my colleagues
02:20and I looked at it the first thing that we were really taken by is that at first
02:25glance the panels appear to be glass but in fact they're not. They're made of
02:33rock crystal. Oh wow! In fact it's a variation of quartz and in one of these
02:38panels you can just see one of the internal fractures that helps us identify
02:42that it is rock crystal. Wow! It's meticulously carved. It's got this
02:48beautiful silver and enamel decoration throughout with putti, cherubs, winged
02:55figures, sata masks, you name it. It's all there and then centered by these
03:02beautiful maidens within cornucopias. It's just really fabulous. One of my
03:07favorite things about this is the way it's made. Each individual bolt here
03:12represents one of the pieces that's been applied to the front. Okay. That's a real
03:16reflection of the craftsmanship. Surrounding each panel of rock crystal
03:21you have this little decorative framework as well and perhaps one of my
03:26favorites and the most unseen are the feet. These beautiful hairy paw or lion paw
03:34feet with enamel decoration. It's also incredibly big. Yes. It's a really large
03:40example. This is nearly 22 inches in diameter. Have you ever had it appraised?
03:47No. Nope. It's just been sitting gathering dust. So I'm glad you said gathering dust.
03:54It's dusty. It could do with just a little bit of love. I think my dad hosed it off in
04:01the sink to get some of the dust off once so I'll tell him not to do that again.
04:05With a little bit of love and a little bit of cleaning, I think if I were to see this come up
04:11at auction, I would feel very comfortable with an auction estimate of $30,000 to $50,000.
04:18Oh my gosh. Wow. We had no idea. That's incredible. We've always loved it. I always loved the
04:30little jewels as a, as a kid. I always thought it was beautiful, but wow. That's amazing.
04:42Wow.
04:46I'd recommend an insurance value of $60,000.
04:50Wow. Okay. So no more hosing it off.
04:54My husband has lugged it around all day today, so I'm glad it was worth, worth the effort.
05:04We got it at an estate sale around here. Yeah.
05:08And we just loved it and we always need it somewhere we can see it because we actually just love it.
05:13You can't really tell what the signature says, but the frame is worth about the same price as the
05:19painting. So yeah, it's good. I actually don't know a ton about it. That's actually why I wanted to
05:29bring it. Um, my grandmother was an avid antique collector and she was from England. So she actually
05:38bought this in England. And then when she moved to America, she brought it over with her. It's always
05:43been referred to in my family as the monk's bench. I brought you Pennsylvania German birth certificates.
05:50They've been in our family forever. This one is my great-great-grandfather. The one on the other
05:56side is my great-great-grandmother. And then this is my great-great-great-grandmother. This is her son.
06:02Well, you have brought three wonderful examples of Pennsylvania fractures. There was a huge immigration
06:09into Pennsylvania in the 18th and the 19th centuries. And one of the wonderful traditions that was brought
06:16to America was the tradition of making fractures. And the two large ones are by a very well-known
06:25artist whose name is down here at the bottom, Martin Breschnell. And he worked throughout Pennsylvania
06:31in Lehigh County, Berks County, making these birth and baptismal records. The one that's next to you,
06:39we have the birth certificate of Gideon Barner, who was born 1810, baptized 1811. This would have been
06:48probably created in 1811. This factor commemorates the birth of Hannah Bear. She was born in 1813,
06:55baptized in 1814. So we know that because it also says Lehigh County, Lehigh County wasn't incorporated
07:03until 1812. So we know that it was actually produced 1812 or later. Martin Breschnell was a very prolific
07:12artist. We see a lot of wonderful fractures by him. And this is classic Breschnell. They're very,
07:18almost really primitive, very naive looking. And that's what makes them great folk art. Now,
07:24the one up at the top, that is by a quite well-known artist, that at the moment does not have a real
07:33name. Some people think it might be Henry Wetzel, but they call him the dotted one artist. And that's
07:41because of the exclamation mark after the title. And it's classic with this asymmetrical flower and this
07:48ground patch and these abstract shapes along the border. This factor is for Elizabeth Old,
07:55born in 1774. She was baptized in 1774. But because we have Lehigh County mentioned there,
08:05that's Lehigh County spelled the German way, we know that this couldn't have been done before 1812.
08:11So decades after she was born, they produced this factor, which was quite common in Pennsylvania.
08:18And even though that's smaller, that's really a more rare factor.
08:24Oh, okay.
08:25So these are all hand painted. They're not printed. And they're made of ink and watercolor. It wasn't
08:32until the 1820s and 1830s that they started making them using a printing press to make part of them.
08:40They've suffered a bit condition-wise. So that does affect value. They are bright. The colors are bright.
08:46That's a wonderful thing. But the condition does affect their value. I know that you're probably
08:52never going to sell though, right? No, I have two children. We're going to hand them down.
08:56I'd put an insurance value on each of these two, the Brussels, of $3,000.
09:02$3,000 each. And on the dotted one, I'd put an insurance value of $4,000.
09:10Okay. Thank you.
09:20This water conservation garden where I'm standing right now, I would consider this our flagship
09:25garden. It's the place where people can come and learn about responsible gardening practices in an
09:32arid high mountain desert. An arid garden can be lush and colorful, and it is. And so we want to show
09:39people you don't just have to have rocks and cactus. The other thing is this is essentially a three acre
09:45stormwater management system. So we try to collect and capture any rain we can get because we don't get
09:52much. And we want to make sure it absorbs into the ground. So every one of these gardens is built
09:57into a basin. And as one fills, it goes into the next one, into the next one, into the next one, and
10:03ultimately feeds our oak groves down at the bottom of the hill as it transitions its way down. It's a
10:09combination of both native plants and plants that are really well adapted to the region.
10:14I brought a spearhead. I found it on my folks' property out of Mandan, North Dakota in about 1947.
10:25How old were you when you found it? Oh, you'd ask that.
10:29Oh, I missed a band of, uh, good God.
10:35Oh, I think I was seven or eight. Do you have any idea who made it?
10:40Time period? No. No guesses? No guess. Well, I know it's Flint, or I think it's Flint. Okay.
10:47And I don't know which tribe it was made it. So this predates tribal affiliations of any kind.
10:55So we're going to go pre-contact period here. Okay. So we're going to go to about 8000 B.C.
11:01What? So we're going to date this to the archaic to woodland period. 8000 B.C. at the earliest to about
11:111200 A.D. At this point in the pre-contact time, archaeologists are grouping indigenous people by
11:20technology. So the archaic period, we're just coming out of the Ice Age. The continent's warming,
11:26the game that they're hunting is smaller. So they're readjusting to that kind of life. And then
11:32when you get into the woodland period, you get the introduction of pottery and the introduction of
11:37agriculture. So when we're dating points of any kind, we're looking at the form. We're looking at
11:43how this is made, the shape, the shape of the base. But because this doesn't fall into a specific type,
11:50we're giving it a broader range. So the other really fun thing about this is it's a very specific
11:57Flint to North Dakota. It's called Knife River Flint. It's only found in a small area along the Knife
12:03River in western North Dakota. I didn't know there was a Knife River. And the really cool thing about
12:11this, if you haven't done this, shown it to the light, it's translucent. Really?
12:17Mm-hmm. So Knife River Flint is very highly collectible because of the translucency. And it
12:25was highly prized by indigenous cultures. Do you have any idea on the value?
12:30No, I haven't even come close. If I can't come close, time-wise, I have no idea.
12:38So conservatively, if this were to come up to auction, I would expect it to bring in the $2,000 to $4,000
12:44range. Hmm. Hmm. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Thank you.
12:56I brought in some skis that belong to my grandfather. We don't really know much else
13:04about them. Just that they're from probably around the 30s, maybe.
13:14This is a 1968 Fender Telecaster base. The original owner had passed away. His wife was selling off his
13:21gear. So I picked it up from her, met her in a music store. I paid about $22. I'm very lucky and
13:27fortunate to have it. This painting was a painting that my grandfather was given. He was given by
13:37Maynard Dixon himself. Maynard Dixon had a studio and lived in Mount Carmel, Utah, part of the year.
13:44And then I understand in Tucson, I believe. Mount Carmel, Utah would be right here and up the road from
13:53this scene. So this is looking east from Mount Carmel where his studio would have been. Probably
13:58three hours, three and a half hours south of here. It's on the east side of Zion National Park. He had
14:05gotten himself caught and stuck in a bog of some kind of muddy spot in a country road. And my grandfather
14:12just happened to be out there. He had a small farm there and was able to pull Maynard Dixon and all of
14:20his stuff out of this muddy bog. And a few days later, Maynard showed up on his doorstep and gave
14:26them this painting. Wow. So were they friends? Did they know each other before this encounter?
14:32What I understand from what my father said is everybody knew who Maynard Dixon was. He was the
14:37odd man that everybody knew was kind of famous, but they didn't know exactly why, who lived down there.
14:43My father passed away in 1991, and so I've had it since then. It's a wonderful painting,
14:49and it's a better story. Maynard Dixon was born in California in 1875, had kind of a journeyman life,
14:58lived in San Francisco, left San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, destroyed a lot of his earlier
15:05work. He was, he started off as an illustrator, as a lot of these artists did. He was pretty much
15:10self-taught. He did go to art school in San Francisco, but he only was there for about three
15:15months and then stopped. He traveled around painting in different parts of California.
15:20He eventually discovered Arizona and the West and fell in love with the Southwest, with Native
15:26American culture. He did paintings of Native Americans. In 1939, he moved to this area of Utah
15:34with his wife, and they also had a place in Tucson, which you mentioned. The climate was drier there,
15:41and he had some health issues. This is an oil on board. It's 12 by 16 inches, which is kind of a
15:48standard size. Artists would buy these artist boards that they could carry with them. It's a wonderful
15:55example of his later style. He died in 1946. He inscribed it on the back as well. It has his name
16:04and address. I believe this is the original frame. About 25 years ago or 30, I did take it into the
16:12curator of the BYU Art Museum, and they took a photo of it. They wanted to catalog it. They told me at the
16:20time that it should be worth from $10,000 to $15,000. The insurance value for this painting would be
16:28$50,000. Oh, my gosh. Well, I hope we never have to collect on that insurance policy, but
16:38I like it because of the history. My father was really attached to this painting, but I'm blown away.
16:47Dixon's auction record is over $2 million. Wow. Oh, my.
16:55I got this carpet from my mother. Okay. And it was part of her grandmother's salary. Okay.
17:03She had it for about 40 years. Well, I'll fill in some of the blanks for you. Okay.
17:08The rug is in the Ushak style. Okay. The Ushak rugs were decorative carpets woven in Turkey. Okay.
17:16Going back to the 15th century, they were very popular throughout Europe in the late 19th and early
17:2220th century. Alexander Morton & Company was a Scottish firm that made textiles,
17:29so they were approached by the congested districts board of Ireland. Their purpose was to promote
17:37industry in some heavily populated areas. The board went to Alexander Morton & Company and proposed
17:44that they would set up looms in the town of Killebegs in County Donegal in Northwest Ireland.
17:51And they were promising affordable labor, subsidize the construction of multiple factories,
17:58and provide a deep sea port for shipping their carpets all over the world.
18:03So it was a great offer, and Morton & Company jumped at it. So starting around 1900,
18:09they started weaving pile carpets like this in the Ushak style with an arts and crafts influence
18:15in Killebegs, Ireland. Okay. Now Morton & Company had their own designers, and the design of this carpet
18:23was done by Gavin Morton and G.K. Robertson. And in their designs, really what they wanted to do was
18:30show the contrast between the intricate floral elements and plain areas of color, a more dramatic
18:37effect to the eye. So do you have any idea how much this carpet is worth? Well, I know it's a special rug.
18:43I, as far as how much it's worth, I was told by a rug guy that I took it to in Eureka that it was worth
18:51about $3,000. Okay. My boyfriend thinks it's worth $2.2 million. $2.2 million. This is a pretty big
19:00range between $3,000 and $2.2 million. This Donegal carpet, in auction, would sell for between $20,000 and
19:09$30,000 today. Wow. Wow. So thank you so much for bringing it in. Wow. That's great. Thank you so much. Thank you.
19:18Well, this was my great-grandfather's pocket watch that he got when he retired. Uh, he was a steel man.
19:30Um, I don't know much about it other than I looked up the serial number and apparently it was made in 1905.
19:35I saw it in a vintage store window as I was driving down the street. I stopped, I parked,
19:46I went in, I bought it. How much did you have to pay for it? 90. I'm hoping that somebody's horse,
19:52favorite horse died and then they did this. But who knows? That's really all I know about it.
19:59Um, cause I haven't had it that long. It's not a family heirloom or anything, but maybe for my grandkids.
20:10This is a painting by Jane Stewart, who was the daughter of Gilbert Stewart, who did all the famous
20:18George Washington paintings during the colonial period. And on the back it says Miss Sarah Hart.
20:25I don't know who Sarah Hart was. And so that's what this is.
20:36Might keep them up year round, but I have a special place in the entryway for holiday items.
20:41So I love the holidays. These are decorative candy containers. They're holiday decorations or ornaments,
20:46but they served a purpose that you could actually store a small biscuit, cookie, a candy inside.
20:51So you can give the item to the child. They'd have a sweet and a snack. And then it became a decoration
20:56thereafter. I'll actually show you on this one here. So she detaches in half and this would be the
21:03storage container. This one is a quite large example. Yes. And you can see the size of his candy head
21:12is much larger. A lot of room for candy in there. A lot of room for a lot of candy.
21:16He is much larger than we commonly see for a seated bunny candy container. Are they glass size?
21:23They are glass size. Each of these is more or less handmade. There are molds,
21:27but they're all handmade, hand painted and hand dressed. So there'll be slight variation to each
21:32one. And they're primarily made of either a pressed cardboard, sort of a composition or paper mache
21:36material. And then a lot of the cloth material, the fabric is a felt like material. And each of these,
21:42I believe, was made in Germany. They were most likely made for a number of years, several decades
21:46even. So a comfortable circa is sometime between 1900 and 1920. Highly collectible. Many of these
21:52were made in numerous different sizes. So this is a fairly large bunny, about a medium-sized witch,
21:57and that's a small Santa. The value ranges and condition is very important. However, they display
22:05lovely. Collectively, you have an auction estimate value here of $8,000 to $12,000. Oh, wow.
22:11Wow. That's great. That's great news. Which one would you say would be the most valuable?
22:18At this present time, Halloween is a very hot field. Oh, really? It is. Okay. Christmas has
22:24always been the king, but right now Halloween is taking the position. So this witch at auction could
22:31easily fetch $3,000 to $5,000. Oh, wow. I'll have to look for more witches. Yes. But I think I'll have to
22:36keep her, though. I got it at a thrift store. I was looking for frames, actually, because I'm an
22:43amateur artist. And I saw this old frame, and it had been painted black. It had overpainted the painting
22:50as well. But I bought the frame. I paid $3 for it. That was about 10 years ago. I took it home and
22:57deframed it. And I could see the color on the edge of where it was overlapped. It was still bright. So I
23:03cut some acetone and cleaned it up. And I got down the signature. I didn't know who that was.
23:09Looked it up on the internet. I said, oh, he's a known artist.
23:11Right. Good for you. Yeah. Well, you found something nice. This is a painting by Edgar Payne,
23:20and it depicts the Canyon de Chez in northern Arizona. It's an oil on canvas board and probably
23:29executed in the 1930s to early 1940s. Edgar Payne was born in 1883, and he died in 1947. He only studied
23:39art briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was mainly self-taught and earned a living painting
23:47murals and signs and houses. And then eventually, in 1917, he got a big commission through the Santa
23:57Fe Railroad to go to tour the Southwest and paint as a form of advertising. And that's the first time
24:05that he visited the Canyon de Chez. And he loved it so much that he revisited over and over again
24:13until the early 1940s. One thing that is notable about these paintings is the majestic mountains
24:23and the colors that he used. He was known as a plein air painter, and he would go outdoors and paint
24:32paint at all different times of the day. And another thing that he's known for is the scale
24:40and the discrepancy in the scale of the mountains and the figures.
24:45Really?
24:47Do you have any idea what the value is on something like this? Have you researched it at all?
24:55Well, a local art dealer in our town, they offered me like $14,000 for it after I found out who the
25:01painter was. But I wasn't interested in selling it. Well, at auction, it would easily sell within
25:10the range of $15,000 to $25,000. Many of these paintings that have come up for auction have gone for
25:19much more in the 30s and even low 40s. That was a good $3 investment anyway. Right.
25:34With Salt Lake City's hot summer days and cold winter nights, some plants here get to live their best
25:41lives indoors year round. We are in Red Butte's original greenhouse. It was built in 1992. This
25:47greenhouse specifically is our cacti greenhouse. We let the temperatures fluctuate a lot more than
25:52our traditional greenhouses. We have lots of agave. We have a puncha, which is prickly pear,
25:58which is very common in the region. We have an assortment of native and non-native cacti.
26:04There are over 150 prickly pear species worldwide.
26:09My grandfather was born in 1922 in Schwarze, Germany. He's Jewish. And the 1930s weren't a good
26:18good time to be Jewish in Germany. When he was 16 years old, he was able to take a train, the
26:24Kindertransport to England, which really saved his life. He was one of, I think, several hundred people
26:31who were able to do so. And then within a few years, he joined the Pioneer Corps. He was eventually able
26:38to join a combat unit after Winston Churchill realized that there were a number of German-born
26:46Jewish individuals who were considered enemy aliens in England, but they spoke fluent German and they
26:53could actually be assets in war. Many of his comrades were their parents and siblings and
27:01aunts and uncles died in the concentration camps. So these individuals wanted nothing more than to
27:07fight the Nazis. When the opportunity presented itself to actually join a combat troop, he had,
27:15I think, minutes to decide whether or not he wanted to join. And then upon joining, had to change his name,
27:22change his origin story. So overnight, being a German, he became English. He joined the Church of England,
27:30and he could never tell a soul his true identity. So what you brought is a World War II number 10
27:37commando archive. When you think about it, we don't have reconnaissance satellites at that point in history.
27:43There's limited aerial reconnaissance available. A lot of what was going to happen needed to be
27:50planned based on human intel, hands-on, and who better to do that than commandos. These folks
27:58needed to be problem solvers. They needed to be able to think on their feet and think creatively
28:03because if you go across the channel, courtesy of the Royal Navy who would insert them, and you get
28:10caught in bad, it's up to you. Nobody's coming to save you. You have to figure it out. They needed
28:16a very special group of young men to do this. He did leave you a legacy. He left us some artifacts.
28:25For instance, the uniform, it's a British battle dress jacket with these number 10 commando titles.
28:33Now, do you know which troop he was in within number 10? I believe he was in troop 3.
28:37Troop 3 was the troop that was primarily made up of Germans who were Jewish. Casualty rate among
28:48number 10 commando and number 3 troop, I believe I've seen references to 50%. So there just really isn't
28:56that much of this material out in the world. He's a staff sergeant and you have the 39-45 ribbon bar,
29:04you have the Italy bar, and then his defense bar. So apparently he made some raids in Italy as well.
29:11Wow, I didn't know that. You've got photographs of him while he's serving. Here he is wearing the beret,
29:17he's got his Fairburn Sykes commando knife. There's a lot to this that gives us at least hints of where he
29:28was and what he was doing. These were some of the few people who had an opportunity to train and go do
29:36something about it. And it just gives you goosebumps. It does. Being in the presence of that material.
29:44That cultural and historical value translates through to monetary value as well. If we were to
29:52put an insurance value on this set, this would fall very easily into the $20,000 to $25,000 range. Wow.
30:02Never really thought about how much it would be worth monetarily because it is so sentimental. That's amazing.
30:10This is the kind of stuff that movies are made of. The things that these guys did.
30:19I got it as a gift from a friend. They got it from an old video rental place in a grocery store.
30:25And when they were shutting it down, he got to keep all the movie signs and gave you this one because
30:30I'm a big Trekkie. That's from the movie Star Trek Generations, where Kirk and Picard teamed up.
30:36And yeah, we just put a light behind it and have it in our basement right now.
30:46This is a sewing machine that belonged to my great-grandmother. Passed down to her daughter and
30:53her daughter and now me. So it's just been sitting on a shelf. I think my mom was the first one that
30:58put it on a shelf and now it's my turn. It's a solid chunk of metal here.
31:08My parents were big collectors and they loved Japan. They made numerous trips there.
31:15They had a large collection of what I believe is Rosangian pottery. They sold most of it in the early
31:2470s. And it was this glaze here. So this is the remainder of the collection that they had.
31:32Ah, oh really? And what do you know about Kitauji Rosangian?
31:36Well, I know he was a poet, a chef. These have been family friends since I've been a child. And this
31:44vessel was always outside with the lemonade and a bamboo dipper. And I can't tell you how many floral
31:52arrangements. My mother and I did in this vessel. So it's very special to me.
32:02Where did they buy these pieces? I believe they bought them directly from the artist.
32:07Kitauji Rosangian was born in 1883 and he died in 1959. Kitauji Rosangian was an extremely important
32:17seminal artist in the whole history of modern contemporary Japanese ceramics. He was also a
32:23calligrapher. He was a painter. He was a poet. And he collected classical Japanese ceramics. And his
32:32collection was destroyed in the Tokyo earthquake in 1923. And so after that he decided to make his own
32:39ceramics. He received various honors. The last in 1959 when he was named a national treasure which he
32:48refused. I heard that. All of these Japanese forms, bizenware, oribeiware, all of these are reflected in
32:55the five pieces that you have here. The most outstanding of which is your well. Okay. Actually, when you look
33:04back in Chinese history, this is modeled after a Han dynasty, second century BC to AD prototype. I
33:10understand that you drink out of this, you said? I do weekly. It goes through the dishwasher. And what
33:17about this piece? I think it's an ashtray, but I'm not sure. It's actually an incense burner. Oh, it is. Yes,
33:25and it probably originally had a silver cover. You have various dishes that were part of his whole
33:32display for his kitchen. And he used them in his restaurant. This is, regardless of the damage,
33:39and there is a restoration here, and I think one in one of the handles here. This is probably the most
33:45unusual piece of the collection. All of them are signed with his characteristic signature, which is a
33:51row. It's like a square. I think all of these pieces were made in the 1950s. I understand you don't
33:58have the boxes, right? No. At auction, this piece alone is worth between $6,000 and $8,000.
34:10Wow. Even with the damage? Yes. Altogether, I would say your five pieces would constitute
34:18about $10,000 to $15,000 at auction, regardless of whether you have the signed boxes.
34:24These pieces are quite rare. You don't see them come up at auction very often.
34:41My wife and I went to a little consignment shop, and I saw this, and I went, whoa, this thing,
34:47that can't be real, I didn't think, because the colors were so beautiful. So I asked the lady, I said,
34:53how much is it? And she says, well, that depends, because the old gentleman that's consigning it
34:58wants somebody to love and treasure it, because it's got a lot of sentimental value to it.
35:02It was a gentleman in the late 80s or early 90s. He was pretty old. He was born in that town.
35:07When he was in his teens, he had an uncle that owned an antique shop down in Los Angeles, and he said he'd
35:13come across a print, and he said he didn't like the frame on it. So he asked if he could send the frame
35:19up and could the kid build him a new frame for it. And then within a week or two after he got it,
35:24his uncle passed away unexpectedly at a young age. So he kind of just put this print into the garage.
35:31And for the next 70-some-odd years, through multiple marriages and divorces, he always carried this
35:37with him because it reminded him of his uncle. And he decided to disassemble it. When he did,
35:42this was the backing. I would have loved to be there for his reaction when you're peeling back
35:48the print that's been there that you think nothing of. Right. And you go to get something out of a
35:52frame, and lo and behold, this is hiding behind it. Yeah. What did you have to pay,
35:56if you don't mind me asking for something? $450 for it. So this is a late 19th century cigar
36:02advertising sign depicting Henry George, made for the Hirshhorn Mac and Company, makers based out of New
36:09York. Henry George was an economist. He was a social activist. He was a journalist. He was regarded
36:16at one point as one of the most popular individuals in the United States. Wow. Known for a book entitled
36:22Progress and Poverty. He spoke to your common man. He spoke to your laborer. He spoke to your working
36:29Joe that was going through the Industrial Revolution. Okay. And we can date it pretty concretely to about
36:341895 to 1900. And if you look down here, at the very, very bottom, the Tuscarora Advertising Company.
36:44They were established in mid-1880s, and they originally started off by selling burlap bags with
36:50logos on them. Okay. Sure. And they quickly progressed as technology advanced to doing signs,
36:56to doing anything and everything advertising. These were the people that were doing Coca-Cola signs,
37:01that were taking orders from all around the country. Okay. For advertising signs. So this sign is a
37:06single-sided tin sign with embossing that has lithography on it. Okay. Now they took it a step
37:13further and really pioneered offset lithography. Now that added an additional step where once that
37:19original plate was made, they would transfer the image to a sheet of rubber and then roll the rubber
37:25contained in the image through a press that would then press it onto metal without destroying the
37:30original plate. Right. So they could do a lot more volume. They could be a lot more detailed. And the
37:36rubber was more forgiving as you're rolling over a hard metal surface. Imagine if you're trying to
37:39press that into a stone. Right. It's not going to go so great. So you've got great subject matter with
37:44an important American figure. Right. You've got cigars, which appeals to tobacchiana collectors and quite
37:50frankly, most people with a man cave, right? Right. There you go. It's an attractive subject with a prominent
37:54American individual. If this sign came up to auction today, I would put a conservative
37:59auction estimate on it of $4,000 to $6,000. Wow. Wow. Okay. That's pretty cool.
38:15I went to a yard sale and I wasn't even looking for this. I was looking for some yard art.
38:22And after I bought a big chicken for my yard, the lady said, I have some other stuff in the back if
38:29you want to look at it. And I said, sure. And this was sitting there. I picked it up. Yeah.
38:37A hundred dollars. I think I got a pretty good deal. Um, I found it at an estate sale a number of years
38:44ago. It's a, to the best of my knowledge, a Seth Thomas clock from, uh, about 1913, 1915. Uh, not
38:53sure if that's accurate or not. Not sure if it's authentic or not. Been wanting to have it looked
38:57at to see if it's worth getting fixed up and getting running again. And it's actually the same era as my
39:02house. So matches the decor. And how much did you have to pay for it? Uh, like $10.
39:11We were at a video game convention in 2012, and we were listening to a panel conversation. And one
39:18of the people there was Steve Golson, who was one of the developers of the game that would become
39:23Ms. Pac-Man. He seemed like an affable guy. And we thought, let's go see if we can talk to him. And
39:28we had had a Pac-Man wedding cake at our wedding. And we went up to him and said, Hey, we love this
39:34game. Can we show you a picture of our wedding cake? And he said, yes. And he loves the picture
39:38so much. He asked me to email it to him so we could show the other people who worked on the game with
39:42him. After that email, he reached back out and said, Hey, can I have your address? And then a couple
39:47weeks later, these items showed up in the mail. What's the content of the letter? It's kind of describing
39:52when we met him and that he enjoyed seeing the photo of our wedding cake. And then talks about
39:58these items that he's including. They're little wind-up Pac-Man toys. In the letter, he describes
40:04that he bought them and then gave them to other people who worked on the game. And then he also
40:08mentions that the display came from his personal collection, which I thought was a really lovely
40:12detail for him to include. And then he signed it for us. Did you play Pac-Man growing up? Oh,
40:17definitely. I had parents who definitely taught me all the tricks of Ms. Pac-Man in particular,
40:24many a quarter spent at the arcade. The original Pac-Man was released in Japan in May of 1980 and
40:30came to the United States in October of 1980. And it was the biggest phenomenon in the United States
40:36for arcade machines. But in 1981, it started to get a little tired and they were looking for new ways to
40:44refresh the cabinets. And there were a bunch of companies making conversion kits where you could
40:49go to your arcade cabinet and replace the glass, replace the stickers, replace the memory board,
40:55and have a whole new game. And Ms. Pac-Man was released in 1982. And it reinvigorated the whole
41:01Pac-Man craze all over again. But it wasn't originally Ms. Pac-Man. Do you know what it was called?
41:06It was called Crazy Auto. And that was the conversion kit that Steve Golsan at General Computer
41:11helped come up with. It wasn't released on just the arcade cabinets and cocktail cabinets.
41:16It was also released on home computers, like the Commodore 64, and the home video game systems like
41:22the Atari 2600. And what you have here is a couple of little wind-up Ms. Pac-Man, but then you have
41:28this advertising display. This stand-up is originally for the Atari 2600 VCS, video computer system,
41:35and it's from about 1982. You'd punch it out, you'd set up on the top of the shelf,
41:39and it had a little clockwork mechanism in the back, powered by a battery. And Ms. Pac-Man would
41:44just swing a little bit. Oh! This thing is untouched. A little bit of damage, but it's never been
41:49punched out. It's never been set up. And in the advertising world, an untouched, unused sign is
41:56like the pinnacle. Oh wow! This is probably one of the best examples I've seen. Oh my gosh!
42:03A great letter. It doesn't have a lot of value on its own, but it really ties all the pieces together.
42:10We estimate ad auction for all of these pieces, we'd say around $800 to $1,200. Wonderful! That's so
42:18great to know. Thank you. Most of the values in this. Yeah. It's these little guys that are 40 to 50
42:24bucks each. Right. Totally. It's a heck of a wedding gift. Yep. Not bad. It was a few years late. I'll take it.
42:34Red Butte Garden's vast collection of plants includes around 200 varieties of roses.
42:41This rose garden is special because we have designed it with roses that are well adapted to our region
42:49and are disease resistant, as well as absolutely beautiful. One of the rare varieties of roses that
42:55we have here in the rose garden is La France, which is considered by many to be the first hybrid tea that
43:03was developed, which means it was the first of the modern roses. La France has a beautiful pink rose,
43:09and it has just an amazing fragrance.
43:11I brought a bunch of comic books that my husband bought when they were brand new, and they've been
43:19in my mother-in-law's basement for about 50 years. When she was getting ready to go out of her house
43:25about 10 years ago, I went back there and helped move things, and I found this box. I'm so jealous of
43:31your husband's experience, the fact that he was able to buy these directly off the newsstand when they were
43:36brand new. He was between 11 and 13, I believe, and he would bike down to the neighborhood drug store
43:41to buy them.
43:42So we know exactly what he paid for them. He was paying 12 cents a piece.
43:46That's amazing.
43:47It is. All the comics you have here today range from what we call the Silver Age of Comics, 1956 to 1970.
43:54You have a mix of both DC and Marvel comics, but our hero of the day is Spider-Man, amazing Spider-Man
44:01that is. I mean, he is by far, in my opinion, the most recognizable fan favorite child hero of superheroes
44:09today. For the books you have here, your earliest Amazing Spider-Man being issue five, which is from
44:131963. The reason this book in particular is a fan favorite is because as the one and only Dr. Doom,
44:21evil bad guy, Victor Von Doom, first appeared in Fantastic Four issue five. This is his first
44:27crossover into Amazing Spider-Man. We have Amazing Spider-Man six, first appearance of the lizard,
44:33Dr. Kirk Connors, staple in the Amazing Spider-Man world. Here, Spider-Man 15. This is first appearance
44:41of Kraven the Hunter, pseudo, like, hero, anti-hero villain. And then my favorite book here on the table,
44:49Amazing Spider-Man Annual One. This book featuring the first appearance of the Sinister Six. It's all the
44:55greatest Spider-Man villains in the second year of the standalone title. When it comes to value of comics,
45:02it's all condition-based. We would say these books range anywhere from 2.0 to maybe a 4.0, 4.5.
45:11That meaning your husband absolutely loved these books. He read them multiple times. Yes. The Kraven the
45:17Hunter book is a little bit rougher on the end of the spectrum value-wise. We would place this book at
45:23$700 to $1,000 today. Wow. The Amazing Spider-Man Annual One, similar to the two above it. This book falls
45:32in the $800 to $1,200 range. But these are just four books on the table. Everything that you have
45:40here fanned out is beautiful. There are so many iconic key books in here mixed in conservatively
45:46at auction for the collection. This would easily be a $10,000 to $15,000 group of comics.
45:52Not what I expected to hear at all. That's amazing. That's fantastic. Mike would have been pleased.
46:00He loved these books. He loved sci-fi. He'd been so excited. That's great.
46:05So I got this. This was gifted to me after graduating medical school. It's from my great
46:13grandpa. It's The Practice of Medicine by William Osler. And I think it's a first edition of the book.
46:19Now to graduate, did you have to read that thing? No, not this exactly. Bloodletting's still in here.
46:26Yeah, he was actually a proponent of the bloodletting. So that's still here.
46:31Well, it's a Japanese copy, the Gibson. It's a 1970-71 Ibanez. Hollow body. The Gibson look-alike.
46:41Father-in-law had it down in his basement and he wanted $35 for it. So I gave him 35 bucks.
46:47Well, I play it every day. Every morning, just play it. It's fun.
46:53My grandma purchased it when she was in the UK during World War II. She served in the Royal Navy.
46:59So she brought it back after that, when she moved back to the United States. My grandma passed away,
47:06I believe, 2014. My dad and I were helping clean out her house. And my dad gave it to me from her book
47:11collection. He knew that I liked Tolkien. I've been a big fan for most of my life. And it's actually kind of
47:16how my wife and I met. We were at a Halloween party. Someone was talking about Tolkien. I mentioned
47:21that I'm fairly knowledgeable about it. So we started talking. And then I asked her on a date.
47:27And I brought it to our first date. It's in no small part how we met. So...
47:31That's delightful. This was Tolkien's very first published book, The Hobbit. It began as a series
47:39of bedtime stories for his children. And he later codified it and published it in England. And then
47:46he spent most of the rest of his life creating this world of Middle Earth. And by 1954 and 55, the three
47:54volumes comprising The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King
48:01were first published. And that just made his career. Back when your grandmother purchased this book,
48:09a new copy of The Hobbit would have cost perhaps a dollar or less. On the
48:16rear flap of the dust jacket, only on the 1500 copies of the first printing of the first edition,
48:25there's a typographical error. They compare, rightly so, The Hobbit and Tolkien to his mentor,
48:33Lewis Carroll or C.L. Dodgson. Where they spell Dodgson's name, they put an E in it. And that's a hand
48:41corrected typographical error. And that's how you can tell the true first printing of the first edition
48:50from all later printings. Here we can see The Publisher, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by
48:55John Ronald Rule Tolkien, published in London in 1937. All of the illustrations in the book and the
49:04dust jacket itself are drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien. Most 20th century novels in particular have dust jackets
49:15or dust wrappers. And this one has its dust wrapper. Likely, fewer than 20-25% of those 1500 copies,
49:25these dust jackets remain. And this one, it shows where the book itself, the boards show where,
49:32the dust jacket shows where. There's a small piece missing from this front corner and the back
49:40corner as well. But it's remarkably intact, which makes it even scarcer. Condition and the presence
49:46of dust jackets are everything on modern first editions. So this is maybe a good plus to very good
49:56copy. But the jacket is remarkably difficult to find in any condition. I would estimate this copy at retail
50:06would bring $100,000. Oh my god. That is significantly more than what I thought.
50:13Oh my god. That is a non-insignificant amount of money that I've been carrying around.
50:26Slightly too casually. My precious, right? I should stop telling people I have this.
50:30It's too late now. That's wild. A fine copy and a fine jacket at retail would bring a quarter of a
50:44million dollars. Oh my gosh. And now it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth. And I brought my
50:51grandmother's mustache cup. This is one of her prized possessions. I found out it's pretty rare for a
50:57mustache cup to be from France, but also worth not that much money. But we're so glad we came here.
51:05And we had a great time today. We went to the Asian booth to have my wedding kimono. That was
51:11actually my mother's appraised. They said it was worth $500 to $800. They said it's not much of a
51:18market anymore for wedding kimonos. But I think it's beautiful and it hangs on our wall. And I brought
51:24this pocket watch that belonged to my father-in-law. And I found out the fob's worth more than
51:28everything else we brought together. I brought with me this seal from Phoenix this morning.
51:33Got stopped by TSA. Really only came to show my love for PBS. Long live PBS. Love you.
51:41Well, this one is a Danish piece. And this one I think is Australian piece. And they're glass pieces.
51:46And together they're worth about $800. And I purchased them at an online auction, estate auction.
51:53And I'm glad to be here. And I'm exhausted.
51:58All I can say about my day is antique watch on my wrist, antique buttons on my vest,
52:06getting to see the Antiques Roadshow Appraisal All-Stars. Man, this is the best.
52:12Man, this is the best.
52:28You
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