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00:00All aboard for Antiques Roadshow stop at the Georgia State Railroad Museum.
00:09I just like the color. It matches a lot of my outfits.
00:12It does.
00:13It's definitely a category where they're guilty until proven innocent.
00:30The Georgia State Railroad Museum is a hub of activity today as Roadshow welcomes thousands for a free appraisal of their treasures.
00:43The museum interprets more than a century's worth of Savannah Railroad history from 1853 to 1963.
00:52The collection includes engines, passenger cars, and iconic cabooses.
01:00Roadshow is definitely on track to finding a railcar full of treasures.
01:11We paid $10 for it at a flea market. I'm in the medical field and so I just thought it was interesting.
01:16Seems like an item you could really sink your teeth into.
01:22It's a Gibson pedal steel guitar.
01:27I think it was made maybe in the 50s, early, middle 50s.
01:30It belonged to my uncle.
01:32He used to play it in Honky Tonks up in New York near Buffalo.
01:36But he traded it to my dad for a cow.
01:39So my dad's had it since the late 60s.
01:42My dad used to play it all the time.
01:44I told my wife, she got us on the show, and I said, I got the exact thing I'm taking.
01:49I brought an original Howard Finster piece that I purchased in 1993 when I visited Paradise Gardens in Somerville, Georgia.
02:00I was a high school art teacher and I was bringing my students for the day to walk around.
02:06And at the time they didn't charge you admission. You could just walk around.
02:10And I was told that sometimes he'd be in the shop and you could get him to sign pieces.
02:15And I happened to look out that day. He was there.
02:18I saw him sitting in the rocking chair.
02:20He was very engaging and he talked for a really long time and he let us take a lot of pictures and he signed our pieces that we bought.
02:28Finster was born in 1916 and he pretty much had a religious life.
02:35Early on, he had a Baptist radio show.
02:39Oh, I didn't know that.
02:40In the 30s and the 40s.
02:42He started to create art and this garden became a destination for a lot of people that loved what at that time and still to this day they call outsider art.
02:55He operated outside the boundaries of the normal art world.
03:00In the 1980s, he did an album cover for R.E.M. and an album cover, a great one, for Talking Heads.
03:09And that's what put him on the map.
03:11And then everyone started to come to the garden.
03:14And was the garden just like overflowing with artwork?
03:18Yes, everywhere you turned. He turned anything he could grab into art.
03:22There were piles of bicycles, what people would call junk.
03:25When you read about Paradise Garden, sometimes the account is there were over 40,000 pieces of art that were installed there.
03:34It was everywhere.
03:35It's mind-blowing. It really is.
03:37So this is a wonderful little house. He used very light wood. It's almost like balsa wood.
03:42It took paint easy and he used paint and in this case he used glitter, which is kind of nice, and a magic marker.
03:50And on the back it's dated when you bought it in March of 1993.
03:56And it has biblical sayings on it.
03:59Set thy house in order. Kingdoms divided cannot stand.
04:03Families who pray together stay together.
04:06It's signed on the bottom to Evelyn.
04:09So he personalized it.
04:11In the back we see a price tag.
04:13And how much was that?
04:14$35.
04:15And you didn't ask for a discount?
04:17No.
04:18We weren't allowed to.
04:20There was a little sign that said, priced as marked.
04:22Okay.
04:23He's had a bit of a resurgence and there are a lot of new collectors that want a piece of his work.
04:29I think people are familiar with his angels and his Coca-Cola bottles.
04:33Yes.
04:34So I'm going to say in a retail setting, I feel comfortable placing a value on this somewhere between $4,000 and $5,000.
04:43Wow.
04:44Everybody says wow, but wow.
04:49I had no clue.
04:51My family's made fun of me for years with this.
04:54That ugly piece of art that I've had on a shelf.
05:00We believe it's around a 1930s Tiffany lamp.
05:04It was my wife's great grandfather's.
05:06On the actual face of the lamp there are Tiffany logos.
05:08There is a marking somewhere on here.
05:11While it is a Tiffany Studios pattern, it's not.
05:14It is not.
05:15It is not a Tiffany Studios lamp for a number of reasons.
05:18Okay.
05:19The construction for number one.
05:21They're very good facsimiles of what we call turtle back.
05:25Okay.
05:26Turtle back glass, but it's not Tiffany.
05:28And I go like this.
05:30These are tight as a drum.
05:32The originals are loose.
05:34The other thing that I notice, they would never sign this part.
05:38Decoratively, I would still say maybe $2,000 to $3,000, something along those lines.
05:43If this were real, it would have been probably around $100,000.
05:48My wife still loves it, so it'll still go up in there.
05:51It's beautiful.
05:52I just love turtle backs.
05:53I think they're one of the great types of glass that Tiffany made.
05:57This was a gift to me several decades ago from an old bow.
06:05Our relationship didn't last, and I got to keep the bag.
06:11It's a lovely gift.
06:13I have used it on occasion.
06:15I do think it's Tiffany, but I'm not sure.
06:20Okay.
06:21Well, your bag is Tiffany.
06:27It's marked on the inside.
06:29And it's circa 1910, maybe 1915.
06:35And it is gold and platinum.
06:38The lighter color stripes are platinum.
06:41Wow.
06:42There's a lot of beautiful chased work on the frame.
06:45And in the center, you have a group of demantoid garnets and diamonds.
06:52Inside, there's a small chain.
06:54At one point, the bag had a little change purse that was attached, but that's missing now.
07:00The chain handle is also gold.
07:04Wow.
07:05The retail value on this beautiful bag would be between $20,000 and $22,000.
07:12No way.
07:13Oh, my God.
07:16I had estimated maybe $3,500 just because of the gold and the cost of gold today.
07:25Yep.
07:26But I had no idea.
07:27Yeah, it's over eight ounces of gold.
07:29Wow.
07:30If it were to be melted or scrapped, it would still be worth $19,000 gold weight.
07:37Just in gold.
07:38Yeah.
07:39It's not a very popular style anymore, so it's not a quick seller.
07:44Otherwise, there would be more of a difference between the gold value and the retail value.
07:51You're welcome.
07:53Yay.
07:54It really is.
07:55It is.
07:56And I've enjoyed it when I've taken it to fancy places.
07:59The Georgia State Railroad Museum is a place with a long industrial history.
08:04The Central Georgia Railroad had its repair facility at this location.
08:09Much of these facilities were built in 1855, and it continued operating as a steam locomotive repair facility all the way to 1963.
08:18The steam locomotive repair facilities, their entire purpose was to provide the routine maintenance and major repair work for specifically steam locomotives.
08:27It was Savannah's largest employer for many years.
08:30They were able to have everything that they needed to repair and maintain steam locomotives all in one location.
08:37These belong to my great grandfather.
08:42He lived in Leicester in England, and as a child, I used to go visit him, and he had a house full of antiques.
08:50When he passed away in 1973, my mother inherited them.
08:54My parents emigrated to the United States in the 70s, and in one of their moves, these got lost.
09:02She just passed away this last year, and we found them in a storage unit in November.
09:08So your mother passed away thinking that these were forever lost and she would never see them again.
09:12Yes.
09:13They were in a box labeled kitchen utensils.
09:15What do you think these are?
09:17When I was growing up, they were always referred to as the Sevre vases.
09:21The Sevre factory started in 1740, and in 1756 they moved to Sevre, which is on the outskirts of Paris.
09:31These are very typical of what we would expect Sevre porcelain to look like, especially if we look at the hand-painted designs.
09:38The raised gilding, the ram's head handles is very typical of Sevre porcelain.
09:44So when we look at what we think might be Sevre porcelain, we have to look at all kinds of things.
09:49When I see a Sevre mark, they're almost always fake.
09:54In fact, I would say 99% of the Sevre marks that I see on porcelain or pottery are actually fake marks.
10:01Oh, wow.
10:02So it's definitely a category where they're guilty until proven innocent.
10:07So the quality of the painting is quite nice.
10:10If we turn it, we see on the backside there is another scene, a pastoral scene of a landscape with trees and so forth.
10:19The one near you is a little wobbly.
10:21And because it's a little wobbly, I don't want to spin it.
10:24Okay.
10:25It's a little precarious, but the back scene is very similar, complimentary, but different.
10:31If we turn it over, we do see a hand-painted Sevre mark, but we can see that this is actually made of pottery and not soft-paste porcelain.
10:43So even though there are other things that might suggest that these could be authentic Sevre, Sevre didn't do pottery.
10:49Right.
10:50So bam, they sadly were not made by Sevre.
10:53Okay.
10:54These are antique hand-painted pottery, Sevre-style urns.
10:59I would guess that they are late 19th century.
11:02They could be early 20th century.
11:05Who made them?
11:06Don't know.
11:07I'm going to guess that they're British.
11:09Okay.
11:10But they could be French.
11:12Both lids have damages.
11:14This lid has like five chips on it.
11:17And there's a little bit of gold ware.
11:19So with damages, I would think a retail value for the pair might be in the range of $400.
11:23to $600.
11:24Okay.
11:25Lovely.
11:27I have purchased it a couple years ago from Wayne Klein Estates and didn't know much about it.
11:40But I heard about the artist, which is Beverly Buchanan.
11:43And I know she was a well-known artist, so I decided I would purchase it.
11:47I know she was a black artist.
11:48It was from a...
11:49Wayne Klein Estate.
11:50He was the printer.
11:51The printer.
11:52Yes.
11:53This is a color lithograph by Beverly Buchanan.
11:56And it's called Happy Shack from 1987.
12:00Beverly Buchanan was born on October 8, 1940.
12:04And she died at the age of 74 in 2015.
12:08She is not known as a printmaker.
12:11So it's really exciting to see a work of Beverly Buchanan in this form as a color lithograph.
12:18I could see it's Beverly Buchanan right away because of what she's depicted here.
12:24The shack.
12:25Exactly.
12:26These shacks.
12:27She grew up in the South and she saw houses like this in the South.
12:31She was a scientist and she worked in public health in New York and New Jersey before becoming an artist.
12:38And when she started to work as an artist, she always went to this image, the images of these shacks.
12:45But she's probably best known for doing sculpture.
12:48Little models out of painted card and wood that represent these shacks.
12:55So this was exciting to see a big color lithograph by Beverly Buchanan.
13:00And it's signed by the artist.
13:02It's annotated artist proof with a number.
13:06And it comes from an edition.
13:07There's an edition of 50 of these made.
13:09And then typically there's a certain number of artist proofs that are set aside.
13:14And some are often kept by the printer.
13:17So that's why when you went to this estate, the printer's estate, they had this still.
13:23That was sometimes a way to pay the printer.
13:26They got to keep some of the prints.
13:28And the colors are super bright.
13:30Each of the colors in a color lithograph is printed separately.
13:33They overlap.
13:35So it's almost like a stacking of all these colors to arrive at this image.
13:39As far as I know, this is the only lithograph she made.
13:42But it's in a number of museums.
13:46But this has also never come to auction before.
13:49I couldn't find any auction results.
13:51What did you purchase it for?
13:53I purchased about $500.
13:55Because, like I said, I liked the color in it.
13:57And I knew she was a black artist.
13:59Yes.
14:00Because she had passed away.
14:01And I knew that one day it would be worth money.
14:05I would estimate at $5,000 to $7,000.
14:08And I would be not surprised if it sold for much more.
14:12It would have a lot of interest at auction.
14:15Okay.
14:16Wow.
14:17Good to know.
14:18I would insure it for at least $10,000.
14:20This is what I believe to be a late 16th century halberd, I think from Germany.
14:33I bought it about 10 years ago on an auction site in London.
14:37It's hung on my wall for so many years.
14:39And I thought it would be the perfect thing to bring to Roadshow just because of just how unique and cool it is.
14:45I paid I think around like $800.
14:47So, no small sum, but hoping to get good news today.
14:51This is our family violin.
14:53And it's been handed down to Madison, so it's now hers.
14:57It's been in the family since the 1800s.
15:00Do you all play violin?
15:02No.
15:03We're hoping Madison will.
15:11This was my mother's.
15:12My mom and dad had moved from Detroit down to Colorado Springs.
15:16And they fell in love with the Southwest.
15:18And mom got into collecting turquoise and Indian jewelry.
15:22And this is Navajo, but she had also Hopi and Zuni and usually got the pieces in Santa Fe or Taos.
15:30I was probably in middle school when she got this, so I don't really know what she paid.
15:35You have a Navajo squash blossom necklace here.
15:37It's made out of silver and turquoise.
15:39It dates to about 1930.
15:41This was probably made for the trade.
15:44During the first half of the 20th century, there was a heavy tourism in Santa Fe in the Southwest because of the railroad system.
15:52The Naja in the center is a Spanish design that was adapted by native peoples in the Southwest and Plains.
16:00The original form was used on horse bridles and it would have been on the center of the brow band.
16:05And then it was later adopted into the squash blossom necklace.
16:08The squash blossoms are the little pendants along the side here.
16:11These are very stylized ones.
16:13Typically, they're a ball bead that flares out.
16:15Your beads are handmade beads.
16:17So they made the beads in two parts.
16:19And if you look at them really closely, you'll see that the metal points outward.
16:23So they would dome them and make them in two parts and then punch them from the inside.
16:27You see the seam and then they were welded together.
16:30The Naja is a hammered technique.
16:32It's a more traditional silver technique.
16:34Any idea on its value?
16:36In 2021, my brother, little brother, got a verbal just somewhere around $2,000.
16:43So at auction, I would expect this to sell in the $2,000 to $4,000 range.
16:49If you were to insure it, I would insure it in the $5,000 to $6,000 range.
16:54$5,000 to $6,000.
16:55It's a lovely, lovely early example.
16:57Okay.
16:58All right.
17:03My mother had two bishops as her grandfathers.
17:08And their children went to China as missionaries around the turn of the last century.
17:12They married and set up a household in China.
17:15Every day, my grandmother and her sister walked to the market.
17:18And they passed a Chinese antiquaries dealer.
17:21They wanted a Ming vase, and we are told this is a Ming vase reportedly.
17:26And after about five or six years, they wore the gentleman down and they bought their Ming vase.
17:31How long have you lived with this?
17:32About 25 years.
17:33I'm here in 1999.
17:35What city were they in?
17:36They were in Shanghai.
17:37This was probably purchased in about 1920.
17:40It's kind of a pear shape in the bulbous part of the body.
17:43There's a mask, and that's called a Tao Tei mask.
17:47T-A-O-T-I-E.
17:49So it's literally a monster mask.
17:51And that's something that was characteristic of ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels.
17:58When I say ancient, we're talking about archaic vessels from a very early period of time, roughly around 1000 B.C.
18:05Around the neck, there's a very complicated design.
18:09It's kind of a wave form.
18:11It's referencing ancient Chinese jade carvings.
18:16And on the foot, you'll see this grid-like pattern, which is something that would have been seen on ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessels of a much earlier date than the Ming dynasty.
18:28It's a reasonable assumption to be able to say this is from the Ming dynasty.
18:33It's very possible with additional research that it might be something that we could actually push back to an earlier date.
18:39On the inside here, on the wall, what do you see?
18:43It looks like it's been repaired.
18:45It looks like a break marked in the surface.
18:48It does.
18:49And then as I turn this, now the outside, it's a jagged patch.
18:55If I violently knocked this off, and it fell onto a stone floor, and it happened to have a handle that was a curved handle starting here.
19:05It knocked the handle off.
19:06One would expect at auction this to realize somewhere in the $5,000 to $8,000 range.
19:11Okay.
19:12That's what my wife said, so there you go.
19:14It wasn't my $50,000 that I wanted.
19:18Well, that's wonderful.
19:20It's excellent.
19:28My grandmother owned a retail furniture store.
19:31I think it may be a chair she bought that reminded her of the antique chair that she knew growing up.
19:36So I came to find out how old this might be.
19:38Excellent.
19:39And where was your grandmother from?
19:41Titusville, Florida.
19:43So the great-grandmother lived there with five sisters, and the story was that each sister had a chair like this.
19:48And when they got married and moved away, they took the chair with them.
19:50It's a great, sort of what we call it, a twig-form Adirondack chair made of some bent hardwood.
19:57This looks like a combination of ash and oak and interwoven twig branches, which is absolutely killer.
20:06I love Adirondack camp furniture.
20:09This, to me, feels like it does have some age.
20:12This is probably 1920s to 1950s.
20:15It's got good color, good form, great condition.
20:18If this were to come to auction today, I would put an estimate of $500 to $1,000.
20:23Do you guys use it at all, or...?
20:25It stayed in a garage for at least 20 years.
20:27A garage? What?
20:29You've got to pull it out.
20:31Put it in a place of honor and rock on it.
20:33There's nothing better than a good rocking chair.
20:35Isn't that comfortable?
20:37That's great, yeah.
20:39I believe it is a wedding bouquet holder that was given to my great-grandmother at her wedding in 1869.
20:51It was found in the attic as we were cleaning out my father's estate.
20:55You were the first one that showed me that those legs opened up.
20:58We've been scared to move it around too much.
21:02So why do you think they open?
21:04So that it could stand at the table at the wedding afterwards.
21:06Yeah. So do you know what these are called?
21:08No.
21:09Okay. So they're referred to as a Tussie Mussie.
21:12Tussie Mussie, okay.
21:13Yeah, that's quite a name.
21:15So also like a posie holder or nosegay holder made in the Victorian era.
21:19So the dates of your ancestor fit in perfectly.
21:22Queen Victoria was on the throne from 1837 to 1901.
21:27But the form originated in the Middle Ages.
21:30Really?
21:31There were odors of the day.
21:33So you would have a small bouquet mixed with flowers and herbs
21:36that you'd be able to have with you on your person at all times.
21:39Excellent.
21:40To rid the odors.
21:41And at the time, again, these sort of, you know, odors were thought to sort of carry disease.
21:45So you'd protect yourself.
21:46But it became really popular during the Victorian era because Queen Victoria used one.
21:51You'd hold it in your hand so there's a little ring here which you could put on your finger
21:56or women of the day would wear a chatelaine which was sort of a group of accoutrements
22:01that they'd wear from their belt or sash.
22:03Okay.
22:04And there's also a pin so you'd be able to pin it to your clothing.
22:06And at the time, too, there was sort of this language of flowers, silent language of flowers.
22:10Okay.
22:11So depending on what flowers were in the bouquet, it could have a meaning.
22:16Yes.
22:17So you've brought up a note with you.
22:19Yes.
22:20What is that?
22:21The note is inscribed by my great-grandmother and we felt it was rather racy saying that
22:25this was given to her on her wedding day by her lover who was actually her husband.
22:30Oh, good.
22:31That was a question I had.
22:33It would have been racier if it hadn't been her husband.
22:35Absolutely.
22:36I didn't see any markings on it.
22:37It's made out of a filigree, fine wire of silver.
22:40It's either silver or silver plate.
22:41Value-wise, it's a funny item.
22:43They're not usable in today's society as much.
22:46My sense is at auction, you'd be looking in the $300 to $500 range.
22:50Interesting.
22:51For insurance purposes, you can see them online for upwards of $1,000.
22:55Very good.
22:56Thank you so much.
22:57Yeah.
22:58Learned a lot.
22:59Well, this is a painting by Mr. A.E. Backus.
23:02He was a South Florida artist.
23:04And when I was growing up in Coral Gables, Florida, he would stop by our house in an old car and pull a painting out of the trunk and knock on our door and try to sell it to my father.
23:15And sometimes he'd buy it and sometimes he wouldn't.
23:17And he would also tell Mr. Backus what he would like in a painting for a future painting.
23:22When I was very young at the time, he just seemed like an older man when he came to our house.
23:27He was just in love with his paintings.
23:29When my dad passed away, I chose to get this painting because it was different than other paintings I'd seen from Mr. Backus because it was not an Everglades scene.
23:37It was a scene of a woman picking peas.
23:41How many did he have in total by the artist?
23:44He probably had about five or six paintings.
23:46My brothers have a couple.
23:48Do you have any idea what your father may have paid for this painting?
23:51I think hundreds of dollars, not more than a few hundreds of dollars.
23:55And approximately what time period would that have been? Any idea about?
23:59In the 60s.
24:00This is an oil on canvas painting by Albert Bacchus, also known as Beanie Bacchus.
24:05He is really the best known 20th century painter of the Florida landscape.
24:09He is known as the Dean of Florida Painters.
24:12He, of course, is known for the wonderful landscapes of the Everglades, also just Florida life in general.
24:19He went on to be a real sort of mentor.
24:22He would just host parties and bring artists together and created a real energy around that South Florida art market.
24:30There's a very famous group of Florida artists, the Florida Highwaymen or the Highwaymen.
24:35They are really the best known folk artist group of Florida artists.
24:40There's 26 African-American artists that he mentored the founders of that.
24:45Alfred Hare and Harold Newton are the two best known Florida highwaymen.
24:49And they traveled around Florida a lot of times with paintings in their trunks of their cars selling the colorful landscapes.
24:56And they were very influenced by Albert Bacchus.
24:59Now, he was really self-taught for the most part.
25:02He did take some summer art classes.
25:04This one is particularly interesting because he had an unfortunate personal event in 1955 when his wife passed away, his wife of only five years.
25:15And it really took a toll on him.
25:17And he went to spend some time in Jamaica.
25:19And so he started painting some new subjects while he was there in Jamaica.
25:23This painting is called Shelling Gungo Peas.
25:26That title is on the back with a date of 1966.
25:30You have a figure who is quietly sitting.
25:34And it kind of evokes that solitude that he may have felt after his wife passed away and he went to spend some time in Jamaica.
25:41His paintings have become quite popular, as have the paintings of the Florida Highwaymen.
25:45We see them continuing to go up in value.
25:48An auction estimate on this painting today, I would say, should be $15,000 to $25,000.
25:54That's quite a lot. That's very nice.
25:57Just looking at it in this light is beautiful and brings back a lot of memories of my childhood and my father wanting these paintings.
26:04I love it very much.
26:07Just a minute.
26:09An insurance value for this painting, I would put at $35,000.
26:13Okay. Thank you very much.
26:16This old iron horse is the Central of Georgia locomotive number 223.
26:22The steam engine was manufactured in 1907 by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Pennsylvania.
26:28It had a long run pulling freight cars and was traded to the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad, but returned to Central of Georgia when it was retired in 1952.
26:38Number 223 came to the museum in 1998, where it has undergone three restorations and is a centerpiece in the collection.
26:51The story that I received was that it was a relative of mine who is a great, great, great uncle, and he was a prisoner of war.
27:04He was a Confederate, was captured and sent to a place called Johnson's Island on Lake Erie.
27:12It was for officers and they evidently had pretty much free reign and were allowed pastimes like carving.
27:20He made this while he was a prisoner there and then presented it back home when he was released.
27:28The gentleman was interned on Johnson's Island.
27:31Yes.
27:32Which is a bit unusual within the Civil War prison system in the north.
27:35This is an island off of Sandusky, Ohio.
27:38Yes.
27:39In Lake Erie.
27:40They designed this in late 1861, opened it in very early 1862, and they were running it through the end of the war.
27:48Of all those individuals to go through, about 200 passed on from exposure, disease, and the things that normally hurt people during the war.
27:57Sure.
27:58It was considerably nicer than most other Civil War prison situations.
28:04The value that is associated with it, both decorative, historical, monetary, does not really change because it's Union or Confederate made.
28:14It's just simply, it's a piece of Civil War prison art and they're all of considerable interest to people who collect that material.
28:22This one is of considerably more interest in my opinion because of the beauty of the work.
28:26It's a nice open work box.
28:29You can see it's got the open work details on the front and on the top.
28:34And just an absolutely gorgeous thing.
28:36It seems to have seen happier centuries.
28:39Yes.
28:40It looks to me like your hinges may have been replaced.
28:43There are a couple of replacement nails and somebody went wild with the wood glue down in there.
28:48Much as we might have done something a little differently, that has kept it together.
28:53And open work like this is pretty fragile.
28:56We've got a couple of cracks in here, one right here, one right here from expansion.
29:01But on the whole, there's nothing that threatens it structurally or aesthetically.
29:07It's a beautiful piece.
29:08You're looking at a piece that would have an auction estimate between $2,000 and $4,000.
29:13Wow.
29:14Okay.
29:15Well, it's not for sale.
29:18No, it's going to stay in the family.
29:24That's a little surprising to me.
29:26So, that's fantastic.
29:28This is one of the most intricate and interesting Civil War pieces that I've ever run across.
29:33I was in Florida at an antiques auction in Palm Beach, Florida.
29:42I purchased a space there.
29:43It was from a really nice estate.
29:45When you were at the auction, did they give you any ideas of what it might be or you just
29:50like the color?
29:51I just like the color.
29:52It matches a lot of my outfits.
29:54It does.
29:55You are correct.
29:56It's rather fabulous.
29:57It's a large base, very bright and colorful.
30:00A glass blower would have taken the molten glass and then rolled it into gold leaf.
30:07As the flakes are inset within the glass, they start to melt.
30:12And then you get kind of those striations to it.
30:15It's actually signed, hard to see, on the base here.
30:19Oh, okay.
30:20And it's Dôme Nancy France.
30:22Okay.
30:23So, you have a French base made by Dôme.
30:25Are you familiar with the Dôme manufacturers?
30:27I've heard of them, but most of the time the pieces I've seen have been more of cameo type glass.
30:32Yes.
30:33I've never seen anything like this.
30:35Yeah.
30:36Most people do think of them as cameo glass, and that's generally earlier.
30:40And this was done during the Art Deco period, so after the cameo.
30:44Okay.
30:45So, you're looking at around 1920s for this base.
30:47Oh, okay.
30:48So, what's great about this is it's an unusually large size.
30:52In the marketplace, generally, we see them smaller come up.
30:55Oh, okay.
30:56What did you pay, may I ask?
30:58$400.
30:59That's a decent price.
31:00Right.
31:01I think it's worth a little bit more in today's market.
31:03Oh, okay.
31:04Okay.
31:05When was that?
31:06How long ago was that?
31:07It was, I wouldn't say two or three years ago.
31:08Okay.
31:09Okay.
31:10If this were to come to auction today, I would say it would bring between $1,000 and $1,500.
31:14Great.
31:15So, you did well.
31:16I did.
31:17Good eye.
31:19I love it.
31:25These are some Rollins baseballs from the World Series that never was because of the baseball strike.
31:30It was 1994, and we were reps for Rollins at the time, and they got the instructions to destroy the baseballs.
31:37Management gave us all the reps a box of the World Series baseballs, and we have a few left and one signed by Terry Pendleton.
31:45This is a piece that I saw in an online auction during the pandemic.
31:56This is a bowl, so that is the lid, and I believe it's a medicine bowl.
32:02I paid $400 for it.
32:04The shipping was actually more than the bowl.
32:07This was a gift to my husband from his grandmother.
32:13She worked for American Smelting and Refinery.
32:16When medals came in from whatever wreck they would analyze them, they were working on it, and they kind of grabbed pieces, I guess, and she wrote all the notes on it.
32:25May 6, 1937, that was the day that the Hindenburg came into Lakehurst and was circling for a landing.
32:31And from accounts that were eyewitness accounts, it seems that they saw some sort of flapping in the skin of the ship first.
32:40Apparently, a gas leak was taking place.
32:43They think static electricity hit that, and it wound up killing 36 people.
32:48The ship went down in flames in a field in Lakehurst, and these are some of the remains.
32:52They did an investigation, Germany and the United States.
32:55A lot of the pieces were reclaimed to Germany.
32:58People were on the fields just grabbing souvenirs.
33:01Pretty terrible, but that's what was happening.
33:03And it really knocked the faith in air travel down for Americans and for people around the world.
33:09So what you have on the board here is three reproduction photos, and it shows the Zeppelin before anything happened, circling.
33:16You can see where it combusts, starts the fire.
33:20And on the ground here, you can see the flames and the debris.
33:24You have some ribbing, struts, interior portions of the Hindenburg, which are large portions, including some of the canvas.
33:32Not the exterior canvas, but interior.
33:34You would think in the Inferno, those would have been destroyed.
33:37It's an unusual size piece and shape piece.
33:40At auction, I would put an estimate on this conservatively at $3,000 to $5,000 for the piece.
33:47That's crazy.
33:48Yeah, sounds crazy, but people are really hot on buying pieces like this.
33:54Anything related to history, and this is pure history.
33:57Nice.
33:58Pure history, yeah.
33:59So crazy, we just threw it in the closet.
34:01There you go.
34:02Well, the closet was a good safe place to keep it.
34:04Yeah.
34:05I have brought in a letter that was written by my husband's great-grandfather.
34:19He was in the Ford Theater when Lincoln was shot.
34:24And that next day, he wrote a detailed account of the shooting to his sister, Hattie.
34:31And it's been passed down.
34:33At one point, it was tacked up to some high school bulletin boards, and they realized, oh, it might be too precious for that.
34:41It is an eyewitness account of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater on the night of April 14th, 1865.
34:49And we actually know it's written in the evening of April 15th because he mentions that Lincoln has already died.
34:56He's shot the night before, and he lingers the next day, but then he dies about 730.
35:02It's really well written.
35:03It's really vivid.
35:04I'll read just the first paragraph to you.
35:07Dear Hattie, I'm too excited and nervous to write or compose a letter after having witnessed and been subject to the shock of the most horrible and atrocious murder history records.
35:18You will probably receive the painful intelligence ere this reaches you of the murder of President Lincoln and the attempted assassination of Secretary Seward.
35:26Yes.
35:27Have you ever noticed anything weird about this letter?
35:29I didn't.
35:30He doesn't know who did it.
35:32He doesn't mention Booth.
35:34He doesn't.
35:35He doesn't know yet.
35:36No, you're right.
35:37He talks about the dastardly character who did this terrible deed but doesn't know his name yet.
35:42Right.
35:43Other people knew it.
35:44I mean, it really is as if a teen idol assassinated the president.
35:49Like, Booth was famous and handsome and a stage star.
35:52Right.
35:53So people in the theater saw him, but it wasn't public knowledge yet.
35:57Oh, wow.
35:58And he didn't know.
35:59Right.
36:00And then he sort of closes with the shock that one would feel after a really terrible national disaster.
36:10Yeah.
36:11A letter like this sort of breaks a lot of the rules of manuscript collecting because usually the first thing we ask is, who's the author?
36:18Who signed it?
36:19Right.
36:20This is a letter where content trumps everything else.
36:23A few letters in the past couple of years of eyewitness accounts have sold, but they were written by somebody who was at the theater across the street and came out and saw Lincoln.
36:34Oh, I see.
36:35It wasn't in the theater.
36:36Or it was written 10 days after the assassination, not right when he learned that Lincoln had died.
36:41Oh, I see.
36:42Yeah.
36:43So there's a real immediacy here.
36:44I would put an auction estimate of $20,000 to $30,000 on it.
36:50Wow.
36:51And it probably would blow way past that.
36:53Wow.
36:54I would suggest that you insure it at $40,000.
36:58Okay.
36:59We were thinking a couple hundred dollars.
37:02No.
37:03It's amazing.
37:04I'm very surprised.
37:07This is a clock I got from my uncle after he passed away.
37:11He went to flea markets and garage sales.
37:14We rented a limousine and put it in the back with all three seats down.
37:18It's seven and a half feet tall.
37:24Okay.
37:25It's a sculpture.
37:26How much did you have to pay for it?
37:28About 30 bucks.
37:29And it says 1991, a Michael Ganman?
37:35I've never heard of him, so I don't know.
37:42I brought a sweatshirt.
37:43It was my dad's.
37:44He got it at an Aussie concert in San Bernardino in 1982.
37:48You've seen your dad wear this, because look how tiny it is.
37:51Yeah, yeah.
37:52He was a small dude.
37:53He was 15, so it's been a while.
37:55Okay, fair enough.
37:56Can't fit in it anymore.
37:57Probably not.
37:58You ever rocked the sweatshirt?
37:59I used to wear it a ton, but not recently.
38:02Very cool.
38:03So obviously as blatant as it is on the front, yes, this is a concert sweatshirt for Ozzy Osbourne.
38:08Really interesting when we look at the graphic on the back, you'll see Blizzard of 82.
38:13The Blizzard of Oz tour was actually 1980 to 1981.
38:17Didn't happen in 1982.
38:191982 was Diary of a Madman.
38:22So that makes the question, how did this sweatshirt come into fruition?
38:26We are confident that this is actually a parking lot bootleg of a sweatshirt.
38:31Correct.
38:32So when you look at the graphic, there's no licensing.
38:35There's nothing that says, like, official property with a year for a record label.
38:38This sweatshirt is actually more desirable because it is a bootleg.
38:42It would have had an extremely low production.
38:44Conservatively, at auction, this would be a $400 to $600 sweatshirt today.
38:49Wow, that's really surprising.
38:59I bought this piece back in about 1985 in Athens, Georgia at a thrift shop.
39:05Do you know where it's from?
39:06No.
39:07I don't know anything about who made it or, you know, what part of the country or anything.
39:12It's from the Great Lakes area.
39:14It's made by the Chippewa Indians.
39:17In Canada, they're referred to as the Ojibwe,
39:20and they refer to themselves as the Anishinaabe,
39:23the people who are the original ones of that area.
39:26It's one of the largest tribes in North America and Canada.
39:29This is called a bandolier bag, made by a woman.
39:32A man would wear this across his shoulder, along his side.
39:35Anybody who saw that man wearing this would instantly know his tribal affiliation.
39:40And the man would put all sorts of things in the pouch, fire-making materials,
39:46maybe potions to keep him safe.
39:48The woman who made this had a certain brilliance for design.
39:51The color combinations are exceptional.
39:53Do you know where the beads are from?
39:55No.
39:56Venice, Italy.
39:57Are you serious?
39:59And all of these cloths are imported from Europe.
40:02You have all this white background in what's called lane stitch,
40:06and they're just laying down horizontal lines.
40:09But notice the pattern on the flowers.
40:11It's all what's called contour beading.
40:13This is not the first bandolier bag that you made.
40:16This is special.
40:17We can date this in a variety of ways.
40:20The beads, particularly these clear beads,
40:22came into the Great Lakes region around 1880, 1890.
40:26The floral arrangements have developed from very abstract forms to figurative forms,
40:32and that too helps date it, maybe right around 1880, 1890.
40:36These geometric patterns going up and down the sides and across the top,
40:41those are called patterns of power.
40:43And in abstract form, they replicate the footprints or patterns of an otter trail.
40:49Otters are very special creatures because they inhabit two domains,
40:53both the underwater world and the land world.
40:56And that was considered quite special.
40:58So this is a protective design empowering the person who's wearing this.
41:03And then all of these floral elements, they're not just decorative flowers.
41:06They're representations of herbal healing power.
41:10So there's a lot of symbolism going on here.
41:12This bandolier was longer at one time, and the lady reduced the size by maybe eight to ten inches.
41:19At some point, it got passed on, perhaps to a smaller person.
41:23And that kind of suggests how much it was a treasured object.
41:26It wasn't going to be discarded. It wasn't going to be packed away.
41:29Do you recall what you paid for it?
41:31I think I paid about $30.
41:32I think on a retail basis today, this would sell for about $1,800.
41:36Okay. Okay. Thank you.
41:38And if you were insuring it, maybe about $2,400.
41:41Okay.
41:42I love it.
41:43I love it.
41:44Oh, I do too. Thank you very much.
41:51This caboose was built by the Central Georgia Railroad.
41:54It was one of many cabooses that they built in this series.
41:58This caboose was built in the 1930s and was in service into the 1950s.
42:03The caboose had many functions on the train.
42:05It was the break room for the crew. It was the kitchen. It was the bathroom.
42:10There's always a spot on the caboose where the crew could watch the train in front of them
42:14to see if there were any problems.
42:16And the most common question is, why is it red?
42:19The answer is for safety and visibility.
42:25I found it on an auction site, Smart Tiffany & Co.,
42:28and that it was made by Longines for Tiffany & Co.
42:31And I thought, let me grab that real quick, because it was priced super low.
42:34And I get the thing in the mail, and I see that it has someone's name written on it.
42:37Mary Corbett Warner's name, she lived in Odessa.
42:41Where's Odessa?
42:42It's in Delaware.
42:43It's called the Sharp Warner House, I believe, in Odessa,
42:48that she had given to the state of Odessa.
42:51When I was reading more and more about it, her family just became so interesting.
42:56I guess they'd hid a slave there from the Underground Railroad.
42:59I followed up on your story, and the Corbett House is a famous house.
43:03It's a museum now in Odessa, and it's actually a National Historic Site.
43:08The story about the Underground Railroad is also correct.
43:12So this is by Tiffany & Co.
43:14They've been around since 1835, very prominent designer company in New York.
43:19It's sterling silver with niello.
43:22And what they did was they would engrave this silver out and put this material niello in there,
43:27and they'd bake it on there to give it this beautiful look.
43:30So I opened it up, and I saw the signature in there, the Mary Corbett Warner.
43:34And it's dated 1911.
43:36However, I do believe that the watch is from the late 1800s.
43:41So it also comes with this chain.
43:44It is original to the era.
43:46I don't necessarily know that it's Tiffany.
43:48There's no marks on that indicating that.
43:50It's gold-filled, meaning it's covered in gold, basically gold-plated.
43:55Still in great condition, and it has this nice little opal set in the slider there.
44:00Can you tell me what you paid for it?
44:02360.
44:03How much do you think it's worth?
44:05Oh, goodness.
44:07I would imagine maybe 600 bucks.
44:10I believe that in a retail environment, it would sell for around $2,000.
44:15Yay!
44:17I would hug you.
44:18I don't know if...
44:19In a minute.
44:20I would hug you.
44:21I would jump over the table and hug you.
44:22That's awesome.
44:23I went to law school at Emory University in Atlanta.
44:34And every spring, a group would go to a Braves game.
44:37And it just so happened we chose the Braves game where Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home
44:42run record.
44:43After he hit the home run, the ushers passed out a certificate to prove that you were there.
44:49I stapled my ticket stub to it.
44:52And a short time later, I was able to send it to Hank Aaron to get him to autograph it.
44:57I think you're the first person I've ever met that was actually there that day.
45:01What can you tell me about that game, about the atmosphere?
45:04It was early April.
45:05The weather was not good.
45:06I'm not sure they would have played the game but for the chance to break the record.
45:11So it was a sold out stadium, but cold and cloudy.
45:14When he came up to bat, everybody was standing.
45:16And when he hit the ball, you knew it had a real chance.
45:19So you were just waiting for it to go.
45:21Mm-hmm.
45:22So the emotion built as the ball went out.
45:25Yeah, waiting for it to clear that fence.
45:26Yep, clear that fence.
45:27After he hit the home run, the stadium basically cleared out because of the weather.
45:32So with your certificate here, you've neatly handwritten the event as the certificates were
45:36issued blank.
45:37And then you have your ticket stub that you kept from that day.
45:40And then the nice Hank Aaron signature, he was so kind as to sign and send back to you
45:44there lower center.
45:45So your certificate, can you read for me what it says?
45:48I was there when Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run to pass Babe Ruth as the top
45:55home run hitter in the history of baseball.
45:58April 8, 1974, Atlanta Stadium.
46:02And then he ended up hitting another 40 home runs to finish at 755 home runs for his career.
46:07And Aaron's lengthy career, he started in 1954 and played through 1976.
46:13Aaron had many obstacles to break Babe Ruth's record, including the hate mail and the death threats
46:19that he received as he was on this journey to be the home run king.
46:23And then he holds onto that record until Barry Bonds came along, dethroned him as the home run king
46:28by breaking that record on August 7th of 2007.
46:34Have you ever had it evaluated before?
46:36No.
46:37It's the first time I've had it looked at.
46:39Yeah.
46:40Well, it was a wonderful thing you did to keep the stub and to send it off for an autograph.
46:44And I can tell you that that autograph is authentic, which you don't always know when you send off a request by mail.
46:50It's true.
46:51There are situations where there are secretarial signatures or other non-malicious copies.
46:56But in this case, I can confirm the signature is authentic.
46:59Great.
47:00I'm surprised that there weren't more of these certificates that have come to auction, considering it was reported as a sellout at 53,775 people.
47:08But who knows, by the time they handed the certificates out, who knows how many people were still there if the weather was poor.
47:14Yeah.
47:15I would put an estimate on that at auction at $2,000 to $2,500.
47:21Wow.
47:22Amazing.
47:23But I'm keeping it.
47:24I don't blame you.
47:30I got these G.I. Joes for Christmas when I was about 11 years old.
47:35So they had been about 1967 or so.
47:39Camouflage uniform, fatigues from Vietnam, the Marine uniform, World War II uniform, snowshoes, white helmet, white boots, radio, an old-timey World War II hat.
47:51What's left of a flamethrower that I used to have.
47:54The flamethrower that went with that, the snow parkas, two machine guns, all kinds of rifles, a little .45 caliber handgun.
48:01And for the snow guys, I got their ice picks.
48:04Just a collection of stuff that I've saved for over the years.
48:10This painting was done for my dad, Harold Olsen.
48:12He played football with Ernie Barnes in the 60s.
48:15They played for the Denver Broncos.
48:18And they became friends.
48:20And when they would go away for games, they were roommates and things.
48:23He would come over for lunch a lot.
48:25And my mom would fix food and fix sandwiches and things.
48:28And they had a place in their living room.
48:31It was a big empty wall space.
48:33And my dad said, hey, Ernie, can you paint me a painting?
48:36And he said, sure.
48:37And this is what he came up with.
48:39From what I was told, Mr. Barnes is from North Carolina and Dad was from South Carolina.
48:44So they bonded that way.
48:46They were just really good friends.
48:48And this was just something that a friend gave a friend.
48:50Oh, excellent.
48:51Excellent.
48:52That's a beautiful example.
48:53It's very unusual because Ernie is famous for his paintings of football players, basketball players, party scenes, and so on.
49:01This is the first time I've seen a landscape painting by Ernie.
49:04Ernie Barnes was born in 1938 in North Carolina.
49:08He died in 2009.
49:10He's an African-American artist as early as elementary school.
49:13He showed talent and promise.
49:14He actually excelled at art in high school.
49:17And he was an art major in college.
49:19He was a lineman for the Denver Broncos.
49:22And I think your dad was too, right?
49:23Wasn't he an offensive lineman?
49:25Yes.
49:26Yeah.
49:27So they both were on the offensive line together.
49:28For me, it's an interesting contrast to see the game itself is known as a kind of a violent game
49:33with all these collisions.
49:35And yet, at the same time, he's this painter.
49:38And even throughout the entire time he was playing, he was still painting.
49:42And I was reading, and he was making more money selling his paintings than he was playing football.
49:47Here we have, like, this serene landscape, probably in the fall based on the colors,
49:52which I think shows a whole other side of him.
49:55It's an oil on board.
49:56It's six feet by two feet, and it's signed by him right there.
50:01Just Ernie.
50:02Normally, he was signed at Ernie Barnes.
50:03Right, right.
50:04But this is an early painting.
50:05This was painted, I want to say, in the 60s.
50:07And I asked my dad one time, how long did it take?
50:09He said about a month.
50:10Oh, okay.
50:11There's a photograph of you as a child.
50:14Tell us about that.
50:15Sure.
50:16That was taken in 1964.
50:17And it was the painting in the background.
50:19And the sofa, that was the place that mother wanted the painting.
50:22And I just remember laying on the sofa, looking up at this painting, and it was just so serene
50:27and so peaceful, because this was definitely not something you would see in Colorado.
50:32It's unusual so that it's hard to come up with a comparable, but I think I would put an auction estimate
50:39on this of anywhere between $85,000 and $95,000.
50:43And now, it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:56We came hoping that our picture would break the bank.
51:00But instead, I broke the glass in our print.
51:03Womp, womp, womp.
51:04We still have fun, thanks to Antiques Roadshow.
51:07And this is my mom's candy dish.
51:10My sister was going to put it in a garage sale, but I told her no.
51:14Jackie, guess what?
51:15It's worth at least $100.
51:17I brought my whole Garfield collection.
51:20And here at Antiques Roadshow, Garfield is at large.
51:24I brought my granddad's Buffalo Soldier patch from the 1940s.
51:29He served in Italy during World War II.
51:32It's not worth very much price-wise, but I'm very proud of my granddad and the greatest generation in his history.
51:39We brought my mother's ring that she passed on to me, and my sisters told me it was fake.
51:46But we found out today that this is not fake.
51:49This is a real, genuine sapphire, and it's worth between $5,000 and $8,000.
51:53So there you go, sisters.
51:55Woo-hoo!
51:56We have the mask from the Perry Mason Show, but when it came to value, we got no dough.
52:02We have this painting that she bought from, where did you buy this?
52:06At a yard sale, and I thought it was a great, surreal painting, and apparently it's just great to me.
52:13But we still love it.
52:14And also...
52:15Which are also not worth anything, but they make me beautiful.
52:19Thanks for watching.
52:22See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
52:24Antiques Roadshow.
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