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Antiques Roadshow - Season 30 (US) - Episode 11: Castle Farms, Hour 2
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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, Charles, 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.
03:19And 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.
03:37So, of course, I love Snoopy.
03:39And that's what I loved about your inscription here.
03:41Yeah.
03:42Is 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.
03:57That'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.
04:05Yeah.
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?
04:26Okay.
04:27Did you hear that?
04:29Talking to my daughter.
04:38These are old cast iron pans.
04:40They'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.
05:00I 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.
05:15It looks like a vine, and 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.
05:37And 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?
05:54I did, and 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.
06:27And that was purposeful, because what it is representing is the sky.
06:32So we have clouds.
06:34We have bats.
06:35We have dragons.
06:37And down here at the bottom, we have these phoenix, which are these mythical birds,
06:43that 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.
06:54They are meant to project strength.
06:56They're meant to project importance.
06:59What kind of person do you think would have owned this?
07:04High 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
07:13the reign of the emperor Guangxu, who reigned from 1875 to 1908.
07:20And behind the scenes was the dowager empress, Suxi, 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
07:47people would have come.
07:49And it was a place, because of this kind of color palette, that probably was frequented by
07:54the dowager empress.
07:56So you have an important object.
07:58Incredible.
07:59And it's actually in remarkably good condition.
08:01A lot of the colors, particularly these out at the bottom part, are just as vibrant as
08:06they were when they were originally made.
08:08I think for replacement value purposes, a reasonable figure would be around $30,000.
08:19Wow.
08:21Wow.
08:25Incredible.
08:34Castle Farms has embraced the lore of European castles with a vigilant knight and their very
08:41own dragon.
08:43Norm the dragon, a 10-foot-tall creature made for metal by artist John Andrews, has been a
08:48favorite 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.
09:39This part right here, it's so geometric, right?
09:42You have, it's really a square, it'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.
10:05What's great about this is it closes.
10:09And then you have the date here, your relative's initials on the other side.
10:13And then my favorite, how it just pops open like an Omar, yeah.
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.
10:23And 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.
10:43People collect just Cartier boxes.
10:46Oh, gee, I didn't know that.
10:47I would appraise your set retail at $15,000.
10:52Wow, I didn't expect that.
10:54Yeah.
10:54It's really, really remarkable.
10:56It was a beautiful gift.
10:57I wonder 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, and I believe
11:45that 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
12:03among 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
12:16from eastern Tennessee.
12:17He'd been the governor of Tennessee.
12:19And Lincoln looked at him and said, hey, sort of a southerner.
12:23This might swing Kentucky and Missouri into my camp.
12:28Let's get Andrew Johnson on the ticket.
12:29I 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, Johnson, who succeeded him,
12:50proceeded 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
13:01local campaign where 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
13:231860 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
13:35great.
13:35But if you're really looking for the greatness of the greatness of the greatness, you want
13:40a 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, and certainly the first one that I've ever
13:56seen 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.
14:07Okay.
14:08Wow.
14:09Excellent.
14:10Excellent.
14:11My dad would just love seeing it here.
14:15So, 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
14:26market.
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, but he bought it at a pawn shop in
14:46Chicago 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.
14:59Because you 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
15:17finish required nicer wood.
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.
15:29Great wide beveled 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.
15:48And 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
16:01friendship and relationship.
16:02And she gifted my mother this piece at the end of their time together.
16:05Your 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.
16:14She started studying ceramics in Hawaii.
16:17Came to the mainland.
16:18Went to Cranbrook, another one of the major art schools.
16:20Wow.
16:21Then went to Japan and studied Japanese ceramic making and Zen Buddhism.
16:27And she studied tea ceremony, which is an adjunct of Zen.
16:30And 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 it, but
16:39it'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, but she really hit her stride in the late
16:5050s, early 60s after Cranbrook and became a potter, but working in the abstract expressionist
16:56style.
16:57This 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.
17:20She probably had a matchstick or a small tool when she threw this pot to have just such
17:25a small opening at the top like that.
17:27They 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.
18:16If 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 and he gave
18:42it 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.
19:04We bought it for $50.
19:06Great story.
19:06And 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.
19:20People 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.
19:39Purchase.
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.
19:53She bought it as a souvenir of her time there.
19:57And then she has since passed away, so 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.
20:33Probably not true.
20:34Good 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
21:04of Polish cities, but it's a bird's eye view.
21:07You 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
21:23the character.
21:24He imbues it with a real personality.
21:26It's almost like a portrait of the city.
21:28And just to re-emphasize that, there are two characters here with names beside them.
21:34One of them, with the wheels, is the highly controversial now film director, Roman Polanski, who grew
21:41up 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.
22:01And 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 by him and 20,000 works in
22:15paper.
22:16It's thought that sometimes he'd prepare about three canvases in a day.
22:19And this is acrylic on canvas.
22:21And I think he probably favored acrylic because it dries much more quickly than oil 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.
23:00So.
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.
24:15And he won it, 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.
24:4218 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.
25:06A slide repeater.
25:07Three-finger bridge.
25:09It's got two hammers that strike the gongs.
25:13And the hammers are beautifully jeweled, as 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, didn't see that coming.
26:08The chain, being 15 karat gold, is going to have a value by itself, $2,000 to $3,000.
26:16Wow.
26:17To fix this watch, you would be looking at maybe $500 to $1,000.
26:24That is going to bring the value up.
26:26The watch and the chain retail, $15,000 to $18,000.
26:32Wow.
26:33I could throw a heck of a watch party with that.
26:35That's pretty good.
26:38Wow, that'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.
27:01It shows the exact same nose art on it with the female figure here and the same name, Majorette.
27:08That was a B-24D that served in the 13th Air Force in the Pacific Theater
27:14in the 372nd Bomb Squadron 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,
27:29it had a couple of features about it that made it advantageous compared to other aircraft,
27:36range being 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,
28:01losing two engines on 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
28:15because it's got this interesting painted majorette.
28:18We've got 13th Air Force in this shooting star,
28:21the bombs signifying completed missions.
28:25And then if we look at the front of this jacket,
28:28you've got the squadron insignia,
28:31and then on the other side closer to you
28:34is actually painted 307th Long Rangers.
28:38I see something.
28:40It's a little hard to make out,
28:42but when you know ahead of time what you're looking for,
28:44then you can see it.
28:46It 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,
29:00this is still quite displayable.
29:02On the market today,
29:03an auction estimate on this jacket would be $6,000 to $8,000.
29:10Well, it's not going on the market.
29:13So I'm just so proud to have it in the story behind it.
29:20My dad passed away at 90 a couple years ago,
29:23and it had been in his house at least 50 years that I knew of,
29:26and 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,
29:45which 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,
29:59I think I would insure it for about $1,200.
30:03Wow.
30:04It's a beautiful painting.
30:05Thank you so much.
30:09It's an old map of Lithuania,
30:12and it was given to my father from a prominent Detroit resident.
30:16My 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,
30:24he was displaced from Lithuania by Stalin.
30:28He was arrested and thrown into a Russian forced labor camp.
30:31And then when the Germans invaded during the Second World War,
30:35they 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,
30:47he was pulled out with them,
30:49and he did stuff like digging tank traps and stuff like that.
30:52And he ended up at Frankfurt at the end of the war.
30:54As 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
31:01until he got his medical degree
31:04and then came to the United States via the U.S. Army.
31:08Oh, incredible story.
31:10What an appropriate gift.
31:11This is a map of Lithuania, which includes parts of Poland and Ukraine and Russia.
31:18And it was commissioned by Prince Radswill,
31:22whose name is on the title cartouche.
31:24And he hired the 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
31:36because one didn't exist.
31:37So this is what's called a mother map.
31:38This is the first map of the area that was surveyed properly.
31:42And it really influenced every map of this region
31:46for the next couple of hundred years.
31:48Wow.
31:48So the cartouche in the corner is the Lithuanian coat of arms.
31:53And below it, it says in Latin,
31:56so it's hard to read,
31:56Gilem Jansonius,
31:59which is the name of Gilem Blau.
32:02So he changed his name right after he made this map.
32:04So it's very hard to identify it as him
32:07because he doesn't use the name that he used after this.
32:10And below it is in the engraved date of 1613.
32:14And it was engraved by a famous engraver, Hessel Gerritz.
32:18The 1613 map was a wall map separately issued,
32:21and they didn't change the date on the map
32:23as they released new additions.
32:26Your edition is the seventh version of the map,
32:29and it's from 1645.
32:32And the only reason we know that
32:33is a tiny change in one of the towns.
32:37Der Memel on the Baltic is named there,
32:40and that is a guarantee that it was made in 1645.
32:43And it was, in fact, an atlas map,
32:45so it was tipped into a book.
32:47The map was produced in Amsterdam,
32:49and it was engraved onto plates
32:51and finished by hand with 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,
33:00even though it's the seventh state,
33:02would be in 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
33:20in a house I was living at in West Chicago,
33:23and I took it with me,
33:25and I've had it in my kitchen
33:27up against the railing for the past 20-some-odd years.
33:30I know Dr. Guttridge graduated from,
33:33I 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
33:43or 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,
33:58and the other is, do you feel it over here?
34:00That smalt.
34:02It's actually crushed glass.
34:04Oh, it protects the wood.
34:06This is one of the reasons the sign
34:08is in such tremendous condition.
34:09Mm-hmm.
34:10And this is gold leaf retail value.
34:13I 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,
34:27a Tlingit native, which is Alaska native.
34:30Each time I would visit her, she would give me pieces.
34:33And 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 an 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
34:59to 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,
35:11those 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 Belgian or northern Scotland.
35:24It's not inexpensive.
35:26It can run hundreds of dollars a yard very easily.
35:30Looking at the piece itself and how it's constructed,
35:34I would expect that it's somewhere between 50 and 70 years old.
35:38Who was this made for?
35:40My cousins wore them for dances,
35:42and I'm not exactly who it was made for,
35:44but it's a child-sized blanket.
35:46The adult size were a lot larger and cloaked over.
35:50We got together for dances for a potlatch,
35:54which is the community of natives would come together
35:57from all parts of southeast of Alaska.
36:00They would bring food, and they would bring carvings
36:03and do some trading, and it was several days long,
36:07and it was a time where our families who moved away from us
36:10could gather together and be with each other.
36:14I know this is not something you would ever sell.
36:17This is part of your family and your heritage,
36:19and 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,
36:30somewhere 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,
36:45and they were supposed to be a competitor for Barbie.
36:48I was a Barbie girl,
36:49and my mother would go to garage sales, church sales, whatever,
36:53and bring home a case of dolls,
36:55and frequently these were in there as well,
36:56and I was disappointed because I wanted Barbie,
36:58but I got these.
36:59Also, they were inexpensive,
37:01and so I could buy them on my allowance.
37:03These six dolls here are Dawn dolls,
37:06and they are made by the Topper Toy Company,
37:09and they were made from 1969 to 1973
37:11when the company went out of business.
37:14When these first came out,
37:15they were a competitor to Barbie,
37:17and they were able to surpass Barbie for a little while in sales,
37:21which was crazy to think about.
37:23The price for these dolls originally new
37:25was anywhere from $1 to $3.
37:26Barbie at the time for the same Aero doll
37:30was $5 to $10.
37:32So affordability for a kid on allowance,
37:35you could afford these guys.
37:37Clothing, $1 or under.
37:39The story with these guys is that Dawn is the owner
37:42of a fashion model business,
37:45and all of her girlfriends were also fellow models,
37:48and all of these fellas were the friends.
37:53Dawn is made up of vinyl and hard plastic,
37:57and all of them are done similarly.
37:59The girls all had rooted hair and eyelashes,
38:02whereas the boys had molded hair
38:04and painted features, no eyelashes.
38:07They did have bendable limbs.
38:09They've got holes in their feet
38:10which 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,
38:18and they were a lot of fun.
38:19This is the original Dawn in her original outfit,
38:22and all the other guys are wearing
38:25different variations of outfits
38:27that were available at the time.
38:29Originally, when Dawn came out,
38:30you could get 44 outfits,
38:32and part of what made them go out of business
38:34is because they started doing some specialty Dawn dolls,
38:37and then the outfits sort of repeated,
38:39and then people stopped buying them
38:41because 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,
38:55your boys average $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.
39:09Some of the outfits are worth more than others.
39:10So total with all of them,
39:12I would say a retail range
39:14is going to be anywhere from $1,300 to $1,500
39:17for 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
39:43that 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
39:52because that's what was happening
39:53at the time that the castle was being built.
39:55In the World War I exhibit,
39:58you can find things that would have been taken
39:59to the battlefront, like this gas mask.
40:02Worn by American, French, and British troops,
40:05it was used to protect soldiers
40:07from 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,
40:15and there was a group of artists
40:16in the late 40s, early 50s
40:18that all got together weekly.
40:20Mr. Sims, the artist, was one of them.
40:22My parents probably got this through a trade
40:24or possibly bought it from him,
40:26but I think they probably just did a trade.
40:28This is a fantastic and very exciting discovery,
40:32a very early terracotta sculpture
40:34by 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,
40:45he's an African-American young man in the center.
40:48Carol Harris Sims was a ceramic artist,
40:53a sculptor, a potter.
40:54He studied at the Cranbrook School
40:56and one of the first African-American artists
40:58to study there.
40:59And then he became best known
41:02for his work in Texas.
41:05He was a professor of sculpture
41:07at Texas Southern University,
41:09which is in Houston.
41:10It's an HBCU,
41:11Historically Black College for University.
41:13And he worked with John Biggers,
41:16who's quite a famous painter, a muralist.
41:19And it really was a very important place
41:22for learning, for visual arts,
41:25and for African-American art.
41:26Both were pioneers.
41:28Both were important trailblazers.
41:30I have not seen in person his work before.
41:35I've seen pictures.
41:36There's a famous history of African-American art
41:40that was written by Romare Bearden
41:41and Harry Henderson, who's a writer.
41:44Bearden's probably the best-known
41:46African-American artist.
41:47And there's a chapter on this gentleman.
41:50We can see here this abstracted figure,
41:54very 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
42:03and the date 1947.
42:05This photograph is dated 49.
42:07This artist's work does not come
42:10to 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
42:17and I couldn't find anything.
42:19You didn't find anything
42:20because there isn't anything.
42:22So at auction,
42:23it's going to be kind of a broad range
42:25because this is uncharted territory.
42:27Conservatively, between $5,000 and $10,000.
42:29Wow.
42:31Well, that's kind of cool.
42:33That's...
42:36I guess I'll keep it out.
42:38I think it's a wonderful, wonderful example.
42:41Cool.
42:45It's an old wood carpenter's chest.
42:48We believe it's from, like,
42:50the late to early 1800s.
42:52They have different types of leis
42:53that make different types of molding
42:55that they did back in the day.
42:56It has been sitting for years in a garage.
43:01I inherited this from my dad,
43:03had it autographed by
43:05Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
43:07He was in the Air Force
43:08during the Apollo 11 mission.
43:10He was a weatherman
43:11stationed at Patrick Air Force Base
43:13and then supported the Apollo 11 mission.
43:16And where is Patrick Air Force Base?
43:17Um, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
43:19Okay, and that's where the mission launched from.
43:21It's signed.
43:22This is a cover.
43:23It was canceled by...
43:24which means when they mail something,
43:26they put a cancellation.
43:27On July 16, 1969,
43:29which was the day that the mission launched,
43:32there are a lot of these commemorative covers
43:34out there that are canceled.
43:35Not so many that are signed.
43:37And these signatures
43:37appear to be authentic signatures.
43:39I would estimate this,
43:41conservatively at auction,
43:42to be between $3,000 and $4,000.
43:45Awesome.
43:46Awesome.
43:48That's great news.
43:52When I got married,
43:53my mother-in-law gave these to me
43:55and they were my husband's great-grandmother.
43:58And she was...
44:00lived 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.
44:17I know.
44:17It's so sweet.
44:18Which, as a jewelry purist,
44:20is so nice to see.
44:22Right.
44:22This is a bohemian garnet,
44:26Victorian suite,
44:28parour, you might say,
44:29which fully encompasses
44:31a necklace, both bracelets,
44:35Right.
44:35a pair of earrings,
44:36and a brooch,
44:37which can be suspended
44:39from the center element of the necklace.
44:41Right.
44:42It's very, very rare
44:43to see all the pieces together.
44:46I would date this
44:47to the late Victorian period,
44:49probably circa 1880s.
44:52Bohemian garnets
44:53are referred to
44:54as bohemian garnets
44:55because they were mined
44:56in what is today
44:57the Czech Republic.
44:59Oh.
44:59But at that time
45:00was considered bohemia.
45:02Their technical name
45:04is a kind of garnet
45:05called a pyrope garnet.
45:07They're favored for
45:08that lovely kind of raspberry,
45:11deep raspberry red color.
45:13They almost read purple sometimes.
45:15Exactly.
45:15It's very customary
45:17that these would be set
45:19in a heavy gold foil,
45:22so sort of a gold shell
45:23on a base metal.
45:24That's why they have
45:25this closed backing here.
45:27I looked it all over
45:28to see if I could find
45:29any sort of markings,
45:31but I don't see any markings
45:33that would say
45:34it is English for sure,
45:36but it absolutely could be.
45:38It was a style of jewelry
45:39that was very popular
45:41in the UK
45:41and in America at the time.
45:43It does have a couple spots
45:44with a little bit of damage.
45:46Because Victorian jewelry
45:47in today's market
45:48can be kind of a difficult sell,
45:50in a retail environment.
45:52A whole suite
45:54in its original box
45:55would probably bring
45:56somewhere in the neighborhood
45:57of $5,000.
46:00Great.
46:01I mean, I don't want
46:02to ever sell it.
46:02I'm going to pass it on.
46:04You could insure it
46:05for the same amount.
46:06I actually thought
46:06it was going to be more.
46:11This is my great-grandfather's violin.
46:15He played dances
46:16in the early 1900s.
46:18At one point,
46:18it was damaged heavily.
46:20By a relative.
46:21I'm hoping to see
46:21whether or not
46:22it's worth fixing up.
46:24Both my wife and I
46:25played the violin
46:25in high school
46:26and it would be nice
46:27to have an heirloom
46:28that we could pass
46:28down to our children.
46:30This is a portrait
46:31of my great-great-grandfather
46:33and his mother,
46:34my great-great-great-grandmother.
46:35Painted about 1850,
46:37we think.
46:37He was born in 1844.
46:39And where were they?
46:39Northern New Jersey.
46:40I'm told the dog
46:41is fictitious,
46:42that there was no real dog.
46:43There's an awful lot
46:44of itinerant artists
46:46that traveled New England
46:47up and down the Atlantic
46:48that did portraits
46:49for families.
46:50This is a rather
46:51nicely painted portrait.
46:52It's a nice composition.
46:54If this were in an auction,
46:56I'd probably put
46:57$4,000 to $6,000 on it.
46:59And it might do better.
47:01You know,
47:01the dog is always
47:02a popular selling point.
47:03And the sitters
47:04are attractive people.
47:06And it matters.
47:08Right, right.
47:10I wanted a grandfather clock
47:12and I bought it.
47:13It was online.
47:14It was damaged
47:15when I bought it.
47:16Watered insect damage.
47:18So I had it restored.
47:20They added new feet
47:21and the scroll on top
47:23was damaged as well.
47:24So the restorer
47:26resolved that.
47:27What did you pay
47:27for the clock originally?
47:28Well, it was listed
47:30for $500.
47:31Yeah.
47:31And with the damage,
47:32I offered them $300.
47:33And so they took it.
47:35This is a Massachusetts
47:36dwarf clock
47:37made by John Bailey
47:39in Hanover, Massachusetts,
47:41which is on the
47:42south shore of Massachusetts.
47:44Made circa 1800 to 1805.
47:47It's a scaled down
47:49tall case clock,
47:50but it's a kidney dial
47:52dwarf clock.
47:53Dwarf clocks are rare
47:54to begin with,
47:55but kidney dial dwarf clocks,
47:56and it refers to
47:57the shape of this dial,
47:58are even rarer.
48:00I only know of a handful
48:01of them in existence.
48:03John Bailey
48:03was a really important
48:05clockmaker.
48:06He was a Quaker.
48:07He was a preacher.
48:08He was an ingenious mechanic.
48:10He took out a patent
48:11in 1792 on a steam jack,
48:14which was for roasting meat.
48:15And he was really
48:16responsible for clockmaking
48:19in the south shore
48:19of Massachusetts area,
48:21which was a thriving region.
48:22He had a sizable shop
48:24and he apprenticed
48:25important makers
48:26who in turn
48:27would train
48:29other clockmakers
48:30and really competed
48:31with the Boston clockmakers.
48:33And I think
48:34one of the reasons
48:35why this clock
48:36was designed
48:37is because it was
48:38a lot less expensive
48:39than a competing tall clock
48:41that was made in Boston.
48:42They found an invoice
48:43for one of these
48:44that was sold
48:45for about $40 originally.
48:47A full-scale tall case clock
48:48would have sold
48:49for about $60 to $90
48:50at the time.
48:51The dial is fantastic.
48:53It has
48:53John Bailey type hands
48:55that you expect to see.
48:57The signature
48:57is perfect.
48:59This dial is like
49:00the day it was made.
49:01The swag.
49:02This is all raised
49:03gilt-beating.
49:04Perfect condition.
49:05The dial is a 10.
49:06It just doesn't get
49:07any better than that.
49:08Equally as great
49:10as this case.
49:12It's a pine case
49:13grain painted
49:14to look like
49:14a more expensive
49:15exotic wood.
49:16And they did
49:16a fantastic job
49:17and the details
49:18are phenomenal.
49:20I'm going to pull
49:21this bonnet off.
49:23And you can see
49:24that everything
49:24is original.
49:25It has its original
49:26brass movement
49:27that runs for
49:28eight days on a wind.
49:29This is what we call
49:30a fall-off strike.
49:32So it strikes once
49:32every time the hour passes.
49:34It has its original
49:35seatboard here
49:36and that's really important.
49:37You can see that
49:38there's a restoration
49:40here on the back
49:41right foot.
49:42This side's original.
49:44So in the clock world
49:46normal restorations
49:47are to the feet
49:48and to the fretwork.
49:49They're the two
49:49most fragile points.
49:50So you expect to see
49:51some restorations.
49:53But in general
49:54this clock is just
49:55in great condition.
49:56How much did you pay
49:57for the restoration?
49:58It's around $4,000
50:00to $4,500.
50:01It sounds like a lot
50:02but in this case
50:03it was worth it.
50:04This is probably
50:05the second greatest
50:06clock I've ever seen
50:07at the Antiques Roadshow
50:08that I've been doing
50:08for 20 years.
50:10I would put a retail value
50:12on this clock
50:13of $75,000.
50:18That's amazing.
50:21Very amazing.
50:24Geez, thanks for
50:26all the information.
50:27And I'd like to point out
50:29that this is the one
50:30that got away.
50:32I saw this
50:33on an online auction
50:34years ago.
50:35I don't remember
50:36how I missed it
50:37but I would have been
50:39pretty good competition
50:40for you at the time.
50:44And now it's time
50:45for the Roadshow
50:46Feedback Booth.
50:48My clamshell watch
50:50that I spent $20 on
50:51is worth $200.
50:52And my complete set
50:54of Kenner's Star Wars
50:55last 17 figures
50:56and coins
50:56including Yak Face
50:57here is worth
50:58$6,000 to $9,000.
50:59Thanks Antiques Roadshow.
51:01I brought the pinnacle
51:02of my retirement portfolio.
51:04Unfortunately,
51:05it did not belong
51:06to King Arthur
51:06and the round table.
51:08So, sorry Julie
51:10about your inheritance.
51:11I brought in
51:12my scarab poison ring,
51:15my engagement ring.
51:17And I learned
51:18that it is not as old
51:20as I thought it was
51:21but on the plus side
51:22it's probably not cursed.
51:24What I brought
51:25to the party today
51:25is a one owner
51:271970 Dodge Charger
51:29promotional model
51:31from a dealership.
51:32And I got this
51:33when I was 11
51:34hence being
51:35the original owner.
51:36And now I believe
51:38finding out
51:39what the value
51:39of this little car is
51:41I am definitely
51:42going to have to buy
51:43the real thing
51:44and play with that.
51:45My Rembrandt
51:46turned out
51:47to not be a Rembrandt.
51:49In fact,
51:50the frame is worth
51:51more than the print.
51:52I was hesitant
51:53to buy these two maps
51:55from our local
51:56thrift store
51:57at $15 each.
51:58I thought they were worthless.
52:00And they are worth
52:01about $500 to $600 each.
52:04So, pretty pleased with that.
52:06I'm wrong.
52:06Yep, he's wrong.
52:08I have here
52:08a land patent
52:09with a genuine autograph
52:11of President Ulysses S. Grant's
52:13secretary.
52:15If I sell it
52:15in the parking lot,
52:16we should get enough money
52:17to get halfway home.
52:18Thanks for watching.
52:20See you next time
52:21on Antiques Roadshow.
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