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00:00Antiques Roadshow picked a bouquet of treasures just for you at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum
00:09in Salt Lake City. Did you know who she was? No, I do not. Okay, I found her. You found her?
00:15The plot thickens. The plot thickens.
00:30This gorgeous Utah garden is the temporary and temperate home for Antiques Roadshow today.
00:44Red Butte Garden is named for the Red Butte Canyon. It nurtures mostly native plants and
00:51trees as well as plants from other parts of the world that do well in the area's hot,
00:57dry summers, and cool, wet winters. What treasures have been transplanted to Roadshow today?
01:08This belonged to the owner of the Broadway Shoe Repair in downtown Salt Lake. It was a little
01:15old German guy. Growing up, my mom would always take my dad's boots to get re-healed down there,
01:19and when we were there, I would play in this shoe. When he decided to retire, he gave the
01:25shoe to me. It is a fitting shoe for Robert Pearson Wadlow, which was the tallest man in the world
01:34at the time. Robert was 8'11".
01:41This is a photo album of my mother-in-law. She worked at the Jasper Provincial Park in Canada.
01:47We figure about, she was 16. This is her here. And I don't know any of the other people.
01:53Her dad was working at a lumber camp in Cold Lake, and I think it was just a summer job
02:00to get away from the lumber camps. She never mentioned it, so we don't really know anything
02:05else.
02:06So it's a nice family heirloom to have these pictures documenting her summer working at
02:10this camp. But the reason we're talking is that when we turn the page here, we suddenly
02:16see this. So what can you tell me about this?
02:20Yeah. My husband was doing just that, looking at this. After she passed away, it was just
02:26in a box. And all of a sudden, it's like the River of No Return. And then we were like,
02:31that sounds like a movie. So then they started looking some more at the other pictures.
02:37So if we continue through here, River of No Return, 1954, a 20th Century Fox film that
02:43was filmed on location in Jasper National Park in Canada. And most importantly, it's a film
02:47starring Marilyn Monroe.
02:49Yeah.
02:50She's there with Robert Mitchum and Tommy Reddig. Actually, Tommy Reddig is the child who played
02:55Mark Calder in the film, who was Robert Mitchum's son.
02:57Oh, uh-huh.
02:58So you have the core group of the key cast members here. And what I really love about this
03:03is not only did she get a nice, tight shot of them, Marilyn is giving face in this photo.
03:08She is clearly turning it on. The film came out, and it was an interesting kind of departure
03:14for Marilyn. She did start the film playing, like, the classic showgirl, saloon girl. But
03:18most of the film, she's in jeans.
03:20Yeah.
03:21And if we flip through here, we continue to see more Marilyn Monroe.
03:25This is her here. This is my mother-in-law with Rory Calhoun.
03:28She obviously had access to the set. We're not sure why. But she didn't just have access
03:33to the set. She actually was interacting with them in a very intimate way. We see, here
03:38she is cuddling up with Robert Mitchum.
03:40Yeah, that's it. That's my mother-in-law.
03:43She looks pretty happy. I'm sure at 16 to be cuddling up with Robert Mitchum would have
03:48been quite a thing. And then, of course, we also have Robert Mitchum's Love and Kisses
03:54Bob Mitchum signature. And then my favorite page of this whole book is where we land over
04:00here. And we have the signature. Yeah. And we have a great shot of Marilyn right next
04:06to it. And there's, overall, about 28 pictures of her and the area while she's on set. And
04:1310 of them have Marilyn in them. Oh, really? Okay.
04:16So it's doing some counts. Yeah.
04:18We had some people taking pictures on the set, like the person who worked for 20th Century
04:22Fox whose job it was to document things going on in the scenes. Those pictures would be very
04:27different from what we're seeing here. These are very fun, candid, behind the scenes photos.
04:32These have never been published. No.
04:34And what's astounding to me is that she never told anyone.
04:37She didn't. At auction, we do have records of other
04:39things similar to this that have sold. And because they're unpublished and no one's ever
04:42seen these before until today, we add up. And obviously, the Marilyn's have the most value.
04:47So those would probably be sold almost individually. That's how much people value hers. And those would
04:52be probably anywhere between $500 and $800 a piece. Oh, my goodness. Which, right there,
04:57counting up what we have here is about $6,500. Oh, wow. And then you have this.
05:02That's really loud. Sorry. Then we have this autograph. This would bring about $3,000 at auction.
05:09Oh, my goodness. So we're up to $9,500. Oh, my goodness. Okay. And then everything else would be about $500.
05:15So we're about $10,000 that we would expect it to realize at auction. Oh, my goodness. Okay. Wow.
05:21Well, I guess we have to up our insurance. Okay. I don't know what to say. Honestly,
05:28you're editing this out, right? All right. Thank you.
05:40My grandparents knew the artists and things have kind of trickled down to me. I'm the youngest
05:45grandchild of them. And nobody else really wanted a lot of these pieces. And I have a couple more
05:53larger pieces by him at home as well. This is really a marvelous painting by the artist
05:59Nguyen Van Minh. He was born in 1930 and he died in 2014. And he was very, very prolific. He painted up
06:08until maybe 10 or 5 years before he died. Okay. And always in this very abstract, thoughtful fashion.
06:16And always with this particular seal and signature. But we can date this because it says 99.
06:22Paintings such as this of this size and this kind of subject matter tend to sell for about $6,000 to $9,000.
06:30Wow. Okay. Wow. That's incredible.
06:41I think they came from my great grandmother's house in Kentucky. They ended up with my grandma here.
06:46And when she passed away, my dad cleaned everything out and they almost ended up in the dumpster. But my
06:52wise, brilliant mother saved them from the garbage and had them under her bed for like the last 15 years.
06:58I think they are my ancestors, probably from the South Mississippi area, Alabama, maybe.
07:04They are wonderful oil on board portraits of what we believe to be a husband and wife.
07:11Trying to figure out the date of these, we often will take a look at the sitter's clothing. And when I
07:16look at the woman in particular, I see this high banded waist. We refer to that as the Ampire style.
07:23And we see that between about 1800 and 1820. The gentleman similarly has a outfit that we think of
07:31as something from around the war of 1812. So I think this firmly puts it in. But the big question is,
07:37how do we know they're American? And so one of the ways we as appraisers will look at an object is by
07:42looking on what is it constructed on. By taking a look at the back here, we can see the wood that it was
07:49made on. It's got this sort of greenish tinge, which indicates that it's poplar, a Native American
07:56wood. And we often find that in the mid-Atlantic states and the South. What I really love about them
08:03is their condition. You probably have the original frame, but it's been painted black later.
08:08They are so fabulously painted. I just absolutely love the lace work on the bonnet and this pink
08:15ribbon running through is spectacular. The lace on our collar, the fringe and the lace on his shirt,
08:22the way his hair is so stylized. They're so exquisitely done. What's different is if you look at the oval,
08:29you see how sort of uneven this line is? Well, what I expect to have seen would be what we call
08:36eglamizé glass. So that would have been reverse painted glass. So it would have been black with
08:41gilt highlights that would have covered up that uneven edge. With the exception of a little bit
08:47of the exfoliation on the gentleman and a little bit of rub on the shoulder here, they're like
08:53untouched. And that's what we as collectors and appraisers love. This sort of original condition.
09:00We tried in the short amount of time to figure out who the artist was and we weren't able to come up.
09:05Sometimes you may be able to find similar profile portraits and describe them based on previous
09:11attributions. I think we need to do more research on that. I would suggest putting an insurance value
09:17of $7,500 on the pair. Oh my goodness. That's more than I thought. Wow.
09:26Wow. Okay. They almost got thrown away. That's amazing. And when you pulled them out of the box,
09:32my heart started beating faster and I couldn't contain my excitement. I'm glad my mom was smart
09:37enough to save them. Red Butte Garden and Arboretum is part of the University of Utah.
09:47This oak grove has a special connection to the university's history. Back in the 30s, Walter Carden
09:55was a botany professor at the University of Utah. He was trialing trees for hardiness. And one of his
10:01primary studies was oak trees, oak hybridization. And about 130 of those original hybrids are still
10:08here on the property in an area we call Cottom's Grove. Acorns are still collected by horticulturalists
10:15and sent to researchers around the world. In this way, the work Dr. Cottom started decades ago continues.
10:22I bought an old Book of Mormon. It's an 1840 edition. And this was in our family. My grandpa
10:33was a collector and he passed it to my dad. And my dad kept it in the safe. My mom just passed
10:40about a year and a half ago. And that is when we opened the safe. We always thought it was a European
10:46edition. But once we opened it, we realized it was not a European edition, but a Nauvoo edition.
10:52Do you know when your grandfather got it or how he? I believe he bought it in 1972.
10:58Do you have any idea what he paid for it? I have no idea what he paid for it.
11:02Well, let me, first of all, it wasn't done in Illinois. It wasn't done in Nauvoo.
11:07This edition was actually printed in Ohio. As the Mormons moved west, they were considered a cult.
11:15They weren't welcome almost anywhere they went. And so they had to keep moving. They knew they were
11:20moving to Illinois when this copy was printed. The Mormon church and the LDS, they have been
11:27very successful. And people are very, very interested, whether it's Mormon or another religion,
11:32very interested in the origins and the history of the religion. One of the reasons the book is
11:37important and very collectible, Joseph Smith was still alive when this edition was done. And for
11:44collectors of the Book of Mormon, one of the key big factors is there were four editions printed when
11:51he was alive. He died in 1844. They want the ones that he was there and saw the printing.
11:58One thing I will mention about this is this is not the original binding. My guess would be the binding's
12:05100 years old. It might be a little bit more. Very nicely done. The actual book in this is in great
12:11condition. A retail price, 50 to $60,000. Wow. Wow. That's crazy. That is, that is amazing.
12:23$50,000 to $60,000. Insurance, I'd probably say $75,000. If you would come to me with this book 20
12:31years ago, I would say maybe, maybe $20,000. I consider it an honor just to be standing here,
12:38holding it, and seeing it. So thank you. Thank you. It is a treasure for our family. And
12:44having you share this information has been very, very enlightening and very dear to me. Can I give you a hug?
12:51Sure. Okay. Thank you. If this was the original binding, this would probably be a retail of $75,000.
13:03I can't tell you a ton, but I can tell you that it is from 1709. It is on the bottom. It does say
13:101709. And it was my grandmother's. It's from Hungary. And it has made its way to the United States
13:17in the 1960s with my family. So that's what I got so far.
13:26My wife found it about three years ago at an estate sale here locally in Salt Lake. It has no
13:34markings of telling us any origins of where it's from. So I thought we'd bring it in and see what we
13:39could learn from it. We paid about $10 for it at the time. So hopefully it's worth more than that.
13:46It was about 20, 25 years ago. There was a gentleman that had an antique store in Salt Lake. And he
13:59passed away. And there was an estate sale of his inventory. And it ran for about three days. And on
14:06the third day, I went back and said, I think I really like these. And I purchased them.
14:12Can you tell me how much you had to pay? It wasn't very much. It was $150, maybe under $200,
14:17right around that amount of money. I think the symbol is Derby, but I'm not positive.
14:23Well, let's take a look at that symbol. There is a mark on the bottom and
14:27it's a kind of a crown. It's a rare mark for Derby, but it is a Derby mark. It was first used in
14:33about 1811, when a gentleman named Robert Bloor took over the Derby factory. And I would date these
14:40to between 1811 and about 1815, based on the mark. They're beautifully painted on the front
14:47with English flora. And then we'll see on the back, there's nothing. Because they're designed,
14:54of course, to go up against a wall on a mantelpiece. What I love about them is that they've survived so
15:00well. I love the little ram's head handles. They're what we call bow pots, B-O-U-G-H pots.
15:07And they were a popular thing at the time. Derby made perhaps the best of them. And you see that
15:14the top has these little apertures. The small ones are for little wooden rods, little canes,
15:23if you'd like. And then the tulips, or whatever you wanted, croci perhaps, but typically tulips,
15:30would grow up through the rods and be connected and kept together by them, you know. They grow up
15:36through these leaf-shaped apertures. Beautiful concept. So I love that they stayed together.
15:43I think you did very well when you bought them. In an antique shop today, they would be a lot more
15:49than $150 or $200. I think it'd be fair to say 10 times that, maybe between $1,500 and $2,000 would be
15:57the right retail price today. Oh, that's great. Yeah, very beautiful pair. And some of them
16:03are painted with landscapes. Landscape ones tend to be a little more valuable, actually. But these are
16:08really tasty. This painting belonged to my grandparents. My grandfather was born in San
16:18Pete County, Utah. He was a sheep rancher. He was born in the late 1800s. My mother tells me that he
16:25and my grandmother were traveling to Southern California by car and drove through Arizona on
16:32their way. And he would have just picked it up on their way to California. Do you have any idea when
16:39that might have been? It was probably in the 1950s. It is an oil painting on canvas. It's titled a pastoral
16:47number one. It depicts a shepherdess in a monument valley. And I did check with the tribal table and they
16:57said that this is a Navajo woman. And it was done most likely in the 1950s. It's done by Charles Bensko.
17:07Charles Bensko was a Hungarian born artist and moved to the United States when he was seven years old.
17:14He was born in 1894. And he moved to New York. And then he went to LA where he was a portrait painter
17:22and a muralist. And then in 1945 went to Phoenix. When he was in LA he was the head of the Society
17:32for Sanity in Art. That was a group of artists. They were representational artists and they were very
17:39opposed to all of the modern trends in art. Do you have any idea what your grandfather might have paid
17:46for the painting? I have no idea. His work has shown up at auction and several very similar scenes to this
17:54one have sold in the range of two to three thousand dollars at auction. Wow. That's incredible.
18:04That is that's amazing. He loved sheep but he also loved and respected the people who did what he did too
18:10which was to care for them. Well that's really lovely. And it's a beautiful painting. It is. It is. Thank you.
18:25I honestly just bought this at an estate sale like last weekend for $50. Apparently it's like an 80s
18:31M&M phone but I honestly haven't plugged it in to see if it works. I just thought it was really cool so I
18:36bought it. So I'm just wondering like how much it's worth. My dad heard from his dad that they were
18:44from some from the 1800s and maybe some from the 1700s but be fair pop-up was a bit of an embellisher
18:51so we'll uh we have no clue. So we're looking to find out. This is a helmet that Charles Lindbergh wore
19:02and it was given to my husband's grandfather. They first met in about 1924 when Charles enrolled in the
19:11Army Air Corps and my husband's grandfather General Cannon was one of his flight instructors there.
19:21Then four years later they met again at an air show and General Cannon lent Lindbergh his plane to use
19:30in part of the air show. Wow. So at the end of the air show Lindbergh presented this helmet to him signed
19:38it and dated it. Wow that's an incredible story and what an amazing gift. Yeah. Let's have a close
19:44look at it. We have is a pretty basic flight helmet for the 1920s. A simple leather with a buckle strap
19:52and had these two snap straps in the back that would secure your goggles so they wouldn't blow away
19:58and honestly at this time its main function really was just to keep your head warm and as you mentioned
20:05it also has Lindbergh signature right here on the side flap Charles Lindbergh and it's dated September 16th 1928.
20:14Yes. Incredible. Lindbergh was a complicated American historical figure and right before World War II
20:22he had an isolationist stance and he did express some anti-semitic views. Lindbergh dropped out of college
20:27after two years to join flight school in Nebraska. After that he was barnstorming across the country
20:34wing walking and doing all kinds of dare double stunts. He joined the nascent army air service around 1924
20:42which is what he would have met your husband's grandfather and made his historic flight solo
20:48non-stop across the Atlantic May 20th 1927. He climbed aboard his plane with a couple canteens of water
20:55and I think a couple of sandwiches and some 33 hours later landed in Paris. The moment Lindbergh touched
21:04down in Paris he was an international hero an automatic celebrity. From the collector perspective
21:11this is a flight helmet that he would have worn it is something that was very close to him and it's
21:16an iconic kind of symbol of early aviation. So now we also add to that that he signed it and dated it so 1928
21:25September just a little over a year after the historic transatlantic flight. So it ticks a lot of boxes for
21:33folks. I would conservatively say at auction we're talking about something around eight to ten thousand
21:40dollars. If I would insure it I would think we'd be looking at twenty thousand dollars.
21:47Okay.
21:57I collected thrift stores estate sales and things like that and it was something that I went to a thrift
22:03store they said look it's all beat up 20 bucks it's yours it's like okay I thought it was Pennsylvania
22:10Dutch and somebody told me no it's Asian art so I don't think this has anything remotely to do
22:16with Pennsylvania okay Dutch or German okay this is actually from China from a very specific province
22:26called Shaanxi province okay that was known for several things one is this very thick lacquer surface
22:35and they were put lacquer over a soft wood which is what we have here and what are the other features
22:41of Shaanxi province furniture the hinges they're really thick heavy wrought iron I suspect that what
22:51someone did is they went over the original design that had deteriorated quite a lot what do you think
22:58this dates to think in 1800 yeah but I'd say somewhere between 1880 and 1920 because it's got a lot of
23:07character in a retail sense I would imagine somebody would ask somewhere in the seven or eight hundred
23:14dollar range for it because it's got a lot of flair and it's got nice color
23:20I brought with me several small pieces that were gifted to my mother by Ed Ruscha the artist she was
23:31living in the West Village in New York City in a little apartment on Bleecker Street a two bedroom with
23:37four people living in the apartment her roommate's mother was friends with Ed Ruscha's mother from Oklahoma
23:43and he was returning from a trip from Europe he needed a place to stay her mother reached out to
23:50mother to mother said can Ed crash on your sofa he stayed with them for a few days while he waited for
23:55his car to be delivered from Europe while he was there he gave them this piece and this one and then
24:01later wrote these letters to them and I gave my mom this piece which is actually a drawing of her car she
24:09had gotten in a fender bender and the funny story behind that is that the woman who she had run into
24:13immediately got out of the car and walked up to her and you know extended her hand to shake her hand
24:18said it's so nice to meet you and so the copy that he put on there is pretty playful he kind of made a
24:23mock ad and talks about it's a great way to meet people is to get into minor collisions in your vw
24:29the visit was in the fall of 1961 and then the letters the postmark is December so they stayed in
24:36touch for a couple months after I think she was curious and wanted to get them authenticated and so
24:41she looked up his gallery and wrote to the gagosha gallery and sent a letter with photocopies of
24:47them and apparently they forwarded it to Ed and she got a voicemail message from his studio manager
24:53saying yes Ed remembers you and he remembers those pieces Ed Ruscha is one of the most important artists
24:59of the 20th century he was born in Omaha Nebraska in 1937 and spent a lot of his time in Oklahoma City but
25:07in 1956 moved to Los Angeles so we really think of him mostly as a California artist what I find really
25:14fascinating about this group is that we are seeing the early stages of him playing with text and words
25:22his best known works today are paintings and drawings of words he has taken something as simple as a word
25:29and elevated it raising it to a level that makes you stop and think a little bit deeper about language
25:35and culture some of his most important paintings from the early 60s were of the word scream and I
25:42don't know if this was the first time he utilized scream but it certainly was was very early we have
25:47two letters here there's a smaller one that's still in the envelope which is pencil on paper and then we
25:52have on display here the larger letter my first reaction was these are also works of art he's using
25:58different color marker for different words he puts that ampersand right in the center very bold and so
26:04visually it's very interesting this one closest to me is a self-portrait of Ed Ruscha it's watercolor
26:12and graphite on paper I don't think I've ever seen a self-portrait that he made tell me a little bit
26:17more about the the advertisement that he gave and left behind to your mom and the roommate this was an ad
26:24that he had designed and that he's actually in that it's him the cowboy the thought bubble that
26:29he customized it with is the names of my mom and her roommates Ed Ruscha as museum shows and is shown
26:36by some of the most successful galleries in the world and so his notoriety and desirability continues
26:43to grow this letter that we see here I would put an auction estimate of three thousand to five thousand
26:49dollars the smaller sheet which is in the envelope still I would put an auction estimate of two
26:56thousand to three thousand dollars on that letter the self-portrait ten thousand to fifteen thousand
27:01dollars okay the collage also ten thousand to fifteen thousand dollars and then we have the drawing of the
27:10Volkswagen car this one really you can see where the jump off points were for the rest of his career
27:17where he's dealing with cars and text and all of the things that we really come to recognize as being
27:23what he is best known for an auction estimate on this I would suggest should be twenty thousand to thirty
27:29thousand dollars great wow that's great
27:36the fragrance garden is a wonderful spot here at red butte garden it is one of three of our terrace
27:50gardens that were some of the foundational gardens here it is designed with a central meadow and flagstone
27:57path throughout that is bordered on the outside with trees and flowering shrubs some of the things that
28:04are blooming right now are peonies perennials like yarrow all types of fragrance are present there
28:12the meadow is just a beautiful flowery place
28:19in 1952 at age 10 I started collecting cards my grandfather gave me a job of gathering snails in his
28:27garden and i was given five cents a jar and so i had cash in my pocket so i walked down to this store
28:36and bought a pack of cards opened it up there was the one card we really had never seen before there
28:41was mickey okay and it's never never been out of my uh possession you have the 1952 tops mickey mantel
28:49card number 311. mickey mantel played between 1951 and 1968 all for the new york yankees hall of fame
28:56outfielder inducted into the hall of fame in 1974 536 career home runs and one of the most popular
29:03players in the history of baseball the mickey mantel card here is the most sought after card in all of
29:09card collecting for the vintage cards it's one of mickey mantel's rookie cards the 51 bowman came out one
29:15year earlier the 52 tops still considered a rookie card i would say 99.9 of the time when cards come into
29:21antiques roadshow they're just like this they're raw or ungraded when you see this card come up for
29:27market or get valued it's been graded in the last five years all 85 of them that have sold at auction
29:34were professionally graded that doesn't surprise me you're a purist about the card being in its
29:39original state there's no question about it the market really is pushed by grid the graded market
29:44on a card like this well that's what some people think when we talk about this card and talk about the
29:49graded value versus the ungraded value the card is going to carry more value when it's graded when
29:56that card goes to the professional grader first of all they're going to verify the authenticity
30:00they're going to be able to measure it to make sure it hasn't been trimmed or altered they're
30:03also going to be able to check it under black lights to make sure it hasn't been embellished or
30:06hand colored then after all that's done they're going to assign a numerical grade on it and then
30:11they're going to encapsulate it what do you what do you think about that it's a burial put them in a
30:16coffin okay what i love about it is the coloring it's so bright and the centering is nice too when
30:24i pull out the high power magnification that's when i detect wear just a little bit on three of the
30:31corners the worst being the lower left corner so this card here in my opinion is a vgx4 okay and
30:40this card in this condition at auction they sell for forty to fifty thousand dollars ungraded well
30:49the last one that i knew august of 2022 that sold for 12.6 million if that card was right here and my
30:57card was here i'd pick my card up so that's how i put value on things because i know it's authenticity
31:03this card professionally graded assuming it gets that same grade of a very good excellent condition
31:09they typically sell at auction for 65 000 to 75 000 dollars
31:16it was my husband's grandfather's and we don't know where he got it i'm guessing that it's either
31:22used for water or i don't know that's why i'm here to find out more about it
31:31we brought in some old quarantine flags we paid a hundred dollars for both of them
31:36i think they're from the 20s but i honestly don't know yeah we're kind of curious to find that out
31:48just this last christmas my cousin was helping my grandparents go through
31:52one of their storage rooms and they pulled the stall out it looks like it never been opened or
31:58touched and my grandma was like oh it's a new barbie doll and she actually was going to give it
32:03to one of my cousin's daughters who's eight and i was like oh can i come look at it just from what
32:09my knowledge is i think this could be valuable so i was like maybe hold off on giving it as a birthday
32:14present my grandma doesn't even remember buying it probably bought in the early 70s maybe for my mom
32:20or for one of her sisters so what you have is a walking jamie doll and it's called strolling and style
32:27she's in the barbie family and walking jamie was made by mattel exclusively for sears this was a doll
32:35that you would find in the sears wish book it only came out during the holiday season and this box
32:44just really illustrates the time period even the graphics on it are very 1970s and then what's even
32:52more fun is when we take the lid off the box and surprise look at this i mean it's just like
33:00christmas day 1972 all over again never been out of the packaging still has the original cellophane over
33:08her and the colors are so vibrant this is a time capsule of the period there was one addition before
33:17her it was different colors the clothing was oranges and yellows and the dog was actually gray instead
33:23of white and they were only made between 1970 and 1972. okay and you can see jamie she's a beautiful
33:33doll i mean she's got a beautiful face and she's the first barbie's friend that they actually used a
33:38barbie mold to create her everybody else had their own mold she's got a button on her back and if you
33:45push the button she actually moves her arms and legs and turns her head okay and all this brilliant
33:52engineering was done created by a man named jack ryan that worked for mattel and he designed the barbie
33:59dolls all through the 60s and 70s value wise it's hard to find her because there just weren't that many
34:06out there and then it's just in beautiful condition they just rarely exist you're jamie her retail
34:15value would be somewhere between eighteen hundred and twenty two hundred dollars wow that's amazing
34:24thank you
34:30i've got this vintage rolex that i understand is from about 1970. here in salt lake there's a local
34:36company that does primarily online auctions but they also have a small brick and mortar retail operation
34:42i found that in there one day and they had it priced fairly high so i wanted to do some research
34:48and due diligence and ended up deciding it was worth risking the twenty eight hundred dollars that i
34:54spent on it at the time in about 2010. i really uh admired the rolex red submariners for a long time
35:01and especially the ones with the kind of the ghost number dial on the around the outside in the last
35:07few years a lot of things have changed these older models certainly have gone up in price this particular
35:12model is the 1980 it was actually built in 1970 like you said it has a special red submariner on the
35:21dial there was about 11 000 pieces made they started making the red submariner in 1967. this is like the
35:28fourth generation of this dial they made about seven different generations up until about 1976. so the watch
35:36also features a large date aperture so you have a large date it's easy to read under the water it
35:41has luminous hands markers which is also used for diving purposes then you also have the the diver bezel
35:48which is zero to 60. you could do minutes or seconds off that bezel also for diving purposes do you wear
35:55it often not very much yeah i just take it out and admire it now and then you should wear it's a great
36:00watch to put on and wear around okay i'll do that did you ever have this watch of praise
36:05uh about the time i bought it maybe a year later i had it appraised by the local rolex dealer for
36:13insurance purposes for about eight thousand dollars i can value this watch nowadays for about 25 000
36:20dollars at retail value oh my goodness wow
36:30i had no idea
36:33that's outstanding wow but i would have it appraised for close to thirty thousand dollars for insurance
36:39purposes yes for insurance purposes great okay all right i'll call my insurance man right now
36:44the bezel alone is worth three thousand dollars oh my goodness
36:52my mom grew up next door to a woman in georgia and in the early 70s she bought a player piano from
36:59her when she went to buy the player piano the woman gave her this painting also when my parents
37:04downsized my mom gave the painting to me she lives in our house now she hangs on the mantle yes she lives on
37:10the mantle this is my dad's guitar we lived in burlington vermont and my uncle came to visit and
37:20he happened to see this in a window of a music store the salesman explained that it was a very unique
37:26guitar brand new for fender as a brand new line they take an electric guitar neck and put it on a body of
37:33an acoustic guitar he loved it but he couldn't afford it so he talked my mom into buying it as a gift from my
37:40dad and ever since then they uh whenever they get together they would play for hours and hours my dad
37:46played the harmonica and they would play until the middle of the night so i have some very fond memories
37:51of this guitar with my dad and my uncle
37:53this is a silver epernet i believe it's a centerpiece for a lovely flower arrangement i inherited this from my
38:09mother who inherited it from her great aunt it's just been in the family for the last
38:1660 years any ideas on where great aunt may have gotten it she and her husband who i believe was a
38:24diplomat did live in china for a period of time i believe between the 40s and 50s and she acquired it
38:33then along with some other silver pieces you have any idea what she paid for it no no idea whatsoever
38:40now when you first came to the table i immediately thought why on earth did they send this to asian art
38:49because this is very much so a european form an english form yes and it's a pern there you go now
39:00eperns are absolutely used for flowers they're floral display vases every single one of these
39:08vases has a separate motif and looking at them my colleague then i immediately thought japanese
39:19but it's not japanese aha the plot thickens the plot thickens the english vase that looks japanese is
39:28actually chinese on the base there is a mark now every single piece comes off
39:35and when we look at the base we have a little mark
39:48aha oh i see it it says shanghai qingyun company the qingyun company was active
39:55from 1783 to between 1890 and 1900 i would say this most likely dates to the late 19th century 1880 to
40:091900 to what's uh called guangshu period in the qing dynasty wow japanese craftsmen were in china
40:19uh-huh the chinese craftsmen were going to japan because they were trying to figure out
40:24what do europeans and americans want so looking at each there's a different motif on this one we have
40:32bamboo bamboo is indicative of strength of character the three friends of winter interesting over here we have
40:42irises here we have cherry blossoms plum blossoms and finally in the center the strong pine tree
40:51is resilient and can last through the winter it looks georgian but the mark on the base tells us
40:58a different story and the decoration on it tells us a different story what i would estimate it would
41:05sell for at auction today is between two and four thousand dollars nice that's excellent thank you so
41:14much great news the family would be proud and now they might want to know who's getting it
41:25now i just wish we could put some flowers in it we could go get some yeah we might get in trouble yeah
41:32absolutely
41:36penstemon is one of the most recognizable plants here in utah there are 280 species in the united
41:42states over 100 of them can be found right here in utah they're known as beard tongue and it's because
41:47they have this long little staminoid and it kind of sticks out like a tongue and then it has this
41:53little tubular petal that makes it kind of look like a beard and it's highly specialized for
41:58hummingbirds and bees it's an incredibly adaptable plant they can tolerate wet they can tolerate dry
42:05they do prefer well draining soils but you will find some species everywhere in utah
42:12this is a painting from a local painter here that i acquired from a friend we've had it for eight or nine
42:20years my understanding was the painting was from a view of the capital in salt lake city kind of facing
42:31down towards main street which obviously would have been a long time ago and the artist gary smith this
42:39is an oil on board painting by one of the more well-known contemporary mormon artists living today
42:47he is from oregon originally but he lives around here and he's painted around here a lot and has
42:52done a lot for the temples he was actually director of the gallery at brigham young university the painting
42:58is not dated i think it it's probably from circa 2000 the artist was born in 1942 he's still active it could
43:06be topographical but i think what it really shows is this artist at his best he's very well known for
43:11his use of simple composition strong colors and forms and imbuing a certain kind of spiritual sense
43:20into his landscapes with ideas such as connection to god connection to hard work connection to the west
43:27and to the history of the american west a lot of artists their ultimate goal is to achieve something a
43:33little bit more a little bit higher something closer to the spiritual plane and and doing so
43:39using their own medium i know that this artist has written about working in that way but it's also
43:45something that's you can see it has this vibration vibration of colors vibration of movement vibration of
43:51form that just all together makes a a really whole complete artwork he's important he's important as a
43:59contemporary artist he's important as a western artist he's important as a mormon artist have you
44:03have you ever had it appraised shortly after i acquired it i was offered two thousand dollars and
44:10i said you know no it's probably got a lot more meaning than two thousand dollars a conservative
44:17auction estimate on this would be about eight thousand to twelve thousand dollars wow way better than
44:23what i was offered that's great it could go higher well thank you it brings a lot of joy
44:34after my grandpa retired he started refurbishing music boxes so he collected hundreds throughout the
44:43years and when he passed away all of the grandkids got one or two of their favorites and you said you
44:49wanted the monkey in the hat monkey in the hat all right it it was a popular one so do you know
44:54anything about its origin who made it its manufacturing date anything like that i have absolutely no clue
45:00all right well what i can tell you is that it's french it was manufactured by a firm called roulet and
45:07decamps operating out of paris they were in operation from the mid-1800s all the way through late 20th
45:15century so what we have here is a monkey in a hat and what you would do is you would wind up this
45:24mechanism right here with the key and you would depress this little button here why don't you give
45:30it a play let's see how it works there he goes there we go the monkey that is inside would pop out he
45:42would bear his teeth grin go up and down and this monkey itself is made out of animal fur likely rabbit
45:50it's got a leather face with glass eyes do you have any idea of the value what you think it might be
45:56worth i have absolutely no idea well at auction i would probably estimate it in the range of 1500 to
46:03three thousand dollars all right that's great this is my great grandfather's clock and there's a very
46:17interesting message inside i bought this clock in 1867 for 16 dollars whosoever hands it may come into
46:28he and successors can see how many generations it will go on running and it has gone on running this
46:36is a seth thomas clock and the interesting story about this clock is that if you look at the label
46:42it says seth thomas thomaston connecticut and he started in plymouth hollow and in 1865 the town was
46:49so grateful for all the people he employed that they renamed the town thomaston in the 1865 so you know
46:56that this was made right after 1865 it is in great condition and this clock would sell retail for
47:03about 550 dollars today's market that's great we treasure it
47:12this is an african-american schoolgirl sampler that was made in baltimore in 1834.
47:22i went to an estate moving sale about six or seven years ago and i saw it there and i was struck by
47:30the design i just loved it and would you pay for it 150 dollars i love pieces like this because
47:38first of all there's always a lot of information on the sampler the name of the child that worked it
47:44and possibly even the school where it was made and pieces like this almost are portals they take you
47:53back to a time and to a place and in this particular case it's baltimore and it's 1834. there was a
48:03gentleman who came from philadelphia his name was william lovington reverend lovington was black
48:10educated in philadelphia ordained there came to baltimore with the purpose of starting the st james
48:18church and he opened up in baltimore south of the mason dixon line a school for freed black children
48:30but there were children of enslaved black people the school philosophy was to teach both
48:37very very progressive very very forward thinking so let's look at this beautiful needlework you have
48:44a piece that is all silk on a piece of linen it says worked by anne elizabeth smith
48:55did you know who she was no i do not okay i found her you found her i did she was the only person
49:04with the name of anne elizabeth smith in baltimore in 1834. she was born in 1822
49:12so she was 12 years old when she made this sampler and you see it says anne elizabeth smith
49:20the first african pec that's protestant episcopal church school in baltimore november 12 1834
49:34it's beautifully done this basket of flowers the vine that runs around the whole thing and the whole
49:41canvas is filled very powerful piece so what's it worth there's only prior to today only three samplers
49:54that are known from that school that's it and one of them was made by the reverend lovington who ran the
50:01school reverend lovington's sampler looking very similar to this a little more developed yes
50:08a little more colorful is now at colonial williamsburg the other two known are also in institutions
50:16so dave you own the only one in private hands i would put a retail value on it of 75 to 85 000
50:29thank you alan thank you very much i look at this every day and every day it it brings me joy and it
50:37brings me hope and now it's time for the roadshow feedback booth i brought this utah history book
50:45it was worth like 50 bucks but it's pretty cool and i brought a bag of german pub coasters and they
50:51are worth pretty much nothing but this one has my name on it and i thought that was pretty sick
50:56and we had so much fun we traveled 900 miles to get here and we brought our steins which are worth
51:02fifteen hundred dollars and some other items worth almost five thousand dollars so we are gonna go
51:07fill these babies up and celebrate cheers i have a gary collins here from the the early 80s that was
51:16traded to my father in exchange for some upholstery work growing up my dad always said this is your
51:21college fund eric this is what's gonna pay for you to go to school turns out it's about fifteen hundred
51:26dollars on a good day you can sleep easy dad we don't need to store it with so much ease anymore
51:31we brought a 1920 silver plated cigarette holder and the guy said he thinks the dog got to it
51:41i found it at a a state sale for 25 dollars with a little case it's worth 25 dollars about this for 400
51:50it's worth seven it's a local artist florence ware and then our neighbors solicited and we were
51:56deciding whether or not we were going to stay friends with them so they sold it for 600 it's
52:00worth a thousand to 1200 so we'll be having him over for dinner we brought a political propaganda
52:07poster because i was hoping to meet nicholas lowery and i did i'm so excited
52:18thanks for watching see you next time on antiques roadshow
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