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00:04Antiques Roadshow is ready for all things wonderful and wild at Castle Farms.
00:10What kind of person do you think would have owned this?
00:12Hi, muckety-muck.
00:16I'm shocked.
00:36The stately Castle Farms, where Roadshow is today, is in northern Michigan, near Lake Charlevoix.
00:42It's no longer a working farm, but its history goes back to 1918, when it began as Loeb Farms,
00:49named after its original owner, Albert Loeb, who was an executive at Sears and Roebuck Company.
00:54After several owners and periods of time, when the estate fell into disrepair,
01:00the barn complex and grounds were brought back to life by Linda Mueller, who purchased the property in 2001.
01:06The beautiful gardens, French Renaissance-style architecture, and whimsical collections on site
01:12make this a unique spot for discovering treasures arriving from all over the Midwest.
01:23This super-fantastic bracelet is from the Pueblo of Zuni.
01:28It's called a knife wing.
01:29The knife wing is a deity.
01:31It's sort of a manifestation of a human and an almost thunderbird and bird-like figure.
01:37This is really well-built.
01:39I wish it fit, but it doesn't.
01:42It's probably worth about $3,200 to $3,500.
01:45Oh, wow.
01:46Did you do okay?
01:49We did okay, yeah.
01:51I know when I really like some because I don't want to give it back.
01:53I know, when I was like, I didn't give it back.
01:55Hold on.
02:02I grew up in Santa Rosa, California.
02:05Charles Schultz's first wife was a patient of my father's.
02:09My father and Charles Schultz played golf together, so the Schultzes became friends of the family.
02:15When I was about 15, I wasn't old enough to have a job yet, and I guess during a golf
02:21game or something,
02:22my father was talking to Charles and asked if he could come over and help with babysitting.
02:28They had four children.
02:29So I drove over to their house, which was called Coffee Grounds.
02:34It was really a cool place and had a swimming pool and everything.
02:37My job was primarily babysitting, but I also taught the kids how to swim because I had been on a
02:43swimming team.
02:44His wife was always running around, and Charles was always in his office.
02:48Charles, a.k.a. Sparky.
02:49One day, I went up to get my paycheck, and he was doing one of the scripts for the syndicate
02:57that was in New York.
02:58And he said, here, you want this?
02:59And he handed me a book that was behind him, and I said, sure.
03:03This was January 7, 1973, and he signed it to Carol, and he screwed up the A here with memories
03:11and friendship.
03:12And it's Snoopy, who is swimming, and he said, Carol taught me all I know about the dog paddle.
03:18And I thought that was pretty cool.
03:21And then he just drew a picture of Linus, because I told him I really liked Linus.
03:27He was the nicest guy.
03:28He was very quiet, very soft-spoken.
03:30His wife was not.
03:32It takes two.
03:33It takes two different types of yin and yang, right?
03:35No kidding.
03:36I'm a big dog fan, so of course I love Snoopy.
03:39And that's what I loved about your inscription here, is that you have Snoopy swimming.
03:44Yeah.
03:45And he's doing the doggy paddle.
03:46Yeah, he was.
03:47And it's also fun that he signed it Sparky.
03:50He was born in 1922, and within days of being born, there was a popular comic character at the time
03:56called Sparkplug that was a horse.
03:58That's it.
03:58I remember.
03:59So he became Sparky.
04:00So his nickname from the time he was born was actually of a popular comic character.
04:05I remember that, yeah.
04:05So he was meant to do this.
04:07Their value is probably about equal.
04:09Oh, really?
04:09Because he signed this one Schultz.
04:11It's framed.
04:12It's easy to display.
04:13This one's inside a book.
04:14So if you did want to display it, you'd have to kind of have it open.
04:17Yeah, right.
04:17At auction, I would expect them to bring anywhere in the $1,000 to $1,500 a piece.
04:23Really?
04:24Really?
04:25Okay.
04:27Did you hear that?
04:29Talking to my daughter.
04:38These are old cast iron pans.
04:41They're actually called spider skillets.
04:44And as far as I know, I think they're probably from the early 1900s, possibly a little bit earlier.
04:50I got them at an estate sale for $2.
04:53I haven't cooked with these yet, but I cook with cast iron a lot.
04:56So I'm excited about these.
04:58They'll be great on the campfire.
04:59I used it out in the yard a couple of years for vines to grow up on it as metal
05:06art.
05:06I think it's supposed to be a coat rack.
05:09I really don't know anything about it other than it's made of metal.
05:13It looks like a vine.
05:16And I really like it.
05:24It belonged to a friend of mine's father.
05:27He had purchased it probably in the early 80s for his wife at that time.
05:32And we had moved him up from Florida up to Michigan here.
05:35This was to be discarded.
05:37This was to be discarded.
05:37And so I saved it.
05:38And I've had it for close to 18, 19 years.
05:40And the gentleman that had it before, was it displayed or not?
05:45You can see some of the color discoloration up there.
05:48And that was, we always felt, due to the Miami sun.
05:50He had it in his condo.
05:52Did you see it on display in the company?
05:54I did.
05:54And I immediately just fell for it.
05:56This is exactly what it appears to be.
06:00A silk hanging panel with gold wrap thread.
06:06And the thread likely is also silk.
06:09The brilliant color of the blue, which you can see at the very tip top, is sky blue.
06:17And that's the unfaded part.
06:19Right below that, you can see a yellow line.
06:22But the original color would have been a very vibrant sky blue.
06:26And that was purposeful because what it is representing is the sky.
06:32So we have clouds, we have bats, we have dragons.
06:37And down here at the bottom, we have these phoenix, which are these mythical birds that are perched on rockwork.
06:45And at the base is the earth.
06:47So this has all kinds of different emblems that are all positive.
06:53They are meant to project strength.
06:56They're meant to project importance.
06:59What kind of person do you think would have owned this?
07:02Um, high muckety muck.
07:06Someone imported.
07:07Yeah, absolutely.
07:08Well, I think it could have easily been in a commission for the imperial household during the reign of the
07:14emperor Guangxu,
07:16who reigned from 1875 to 1908.
07:20And behind the scenes was the dowager empress, Sushi, who died also in 1908.
07:27She was kind of the power behind the throne.
07:29I believe it was meant to show imperial power.
07:33The five claws of the dragons are representative of the imperial throne and household.
07:40Shows that this was an important object that likely was in a reception hall where important people would have come.
07:49And it was a place, because of this kind of color palette, that probably was frequented by the dowager empress.
07:56So you have an important object.
07:58Incredible.
07:59And it's actually in remarkably good condition.
08:02A lot of the colors, particularly these out at the bottom part, are just as vibrant as they were when
08:06they were originally made.
08:07I think for replacement value purposes, a reasonable figure would be around $30,000.
08:19Wow.
08:21Wow.
08:24It's incredible.
08:34Castle Farms has embraced the lore of European castles with a vigilant knight and their very own dragon.
08:43Norm the dragon, a 10-foot-tall creature made for metal by artist John Andrews,
08:48has been a favorite fixture at Castle Farms since 2012.
08:55I brought a necklace that was given to my grandmother for her wedding.
09:00She passed it on to me to wear my wedding day.
09:03It's a beautiful Cartier Art Deco platinum, diamond, and sapphire pendant.
09:10You have over one and a half carats of diamonds and over one carat of sapphires total weight there.
09:15Wow.
09:15And you have these great geometric square-cut sapphires.
09:19We sometimes call them emerald cuts.
09:22Beautiful platinum chain.
09:24So it's stamped on the side, Cartier here.
09:27And it's small.
09:28You really do need a loop to see it.
09:30And then on the opposite side, it has the numbering.
09:33What I love about it is it's almost a transitional piece.
09:38This part right here, it's so geometric, right?
09:43You have, it's really a square.
09:44It's really that typical Art Deco period.
09:47But then here it's a little bit softer.
09:50Because in jewelry making, there's really no hard stop, right?
09:53Like you start doing Belle Epoque, then you stop, then you do Art Deco.
09:56Now there's kind of a little bit of a blending.
09:58You have the receipt from May of 1929, right before the stock market crash.
10:04What's great about this is it closes, and then you have the date here, your relative's initials
10:12on the other side, and then my favorite, how it just pops open like an Omar.
10:17Yes.
10:18I love that.
10:18Do you have any idea of the value of your piece?
10:21I had it appraised maybe 10 years ago, and I'm thinking that she maybe said $1,500 to $3,000.
10:29But the reason I didn't like it was she just didn't look at the box or this or any of
10:36the
10:36other information that was with it and didn't seem to see it as a whole package.
10:39And to me, that's part of what makes it really special.
10:41I agree.
10:42It's the whole package.
10:44People collect just Cartier boxes.
10:46Oh, gee, I didn't know that.
10:47I would appraise your set retail at $15,000.
10:51Wow.
10:53Wow, I didn't expect that.
10:54Yeah.
10:55It's really, really remarkable.
10:56It was a beautiful gift.
10:57I wondered if that was kind of done that often for an engagement gift, because I got, like,
11:03crockpots and things like that.
11:06Well, I guess it depends on your relative.
11:08Right.
11:12I came upon this flag cleaning out my parents' home.
11:16I've had it for about 30 years, and it had been stored in a biography of Abraham Lincoln.
11:21My dad was a World War II veteran.
11:24He loved Americana.
11:26He loved American history.
11:28He loved to go to auctions, estate sales, and collect things.
11:33However, I don't know where he got this or when he got it.
11:37I never knew about it during his lifetime.
11:40Of course, this is President Lincoln and his running mate, Andrew Johnson.
11:43And I believe that this was the 1864 campaign.
11:47That's correct.
11:48It was an interesting campaign.
11:50The Civil War was still grinding on.
11:52Lincoln was afraid that he might lose the election.
11:55In fact, he was pretty sure he was going to lose.
11:57He was running against George McClellan, who was a celebrated Civil War general, at least among some circles.
12:04Lincoln was thinking, what can I do to help my ticket?
12:09And he turned to the border states and found Andrew Johnson, who was a staunch unionist from eastern Tennessee.
12:17He'd been the governor of Tennessee.
12:19And Lincoln looked at him and said, he's sort of a Southerner.
12:22This might swing Kentucky and Missouri into my camp.
12:28Let's get Andrew Johnson on the ticket.
12:30I think that he probably chose him reluctantly.
12:32Johnson was a virulent racist.
12:35I mean, he was the antithesis of Lincoln.
12:38But he fit the bill.
12:39And they did get elected, as you know.
12:42After the election and after Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865,
12:47Johnson, who succeeded him, proceeded to try to undo everything he did that was helping African Americans.
12:55But this is a flag that would, I think you're correct, probably would have been used in a local campaign,
13:02where it might have been waved in a little parade.
13:05The flag itself is made out of polished cotton.
13:07It's a printed flag.
13:09The Lincoln and Johnson has been hand-painted.
13:11Normally, they're mass-produced.
13:13They're stenciled on.
13:14The ribbon is actually a piece of silk.
13:17Lincoln campaign flag collectors find flags from this election are much scarcer than the 1860 campaign.
13:24And so they're willing to pay a premium for those flags.
13:28A name flag, which is what this is, it just has names of the candidates on there, is considered great.
13:35But if you're really looking for the greatness of the greatness of the greatness,
13:39you want a picture of the candidate.
13:41They're very rare, incredibly rare.
13:44This flag is a pretty rare flag.
13:46It's rare because it's small.
13:49Most of the campaign flags are 18 by 24.
13:52This is the first one that I've seen this size,
13:55and certainly the first one that I've ever seen where it's been hand-painted.
13:59What do you think it's worth?
14:00I hope it's worth a couple thousand dollars.
14:02I would place an auction value on it of between $5,000 and $7,000.
14:06Okay.
14:08Wow.
14:09Excellent.
14:10Excellent.
14:11My dad would just love seeing it here.
14:14So, thank you.
14:18My parents, they lived out west.
14:21They spent their summers out there, and they traveled a lot and hit every antique show, flea market.
14:26And they brought this back when I was in high school.
14:29And I had it on my wall in my dorm room for a while.
14:33And it has just always traveled with me.
14:35And I'm trying to find a little bit more history about it.
14:41My stepdad gifted this to me when I was a teenager.
14:44But he bought it at a pawn shop in Chicago in the mid-70s.
14:48He said it was covered in dirt.
14:50The guy wanted $200 for it.
14:52He offered him $100.
14:53I believe it's an ES-225.
14:55Other than that, I've had a real hard time finding a blonde version of this.
14:59You see a lot of sunbursts, but you don't see the blonde ones as much.
15:02Well, what you have is a 1959 Gibson ES-225 TDN.
15:07The TDN stands for thin line, dual pickup, natural.
15:12And the reason you can't find these quite as easily as the sunbursts is because a natural finish required nicer
15:18wood.
15:19What we've got here is some bird's eye maple that is absolutely beautiful on the top.
15:24Original P90 pickups, freeway toggle switch, two volumes, two tones, great wide bevel pickguard.
15:31This is beautiful.
15:33I would say, conservatively, $5,000 to $6,000.
15:36I love this.
15:37Thank you so much for bringing it.
15:38Thank you for helping me know what it is.
15:42My mother was an artist.
15:44She studied at the School of Craft in Penland.
15:47And it was a summer kind of retreat for artists to go and study under other artisans.
15:55And she was fortunate to get to study under this artist, Toshiko, who they developed a friendship and relationship.
16:01And she gifted my mother this piece at the end of their time together.
16:05Well, your mother must have been skilled because Penland is one of the big art schools.
16:09Toshiko Takiezu, the maker of this pot, famous Japanese-American potter from Hawaii, she started
16:15studying ceramics in Hawaii, came to the mainland, went to Cranbrook, another one of the major art
16:20schools.
16:20Wow.
16:21Then went to Japan and studied Japanese ceramic making and Zen Buddhism.
16:26And she studied tea ceremony, which is an adjunct of Zen.
16:31And so she was deeply steeped in the culture.
16:33And the idea for her was there's only one space, whether it's inside a pot or out of
16:38it, but it's all connected.
16:39So there's a certain spiritual basis to the work that Toshiko was doing.
16:43She was born in 1922.
16:45She died in 2011.
16:46So she had a fairly long life and career.
16:49But she really hit her stride in the late 50s, early 60s after Cranbrook and became a potter,
16:54but working in the abstract expressionist style, this probably dates to about 1970, 1975.
17:00Just a guess, because she very seldom if ever dated her pieces.
17:03I believe glazing on these pieces are viewed as abstract expressionist in their influence.
17:08And you can see this is a pretty good glaze on one of her pieces.
17:10But on top of that, this is larger than most.
17:12This is a moon pot, which is a classic form of Toshiko's.
17:16They tend to be globular in form, but they have a nipple opening, tiniest.
17:20So she probably had a matchstick or a small tool when she threw this pot to have just
17:25such a small opening at the top like that.
17:26They don't always have a rattle.
17:29I think they were all meant to have a rattle, but the way you put a rattle inside of a
17:32pot
17:32is you get a ball of clay and you wrap it in paper.
17:35You put it in the pot, you close it.
17:36And then when you fire it, the paper burns away and it leaves the ball free rolling.
17:42But sometimes it adheres to it.
17:43And so you won't get the rattle.
17:45So sign on the bottom with the double T mark, Toshiko Takiezu.
17:50She then later taught in Princeton, at Princeton University, the record prices being paid for
17:55Toshiko's work these days.
17:57Wow.
17:57If I was going to put an estimate on this at auction, I would say between $8,000 and $12
18:01,000.
18:02But this wouldn't bring less than $10,000 because my estimates tend to be a little conservative.
18:07Okay.
18:08And it could bring as much as $20,000 easily.
18:10That's not a stretch.
18:11Wow.
18:11So why would I have an $8,000 to $12,000 estimate if it's worth $10,000 to $20,000?
18:15Because you want people to bid.
18:16Right, right.
18:17If I put $10,000 to $15,000 or $12,000 to $16,000, that would be accurate at auction.
18:21But then people would say, nah, it's worth that, but I don't need it.
18:25$8,000 to $12,000, you have people saying, I'd pay that.
18:29Wow.
18:29Estimates are a secret part of the auction game.
18:31Okay.
18:36My stepdad was doing some demo on a house where he was working and found this watch.
18:41And he gave it to me.
18:43That's all I know about it.
18:44I grabbed it out of the curio cabinet this morning and came here.
18:49In 1971, I happened to go on the honeymoon with my brother and my new sister-in-law.
18:55We saw this in an antique store and they couldn't afford to buy it.
18:59Next thing you know, we turned around and my father had went back and bought it for him as a
19:04wedding present.
19:05We bought it for $50.
19:05Great story.
19:07And all I can take away from that is you went on a honeymoon with your brother, which is weird.
19:11The whole family went.
19:13We were at the cottage.
19:14It's a lovely poster.
19:15It's dated 1907.
19:17It's an ad for Budweiser and it's in this original frame.
19:19People love collecting what we call brewery-ano, like things about the brewing industry, about beer history.
19:26And obviously Budweiser is a classic American brand.
19:29So it was $50 when you went on your brother's honeymoon.
19:32At auction, I would conservatively estimate its value between $800 and $1,200.
19:37Good.
19:38Wonderful.
19:39Good purchase.
19:45My sister, Ruth, worked for the State Department and had two years that she spent working in Krakow.
19:52And so she traveled around Poland.
19:54She bought it as a souvenir of her time there.
19:57And then she has since passed away.
19:59So now I have the painting.
20:00I'm sorry.
20:02My condolences.
20:03You know where she would have bought it and how much she might have paid for it?
20:06I'm guessing when she was traveling in Warsaw, because I believe she bought it directly from the artist.
20:12There's a note on the back that I believe he wrote to her.
20:15From what I remember her telling me, I believe she told me she paid $4,000 for it.
20:19Ah, okay.
20:20What do you know about the artist?
20:22I don't know a lot.
20:23I know he is sort of famous, at least in Poland, and I believe he's passed away now.
20:28But other than that, not much.
20:30And his name is?
20:32Edward Wernick.
20:33Very good.
20:33Good pronunciation.
20:35Better than mine, I think.
20:36And we see the signature down here and the date 2004.
20:40The artist was born in a town just outside of Warsaw, but Warsaw was really his home base,
20:45and that's where he studied art and also taught art there.
20:49And he was born in 1943.
20:51He died in 2018.
20:53He really worked in series throughout his life.
20:57Around about 1966, he started a series called Hitchhiking Trips, and it was basically views of
21:04Polish cities, but it's a bird's eye view.
21:07Mm-hmm.
21:08You had the Sportsman series and also the Workers series.
21:11This is a later series where he returned to the Hitchhiking series, but he called it the
21:15Blue Cities for obvious reasons.
21:18And I like to think of them, they're less about the topography of the city than perhaps the
21:23character.
21:24Mm-hmm.
21:24He imbues it with a real personality.
21:27It's almost like a portrait of the city.
21:28And just to re-emphasize that, there are two characters here with names beside them.
21:33One of them, with the wheels, is the highly controversial now film director Roman Polanski,
21:41who grew up in Krakow.
21:43And then right beside you, we see T. Cantor.
21:47Do you know who that is?
21:48I believe he is some sort of a playwright or had something to do with the theater.
21:53I believe it's Tadius Cantor.
21:55I was hoping you were going to pronounce the first name.
21:58He is a well-renowned avant-garde director.
22:02And the title of the painting, as we can clearly see, is Krakow.
22:07The artist was very prolific.
22:09There's at least around about 8,000 canvases known to be done well and 20,000 works in paper.
22:16It's thought that sometimes he prepared about three canvases in a day.
22:19And this is acrylic on canvas, and I think he probably favored acrylic because it dries much more quickly than
22:25oil paint.
22:26Oh, sure.
22:27So he was really, without being mean about it, cranking these out.
22:30He thought artists should live well.
22:32He painted to make the money.
22:33Okay.
22:34So he would buy expensive cars.
22:36He had several lady friends, I understand.
22:39He liked to travel.
22:40So he lived the good life, and he supported it through his art.
22:43Have you ever thought about the value of it?
22:45I had it appraised a few years ago.
22:47May I ask you what it was appraised for?
22:49Yes, 25,000.
22:50And was that for insurance?
22:52For insurance purposes.
22:54Okay.
22:54So it's an insurance figure that you would like?
22:56Yes.
22:56Well, I think you need to at least double it.
22:58Okay.
22:59So.
23:01All right.
23:02You're looking at 50,000.
23:04Okay.
23:06I think my sister would be thrilled.
23:08She is probably laughing somewhere right now.
23:11I think it's rather lovely that you have this memory of your sister.
23:15Yeah.
23:15And she obviously meant a great deal to you.
23:17Yes, very much.
23:18Hmm.
23:27A collection of items from Sears and Roebuck catalogs during World War I can be found at Castle Farms.
23:34The 1918 Museum was my idea.
23:39The property was built during World War I.
23:43Albert Loeb, who built the estate, was an executive of Sears.
23:50And I started finding things in the Sears catalog.
23:55And I have a few pictures of children playing with the toys so that you can see what they
24:02looked like in World War I.
24:08It came from my great-grandfather, who was a hotelier in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and he won
24:17it, allegedly, in a poker game.
24:19My dad was a banker in the 70s and 80s and used to wear it with a lot of pride.
24:24He would wear it with a three-piece vest.
24:27He liked the fact that it chimed.
24:29The watch is made by Jules Jurgensen.
24:32Phenomenal quality.
24:34Everything made by hand.
24:36This watch dates from about 1880 to 1885.
24:41Solid gold case.
24:4318 karat gold.
24:44It's an 18-size case, which is a large-size, man-size case for a pocket.
24:50But mostly, it would be worn in a vest, as your dad did.
24:55As you said, it chimes.
24:57And this is what's called a repeater.
25:00Watch.
25:01It's a minute repeater that operates by the slide, a slide repeater.
25:07Three-finger bridge.
25:09It's got two hammers that strike the gongs, and the hammers are beautifully jeweled,
25:16as is the movement.
25:17And we've also got a glass exhibition back.
25:22Jules Jurgensen was so proud of this watch that they wanted you to open it.
25:28They wanted you to see this movement.
25:30The case on both sides, the hunting case, not engraved.
25:34Typically, these would be engraved with the owner's name or initials.
25:37Right.
25:37This one is not.
25:38That's unusual.
25:40Adds to the value.
25:42The age of the chain is exactly the same as the watch.
25:45We found hallmarks.
25:46It's marked 1,5K, 15 karat solid gold.
25:50So that's typical of chains made in England.
25:53I noticed the watch is fully wound, and it's not running.
25:56In its current condition, the watch on its own has a value in today's retail market of $12,000.
26:06Wow.
26:07Didn't see that coming.
26:08The chain, being 15 karat gold, is going to have a value by itself $2,000 to $3,000.
26:15Wow.
26:16To fix this watch, you would be looking at maybe $500 to $1,000.
26:23That is going to bring the value up.
26:26The watch and the chain retail, $15,000 to $18,000.
26:32Wow.
26:32I could throw a heck of a watch party with that.
26:35That's pretty good.
26:38Wow.
26:38That's pretty impressive.
26:43This jacket was my husband's father's.
26:46It was his during World War II.
26:48His father was an engineer on a B-24 Liberator bomber, and he served in the South Pacific.
26:54That's really about all I know.
26:56I did a little digging.
26:58I found a photograph of the aircraft that shows the exact same nose art on it with the female
27:05figure here and the same name, Majorette.
27:08That was a B-24D that served in the 13th Air Force in the Pacific Theater in the 372nd bomb
27:17squadron of the 307th bomb group.
27:20That was the group that was known as the Long Rangers.
27:24And really one of the reasons why the B-24 is so prevalent in the Pacific Theater, it had
27:30a couple of features about it that made it advantageous compared to other aircraft, range
27:36being primary among them.
27:38So the name, the Long Rangers, factors into that bomb group.
27:43Their biggest enemy out there wasn't necessarily the people shooting at them.
27:47It was mechanical problems or navigation errors that would bring the biggest enemy into play,
27:53and that's the Pacific itself.
27:54The distances are so vast that one little error or a mechanical problem, losing two engines
28:02on one of those aircraft, could be kind of a death sentence to those guys.
28:06So they saw an entirely different war than they saw in Europe.
28:11And I was just struck by this jacket when you came up with it because it's got this interesting
28:16painted majorette.
28:17We've got 13th Air Force in this shooting star.
28:21These are the bombs signifying completed missions.
28:25And then if we look at the front of this jacket, you've got the squadron insignia.
28:31And then on the other side, closer to you, is actually painted 307th Long Rangers.
28:38I see something.
28:40It's a little hard to make out, but when you know ahead of time what you're looking for,
28:44then you can see it.
28:45It is a wonderful painted leather flight jacket.
28:50We see a lot of these where you can tell that it was really cool artwork,
28:54and now it's been worn to the point where you can just see a ghost of it.
28:58Even though you've got the wear on this, this is still quite displayable.
29:02On the market today, an auction estimate on this jacket would be $6,000 to $8,000.
29:08Mm-hmm.
29:10Well, it's not going on the market.
29:13So, I'm just so proud to have it and the story behind it.
29:20My dad passed away at 90 a couple years ago, and it had been in his house at least 50
29:24years
29:25that I knew of, and I just have it in my basement as decoration.
29:30I got this in Louisiana at the Angola Prison just after Katrina.
29:35I was a Red Cross volunteer.
29:37So, this painting was done by an inmate at the Angola Prison?
29:40Yes, and I actually met him.
29:42It was his view from where he stayed in Cypress 3, which was a block building.
29:46How much did you pay for it?
29:48I paid $40.
29:49The painting is signed, R Adams, and it's 05 dated.
29:53Richard Adams is the artist.
29:54These paintings don't circulate very much.
29:56It's difficult to place a value, but if I were to insure it, I think I would insure it
30:00for about $1,200.
30:03Wow.
30:04It's a beautiful painting.
30:05Thank you so much.
30:09It's an old map of Lithuania, and it was given to my father from a prominent Detroit resident.
30:15My father was an oncologist, and he treated the man's wife.
30:19My dad is Lithuanian.
30:21He was a displaced refugee.
30:22Between the First and Second World War, he was displaced from Lithuania by Stalin.
30:28He was arrested and thrown into a Russian forced labor camp, and then when the Germans invaded
30:33during the Second World War, they liberated his camp and put him into a German forced labor camp.
30:39How old was he at the time?
30:41He was arrested at the age of 13.
30:43As the Germans pulled out of what became the Soviet Union, he was pulled out with them,
30:49and he did stuff like digging tank traps and stuff like that, and he ended up in Frankfurt
30:53at the end of the war.
30:55As part of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. government paid for his education.
30:59With an eighth grade education, he went to the University of Frankfurt until he got his
31:03medical degree and then came to the United States via the U.S. Army.
31:08Oh, incredible story.
31:10What an appropriate gift.
31:12Yeah.
31:12This is a map of Lithuania, which includes parts of Poland and Ukraine and Russia, and
31:18it was commissioned by Prince Radswill, whose name is on the title cartouche, and he hired
31:26the most famous cartographer of the region.
31:29His name was Stubis, to do the survey.
31:32The prince wanted the best map of Lithuania that was out there, because one didn't exist.
31:37So this is what's called a mother map.
31:39This is the first map of the area that was surveyed properly, and it really influenced
31:44every map of this region for the next couple of hundred years.
31:48Wow.
31:48So the cartouche in the corner is the Lithuanian coat of arms, and below it, it says in Latin,
31:56so it's hard to read, Gillum Janssonius, which is the name of Gillum Blau, so he changed
32:02his name right after he made this map, so it's very hard to identify it as him, because
32:07he doesn't use the name that he used after this.
32:10And below it is in the engraved date of 1613, and it was engraved by a famous engraver, Hessel
32:17Gerritz.
32:18The 1613 map was a wall map, separately issued, and they didn't change the date on the map
32:23as they released new additions.
32:26Your addition is the seventh version of the map, and it's from 1645, and the only reason
32:33we know that is a tiny change in one of the towns, Der Memel on the Baltic, is named there,
32:40and that is a guarantee that it was made in 1645, and it was in fact an atlas map, so
32:45it
32:45was tipped into a book.
32:47The map was produced in Amsterdam, and it was engraved onto plates and finished by hand
32:53with watercolour.
32:54It's the most beautiful version of this map I've ever seen.
32:57In a retail setting, a map of this calibre, even though it's the seventh state, would be
33:03in the value range of $7,000 to $8,000.
33:07That's great.
33:08Great.
33:08Yeah, it's not going anywhere.
33:10We'll keep it in the family forever.
33:17I found it in the garage on the rafters in a house I was living at in West Chicago, and
33:23I took it with me, and I've had it in my kitchen up against the railing for the past 20
33:29-some-odd
33:30years.
33:30I know Dr. Guttridge graduated from, I believe it's the Illinois Osteopath School of Medicine,
33:37or something similar to that, in 1921.
33:40So I presume this is from the mid-20s, or shortly thereafter when he set up his practice.
33:46The construction of it makes me want to say 1880, 1890.
33:51And there's a couple of reasons for that.
33:53One being this deep dish molding that's around the sign, and the other is, you feel it over
34:00here, that smalt.
34:02It's actually crushed glass.
34:04Oh, it protects the wood.
34:06This is one of the reasons the sign is in such tremendous condition.
34:10And this is gold leaf.
34:12Retail value, I think this is a $5,000 piece.
34:15Holy smokes.
34:16Yeah.
34:17Sound of a gun.
34:17Yeah.
34:18Well, thank you.
34:24This is a blanket that I got from my grandmother, a Tlingit native, which is Alaskan native.
34:30Each time I would visit her, she would give me pieces.
34:34And this is one of my treasures.
34:35The pattern is of an eagle.
34:37We're divided into two moieties, the eagle and the raven.
34:41It's a matriarchal society, so it follows the mom.
34:45So she's the eagle, and my father's an eagle.
34:47And I'm a raven.
34:48She told me at the time that the buttons were over 100 years old.
34:52And I've had this for over 30 years now.
34:54Your society, the Tlingit, it ranges all the way from Alaska to British Columbia and Canada.
35:01So it's a multinational group.
35:04Yes.
35:04The buttons are over 100 years old.
35:07The medium-sized buttons all the way around that outline everything, those are handmade Mother of Pearl buttons.
35:14Mother of Pearl.
35:15Yes.
35:16Okay.
35:16Some of those larger ones are not so old.
35:18These fabrics are 100% wool.
35:21Generally, it came from Belgium or northern Scotland.
35:24It's not inexpensive.
35:26Can run hundreds of dollars a yard very easily.
35:30Looking at the piece itself and how it's constructed, I would expect that it's somewhere between 50 and 70 years
35:37old.
35:38Who was this made for?
35:40My cousins wore them for dances.
35:42And I'm not exactly who it was made for, but it's a child-sized blanket.
35:47The adult-sized were a lot larger and cloaked over.
35:50We got together for dances for a potlatch, which is the community of natives would come together from all parts
35:58of southeast of Alaska.
36:00They would bring food and they would bring carvings and do some trading.
36:05And it was several days long.
36:07And it was a time where our families who moved away from us could gather together and be with each
36:13other.
36:13I know this is not something you would ever sell.
36:17This is part of your family and your heritage, and it will continue to be that way.
36:21And so I'll give an insurance value.
36:24And I think it's going to be $1,800 to $2,200.
36:29Oh.
36:30Somewhere in that range.
36:32Oh, fabulous.
36:32To insure it, to protect it.
36:34I'm very proud of it.
36:35You should be.
36:37Yes.
36:37Thank you so much.
36:42I brought my Dawn dolls.
36:43I know that they were produced by Topper, and they were supposed to be a competitor for Barbie.
36:48I was a Barbie girl, and my mother would go to garage sales, church sales, whatever, and bring home a
36:54case of dolls.
36:55And frequently these were in there as well.
36:56And I was disappointed because I wanted Barbie, but I got these.
36:59Also, they were inexpensive, and so I could buy them on my allowance.
37:03These six dolls here are Dawn dolls, and they are made by the Topper Toy Company.
37:09And they were made from 1969 to 1973 when the company went out of business.
37:14When these first came out, they were a competitor to Barbie, and they were able to surpass Barbie for a
37:20little while in sales, which was crazy to think about.
37:23The price for these dolls originally new was anywhere from $1 to $3.
37:27Barbie, at the time, for the same Arrow doll was $5 to $10.
37:32So, affordability for a kid on allowance, you could afford these guys.
37:37Clothing, $1 or under.
37:39The story with these guys is that Dawn is the owner of a fashion model business, and all of her
37:46girlfriends were also fellow models.
37:48And all of these fellas were the friends.
37:53Dawn is made up of vinyl and hard plastic, and all of them are done similarly.
37:59The girls all had rooted hair and eyelashes, whereas the boys had molded hair and painted features, no eyelashes.
38:07They did have bendable limbs.
38:09They've got holes in their feet, which would hold the stands.
38:12All of them are like that.
38:13It was meant to go up in the shoes.
38:15You could have them stand out and hold positions, and they were a lot of fun.
38:19This is the original Dawn in her original outfit, and all the other guys are wearing different variations of outfits
38:26that were available at the time.
38:29Originally, when Dawn came out, you could get 44 outfits.
38:32And part of what made them go out of business is because they started doing some specialty Dawn dolls, and
38:38then the outfits sort of repeated, and then people stopped buying them because there was nothing new.
38:42Now, I have never had the boys come in.
38:44I think it's sort of like Barbie and Ken.
38:46Everybody had one Ken.
38:47They didn't need all the other dolls.
38:48So the boys weren't bought as much.
38:50Little girls didn't buy the boy dolls.
38:52For sale at a doll show or retail, your boys averaged $250 a piece.
39:00I had no idea.
39:01Everybody says that.
39:02I had no idea.
39:03Oh, my gosh.
39:05The girls that you have here are $150 to $200 a piece.
39:08Some of the outfits are worth more than others.
39:11So total with all of them, I would say a retail range is going to be anywhere from $1,300
39:15to $1,500 for just what you have right here with us.
39:19Wow.
39:19Oh, my gosh.
39:20I had no idea that that was anywhere near that value.
39:25Wow.
39:27Holy cow.
39:31I'm shocked.
39:32I'm really shocked, especially for the boys.
39:40Linda has many collections on the property that she's worked tirelessly for years to collect.
39:46My personal favorite is our 1918 museum.
39:49We also doubled that as our World War I museum because that's what was happening at the time that the
39:54castle was being built.
39:55In the World War I exhibit, you can find things that would have been taken to the battlefront, like this
40:01gas mask.
40:02Worn by American, French, and British troops, it was used to protect soldiers from the effects of chlorine gas.
40:11I know who made it.
40:12It was a friend of my parents.
40:13I grew up outside of Toledo, and there was a group of artists in the late 40s, early 50s that
40:18all got together weekly.
40:20Mr. Sims, the artist, was one of them.
40:22My parents probably got this through a trade or possibly bought it from him, but I think they probably just
40:27did a trade.
40:28This is a fantastic and very exciting discovery, a very early terracotta sculpture by Carol Harris Sims.
40:36He was a student at the Toledo School of Art.
40:40He was in Toledo in the late 1940s.
40:43As we can see in this picture, he's an African-American young man in the center.
40:48Carol Harris Sims was a ceramic artist, a sculptor, a potter.
40:54He studied at the Cranbrook School and one of the first African-American artists to study there.
40:59And then he became best known for his work in Texas.
41:05He was a professor of sculpture at Texas Southern University, which is in Houston.
41:09It's an HBCU, Historically Black College or University.
41:13And he worked with John Biggers, who's quite a famous painter, a muralist.
41:19And it really was a very important place for learning, for visual arts, and for African-American art.
41:27Both were pioneers.
41:28Both were important trailblazers.
41:30I have not seen in person his work before.
41:34I've seen pictures.
41:36There's a famous history of African-American art that was written by Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson, who's a writer.
41:44Bearden's probably the best known African-American artist.
41:47And there's a chapter on this gentleman.
41:50We can see here this abstracted figure, very unified, simple form.
41:56It's painted.
41:57Looks like there's sand mixed in the paint.
42:00And on the verso is his signature and the date 1947.
42:05This photograph is dated 49.
42:07This artist's work does not come to the market very often.
42:11Do you have any sense of the value?
42:13I really have no clue.
42:15I tried to look up auction things and stuff, and I couldn't find anything.
42:19You didn't find anything because there isn't anything.
42:22So at auction, it's going to be kind of a broad range because this is uncharted territory.
42:27Conservatively, between $5,000 and $10,000.
42:29Wow.
42:31Well, that's kind of cool.
42:34That's...
42:36I guess I'll keep it out.
42:38I think it's a wonderful, wonderful example.
42:41Cool.
42:46It's an old wood carpenter's chest.
42:48We believe it's from, like, the late to early 1800s.
42:52They have different types of lays that make different types of molding that they did back in the day.
42:56It has been sitting for years in a garage.
43:01I inherited this from my dad, had it autographed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
43:07He was in the Air Force during the Apollo 11 mission.
43:10He was a weatherman stationed at Patrick Air Force Base and then supported the Apollo 11 mission.
43:15And where is Patrick Air Force Base?
43:17In Cape Canaveral, Florida.
43:19And that's where the mission launched from.
43:21It's signed.
43:22This is a cover.
43:23It was canceled, which means when they mail something, they put a cancellation.
43:27On July 16, 1969, which was the day that the mission launched, there are a lot of these commemorative covers
43:34out there that are canceled.
43:34Not so many that are signed.
43:36And these signatures appear to be authentic signatures.
43:39I would estimate this conservatively at auction to be between $3,000 and $4,000.
43:45Awesome.
43:46Awesome.
43:48That's great news.
43:52When I got married, my mother-in-law gave these to me, and they were my husband's great-grandmother.
43:58And she lived in England.
44:00I've worn them a few times.
44:02Do you wear it all together all at once?
44:04I have, and it's unbelievable.
44:06The effect is incredible.
44:08Absolutely.
44:08And that's what stopped me in my tracks.
44:11One, that it's a complete set.
44:14Right.
44:14And two, that it's in its original box.
44:16I know.
44:17It's so sweet.
44:18Which, as a jewelry purist, is so nice to see.
44:22Right.
44:22This is a bohemian garnet, Victorian suite, pureur, you might say, which fully encompasses a necklace, both bracelets, a pair
44:35of earrings, and a brooch, which can be suspended from the center element of the necklace.
44:41Right.
44:42It's very, very rare to see all the pieces together.
44:45I would date this to the late Victorian period, probably circa 1880s.
44:52Bohemian garnets are referred to as bohemian garnets because they were mined in what is today the Czech Republic.
44:59Oh.
44:59But at that time was considered bohemian.
45:02Their technical name is a kind of garnet called a pyrope garnet.
45:07They're favored for that lovely kind of raspberry, deep raspberry red color.
45:13They almost read purple sometimes.
45:15Exactly.
45:15It's very customary that these would be set in a heavy gold foil, so sort of a gold shell on
45:23a base metal.
45:24That's why they have this closed backing here.
45:26I looked it all over to see if I could find any sort of markings, but I don't see any
45:33markings that would say it is English for sure, but it absolutely could be.
45:38It was a style of jewelry that was very popular in the UK and in America at the time.
45:43It does have a couple spots with a little bit of damage.
45:46Because Victorian jewelry in today's market can be kind of a difficult sell, in a retail environment, a whole suite
45:54in its original box would probably bring somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000.
46:00Great.
46:01I mean, I don't want to ever sell it.
46:02I'm going to pass it on.
46:04You could insure it for the same amount.
46:05I actually thought it was going to be more.
46:11This is my great-grandfather's violin.
46:15He played dances in the early 1900s.
46:17At one point, it was damaged heavily by a relative.
46:21I'm hoping to see whether or not it's worth fixing up.
46:24Both my wife and I played the violin in high school, and it would be nice to have an heirloom
46:28that we could pass down to our children.
46:30This is a portrait of my great-great-grandfather and his mother, my great-great-great-grandmother.
46:35Painted about 1850, we think.
46:37He was born in 1844.
46:39And where were they?
46:39Northern New Jersey.
46:40I'm told the dog is fictitious, that there was no real dog.
46:43There's an awful lot of itinerant artists that traveled New England up and down the Atlantic that did portraits for
46:49families.
46:50This is a rather nicely painted portrait.
46:52It's a nice composition.
46:54If this were in an auction, I'd probably put $4,000 to $6,000 on it, and it might do
47:00better.
47:01You know, the dog is always a popular selling point, and the sitters are attractive people, and it matters.
47:08Right, right.
47:10I wanted a grandfather clock, and I bought it.
47:13It was online.
47:14It was damaged when I bought it, watered and insect damage, so I had it restored.
47:20They added new feet, and the scroll on top was damaged as well, so the restorer resolved that.
47:27What did you pay for the clock originally?
47:28Well, it was listed for $500, and with the damage, I offered them $300, and so they took it.
47:35This is a Massachusetts dwarf clock made by John Bailey in Hanover, Massachusetts, which is on the south shore of
47:43Massachusetts, made circa 1800 to 1805.
47:47It's a scaled-down tall case clock, but it's a kidney-dial dwarf clock.
47:53Dwarf clocks are rare to begin with, but kidney-dial dwarf clocks, and it refers to the shape of this
47:58dial, are even rarer.
48:00I only know of a handful of them in existence.
48:02John Bailey was a really important clockmaker.
48:06He was a Quaker.
48:07He was a preacher.
48:08He was an ingenious mechanic.
48:10He took out a patent in 1792 on a steam jack, which was for roasting meat, and he was really
48:16responsible for clockmaking in the south shore of Massachusetts area, which was a thriving region.
48:22He had a sizable shop, and he apprenticed important makers who, in turn, would train other clockmakers and really competed
48:31with the Boston clockmakers.
48:33And I think one of the reasons why this clock was designed is because it was a lot less expensive
48:39than a competing tall clock that was made in Boston.
48:42They found an invoice for one of these that was sold for about $40 originally.
48:47A full-scale tall case clock would have sold for about $60 to $90 at the time.
48:51The dial is fantastic.
48:53It has John Bailey-type hands that you expect to see.
48:57The signature is perfect.
48:59This dial is like the day it was made.
49:01The swag, this is all raised, gilt-feeding, perfect condition.
49:05The dial is a 10.
49:06It just doesn't get any better than that.
49:08Equally as great is this case.
49:12It's a pine case, grain-painted to look like a more expensive exotic wood, and they did a fantastic job,
49:17and the details are phenomenal.
49:20I'm going to pull this bonnet off.
49:23You can see that everything is original.
49:25It has its original brass movement that runs for eight days on a wind.
49:29This is what we call a fall-off strike.
49:32So it strikes once every time the hour passes.
49:34It has its original seatboard here, and that's really important.
49:37And you can see that there's a restoration here on the back right foot.
49:42This side's original.
49:44So in the clock world, normal restorations are to the feet and to the fretwork.
49:49They're the two most fragile points.
49:50So you expect to see some restorations.
49:53But in general, this clock is just in great condition.
49:56How much did you pay for the restoration?
49:58It's around $4,000 to $4,500.
50:01It sounds like a lot, but in this case, it was worth it.
50:04This is probably the second greatest clock I've ever seen at the Antiques Roadshow that I've been doing for 20
50:09years.
50:10I would put a retail value on this clock of $75,000.
50:18That's amazing.
50:21Very amazing.
50:24Geez, thanks for all the information.
50:27And I'd like to point out that this is the one that got away.
50:32I saw this on an online auction years ago.
50:35I don't remember how I missed it, but I would have been pretty good competition for you at the time.
50:44And now it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:48My clamshell watch that I spent $20 on is worth $200.
50:53And my complete set of Kenner Star Wars last 17 figures and coins, including Yak Face here, is worth $6
50:58,000 to $9,000.
50:59Thanks, Antiques Roadshow.
51:01I brought the pinnacle of my retirement portfolio.
51:04Unfortunately, it did not belong to King Arthur and the Round Table.
51:07So, sorry, Julie, about your inheritance.
51:11I brought in my scarab poison ring, my engagement ring, and I learned that it is not as old as
51:20I thought it was.
51:21But on the plus side, it's probably not cursed.
51:24What I brought to the party today is a one-owner 1970 Dodge Charger promotional model from a dealership.
51:32And I got this when I was 11, hence being the original owner.
51:37And now I believe finding out what the value of this little car is, I am definitely going to have
51:42to buy the real thing and play with that.
51:45My Rembrandt turned out to not be a Rembrandt.
51:49In fact, the frame is worth more than the print.
51:52I was hesitant to buy these two maps from our local thrift store at $15 each.
51:59I thought they were worthless.
52:00And they are worth about $500 to $600 each.
52:04So, pretty pleased with that.
52:06I'm wrong.
52:06Yep, he's wrong.
52:08I have here a land patent with a genuine autograph of President Ulysses S. Grant's secretary.
52:15If I sell it in the parking lot, we should get enough money to get halfway home.
52:18Thanks for watching.
52:20See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
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