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00:04Antiques Roadshow has come ashore at the Coastal Main Botanical Gardens in Booth Bay.
00:10You had this one framed beautifully. Why this one?
00:13Because my wife said to.
00:15That's good. That's very good.
00:36On a small peninsula on the rural coast of Maine, you'll find the Coastal Main Botanical Gardens, the largest garden
00:43in New England.
00:46After 30 years of touring, it's Roadshow's first visit to Maine, and we couldn't be more pleased to see folks
00:53with their prized belongings coming in today.
00:58The garden's flowers are bursting with vivid colors, while our experts are bursting with excitement to see all of the
01:04treasures here in the Pine Tree State.
01:16So this is a pair of candlesticks that were gifted to my great-grandmother and great-grandfather after they got
01:25me.
01:25He was a veteran of World War I and ended up being critically wounded and was in hospital in London
01:33for months and months.
01:35And after he was out, he sent flowers and chocolates to all of the nurses, and only one sent a
01:40thank-you note back, and it turned out to be my great-grandmother.
01:50It's a gift from my father, who was a Pan Am pilot from 1940 through 1975.
01:58And he made the acquaintance of a reservation supervisor, and the guy gave him a year's worth of posters like
02:08this.
02:08And how many of them do you have?
02:11I think we brought 14 with us, and there's about three or four more that we've already given to members
02:17of the family.
02:18And yet you had this one framed, and framed beautifully. Why this one?
02:23Because my wife said to. That's the first thing.
02:27The intent for this was to be mounted in a bathroom that has similar coloring, and it seemed to fit
02:33perfectly.
02:34And we loved the colors plus the airplane, Boeing 377, which at the time was their most luxurious airplane flying.
02:44I am so happy that you are plain familiar, because part of the glory of this poster is the aircraft
02:53itself.
02:54Boeing 377 Stratocruiser.
02:56Right.
02:57One of the most luxurious. Double-decker inside. It was the lap of luxury. One of Pan Am's great vehicles.
03:03I believe they flew from 1947 through 1963. Did your dad pilot one of those?
03:09No, he did not. However, I have ridden on one with him en route to Europe one time, and it
03:17is beautiful.
03:17There was a lounge, a first-class lounge down at the bottom of the airplane. It was really nice.
03:22Amazing. They called it the golden age of travel, and that's really why.
03:25It was, yep.
03:26It was also the golden age of travel posters, and this is a Pan Am airline travel poster from 1949.
03:33And it's by a Russian-American artist named Boris Artsy-Bashev. He did a lot of magazine covers, so Time
03:40Magazine, Fortune Magazine.
03:42He also did a lot of corporate work for Xerox, for Shell, and for Pan Am.
03:48And this poster, advertising travel to Bermuda, which depicts Bermuda as this verdant island in the midst of this delightfully
03:56azure blue ocean.
03:59We have the capital of Bermuda, Hamilton, indicated by the star.
04:04We have this, dare I say, sexy mermaid sort of emerging from the water, as the island does, almost embracing
04:13it.
04:14She's also holding these absolutely wonderful Bermuda Easter lilies.
04:18Now, what I don't see is that this poster should have white margins all the way around it.
04:25So perhaps when it was framed, those margins were covered over simply for aesthetic reasons.
04:31And I'm hoping that they're still there.
04:34They are.
04:35They are still there.
04:36So we were told.
04:37Yes.
04:38And so you're telling me. So, what is this piece worth?
04:44Hopefully more than the frame.
04:48Begs the question, how much did you pay for the frame?
04:52About $700.
04:54$700.
04:55Hmm.
04:57I admire how much you love your wife.
05:01Uh, and how you do what she says, and I think that's great.
05:04Assuming that the margins are still here, at auction, I would estimate this piece between $8,000 and $12,000.
05:14Seriously?
05:16Wow.
05:19That's frightening.
05:21That a piece of paper is worth that much.
05:25If it turns out the margins aren't here and what we see is what we get, it would still be
05:30a $4,000 or $5,000.
05:31Wow.
05:32Very impressive.
05:33Yeah.
05:35We call him Neptune Man, and the rest of my family really thinks I'm crazy for buying him.
05:42Um, I paid, put your hands over your ears, honey.
05:45I paid about, um, it was about $700.
05:49Yeah, I know.
05:50But I loved it.
05:52I just, what can I say?
05:55Well, I know that my great-grandfather was the first employee of the Atwood and McManus box company in Chelsea,
06:02Massachusetts, way back when.
06:04Um, and I know a number of members of my family work there as well.
06:09One of my relatives took the sign.
06:14Here you have Miss Louisa, and I have known Miss Louisa since I was about five years old.
06:20I have a picture of my mother and Miss Louisa together, and the picture was taken in 1920, when my
06:28mother was about five years old.
06:29And this was in Pennsylvania, where my mother grew up.
06:32So, other than that, I know my mother played with her, obviously, because she was holding her.
06:37I was not allowed to play with her.
06:38She was just to sit quietly under the Christmas tree and look very serene and spiritual.
06:44So we know she's been in your family since at least 1920.
06:47Correct.
06:48So Miss Louisa is about 100 years before that, almost.
06:53Oh, wow.
06:53So Miss Louisa comes about 1830.
06:56That's wonderful.
06:57Yeah, so she is an American papier-mâché.
06:59And there's a cloth body that's all hand-sewn under here.
07:02And these dolls are usually Philadelphia, East Coast area.
07:06She has a body similar to some of the dolls made in Philadelphia, which were Griner dolls,
07:11with these individual-made fingers, individual-stitched toes.
07:15It is a papier-mâché.
07:17These were handmade, hand-painted.
07:19A lot of times you see ones that are very feminine-looking.
07:22This one's a little more masculine, but we do know it is a female because of that part
07:26in the middle of her face there.
07:28She would have been a special, special-mean doll.
07:31So not cheap, meaning that she made was $5 as opposed to $1 back then, which is a lot
07:37of money.
07:38Miss Louisa, in her condition that she is in, and obviously her clothing has gotten old,
07:43but it's her original clothing.
07:45And 1830s is a long time ago, so we don't expect her to look new or pristine.
07:49Her value at a doll show would be anywhere from $2,500 to $4,000.
07:54Oh, my!
07:55Oh, that's wonderful!
07:56My kids will be super pleased.
07:59And my mother would be, too.
08:09So we're in the Giles Rhododendron and Perennial Garden.
08:13It was the first garden that was designed and planned here at Coastal Maine Botanical
08:18Gardens, and it's the pristine location for rhododendrons and their companions.
08:23Just because of the location on this gentle slope, rhododendrons prefer that type of
08:30habitat and cultural conditions, where we have the well-drained soils, and they've just
08:35performed really well here.
08:37And we're fortunate to have over 175 different varieties of rhododendrons and also rhododendron
08:42species as well here in this garden, and it's absolutely spectacular.
08:50This is a cast-iron birdhouse.
08:53I remember my grandparents' house.
08:55It was mounted on a post out in the yard.
08:59As a little kid, we would play, and it was always there, birds around it.
09:03What is so cool about this is it's not just any house.
09:08This is Clifton House.
09:10And Clifton House is a house that still exists to this day in Roslyn Harbor, New York, on Long
09:17Island.
09:17Clifton House is a Flemish Gothic Revival-style home by architect Frederick Copley of New York,
09:24constructed in 1862 to 1863.
09:27Just a few years later, in 1868, the Miller Iron Company in Providence, Rhode Island,
09:34made this model of Clifton House as a birdhouse.
09:38It is stamped Patent 1868, and it is likely either made that year or very shortly thereafter.
09:46The Miller Iron Company would have issued this birdhouse in plain cast iron, and so this was
09:53later painted by someone, and this red roof with green detailing and white brick sides would
10:00have been an appropriate color scheme probably in the early 20th century when this entered
10:06your family's possession.
10:08Clifton House, as it is today, is not painted in this color scheme, and we don't know if
10:14it was ever painted this color scheme, but this is such an important example of American
10:21Gothic Revival decorative art that examples of this have entered museum collections, including
10:27the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
10:32City in their American wing.
10:34And examples have appeared at auction, but none of them, except one example I have been
10:40able to find, have this what I believe to be original open work base that you have under
10:47the birdhouse, where this would then be mounted on a pole outside for a birdhouse.
10:52Right, right, right.
10:53The house is held together by a long central screw.
10:59Here in the back, we see the top of it near the mark of the Miller Iron Company of Providence,
11:05Rhode Island.
11:06We can see the occasional small lacking element.
11:09There's a small piece of this stair banister that's missing, and a couple of lacking chimney
11:17pots, a couple of other very small lacking elements.
11:19But overall, it's still an amazing condition, considering its age.
11:23I would advise you to insure it for $12,000.
11:28Wow.
11:29Really?
11:31I will definitely do that, because right now, it's just sitting at home on a shelf, you know,
11:37catching dust.
11:38So, that's awesome.
11:39Yeah.
11:40Unbelievable.
11:41Always been a dream to be here, so that's awesome.
11:48So, this is a Gibson L5.
11:50It's custom, from what I understand.
11:53My great uncle's wife's brother had polio when he was a kid, so he needed a special kind
12:01of guitar.
12:01And we think it's maybe 50s, 60s.
12:08So, this is based off of a fish that my grandfather and my dad caught.
12:12Back in the early 70s, when my dad was about seven years old, I believe, and my grandfather
12:19had it stored in a freezer for, like, over two years.
12:23And his brother took the fish out of the freezer one day and just told him he tossed it.
12:27But he actually sent it over to a local Wayne artist to have this fish carved.
12:32As far as we know, like, a scale replica of that fish that they had.
12:37Today, I brought a cream pot forged by Paul Revere in a diary belonging to Thaddeus Harris
12:46and his portrait.
12:47So, it's interesting that there's a contemporary journal.
12:50And he was the son of the person who actually, of the man who owned this cream pitcher.
12:54Yes, William Harris.
12:55So the diary is depicting the night that they left Charlestown because they got intel that
13:01the regulars were coming.
13:02When you say the regulars, that means the British Army.
13:06The British Army.
13:07So, they grabbed a bundle of important papers and some linens, some silver plate, this cream
13:17pot, and some spoons.
13:20And obviously, the wife and children and the mother-in-law and fled to Lexington.
13:27They didn't stay there long because the Battle of Concord in Lexington had just happened.
13:31Um, on April 19th.
13:34What year was that?
13:351775.
13:36Okay.
13:37And so, they left Lexington and went out to Stirling Mass, where they felt that they were
13:43safer.
13:44Okay.
13:44Paul Revere, of course, is the one maker of colonial silver that any collector would really
13:50want to have.
13:51And by colonial silver, I mean silver made before America became the United States when it was
13:57still the 13 colonies and owned by England.
14:00Mm-hmm.
14:01Paul Revere was a silversmith in Boston.
14:03His father had also been a silversmith.
14:05This picture was probably relatively new at the time that this incident occurred.
14:11It's a neoclassical in style.
14:14It's a helmet-formed picture.
14:15And it's got some very lovely engraving on the outside of it with some initials as showing
14:20who it belonged to in the family.
14:22And then the mark of Paul Revere Jr. on the back of the foot.
14:26Mm-hmm.
14:27A similar creamer sold this year, 2025, for a little over $25,000.
14:34I think with the archival material that you have, the story of it relating to having been
14:40something that was saved from being stolen by the British Army, makes it a very interesting
14:46story and adds some value to it.
14:48I would say that if this were to come up at a public auction of American silver, the picture,
14:54combined with the archival material and the miniature portrait, would bring in the neighborhood
14:58of $25,000 to $30,000.
15:02And as it's property of your family and has historical importance to your family, I'm sure
15:06you're not going to sell it.
15:08So I would put an insurance value of $40,000 to $60,000 on it.
15:13Wow.
15:14That's amazing.
15:25I've had it probably 15 years or so.
15:28Came from my father's basement after he was deceased and his grandfather made it, who immigrated
15:34from Sweden into Maine with my two-year-old grandmother.
15:39When was this?
15:401888, they came to Maine.
15:41Okay.
15:42And they pretty much settled in Stockholm, Maine, where he started a business.
15:47He built some boats and he had a cottage on Madawaska Lake.
15:50He eventually had a store and it was like a stagecoach stop where wayfaring travelers would
15:56stay there and maybe get a meal.
15:58He spoke no English.
15:59He made this, I'm guessing, about 1900, maybe a little bit before.
16:03Yeah.
16:04It's a Swedish soldier.
16:05I was told it's a uniform from like 1865.
16:10I'm just guessing that perhaps my great-grandfather had it on his store.
16:15Maybe he was trying to reel in some customers or something like that.
16:19Yeah.
16:19That's a really good guess.
16:20It's sort of a trade figure that he had out in front of the store to attract people in.
16:25Again, this is solid wood.
16:27The bottom of his jacket is made out of some sort of painted oil cloth.
16:32His cross belt here is probably gold foil that was pressed onto the surface and his little
16:39metal here or his medallion here is also gold foil.
16:42The belt is leather and someone has punched out that piece of metal to make a military-style
16:50belt.
16:50It's fabulous.
16:51It looks like it was at one time very blue, if you can see the blue color here.
16:57Everything about this just screams quality.
17:02What we all love about it is the surface.
17:05It has never been cleaned.
17:06It has never been repainted.
17:08And that's what folk art collectors just love to see.
17:11It's the original surface of the figure.
17:14You can see in the guy's face the bumping, the little crackling from where the varnish
17:21is aged and shrunk and same things on the paddles here.
17:26I mean, that's fabulous.
17:28That alligatoring like that comes from age.
17:31There's a story that you have about this.
17:33What did you do with it?
17:34The family's got a place on the lake in central Maine and it was really windy.
17:39That was yesterday.
17:41So I wanted to put it on the dock because I wanted to see how it behaved.
17:44It had some movement.
17:45His arms didn't go flailing or anything like that, but he twisted it in the wind a little
17:49bit.
17:50I had to keep my foot on the base because I didn't want him to take a swim.
17:54But that was the first time really I've ever spent any time with a young man.
17:58So we all put our heads together and thought that a good auction estimate for this figure
18:04would be $8,000 to $12,000.
18:08Interesting.
18:10If it were an American figure, we would probably have doubled that estimate.
18:14But it's a great figure.
18:16It's the best whirligig that I've seen in 29 years on the roadshow.
18:20Don't put it out on the dock anymore.
18:22No, it was just an experiment.
18:24He twisted a little bit in the breeze.
18:25So do I.
18:29These are my grandmothers, our grandmothers.
18:31She was born in about 1895.
18:34It's her porridge bowl and cup.
18:37It's got her initials on it.
18:38It's very precious to us because it's gone through all four of my children and 11 grandchildren.
18:44So it's a little, it didn't sit in the cupboard.
18:48It's been used.
18:49I'm going to see if anybody else loves it.
18:54So this chair was left in my parents' basement by my brother-in-law.
19:00What I do know about it is it's a high-frequency therapy chair.
19:05It would have electrodes that you can connect to your hand, ultraviolet vacuum tubes, and
19:13a lot of things I don't understand.
19:15So I'm not a, I'm not a doctor, and even if I was, I probably wouldn't know this medicine.
19:22It's pretty old.
19:28This was my grandfather's watch.
19:29He was in the Navy.
19:31I'm not exactly sure how he came about owning it.
19:34Mm-hmm.
19:34I know it's a Rolex.
19:35Okay.
19:36Other than that, I don't really know anything.
19:38The watch is a Rolex GMT.
19:40It's called a pointed crown guard, which means that the guard that holds the crown comes to
19:47a point.
19:47That was the early version of the GMT.
19:50It's a model 1675.
19:52The hands appear to be original.
19:55The bezel insert, which is called a ghost bezel.
19:59This would have been blue and red, and over decades of wear, it's faded, and now the term
20:05is called a ghost bezel.
20:07The most interesting thing about it is the dial, and the dial is now called a tropical dial.
20:13The dial would originally have been a black, gilt dial, and over the years, it's oxidized,
20:19and the lacquer has turned, and it now has a absolutely gorgeous color of sort of a honey
20:25brown.
20:26That's lovely.
20:27I just thought it was dirty.
20:28So if you followed the rules, and you sent the watch in, as Rolex would say every seven
20:33to ten years, that dial and hands and insert would have been changed out at least one time.
20:40He didn't follow the rules.
20:41No.
20:42And you're lucky at this point that he didn't, because when you had service dials, they're
20:47just worth a fraction of what an original dial was worth.
20:50So it would appear that this dial has been on since the watch is new, which was probably
20:54right around 1960.
20:56You can't tell if the crystal was original or not.
20:58It's very scarred.
21:00Yeah.
21:00It's been on there for decades.
21:02The bracelet is an oyster bracelet.
21:04Now there's a date code on the bracelet, which dates it to the summer of 1968.
21:10Oh, wow.
21:10So the watch would have been about eight years old, and more than likely he, for whatever
21:15reason, changed the bracelet out.
21:16Okay.
21:17It's the original style bracelet, and all the bracelets during that time period all looked
21:22fairly similar.
21:22Oh.
21:23It showed two time zones simultaneous.
21:25Oh, okay.
21:25So it was used by a lot of service people, and they were sold in many of the Army and
21:30Navy
21:30stores throughout the world.
21:32Okay.
21:32It would have retailed for somewhere between $275 and $325.
21:36What do you think of value?
21:38Honestly, I thought like $1,000 maybe.
21:42The retail value of a watch in this condition would be in the $40,000 to $45,000 price rate.
21:50Are you kidding me?
21:51You guys really like to go for the shock value, don't you?
21:56That's crazy.
21:59I'm going to be very careful about where it goes when we get home.
22:03A watch with a service dial and service hands would be worth in like the $15,000 to $16,000
22:08price range.
22:09Wow.
22:11This is an original illustration done by H. A. Ray for the first Curious George book.
22:17It was drawn in Paris just before the start of World War II.
22:21So, 85 years ago, the German army was approaching Paris, and the Rays, who were German Jews, managed
22:31to escape on bicycles that Ray made himself out of bicycle parts, and they escaped with
22:39this drawing in their backpack and made it out of France and eventually to America.
22:44My father worked for the Houghton Mifflin Company that published the first H. A. Ray books, including
22:50Curious George.
22:51He became sort of like an uncle to us children.
22:54He was a wonderful character, and so when I got married, he gave it to us as a wedding
22:59present.
22:59What's your favorite thing about this illustration in particular?
23:02I like the happiness Curious George and the whole escape of the Rays from Paris are intertwined.
23:10They got into serious trouble in Paris and escaped, and all the Curious George books have
23:15the same theme of Curious George getting into trouble and escaping and then finding happiness,
23:21and here he is finding happiness in the zoo.
23:23So, the work is dated from 1940, but it also is inscribed to you when he gave you the gift
23:29on your wedding.
23:30It says, to Christopher and Mary Jane, with love and all good wishes from the Rays, July
23:3720, 1968.
23:40H. A. Ray and Margaret Ray were both from Germany.
23:44They, I think, knew each other when they were quite young and then kind of got reunited later
23:49in life and ultimately got married in 1935 and moved to the very romantic city of Paris.
23:55As the war went on, it did become a little bit too dangerous for them to stay, and the
24:00story of them getting out is remarkable.
24:02On bike, with not very much at all, and only five manuscripts with them.
24:08So to have something that came out of that time, left Paris with them, he thought prized
24:14enough to bring along and to have that then given to you many years later to, I'm sure
24:20he entrusted it to you and was definitely feeling like it was a special thing to pass on.
24:25The work is a combination of charcoal, watercolor, colored pencil on paper.
24:32On the back, there is an inscription.
24:34It says, Christopher, this is the original drawing for the end page of the first Curious
24:42George book, done while we were living in France, ancient history, isn't it?
24:48In the larger market of the art world and illustration art, this has everything going for it.
24:55It's from the first book.
24:57It's the final illustration.
25:00George is having so much fun and that smile.
25:03It's what we all think of when we think of Curious George.
25:06They don't come to market a lot, so they're also kind of quite rare in that way.
25:11An auction estimate would be $15,000 to $25,000.
25:15Okay.
25:17That's great.
25:19An insurance value should be $30,000.
25:22Okay.
25:23Great.
25:24I'll call my broker.
25:26Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is known for its beautifully cultivated spaces and wild areas.
25:32But these incredible, colossal trolls, built by Danish artist Thomas Dambo and over 150 local volunteers, have a gigantic appeal.
25:43This installation is called the Guardians of the Seeds, and so each troll represents a different part of the tree.
25:49And they're spread out so people have to walk through the woods to find them.
25:53And there's a really nice kind of story and lesson that goes with them about the importance of trees and
26:01biodiversity and protecting the ecosystem.
26:03But Thomas' art is so fantastic and magical that it kind of, you don't even realize that you're learning these
26:12lessons and that you're appreciating why protecting trees is important.
26:16They're giant.
26:18They're giant.
26:18I mean, the biggest one here is 35 feet high, so that is the size of a tree.
26:22And they're built out of recycled wood, so pallets, castoffs from mills in Maine.
26:30The faces were built in his shop over in Denmark.
26:34So in order to build the trolls, it was a community effort, and that's a big part of Thomas Stambo's
26:39ethos and a big part of what we do here.
26:48This is an, I believe, ambrotype political pin from Abraham Lincoln.
26:54He's without the beard.
26:56I believe it's from 1860, and it's been in my family since my great-great-grandfather who lived in Searsport,
27:05Maine, and it's been passed down through my grandmother's family to me.
27:09And what was his name?
27:11Edwin Sargent.
27:12Okay.
27:13He must have purchased it or acquired it during his lifetime.
27:17So it's a campaign pin.
27:18It was used for his campaign in 1860.
27:21He came to New York to do a lecture at Cooper Union.
27:25He had his new $100 suit on, which I think is close to $4,000 in today's money.
27:33That shows you that he really wanted to make himself very presentable and be seen in the right light, but
27:42historians said that he still looked very frumpy in his suit, so I guess maybe it wasn't worth it.
27:47But he had his photograph taken by a very famous photographer, Matthew Brady, who is known for producing some of
27:56the best photographs that we have of Lincoln today.
27:59Now, the photograph that was originally taken shows Lincoln from the knees up.
28:05So it's a very large, almost full-length portrait and obviously has been cropped down here to fit this format.
28:13This was the first time that photographs were used for a presidential campaign to promote a candidate.
28:20And it played a major role because this image by Matthew Brady was hugely popular, made into postcards, put in
28:30Harper's Weekly, and I mean, it was everywhere.
28:33So the back paper tells us that even though the photograph was taken by Matthew Brady, the amber type itself
28:38was made by George Clark.
28:40He's the one that was actually responsible for turning this image into the campaign pins.
28:46And unfortunately, that part is ripped. And then we look at the front and these photographs were extremely susceptible to
28:57flaking of the emulsion off of that glass plate, which is what makes an amber type an amber type.
29:04So unfortunately, there is a little bit of loss there. But overall, I think that the saturation of this image
29:11is really nice for its age.
29:13The brass mat is in really good condition. These photographs are very rare. We don't see very many of them
29:21at all.
29:22Definitely under 50, probably under 30. There's one in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
29:29Really, it's going to come down to how saturated that image is, how punchy it is, and the condition of
29:36that information on the back.
29:37So it's really the full package. I'd say at an auction, probably $12,000 to $18,000.
29:44Wow. Wow. That's amazing.
29:47I think it's really special.
29:48Nice. Thank you so much. I'm so honored that it was passed down to me.
29:53I've seen photographs in the campaign pin format sell for upwards of $30,000.
30:00It's my dad's guitar. He acquired it back in 1963. His mother bought it for him at a music store
30:09in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
30:10And it had it shipped to him at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia that same year.
30:16And this is your father with the picture right next to you?
30:18Yes. So this is a picture of my father from the talent show that he was in at Langley Air
30:25Force Base that he won.
30:26He looks pretty happy right there.
30:28He's a very happy guy. Yeah.
30:30You have, indeed, it's a 1963, I checked the serial number, Martin D28, which is kind of the workhorse of
30:39the Martin line ever since the early 1930s when the first one was made.
30:43It's called a dreadnought shape. It's a big, booming, great guitar. Even today, they still make the same guitar.
30:50It's kind of the go-to guitar for bluegrass and folk music. It's probably the best-known acoustic guitar in
30:58the world.
30:59Martin moved from Germany to New York City in 1833, where he made guitars up until they moved to Nazareth,
31:08Pennsylvania, where they are today.
31:10It's constructed of a spruce top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides and a mahogany neck.
31:17The Brazilian rosewood is rare wood and is on the endangered species list now, but it was really Martin's go
31:25-to back and side wood for all of their high-end guitars.
31:29So this is an incredibly nice condition. It really looks near mint. He must have really taken care of this,
31:38wiped it down every time he used it.
31:41Every time. And I was not allowed to play it at all. Or if I did, I mean, it was
31:45very, like, five minutes.
31:46You had to sneak it. As wonderful as the Martin Guitar Company is and was, back through the 50s and
31:54the 60s and the 70s,
31:55these guitars almost always needed a neck set almost brand new out of the factory.
32:02And that's the one issue with this guitar is it really does need a neck set, meaning that the string
32:08action is quite high as it comes down the fingerboard.
32:12And I also mentioned that the nice bright green of the interior of this case, you don't see that too
32:18often either.
32:19The case is original and beautiful and the guitar is original and beautiful. Do you have any idea what he
32:25paid for it?
32:25His mother paid $269.50 for it back in 1963.
32:321963. Yeah.
32:32This guitar today, that retail, would bring between $12,000 and $12,500.
32:40Come on. Wow. No way.
32:44Yeah, no, really.
32:46Holy. Wow. I am shocked.
32:49It's really one of the nicest D28s I've ever seen.
32:52No, come on. Yeah, beautiful.
32:53He's going to be so excited.
32:56It came from my mother's neighbor's house.
32:59I actually had the opportunity of cleaning the house out after the neighbor passed away.
33:03And I found this large doll collection and this was in it.
33:07It's a Ricky Jr. doll, which is like Lucio Ball and Desi Arnaz's child.
33:13Eyes closed.
33:15I think it does make a noise.
33:23This is a tabletop butter churn with a dasher.
33:28I got it at an auction.
33:31It came in a lot with another butter churn.
33:34I think I paid about $85 for both.
33:37I don't really know a lot about butter churns, so I thought I'd bring it and find out.
33:48It's my wife's grandparents' clock purchased by her grandfather.
33:53My wife remembers it always being in the house growing up.
33:57I know it's J.E. Caldwell.
33:58I don't know if he was the manufacturer or if he was more of a importer and reseller.
34:03Well, he was actually a retailer and his retail shop in Philadelphia became the biggest in the city.
34:11They became very well known for selling clocks of the highest grade.
34:15So the case form is called a bracket clock.
34:17It's a form that was made for a couple of centuries.
34:21This is the Victorian example, meaning that it was probably made about 1880 or so.
34:26It represents the best of its category in terms of having a very solidly built robust mechanism with fusee compensation.
34:37It has a number of features which are displayed here on the dial.
34:42Here you have a shut off for the strike portion of the clock.
34:46You can turn this clock silent so it just ticks.
34:49Or you can turn it on and it'll do the quarter hour striking as well as the hour striking.
34:54And then the center dial here actually is for rating the clock.
34:59So temperature is a variant that affects clocks greatly.
35:04Warm rooms, they slow down. Cold rooms, they speed up.
35:07Instead of having to turn this clock around and actually adjust the pendulum,
35:10you can do some fine adjusting from the front of the dial.
35:13The case is mahogany, the finest wood.
35:16You can see that it is wonderfully adorned with all kinds of brass appointments,
35:22full Corinthian capitals on the fluted columns, chased feet with roses, applied swags, other flowers and florals.
35:32And here you have this classical theme just below the dome.
35:36Five finials with floral tops.
35:39It's just absolutely over the top in terms of quality.
35:42And the tune selection helps us date the clock.
35:44One of the tunes is Westminster and of course Big Ben was installed in 1859.
35:52And that sound of the quarter hour striking became synonymous with clocks of this period.
35:58And this clock has that so we know that it had been made after that.
36:01So it was top of the market, just an absolute fabulous piece.
36:05That's great.
36:06In its current state, in a retail setting, this probably has a value of somewhere to $3,000 to $4
36:13,000.
36:14Once it's serviced, this clock should easily make somewhere in the $6,500, $7,000 price range.
36:21Oh, that's great.
36:23This is a denim jacket that was owned by my dad when he was a kid.
36:27He was born in 1936, so it likely would have been his parents that would have gotten it for him.
36:32He was probably seven or eight-ish and I think it just got put in a closet.
36:36I know my grandmother held onto it for a long time and then my mom had it for a number
36:39of years
36:39and I've had it for a few years since then.
36:41So this is what we call a type one Levi's denim jacket.
36:45And the years that you were giving seem about in line with what I was thinking,
36:49which is likely late 30s, early 40s.
36:52And there's a couple things which indicate that for me.
36:54So firstly, this cinch on the back right here is in silver.
37:00In silver means that it wasn't during World War II when they started making these more of kind of a
37:05bronze color,
37:06as well as during World War II, they eliminated the pocket flap.
37:10So just kind of rationing as much as they could.
37:12Okay.
37:12The buttons would have also been different if it was a World War II version.
37:16They changed the buttons to be kind of donut buttons that you would have seen on military uniforms.
37:20Another thing which helps me pinpoint the date is the Levi's tab here, the red tab, which is very iconic.
37:26The fact that it only has Levi's written on one side.
37:29Also, it's Levi's with a capital E here, which people in denim and vintage world refer to as a big
37:36E tag.
37:37So all sources indicate that it is late 30s, early 40s.
37:42So Levi's originally was making what they call the 506 XX blouse.
37:47And that was kind of the first shirt jacket that they were making.
37:51The next iteration, the type twos, which were introduced in 1953, have two pockets,
37:57but the same silhouette overall, kind of boxy and cropped.
38:01And then afterwards, in 1962, they introduced the type three jacket, which is kind of the modern trucker denim jacket
38:07that we see today,
38:08with the two pockets, has the slanted seams running down.
38:11And also, it's a little bit longer length.
38:14There are a couple of features of the type one as well.
38:15You can see these pleats here, which are actually stitched shut.
38:19That allowed for some size adjustability, as did the cinch on the back.
38:23There's a couple of really strong points about this jacket.
38:26Firstly, both here and in Japan especially, Levi's is the pinnacle for people who collect denim,
38:32as they more or less invented riveted denim clothing.
38:35It's not necessarily the rarest, but it's the most collectible brand.
38:37Other than the kind of 1905, 506 blouses and ones from that era, these early type ones are kind of
38:44the most sought after kinds of jackets.
38:46It's also a great color.
38:48It still has this deep indigo wash.
38:50There's a little bit of fading at points you'd expect, like on the elbows and around the collar.
38:54But overall, this is a strong kind of dark wash color.
38:57The last thing I'd say is very strong about it is the fact that the pleats haven't been cut here.
39:01The downside is it's a smaller size.
39:04These days, there's fewer people that can wear what might have been a normal medium or large or something in
39:09the 1940s.
39:11So taking everything into consideration here, I would think at an auction, an estimate of 3,000 to 5,000
39:19would be about right.
39:21Wow. That's awesome.
39:24That's really cool.
39:25I think my dad would be proud to know that, and I know my family would be proud to know
39:28that.
39:28We'll certainly take care of it.
39:33Supposedly, it was my mother's grandfather, which would be my great-grandfather.
39:38And I know my grandmother had it stripped and varnish, so that probably ruined it.
39:49Well, all I can tell you that's really correct is that I got it through my father, who was in
39:58World War II in the Indochina Theater.
40:00And for seven years, we got a bundle of boxes from that area to our home in Tennessee.
40:11And this is but one of them, probably the smallest of them.
40:16So I inherited this when my uncle passed away in 2011.
40:21In somewhere around 1952 through 1955, maybe longer, I'm not really sure.
40:28My uncle worked at I. Miller Shoes in Fifth Avenue in New York.
40:32He was art director, and while he was there, he hired a freelance artist, Andy Warhol.
40:38And I believe this piece was given to him as a sort of thank you gift.
40:44I remember he said when he met Andy Warhol, he said he was wearing torn dungarees and his hair was
40:51disheveled.
40:52But he said his portfolio was fantastic, so he obviously hired him.
40:57This is a wonderful window into the early work of Warhol when he was, like you said, a young graphic
41:04designer.
41:05This is before the Warhol, most of us know, and it has a dedication up at the top.
41:10So this wonderful artwork is entitled Happy Butterfly Day.
41:15It's a hand-colored print. It was made in 1955.
41:20Warhol liked to use mechanical reproduction techniques, so he reproduced his ink drawings.
41:26Originally, this was based on a drawing, and then he made an offset lithograph of his drawing, so he could
41:33have multiple copies.
41:35We don't know the edition size of this.
41:37But then he later hand-colored ones like yours to give to people, and so they became each unique again
41:47because they have each different hand coloring and different qualities, different colors.
41:52I think one of his colleagues also received one of these, and my uncle said that that colleague threw it
41:59away because they, of course, Andy Warhol was not a known artist at the time,
42:04and then years later was very upset that he had thrown it away.
42:10I'm sure. Well, he may be even more upset after he watches the Antiques Roadshow.
42:16Okay.
42:16The story that you have of this direct connection to the artist is clear, and he did give these to
42:22people,
42:23and so the lucky ones have these dedications in ink, and then yours has this wonderful signature at the bottom,
42:31and a really strong ink signature with a small inscription.
42:36I'm not sure what those numbers represent. It might be his phone number.
42:41So most of these aren't signed, and some are hand-colored, but yours is hand-colored and signed and dedicated
42:50by Warhol,
42:51which really makes it just a wonderful example of this great pop artist at this early point in his career.
42:58It shows a little bit of its age. It has some handling marks, some things that could be improved with
43:05a little paper conservation,
43:06but the colors still look strong to me. So at auction today, this could do very well. I would expect
43:12a value between $10,000 and $15,000.
43:15Really? Wow. Okay. That's surprising to me, just because it's a personalized note. That's great. Wonderful.
43:24That's what makes it special, actually. It's the personal dedication as well as the signature.
43:30You inherited this from someone who worked side-by-side with Warhol. Those stories are priceless.
43:35Yeah.
43:38For centuries, the Wabanaki people have gathered on the lands where Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is located.
43:46And that continues today.
43:48An example of the indigenous knowledge here in this garden are the three sisters, corn, beans, and squash.
43:56They are known as the three sisters because of their personhood within Wabanaki culture.
44:05They're teachers. They teach us respect, responsibility, reciprocity.
44:11The sister corn grows nice and tall. She's planted first. She's the eldest sister.
44:16Sister bean is then planted, and sister bean provides nitrogen to the soil that helps the corn grow especially tall.
44:25And the corn also provides structure for the beans to grow up on.
44:31And the youngest sister, squash, is planted last and provides shade, keeps the soil nice and moist, and they thrive
44:40together.
44:41The seeds we planted here in this garden have been saved for generations by our ancestors.
44:48And we were able to reunite them with the soil with this garden here in Booth Bay.
44:55I'm a sports fan. I'm a baseball fan primarily, but I do love hockey.
44:59And I love Wayne Gretzky.
45:01He was at a sports show right after he broke the record, and he signed it for my dad for
45:05me.
45:06This is a six signed by Wayne Gretzky.
45:10It was after he broke the goal record in 94, so he signed it with an 802.
45:15My dad gave it to me when I was 12.
45:18My dad worked for Easton Sporting Goods, and they used to do super shows every year.
45:22He became well acquainted with Wayne Gretzky.
45:25So yes, what we have here is a Easton game-issued stick for Wayne Gretzky.
45:31I think most people will agree Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all time.
45:35He's the Babe Ruth of hockey.
45:37March 23, 1994, he surpasses Gordie Howe with his 802nd goal.
45:43It was a huge deal.
45:44It was one of the biggest moments in NHL history.
45:47Now, he didn't play with this stick, but it was made for him with his specifications and everything else.
45:54And how we know that, it has that stamp right there.
45:58You have a beautiful Wayne Gretzky signature.
46:01I mean, that's like an A++ signature.
46:03And he added the 802.
46:05So we know definitively when it's from.
46:07It's from one of the peaks of his career.
46:10And it's just a beautiful stick.
46:12Now, the other great thing is this photograph.
46:14Yeah.
46:15And it's a great picture of your dad with the great one himself.
46:19And he's holding the stick.
46:21Yeah.
46:21For collectors, to have that kind of provenance is just the best.
46:26You can't ask for better than that.
46:27You might notice in the photograph, the stick looks gold.
46:30But that's because there's a mylar film that goes over the aluminum.
46:35And the light, the way it hit it, made it look gold.
46:38Yeah.
46:38That makes sense.
46:39Game issued sticks aren't as desirable as a game used stick, obviously.
46:44But this is a different kind of animal altogether because of the autograph, because of the provenance.
46:50And it's just a good looking stick.
46:51Yeah.
46:52So I think at an auction, I would estimate this between $2,000 and $3,000.
46:59And I would insure it for no less than $5,000.
47:02Wow.
47:03Yeah.
47:03That's entirely over what I thought.
47:07It's never going anywhere and it's not going back in the closet.
47:09I will take care of it properly now.
47:13This is as good as it gets for a game issued stick.
47:16Wow.
47:17That's incredible.
47:21This is for my grandma's house.
47:23She kept it in great shape and her mom got it at an auction in the 60s.
47:30So that's all I know.
47:35It's a big mallet and it's been in my life for a long time.
47:41I'm not really sure where it came from.
47:44I don't know if it was used to strike parts of ships together or railroad ties.
47:53I don't have any idea.
47:55It's heavy.
47:57It's heavy.
47:57It's really heavy.
48:00Oh, yeah.
48:02Yeah.
48:03I'd go with 20.
48:0420 pounds, everyone.
48:05All right.
48:05Keep holding it.
48:07Keep holding it.
48:08Keep holding it.
48:08Keep holding it.
48:09Keep holding it.
48:15This belonged to my husband's grandmother.
48:18She lived in Washington, D.C.
48:20They were German-Americans.
48:22My husband's grandfather was a sort of an entrepreneur in Washington, D.C.
48:27And he would go to New York City from time to time and buy pieces of jewelry for her.
48:33And this was one of them.
48:34I believe it was probably for their 50th wedding anniversary.
48:39This would have probably been in the mid-50s, I'm guessing.
48:43I looked at it.
48:44I was dating it along with my colleagues at the table for something that was made in the
48:49early 19-teens.
48:51Really?
48:52He could have bought it old, though.
48:54He could have bought an estate piece back in the 50s.
48:57True.
48:57Know anything about the maker of it?
48:59Well, I've noticed that there's a mark on it that says Cartier.
49:04Yes.
49:04It's Cartier New York.
49:06So, it says NY right after the Cartier script.
49:09It's set with two beautiful sapphires.
49:12The main sapphire, which is the large sapphire on the bottom, is approximately 10 carats.
49:17It could be approximately 12, but it's hard to know exactly.
49:21Really?
49:21Yeah, it's bezel set.
49:22So, conservatively, I'm saying it's about 10 carats.
49:26Hmm.
49:26Interesting.
49:26It looks like a salon stone, which is the region of where the stone is, the sapphire is
49:32from, which is now Sri Lanka.
49:34And salon stones are usually powdery, more brilliant.
49:38They're lighter.
49:39They're not as saturated as the darker stones are.
49:42Okay.
49:43And this is very apropos for this time period as well, the 19-teens, where they were mining
49:48a lot of these around that time period.
49:51And the smaller stone, I think, is around 3 carats approximation.
49:54Same material, though, the same saturation, the lighter, sort of more vibrant, brilliant
50:00color of sapphire.
50:01It's suspending from a beautiful necklace that is very, very fine.
50:05And it's platinum.
50:06And it's so fine that some of the little detail in there that you can see, it's like little
50:11tiny wires.
50:12Hmm.
50:13And that's appropriate for the 19-teens as well.
50:16Ah.
50:17It's also set with some small, round-cut diamonds, just little accent stones.
50:22It's really chic.
50:24I think a conservative value for insurance purposes would be $75,000.
50:31Okay.
50:33That's good.
50:34That's very good.
50:35We see a lot of nice things on Roadshow, but this is spectacular.
50:39Yeah.
50:39Well, thank you.
50:40I love it.
50:43And now, it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:46This is a cherry picker, dated 1870.
50:50It's worth about $30 to $50.
50:54And it's taken us all this time, at least two years, to figure out what it is.
50:59Everyone back home laughed at us for bringing this painting.
51:02And I have one thing to say, they were all right.
51:05This belonged to my great-grandmother, Theda.
51:09And my mother asked me to bring this today.
51:11She's 90.
51:12She'll be tickled pink, sort of.
51:14She thought maybe Oprah Winfrey would want it.
51:17Yes.
51:17Because Oprah collects these chairs.
51:19So, Oprah, if you're listening, just give us a call.
51:22And we had an awesome day at the Roadshow.
51:25And I found out Grandma's cigarette case is worth $8,000.
51:30I know it's precious, but my friend is more precious.
51:33Because it's my birthday.
51:34I brought my kiddish cup set that I got in Jerusalem.
51:39And I thought it was possibly silver, but it turns out it's fake.
51:42So, it's only worth about $20 or $30, but it was fun.
51:47I brought my bronze elephant.
51:53It's Chinese.
51:55It's not from the Ming Diesty.
51:58It's from the 1970s, unfortunately.
52:01But I still like it.
52:02It's an original print, but he also thinks that it might have been made as a joke.
52:09So, that's what I learned about my print.
52:12And I just had a great day.
52:14And thank you, Antiques Roadshow. Yay!
52:18Thanks for watching.
52:20See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
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