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00:00Antiques Roadshow is seeing thousands of treasures at the Georgia State Railroad
00:08Museum in Savannah. It's just gorgeous. When you took it out my eyes went boom! Wow! Wow! Wow!
00:16That's great!
00:36The Georgia State Railroad Museum, now a National Historic Landmark,
00:40started as a repair shop for steam trains in the 1850s.
00:44The spot was mostly spared from General Sherman's Union troops in 1864,
00:49as they marched across Georgia during the Civil War, destroying infrastructure and resources.
00:55Only to be closed in 1963 after the dominance of diesel overtook steam locomotives in the mid-1900s.
01:05The site was saved for preservation and has tens of thousands of visitors annually.
01:10What treasures have been saved and brought to Roadshow today?
01:16And at some point, maybe 50 years ago, or 100 years ago,
01:20they got mixed and put the wrong cup into the wrong saucer.
01:23This right here is what I suspect to be a 200-year-old pair of spectacles.
01:27It's all handmade.
01:29Would you try them on for us?
01:30Would you try them on for us?
01:33Well, why not?
01:34Oh, you look fabulous.
01:36You look fabulous.
01:42In 1948, my husband and I went to this little antique shop in Atlanta.
01:48We found Ralph.
01:51You call him Ralph?
01:52Why do you call him Ralph?
01:54Well, it looks a lot like a friend of ours.
01:57Does Ralph know that you call him Ralph?
01:58No.
01:59No.
02:00Ralph, that's good.
02:01That's a good thing.
02:02I told him.
02:03OK.
02:04Well, what have you found out about it, and what would you like to know?
02:06Well, in the front, it says K-I-S-E-R, Bill.
02:10And I thought it said kiss her, Bill.
02:13And then somebody else looked at it and said, no, I think that's Kaiser Bill.
02:18Yep.
02:19Kaiser Bill, misspelled here as K-I-S-E-R, Bill, would have referred to Wilhelm II,
02:26the last German emperor during and just after World War I.
02:30America actually entered World War I in 1917.
02:34And so Kaiser Bill would not have been very popular with Americans.
02:39We can narrow down the date of the manufacture of this jug to 1917 to 1918.
02:45We know from the handwriting, from the way that that inscription was done,
02:50we know whose handwriting it was.
02:52I believe that it was made in Atlanta by a guy named Davis Pennington Brown.
02:57And Davis Pennington Brown is from a family of famous potters that all went to Arden, North Carolina.
03:04But during 1915, 1920, Davis Pennington Brown, the most famous of the Brown brothers, the potters in Georgia,
03:12was doing jugs like this.
03:15This is actually white clay.
03:16It's covered with this coat of Albany slip, which is this brown clay that they wash all over it.
03:21And then salt is shoveled into the kiln and it vitrifies and coats everything and gives it that orange peel kind of look to the surface.
03:30A lot of things about this jug confirm it as Davis Pennington Brown.
03:36And among them, the C shape of the ears, the fact that the teeth are made of clay instead of porcelain,
03:43like he used in Arden, North Carolina later on, and that the handwriting is really in his own hand.
03:50So all those things support an attribution to Davis Pennington Brown.
03:55It's just a classic example.
03:57It's a larger size than most of them.
04:00Also, the condition is amazing.
04:02How much did you pay for it?
04:04$25.
04:05Pay $25.
04:07I feel that in a retail setting, this could easily be priced at $6,000.
04:14Uh-huh.
04:15Yeah.
04:16I guess that was better than interest on $25.
04:20I'd say, I'd say, yeah, that's pretty, I'm not sure what $25 was worth back in 1948, but that's not bad.
04:31It's my grandfather's violin.
04:33He used to play the violin when he would come for Christmas.
04:36We would have a Christmas concert for all of our relatives.
04:38He never knew how to play the violin very well, but we would play together.
04:41He was a soldier in World War II.
04:44It's my belief he brought it home.
04:46I think it's German.
04:47I tried to get it appraised 15 years ago.
04:50There was an online site where you could take pictures of it.
04:53I think I remember the appraisal being around $500.
04:55I'm seeing a maker who was inspired by Stradivari.
04:58We see a lot of those, but this one really, he tried to emulate the accuracy of Antonio Stradivari.
05:06Things like the overall shape, the back being a one-piece back with this very distinct flame in the maple.
05:13The ribs also having that flame.
05:16So the label says K.A. Guter.
05:20Mark Neukirchen, 1921.
05:22Kurt Arnold Guter.
05:24He grew up in Mark Neukirchen, one of the big centers of violin making in Germany.
05:28Wow.
05:29And he studied with all the greats of that period.
05:31The value, as is, taking into account that there is a crack here that needs to be repaired, and one here, would be about $8,000.
05:41Wow.
05:42Yes.
05:43And then if you got that repaired, it would be worth more, perhaps as much as $10,000 to $12,000.
05:48Amazing.
05:49It is, isn't it?
05:50Yes.
05:51That's more than $500.
05:52Oh, yeah.
05:53Absolutely.
05:54Amazing.
05:55Thank you so much.
06:02This is my mother's ring.
06:04She got it from my father, probably in the late 60s or early 70s.
06:10Our neighbor was a jeweler in a small town in New Jersey.
06:14My father just walked downtown one day and came back with this for my mother.
06:19It wasn't her birthday, it wasn't a holiday, and it's always been a puzzle.
06:25So why do you think he bought it for her?
06:27I think he felt guilty about something in his past.
06:31Oh.
06:32I think he was making amends.
06:34What would you like to know about the ring?
06:36Well, I don't know, is it real?
06:39Because it's a large stone.
06:42It is real.
06:43It is a real sapphire.
06:44Good to know.
06:45And it's a really beautifully cut, old cushion cut stone.
06:49It's mounted in platinum and it's framed by old single cut diamonds.
06:53I think the ring was made probably in the 1940s.
06:56Wow.
06:57And it's very pretty.
06:59There are no hallmarks that would tell us who made it or where it's from.
07:04However, based on the style, I would suspect that it was probably made by a high-end jewelry maker in New York City.
07:11In order to determine where it was mined, we would have to send it out to a laboratory.
07:17But that cut and color, it's very typical of sapphires that we see that have been mined out of Ceylon or modern-day Sri Lanka.
07:29I would be comfortable saying that it's a Ceylon or Sri Lankan sapphire.
07:34It's very clean.
07:35When you look at it under magnification, you really don't see any inclusions.
07:40And I did a weight by formula and it's coming out to be about seven and a half carats.
07:46Wow.
07:47That's a nice size.
07:48That's exciting.
07:49Now, what was your mother like?
07:50Did she wear it?
07:51She did when she went out to dinner.
07:54She was never a showy woman.
07:56My father was not extravagant with gifts.
07:59So this is really a big surprise.
08:02Any idea what he might have paid for it?
08:05No idea.
08:07But this was a good friend and a neighbor.
08:09And maybe he called my father and said,
08:12Ed, get down here.
08:13I've got the ring for you to give your wife.
08:16Long-suffering wife.
08:18He was a straight-up guy.
08:20I think he just knew that he was sometimes difficult.
08:24As you might know with sapphires, they are very often heat-treated in order to enhance that color.
08:30So you would have to send it to a laboratory in order to determine that.
08:34Which, for a couple of hundred dollars, I would recommend doing because then you would know for sure.
08:39If it's heat-treated, you'd be in the $5,000 to $10,000 range.
08:45Okay.
08:46If it is not heat-treated, we'd be in the $15,000 to $20,000 range at auction.
08:53That is excellent.
09:03In the first half of the 20th century, one of the fastest trains in the South was operated by the Central of Georgia Railway.
09:12The Nancy Hanks route was a route for passengers between Savannah and Atlanta with a stop in Macon.
09:18We have one car in our collection from the Nancy Hanks.
09:21It's the blue and gray car behind me.
09:24Nancy Hanks, the train, was named for an undefeated racehorse.
09:28That racehorse was named for the mother of President Abraham Lincoln, Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
09:35The earlier Nancy Hanks ran in 1892 and 1893.
09:39Nancy Hanks II operated between 1947 and 1971.
09:44This clock has been in my house since I was very little.
09:51My mother was at her friend Connie's house and noticed it on her shelf and just told her that she liked it.
09:57And Connie told her to take it home, that she could have it.
10:00And she put it on the shelf at home and it was there for the next 50 years.
10:05Wow.
10:06That's a very nice present.
10:08What you have is a Tiffany Studios clock.
10:13It's in the bookmark pattern.
10:15It has printer's marks from the 15th and 16th century.
10:20And they're on the top here.
10:22And there are a couple of things that are unusual about it.
10:25First of all, it's been cold painted and sometimes the clock would come just with the gold finish.
10:32And once in a while it would come this way with this beautiful painting.
10:38And it really makes the piece pop.
10:41The other thing that I love about this, it has its original key that is nestled inside the door.
10:49And this also has the printer's marks on it.
10:53And that's fantastic.
10:55I looked it up.
10:56I wanted to see what this cost initially, which was probably in the teens.
11:02It cost $70.
11:04That was a tremendous amount of money for a clock.
11:08It was part of a whole desk set and you could buy up to 21 pieces.
11:13But to me, the clock was the creme de la creme.
11:16It's just gorgeous.
11:17It's really, when you took it out, my eyes went boom.
11:20I was very excited.
11:23In a retail shop today, this would cost between $6,000 and $8,000.
11:30Oh my God, it's much more than I thought it would be.
11:33That's huge.
11:37It's a great present.
11:39Amazing.
11:47I brought my William de Kooning sketch that was personalized and given to my father in 1966.
11:53How did your father know de Kooning?
11:55I'm not exactly sure.
11:57My father passed in 1995.
11:59William de Kooning was in Hampton Bays, New York on Long Island.
12:03And my father was on Long Island as well.
12:06My father was an artist.
12:07And he met many artists.
12:10And he must have been very friendly with him because he called him Jimmy.
12:13My father's name was James.
12:15Only friends called him Jimmy.
12:16William de Kooning is one of the most important American artists of the 20th century.
12:21The style that he's most known for and the artistic movement that he's most known for is abstract expressionism.
12:27It really is what it sounds like.
12:29There's abstraction, kind of a move away from realism and how they should look and more into the expression of it.
12:36The movement of something, the thoughts of something, the subconscious ideas of it.
12:41In 1963, de Kooning moved to the Hamptons to Springs, New York.
12:46And what was interesting about that is that there were a lot of other artists living very close by,
12:50including Pollock and his wife Krasner.
12:52So it was a kind of place where the artists would congregate.
12:55At that point, especially, he was always drawing in a way that was free-flowing.
13:00It's an exemplary work by him because it does show his love for form but in the style of abstraction.
13:07This is graphite on paper.
13:08It is signed and dated lower right, which is in 1966.
13:13And it says, to Jimmy, and good luck to you, Bill de Kooning.
13:17It's later in his career.
13:19He really became famous for his abstract expressionist works in the 50s and 60s.
13:23What do you think it might be worth?
13:24I would love for it to be in the thousands, but I'm going to say $200 to $300.
13:30Real de Kooning drawings are exceedingly rare.
13:33A lot of the major foundations for some of these bigger abstract expressionist artists and a lot of artists in general now do not authenticate works.
13:39What you often have is a situation where it's hard to prove something is authentic.
13:44What can overcome that is provenance.
13:46And that's what you have.
13:47And that's what's great.
13:48That this was given to your father directly by the artist.
13:52I would put a conservative auction estimate of $8,000 to $12,000 on it.
13:58Thank you, Dad.
14:00If it was his birthday yesterday, he would have been 80 years old.
14:07I got this as a Christmas present when I was about six years old.
14:12I have the outfits.
14:13Some are complete.
14:14Some are not.
14:15Some of the shoes got lost.
14:17Or my dad stepped on them and he threw them out.
14:21But this is what I've got.
14:25This is one of a pair.
14:27That's Martha.
14:28We think they were painted back in 1845.
14:31Got them from my parents.
14:32They bought them in Boston.
14:33I do have the other one, but it was a little cumbersome to bring it today.
14:36So we just brought Martha today.
14:38Is she the prettier one of the two?
14:39Not really.
14:40She's not at all.
14:42Francis was actually a little more attractive.
14:47I was chart manager at Cashbox Magazine, one of the music trade magazines from 1977 to
14:541984.
14:55And one of the perks of the job is oftentimes the record companies would bring stuff like
15:01this for me to see and enjoy.
15:03It's a pretty good position to be in.
15:04People want to be your friend when you're the one coming up with the charts.
15:07Exactly.
15:08So you brought in today, obviously, this record store window promo poster for Tom Petty and
15:14the Heartbreakers' second album.
15:15Correct.
15:16You're going to get it.
15:171978.
15:18And it's not just that poster.
15:20It's signed, which is really great.
15:22And they're huge signatures.
15:24It's not just signed by Tom Petty.
15:25We have Stan Lynch, Mike Campbell, Ron Blair, and Ben Monttensch.
15:29So we have like the full five founding members here.
15:31That's it.
15:32And Tom's signature is really big in the middle.
15:34And he's dated it.
15:35So this is about a month after the record came out in June of 78.
15:38Correct.
15:39And I love that he signed it to Cashbox.
15:40Right.
15:41One quick question.
15:42How did you guys determine what the charts were?
15:44Did they send you sales information?
15:45It was kind of fly by the seat of your pants back in those days.
15:49This was pre-computer era pretty much when I was there.
15:52So lots of telephone calls to record stores and radio stations.
15:57And we kind of mashed it all together and came up with the charts every week.
16:01What's so great about this poster, in addition to the fact that it's big, it's a little rare
16:04because it's not paper and it was made to put on a window.
16:07Obviously this is why it's transparent.
16:10And so you have the adhesive strips up here, which you'd stick up and you can put them up to the glass.
16:15And most of the ones that were made probably were used in the stores and didn't survive so well
16:19because if you had this in the sun for a few months, I'm sure they faded out.
16:23They tore.
16:24People took them.
16:25Yours is in pretty great condition, but even more so than that, obviously, yours is signed.
16:29Do you remember this from cruising up the charts?
16:31Oh yeah, for sure.
16:32Made it to number 23 or thereabouts.
16:37At auction, I would expect it to fetch somewhere in the $3,000 to $5,000 range.
16:41Wow.
16:42More than I thought.
16:44That's great.
16:45Now that you've had your appraisal, I've got to tell you not to come around here no more.
16:49Well, damn the torpedoes.
16:51We could go all day because I'm an American girl.
16:53There you go.
16:55After I graduated from college in 1985, I was in a small antique gallery in the
17:02Pest Crochet Inn, Mississippi.
17:04And I saw four of these paintings.
17:05They each were $20.
17:06But I only had $20 in cash on it, so I only could buy one of them.
17:10And this is the one I bought.
17:11And what about the other two?
17:13Right.
17:14The tray and the cards?
17:15Years later, my wife and I were just looking online to see if there was anything else by Dale Nichols.
17:20And we came across these items.
17:22It makes for a nice group.
17:24These are both illustrated works on products, this being an offset lithograph on a tray.
17:30And we have that deck of cards with scenes by Nichols.
17:33Both the box of cards and the tray, mass produced and would be circa 1940s or 50s.
17:39Okay.
17:40Dale Nichols was born in 1904 in Davis City, Nebraska, and made his way to Chicago for his studies.
17:49And in the 1930s and 40s, he merged as one of the prominent American regionalists.
17:56Nichols was an illustrator and a fine artist, but along his career path, he was always doing commercial work.
18:03He's best known for this kind of subjects.
18:07Now, while this is a small painting, it has all of the bells and whistles that a collector of Nichols' work would want.
18:14It's a winter scene. We have a little figure. Looks like he's sort of turning the corner at a house or a barn.
18:19And it's clearly a rural subject. He's got his dog there. It's a little gem.
18:24It's an oil on Masonite board, which was a more inexpensive medium.
18:29A lot of illustrators used Masonite.
18:31It is signed, although he had a really distinct, teensy, tiny way of signing his works.
18:37And it's dated 1949. It has one little issue. It has some flaking.
18:43But all in all, it's in a nice state of preservation.
18:46So, to value, the tray and the decks of cards together would be worth about $20 today.
18:54The painting itself, an auction value, would be in the $6,000 to $8,000 range.
19:00Whoa. Not bad for $20, I guess.
19:04Not at all. Yeah. Really cool. Thank you for bringing it in.
19:07Yeah. Thank you.
19:12Did you read all of these and flip through them?
19:14These have been used.
19:17Right. So, part of the value characteristics of these, we really look at, have they been graded?
19:23First of all, collectors want comic books that are graded.
19:28Once they're not graded, then we downgrade whatever the value is.
19:33Then you look at the condition and you can see that you have all this discoloration.
19:37You're probably looking in that $20 to $100 for some of these.
19:42Some of them better than others.
19:44Memories are worth something, so we keep them.
19:47This is a Babe D. Zaharias signed tennis ball. How did you get this?
19:57This is something my dad gave me in 1949 when he was 16 years old.
20:02He went to Madison Square Garden and Babe was there with some sports thing.
20:08And she was chipping these balls out into the audience with her golf clubs.
20:13My dad just reached his hand up and he grabbed the ball.
20:16So, it wasn't signed?
20:17She had them signed and then was just sending them out into the audience.
20:21So, what have you learned about Babe?
20:23Well, I know that she got the name Babe from Babe Ruth because her real name was Mildred.
20:28That's right.
20:29So, I'd go with Babe, too.
20:31In 1932, she went to the Olympics.
20:34She won two gold medals, one for javelin, one for hurdles.
20:37And then she got a silver medal as well.
20:39And she did golf.
20:42She did tennis.
20:43She was a seamstress that sewed her own tennis uniform sometimes.
20:48Babe Dietrichsen Zaharias is the greatest all-around female athlete in history.
20:55She got her start playing AAU basketball.
20:58She was a ringer for her office team.
21:00She played baseball.
21:02And then, of course, she ran track and field, went to the Olympics, won the two gold medals, won a silver medal, and set four world records in 1932.
21:11And then, just for the heck of it, a few years later in 35, when she was 24, she decided she was going to take up golf.
21:17Yeah.
21:18And what happens?
21:19She becomes the leading female golfer in the world.
21:23Mm-hmm.
21:24She wins 10 major women's tournaments.
21:26She's one of the founders of the LPGA.
21:29You said she was a seamstress.
21:31Yeah.
21:32She also played the harmonica.
21:33She was-
21:34I heard, yes, yes.
21:35She was a harmonica player, too.
21:36And she spun some tall tales, too.
21:38She's the one who put out the Babe story.
21:41Really, what happened is her mom called her Bebe, and that turned into Babe.
21:46I know it's priceless to you, but have you ever had this value?
21:48My dad did, I think, about 20 years ago, maybe.
21:52He had it valued at somewhere between 500 and 750 bucks, something like that.
21:56Well, have you seen the growth in women's sports over the last several years?
22:00Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
22:01The memorabilia market has also gone up.
22:04I would place an auction estimate of $1,500 to $2,500.
22:08Oh, cool.
22:09Oh, that is awesome.
22:10My dad will be very happy.
22:12That's neat.
22:13That is really, really cool.
22:20The museum is part of the old Frogtown neighborhood, named after the abundance of amphibians that emerged after it rained.
22:28The Frogtown neighborhood housed most of the employees at the railroad.
22:33Most of that neighborhood was Irish immigrants, and then eventually transitioned into an African American community.
22:41Coastal Heritage Society owns two of the houses that are left of what was known as the Frogtown neighborhood.
22:51I got it when I lived in Alaska, and we were looking to renovate our house.
22:56So I would go to the Salvation Army store looking for art to put on the walls.
23:01And I found this one, but it didn't match.
23:03We were doing all silver frames, and this had a gold, so it wouldn't match.
23:07But I really liked it, so I bought it anyway.
23:09So did you know what you were getting?
23:11No, not a clue.
23:12I figured out the name of the artist after a while, and I found another print that he had for sale on the internet, and it was about $150.
23:22Oh, right.
23:23Back in 2016.
23:24So the artist's name is you?
23:25I think it was Oshi?
23:26Hoshi.
23:27Hoshi.
23:28H-O-S-H-I Hoshi, and that means star in Japanese.
23:31Joichi Hoshi is from Japan, northern part of Japan, Niigata, the north.
23:37And he studied in Musashino Art University, which is very prestigious.
23:43And he was actually, in Taiwan, he was teaching.
23:47But so he started doing woodblock prints later in his life.
23:51So this is a woodblock print, but it's different from traditional woodblock prints, where other specialists did the carving and printing.
23:59The artists usually do the drawing only.
24:02But these modern Japanese woodblocks, they do everything.
24:06They carve their prints, they design, they carve, and they print.
24:10On the lower right, his date is 1978.
24:15And above this, the red seal is his top mark.
24:19And the title is in Japanese on the lower left.
24:23It's Autumn Light.
24:24Oh.
24:25Did he print mostly trees?
24:27Yes, his popular things are mostly trees.
24:30And he did other colors.
24:32So did you pay $100?
24:34I paid $5.99.
24:36$5?
24:37Yeah.
24:38Wow.
24:39I think it's really getting popular.
24:40Print's a good market.
24:42Japanese print.
24:43And I think I've seen this type of nice tree making in retail.
24:49$1,500.
24:51Wow!
24:52That's great!
24:53$1,500!
24:54Oh, that's good!
24:55Wait!
24:56I don't know a whole lot about it.
25:06It's from my husband's family.
25:08We think maybe it's a cathedral light or lamp or candle tower possibly used for funerals.
25:17But we're looking forward to finding out some history about it.
25:23My great-great uncle was the head chemist and senior vice president of the Coca-Cola Corporation in the 60s.
25:30As far as I know, it's some sort of correspondence that details the effect of the Coca plant.
25:38And it's possible that it's related in some way to an early form of Coca-Cola.
25:43When he passed, he left this in his wine cellar.
25:46We've been told that it hung in his office when he was the vice president.
25:50Sometimes when people bring things in, I have to ask them to pull it out of a bag or pull it out of a box.
25:58But you're wearing what you brought.
26:00Yes.
26:01We are.
26:02We're sort of squeezed into it.
26:03You look great.
26:04Well, we couldn't eat lunch.
26:05I'll put it down.
26:06Mine is a Delta flight attendant uniform from 1973.
26:10This was my very first uniform.
26:13The scarf was different.
26:14This was 96.
26:15This scarf is from the Olympics.
26:18Delta was the sponsor of the 1996 Olympics.
26:22And mine is an Eastern Airlines 1975 uniform.
26:27Actually, the vest and the shirt are from 75.
26:31And the jacket is 1991.
26:34And the hat was 91.
26:35Awesome.
26:36I love it.
26:37And your sisters, obviously.
26:39We're twins.
26:40We're twins.
26:41Your uniform is very complete.
26:42Yes.
26:43And Delta at the time, I believe, was using Sharon Harris as a designer for that uniform.
26:49Oh, okay.
26:50Tell me a little bit about the five-star pin.
26:52This was the five-star award if you went above and beyond.
26:56And we were going from Atlanta to Charlotte, I believe.
27:00And there was a child in the gateway that had a seizure and quit breathing.
27:05So I helped the child.
27:07The captain was so nice.
27:08And he told everybody what happened.
27:11And he wrote it up.
27:12And I got the five-star award.
27:14That's awesome.
27:15So in the world of uniforms, the reason people are interested in them is because I mentioned
27:20Sharon Harris, but there were other big designers like Edith Head.
27:24So that has generated some interest in the fashion folks.
27:26But also, there's this issue of supply and demand.
27:28So there's a demand and interest to preserve the cultural heritage.
27:31But there is a limited supply.
27:33So your ensemble is a little bit of a mixed period.
27:36You've got some 90s.
27:37You've got some 70s.
27:38For the blaze of the vest, the blouse, and the hat with all the emblems,
27:42we're probably looking at auction value of around $800 to $1,000.
27:46Really?
27:47Oh, wow.
27:48Oh, my goodness.
27:49That's fantastic.
27:50And the 70s version with the slacks and the jacket and everything is more complete.
27:55And it's got the Sharon Harris Association.
27:57We're probably looking at $1,000 to $1,500.
27:59Oh, wow.
28:00You're kidding.
28:01Oh, my gosh.
28:02So it's a lovely group.
28:03Oh, this has been so much fun.
28:05These are two vases that my father-in-law gave to me.
28:16He said his mom got them in the 40s in Queens and that she was told that they were pulled from the Normandy.
28:23But that's all that I know.
28:25Okay.
28:26And what would you like to know about them today?
28:29Honestly, I just want to know anything about them because I'm a giant Antiques Roadshow fangirl and I'm just so excited to be here.
28:36So just to know anything really at all.
28:39These were in fact designed for the SS Normandy.
28:42The SS Normandy was brought into service in 1935 and at the time it was the fastest ship to cross the Atlantic.
28:50It was fitted out on the interior by many designers but including George Bastard and Edgar Brandt, both notable designers of the time.
29:00These are a pair of nickel-plated chrome vases.
29:04They measure approximately 13 inches tall and there were two sizes that were fitted out in the ship.
29:09There was the smaller versions and these large 13-inch examples.
29:14At the beginning of the 1940s, the SS Normandy was actually seized by the American government to be converted into a troop ship.
29:21And at that time it was decommissioned in New York City and the interiors were completely pulled out.
29:26They took out all the furniture, decorative arts, lighting and accessories.
29:30In 1942 there was a fire on the ship and then it actually sank.
29:34There are a lot of pieces that came off the ship that still exist today.
29:39On this wonderful pair of vases, they're actually signed.
29:42First of all, in the middle we have the monogram of the French company which was a private public conglomerate
29:47that was the owner of the ship, which is Compagnie Generale Transatlantic.
29:52And then they're also signed, lower left is George Bastard and then lower right is Edgar Brandt.
29:58It was a great collaboration.
30:00So when we look at these two, one of them is just ever so slightly unstable.
30:05They are just bolted up through the bottom and it's likely a thread that just tightens up just a little bit.
30:10These are really in very good shape because there was a lot of them made.
30:14And by a lot I don't mean hundreds, but dozens of pairs.
30:18We have really good sales records for them.
30:21If I were to see these come up for auction in today's market, I would expect to see a value of $8,000 to $12,000.
30:29Wow!
30:30That's so exciting just to hear you say that.
30:33I'm like, I'm really on a Dick's Road show.
30:35That's so awesome.
30:37I'd recommend an insurance value of around $20,000.
30:40Wow.
30:41Okay.
30:42Good to know.
30:45My godmother went to South America and came back with some pottery that she gave me when I was like 12.
30:50We don't know how old it is.
30:52Everyone asked her how old it is.
30:53He claims it's really special and he always wants to display it in our house, but I'm like, I don't know what this is.
30:58So I think it's old and awesome and we'll see.
31:01And if it's not old and awesome, it gets not displayed, I think.
31:04It still gets displayed, but in my office.
31:06Just going back in the office.
31:08A year and a half ago, my mom passed away.
31:14I don't know if they were hers or somebody in the family.
31:17What you brought here were two marionettes from the Howdy Doody show.
31:21It was the kids show of all time.
31:24I remember them saying it's Howdy Doody time.
31:26It's Howdy Doody time.
31:27A little rough, but they have the original colorful boxes.
31:31Value-wise, I would say at auction you're looking around $200 to $300, which is not a bad price.
31:39For the two of them?
31:40For the two of them.
31:41And they'd be sold as a pair.
31:42That's great.
31:43This is an autograph book that I discovered at an antique show in Miami about 40 years ago.
31:53It is a book filled with autographs that were mailed to a lady that started this book, a Florence Hooker from Chicago.
32:00But the autograph that caught my attention and the reason that I bought this book was the signature of Teddy Roosevelt.
32:07My grandfather served with Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba as a rough rider.
32:12And so this signature meant a lot to me.
32:15And do you remember your grandfather growing up?
32:17I do.
32:18He limped because he was wounded in the Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba.
32:23And when you purchased the album at the antique show, what did you pay for it?
32:27I paid $1,000 for it.
32:28This is a really super album, autograph album.
32:31It's a who's who of late 19th century, early 20th century autographs of some of the most famous people in America at the time.
32:38You have Teddy Roosevelt.
32:39And what's really great about this Teddy Roosevelt autograph is, A, when it comes to autographs, you want strength of signature.
32:45And this is as clear and crisp as you can get.
32:48Also, it's on a White House executive card.
32:51And collectors of presidential autographs love that.
32:54That adds substantial value.
32:56It's included in the book besides the Teddy Roosevelt on White House cards as well.
33:00You have Grover Cleveland.
33:01Right.
33:02You have his wife, Frances Cleveland.
33:03Right.
33:04I believe there's a Benjamin Harrison as well.
33:06You also have a McKinley not on an executive card.
33:08There's your William McKinley.
33:10Down in this corner here, we have a great signature and inscription of Susan B. Anthony.
33:15We do.
33:16Why don't you read what it says for us?
33:17Perfect equality of rights for women, civil and political, is the demand of yours truly, Susan B. Anthony.
33:26Great inscription and one that she used very often.
33:29It's also signed and dated in Rochester, New York, where her home is still there as a museum.
33:35She lived there for 40 years.
33:36It's just a phenomenal encapsulation of what she was all about, the suffrage movement and everything else.
33:41Yeah.
33:42We also have a really, really cool signature of Mark Twain.
33:47Uh-huh.
33:48There's an enormous amount of great autographs in there.
33:50One of the things that I'm not crazy about is that collectors generally want to take the signatures apart,
33:55so they can frame them and mat them with photographs.
33:57Right.
33:58In this case, I like the idea of keeping this together as an archive.
34:00I agree.
34:01It's a history of one person's enjoyment, what she did for a hobby.
34:04In terms of value, the Teddy Roosevelt autograph by itself would be more than what you paid for the whole book.
34:10It would be about $1,000 to $1,500.
34:12Wow.
34:13To Susan B. Anthony, probably in the $1,200 to $1,800 range.
34:16And these are auction estimates.
34:18A Mark Twain, good cut signature like that, also probably in the $1,000 to $1,500 range.
34:23Wow.
34:24And then you have the presidents mixed in, some of them in the $200, $300, $400 range.
34:27So by the time you're done adding all those up, a conservative auction estimate as an album...
34:32Right.
34:33It would be somewhere between $5,000 and $8,000.
34:35Wow.
34:36It's something I really treasure.
34:39Very much.
34:40One of the Georgia State Railroad Museum's restoration projects is a segregated passenger car.
34:51This car behind me is Georgia Railroad number 67.
34:55It's a car that has partitions within it that separated black passengers from white passengers.
35:00This was in accordance with the Jim Crow laws, which were enforced just after the Civil War
35:05between 1865 all the way up until the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
35:11This car was built in 1911.
35:13It was a copy of a car built in 1880.
35:16By 1911, most passenger cars were being built primarily of steel.
35:20This car is built of all wood components.
35:24We have another segregated car in our collection that was built around 1930, but it was refit in 1950.
35:33The contrast between the construction of this car and the newer car is so stark, and it really paints a picture of how long these Jim Crow laws were enforced.
35:43My dad gave it to me.
35:50He was working in China in Hong Kong in the late 70s.
35:55He worked for Philips Consumer Electronics.
35:57Apparently, he was one of the first businessmen to be going into the area during the time it was when China was opening up for the first time.
36:04He says that as like a farewell thank you gift.
36:07When did he give it to you?
36:09Not too long ago.
36:10They were downsizing their house.
36:12I said I liked it.
36:13He said it's yours.
36:15Good choice.
36:16Yeah.
36:17I do know that it is from 1628.
36:19There's like a very handy sign on the back that I'm guessing he put there.
36:24He told me it was from a Dutch cartographer.
36:26I hung it on my wall and I had never thought about it again basically until my husband surprised me with tickets to the Antiques Rocha.
36:33Yes, it was printed in 1628, which is astonishing.
36:38It's an engraving.
36:39The coloring is original and it's watercolor.
36:43It was done by hand.
36:44There's no name on here.
36:45There's no indicator of who made it.
36:48And when I see these maps, the first thing I respond to is the moray pattern in the ocean.
36:56Hondias, who is the map maker, is famous for engraving that pattern to show waves.
37:03The wave pattern is one of my little techniques I used to tell if it's old or not.
37:09And then also the frame is open in the back so we're able to see that there's text which is in French.
37:15And that's a good way to tell that it's 17th century as well.
37:20Your father wrote a note that said Mercator Hondias.
37:23And that is correct. Mercator Hondias was a partnership.
37:27Gerard Mercator started the project and couldn't finish it.
37:31So Jodocus Hondias bought the plates from the family and issued these maps to complete the project.
37:40So they call it like the dream team of the 17th century for map makers.
37:44This map was printed in Amsterdam and that was the center of production for mapping in the 17th century.
37:50There's a lot of pictorial elements to it.
37:53There's boats. There's sea monsters.
37:56There's also an image of someone on a cross.
37:59And the text below describes that in Japan in the 17th century, Christianity was outlawed.
38:06So Jesuits in Japan were executed.
38:10The other thing I do when I look at maps of China is I look for the Great Wall, which is really well illustrated here.
38:16And it's very, very big.
38:18The other thing I find fascinating is that Korea is so elongated and it's shown as an island.
38:24So they're getting there with their geographical techniques, but not quite yet.
38:28There's so many rivers and lakes and mountains. It's a Baroque beauty.
38:33In terms of value, do you have any idea what it's worth?
38:37I have absolutely no idea.
38:39Okay. Well, maybe we shouldn't tell your dad. No, I'm just kidding.
38:42So it's a multiple. Many, many thousands of this map were made.
38:48We don't know how many survive.
38:50Yours is in particularly good condition.
38:53I would put a retail value on this map of about $3,500 to $4,500.
39:00That's awesome. That's so cool.
39:02Thank you so much.
39:03He'll really love it. Yeah. That's great. Thank you.
39:06This is a little jewelry box that I picked up at an estate sale.
39:14It has a little dog in there.
39:16And at the time I had a little dog that looked just like that.
39:20I paid $25 for it.
39:26I brought a 50th anniversary Fender Stratocaster.
39:30There was 2,500 of them made for the 50th anniversary.
39:34And this one's 2,341 out of 2,500.
39:39It's never been played.
39:40I have all the original paperwork from the factory, everything.
39:48This is a mid-early, maybe, 1900s hunt board.
39:52The unique thing about it is its provenance.
39:54It was once owned by the leading character in the novel and movie
39:57Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
39:59Jim Williams, right? Yes. Yes, exactly.
40:02I saw it online.
40:03I really liked it.
40:04And I needed an excuse to buy a Christmas present for my wife.
40:08So I thought, what better way to get what I want and what she wants as well.
40:13I like the way you think.
40:15That's pretty awesome.
40:16Don't tell her that.
40:17And how long ago did you acquire it?
40:19Just this past year.
40:20Well, it's a great, great piece.
40:22I absolutely love it.
40:23And you are correct.
40:24It's a federal fancy painted yellow pine hunt board.
40:29It's made in the southern states.
40:31And I would say it was probably made between 1810 and 1850.
40:36One of the characteristics that we can tell why it's federal is this nice tapering leg.
40:41It's something that we start to see in the late 18th century and into the 19th century.
40:48And the paint decoration is so fabulous.
40:50It's just a rural interpretation of high-style urban furniture.
40:55So this cabinet maker has done an amazing job.
40:58He's painted this vibrant yellow and these wonderful compass-decorated pinwheels meant to simulate inlay.
41:06If you look on the side, they've got these green paint-decorated bottles.
41:10The glass knobs seem to be later 19th century.
41:14And I think the piece is a little earlier.
41:16So I suspect they probably had another wooden pull on it.
41:19When I take a step around to the back, you've got the James T. Cheek,
41:24which is likely the cabinet maker because it's done in the same paint.
41:29It's got great form and function. It's wonderfully artistic.
41:32I just love the vibrant colors.
41:34And then you add the Jim Williams provenance to it, which is just fascinating.
41:38And if you're living in the Savannah area, you probably know that name
41:43because of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
41:45He was a central character.
41:47In his 35 years, he was in Savannah.
41:49It's reputed that he's restored over 50 houses.
41:53Quite the historic preservationist.
41:55A important figure in Savannah history, which I think really adds to the value here.
42:00Remember what you had to pay to bring this terrific Christmas gift home?
42:05It was all in about $9,000.
42:07I think you did pretty well on it.
42:09If I were to insure it, I think I'd insure it between $15,000 and $20,000.
42:14It is just a terrific piece.
42:16I'm going to have to come up with a really smart Christmas gift,
42:19which is going to put some pressure on me on the home front.
42:23So you set the bar really darn high.
42:25Why we're testing this, that usually ancient gold is usually alluvial gold.
42:33I just wanted to be sure with the gold.
42:35I'm going to test the shank.
42:37Okay.
42:38Now wear it out, Kevin.
42:40You know us, Jules.
42:41Always trying to get a little extra gold.
42:43And I'm going to test the bezel also.
42:46Okay.
42:47I'm going to hit it with 18 first.
42:49So that's the shank.
42:50That's the bezel.
42:51This is 18 karat acid.
42:54So the bezel.
42:56It's holding on the 18, the shank.
42:59It's not holding.
43:00You see that discoloration right there?
43:02Yeah, sure.
43:03Probably sized with a lesser metal.
43:07It was given to my grandmother.
43:10She was a young woman and she was working in Palm Beach, Florida.
43:14And she met someone and he had been on an archeological dig.
43:19And he gave it to her as a gift and told her to hold onto it,
43:22that it might be worth a lot of money one day.
43:25That was in the early 1930s.
43:27My parents took it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
43:31They looked at it and said that it belonged to King Thutmose III,
43:36a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, I believe.
43:39It was priceless is what we were told.
43:42And we have just never been able to have anybody tell us basically what it was worth.
43:47It's a scarab and beautifully made and from the 18th dynasty.
43:51And it is described to Thutmose III.
43:53He was an extraordinary pharaoh.
43:55He was, I think, just two years of age when his father died.
43:59And because he was so young, he then had a regent, his stepmother.
44:04And his stepmother was Hatshepsut.
44:06And she was a really famous pharaoh also.
44:09And when she declared herself a pharaoh, most of her sculptures depicted her as a man.
44:14She was only, I think, the third woman ever to be a pharaoh in ancient Egypt.
44:18It was a good reign, you know.
44:20And it wasn't contentious because even when she was making her declarations on monuments and things,
44:26she would put herself as pharaoh and also acknowledge Thutmose III.
44:30By the age of about 18, she made him head of the army.
44:33He ruled from April 1479 BC until March 1425 BC.
44:38And he transformed Egypt into a superpower.
44:41Anything with his name on it becomes a very powerful amulet.
44:44I don't believe that your ring belonged to Thutmose.
44:47But it's a very beautiful ring.
44:49It would have definitely belonged to one of the elite because it's gold.
44:51Why I think it probably wasn't a royal one, because the choice of stone for the scarab,
44:55it would have been lapis or jasper for them.
44:57But this is steatite.
44:58It's sort of a bit of softer stone.
45:00But it's nice.
45:01It's rather unusual cut.
45:02It has the very high dome on it.
45:03It's a wonderful swivel ring here on the back.
45:06It has the cartouche.
45:07This is the oval area where it has the name of Thutmose III in it.
45:11So that's the amulet.
45:12What we weren't absolutely sure of was the gold content.
45:16Now, normally with antiquity gold, it's alluvial found in the river.
45:19Some was found in the Nile, but most of it came from Nubia, which is in the Upper Egypt.
45:24And when it's alluvial, it's generally pretty pure.
45:28We tested it and it was high carat on most of it.
45:31But one part tested low, like 14 carat.
45:34Then we looked at it very carefully, and it's been sized.
45:37And so that's the little bit which was 14 carat.
45:40Everything else is fine.
45:41I'd be very comfortable with a retail value of 12,000 to 15,000.
45:46Oh, really?
45:47Yes.
45:48Okay.
45:49That's pretty awesome.
45:50I would insure this for 20,000.
45:52Oh, all right.
45:53It's a beautiful ring.
45:54And the color of that ancient gold is extraordinary.
45:56It's lovely.
45:57Oh, thank you.
45:59I had a friend who called me one day and asked if I would go and help this gentleman who had acquired a storage unit.
46:07And he had some Navajo rugs in it.
46:10And she knew that I collected Navajo rugs.
46:13So I went by there, looking through all his stuff that he got out of this unit.
46:17These dolls were in there.
46:19And I had no idea what they were.
46:21I knew they weren't Hopi.
46:22So I kept going back to look at them.
46:24And I was there for a couple of hours.
46:25And he said, instead of paying me, he would give these to me for looking at all his stuff.
46:30And I said, sure.
46:31That's a swell gift.
46:32Yeah, it was.
46:33These are folk art carvings representing Yebeche dancers, which are part of a nine-day healing ceremony held by the Navajo.
46:42And they're made by Clitzo Dedman, a Diné artist who was born in the late 1800s.
46:48He died in 1953, and looking at the style of these, I would say he carved them around 1950.
46:55They're extraordinary pieces of Navajo folk art.
46:59And he's very, very highly collected and held in high esteem.
47:06If they were to go to an auction setting as a set of four, my expectation would be that they would sell for between $2,600 and $3,500.
47:17Nice.
47:27It's a large brass antique telescope.
47:30I got it from my dad, and he acquired it from a gentleman up in Vermont who had it in like a barn sale, garage sale.
47:38My dad paid about $250 for it.
47:41It is a telescope, all brass construction.
47:43It's made by a company called Alvin Clark & Sons.
47:46They were established in the mid-19th century in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.
47:51And they were the go-to guys for big telescopes.
47:55So some of the biggest telescopes in the world up until about 1900 were made by this firm, up to be almost 40 inches in diameter at numerous observatories throughout the United States.
48:06It measures an impressive almost five feet long, and the tube itself is about four and a half inches in diameter.
48:13The optics do appear to be in good condition, which is a huge thing with antique telescopes.
48:18I'm thinking it's probably in the 1870 to 1880 range, so kind of in their prime.
48:22If it came up to auction today, I think it would conservatively bring $3,000 to $5,000.
48:28Wow.
48:29That's fantastic.
48:30That's really awesome.
48:35This painting was owned by my great aunt and uncle.
48:40My great aunt died in 1958.
48:43It was given to my mother and passed on to our family.
48:47We've had it about four or five years.
48:49Jessie Arms Botky, the artist of your painting, was born in Chicago in the late 19th century and was well-trained and well-traveled.
48:59She was a painter.
49:00She was a muralist.
49:01She was a designer.
49:02And she was kind of ahead of her time in so many other ways.
49:06They talk about her being very outspoken and marching in the suffragette parades.
49:12Given the quality and style of it, I think it was probably painted at the height of her career, which would be 1930 to 1950.
49:19She was represented by some of the finest galleries in the United States.
49:23So I suspect that it was an expensive painting, even when it was acquired.
49:29The painting is oil on board.
49:30It's painted very thinly.
49:32She loved especially white peacocks.
49:34She displayed this bird in just such a wonderful way where you could see through the feathers,
49:40the alley going into the background is really quite exceptional.
49:44And with the sculptures directing your eye into the painting.
49:48I believe that this alley is a pastiche of great houses.
49:55There's a little Versailles in there.
49:56There's a little crane estate in there.
49:58I don't see it as being attributable to a specific location.
50:02I really think, and I've spoken with my colleagues, it's one of the best we've seen in a long time.
50:07The combination of the bird, the architecture, the palette is just beautiful.
50:13At auction, I would estimate it between $60,000 and $80,000.
50:18Wow.
50:19Wow.
50:20Yeah.
50:21Today would have been my mother's 99th birthday.
50:24Oh, my gosh.
50:25So it's...
50:26Oh.
50:27Thank you, Mom.
50:28She's watching.
50:37Insurance valuation would be $150,000.
50:41This makes my day.
50:43My year.
50:44And now it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:51We came with our 1865 newspaper announcing Lincoln's assassination.
50:56We came with our grandmother's teacup from Occupy Japan.
50:59We came with Grandpa's Loblaws truck.
51:02It's steel.
51:03And the appraisers liked the best the box that he concocted in order to carry the Loblaws truck
51:09with the duct tape, the pool noodle, and the clothesline string.
51:13I've got a copy of Amelia Earhart's book signed by Amelia Earhart.
51:17And good news and bad news.
51:19The good news is it's worth a fair amount of money.
51:22The bad news is it belongs to our son and not me.
51:25And we found out this locomotive bell is worth $400 to $600.
51:28And weighs about a hundred pounds.
51:31Cheers to Antiques Roadshow.
51:36This is a Civil War flag that I was under the impression was a reunion flag.
51:42And it was actually used as collateral for a loan to a family friend.
51:47Well, we found out today that the flag is a fake.
51:51And we will be calling that family friend shortly after this.
51:54We came today because we thought our baseball would get us on TV.
51:58But we didn't make the cut.
52:00But my pins from the Olympic ceremonies were worth about $50 to $75.
52:04And we had a great time at Antiques Roadshow today.
52:06I brought my cello.
52:08And it's not worth much, but I still had a good time.
52:12We're here to celebrate.
52:13I just beat cancer.
52:14And then I wanted to get to Antiques Roadshow.
52:16We're super happy to be here.
52:17Thanks, guys.
52:18Thanks for watching.
52:19See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
52:22My father went to the Students Art League in New York City.
52:34I don't know how their paths crossed, but obviously they did somewhere along the line.
52:39This is the way that ads were illustrated.
52:41It's the way that even news articles at the beginning of the 20th century were illustrated.
52:45And illustrations are very collectible.
52:47So you have three different artists here.
52:49This is Gilbert Bundy.
52:51He was especially busy in the 1930s, 40s, and then early 50s.
52:55It's a great drawing.
52:57It's got a lot of energy and fun.
52:59You're probably looking at about $300 to $500 for auction purposes.
53:03This is Jaro Febri.
53:05This would be a little bit later, 1950s.
53:08A little bit more simplistic in terms of its execution.
53:12Probably $200 to $300 for it.
53:14And then the Paget.
53:16Happily, this is very conveniently dated for us, so we know it's 1941.
53:19This is probably going to be about $300 to $350.
53:23It's a wonderful collection.
53:24Thank you for your help.
53:26Ken Burns' miniseries on baseball on PBS in 1994.
53:40One of the chapters of the miniseries was on Negro League Baseball.
53:44He came to Kansas City for a publicity campaign,
53:47and he got together all the living Negro League Baseball players.
53:52And they signed autographs, and they had the shirts and things.
53:56Now, except for Ken Burns' autograph on here, everyone else has passed.
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54:19I think we are stronger than anything.
54:21I can see.
54:22She says they're mortified.
54:24She's pregnant.
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