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Antiques Roadshow - Season 30 (US) - Episode 06: Georgia State Railroad Museum Hour 3
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00:04All aboard for Antiques Roadshow stop at the Georgia State Railroad Museum.
00:08I just like the color. It matches a lot of my outfits.
00:12It does.
00:13It's definitely a category where they're guilty until proven innocent.
01:00Roadshow is definitely on track to finding a rail car full of treasures.
01:11We paid $10 for it at a flea market.
01:13I'm in the medical field, and so I just thought it was interesting.
01:15Seems like an item you could really sink your teeth into.
01:25It's a Gibson pedal steel guitar.
01:26I think it was made maybe in the 50s, early, middle 50s.
01:30It belonged to my uncle.
01:32He used to play it in Honky Tonks up in New York near Buffalo.
01:36But he traded it to my dad for a cow.
01:39So my dad's had it since the late 60s.
01:42My dad used to play it all the time.
01:44I told my wife, she got us on the show, and I said, I got the exact thing I'm taking.
01:51I brought an original Howard Finster piece that I purchased in 1993 when I visited Paradise Gardens in Somerville, Georgia.
02:00I was a high school art teacher, and I was bringing my students for the day to walk around.
02:06And at the time, they didn't charge you admission.
02:08You could just walk around.
02:10And I was told that sometimes he'd be in the shop, and you could get him to sign pieces.
02:15And I happened to look out that day.
02:17He was there.
02:18I saw him sitting in the rocking chair.
02:19He was very engaging, and he talked for a really long time, and he let us take a lot of
02:25pictures, and he signed our pieces that we bought.
02:27Finster was born in 1916, and he pretty much had a religious life.
02:34Early on, he had a Baptist radio show.
02:39Oh, I didn't know that.
02:40In the 30s and the 40s, he started to create art, and this garden became a destination for a lot
02:49of people that loved what at that time, and still to this day, they call outsider art.
02:55He operated outside the boundaries of the normal art world.
03:00In the 1980s, he did an album cover for R.E.M., and an album cover, a great one, for
03:06Talking Heads.
03:08And that's what put him on the map, and that everyone started to come to the garden.
03:14And was the garden just, like, overflowing with artwork?
03:18Yes, everywhere you turned.
03:19He turned anything he could grab into art.
03:22There were piles of bicycles, what people would call junk.
03:25When you read about Paradise Garden, sometimes the account is there were over 40,000 pieces of art that were
03:33installed there.
03:34It was everywhere.
03:35It's mind-blowing.
03:36It really is.
03:37So this is a wonderful little house.
03:38He used very light wood.
03:40It's almost like balsa wood.
03:42It took paint easy, and he used paint, and in this case, he used glitter, which is kind of nice,
03:48and a magic marker.
03:49And on the back, it's dated, when you bought it, in March of 1993.
03:56And it has biblical sayings on it.
03:59Set thy house in order.
04:00Kingdoms divided cannot stand.
04:03Families who pray together stay together.
04:06It's signed on the bottom, to Evelyn.
04:08So he personalized it.
04:10In the back, we see a price tag.
04:13And how much was that?
04:14$35.
04:15And you didn't ask for a discount?
04:17No.
04:18We weren't allowed to.
04:20There was a little sign that said, priced as marked.
04:22Okay.
04:23He's had a bit of a resurgence, and there are a lot of new collectors that want a piece of
04:28his work.
04:28I think people are familiar with his angels and his Coca-Cola bottles.
04:33Yes.
04:34So I'm going to say, in a retail setting, I feel comfortable placing a value on this somewhere between $4
04:41,000 and $5,000.
04:43Wow.
04:46Everybody says, wow, but wow.
04:49I had no clue.
04:51My family's made fun of me for years with this, that ugly piece of art that I've had on a
04:56shelf.
05:00We believe it's around a 1930s Tiffany lamp.
05:04It was my wife's great-grandfather's.
05:05On the actual face of the lamp, there are Tiffany logos.
05:08There is a marking somewhere on here.
05:11While it is a Tiffany Studios pattern, it's not.
05:14It is not.
05:14It is not a Tiffany Studios lamp for a number of reasons.
05:18Okay.
05:18The construction for number one, they're very good facsimiles of what we call turtleback, turtleback glass, but it's not Tiffany.
05:28And I go like this.
05:29These are tight as a drum.
05:32The originals are loose.
05:34The other thing that I notice, they would never sign this part.
05:38Decoratively, I would still say maybe $2,000 to $3,000, something along those lines.
05:43If this were real, it would have been probably around $100,000.
05:49My wife still loves it, so it'll still go up in there.
05:51It's beautiful.
05:51I just love turtlebacks.
05:52I think they're one of the great types of glass that Tiffany made.
05:57This was a gift to me several decades ago from an old bow.
06:05Our relationship didn't last, and I got to keep the bag.
06:11It's a lovely gift.
06:12I have used it on occasion.
06:14I do think it's Tiffany, but I'm not sure.
06:21Okay.
06:22Well, your bag is Tiffany.
06:26It's marked on the inside, and it's circa 1910, maybe 1915, and it is gold and platinum.
06:38The lighter color stripes are platinum.
06:41Wow.
06:41There's a lot of beautiful chased work on the frame, and in the center, you have a group
06:47of demantoid garnets and diamonds.
06:51Inside, there's a small chain.
06:53At one point, the bag had a little change purse that was attached, but that's missing now.
06:59The chain handle is also gold.
07:04The retail value on this beautiful bag would be between $20,000 and $22,000.
07:11No way.
07:13No way.
07:14Way.
07:14Oh, my God.
07:15I had estimated maybe $3,500 just because of the gold and the cost of gold today.
07:24Yep.
07:25But I had no idea.
07:26Yeah, it's over eight ounces of gold.
07:28Wow.
07:29If it were to be melted, scrapped, it would still be worth $19,000 on gold weight.
07:36Just in gold.
07:37Yeah.
07:38It's not a very popular style anymore, so it's not a quick seller.
07:44Otherwise, there would be more of a difference between the gold value and the retail value.
07:50You're welcome.
07:51Yay.
07:52It's a beautiful bag.
07:53It really is.
07:54And I've enjoyed it when I've taken it to fancy places.
07:58The Georgia State Railroad Museum is a place with a long industrial history.
08:04The Central Georgia Railroad had its repair facility at this location.
08:08Much of these facilities were built in 1855, and it continued operating as a steam locomotive repair facility all the
08:17way to 1963.
08:18The steam locomotive repair facilities, their entire purpose was to provide the routine maintenance and major repair work for specifically
08:26steam locomotives.
08:27It was Savannah's largest employer for many years.
08:30They were able to have everything that they needed to repair and maintain steam locomotives all in one location.
08:39These belonged to my great-grandfather.
08:42He lived in Leicester in England.
08:45And as a child, I used to go visit him, and he had a house full of antiques.
08:50When he passed away in 1973, my mother inherited them.
08:54My parents emigrated to the United States in the 70s, and in one of their moves, these got lost.
09:02She just passed away this last year, and we found them in a storage unit in November.
09:07So your mother passed away thinking that these were forever lost and she would never see them again.
09:12Yes, they were in a box labeled kitchen utensils.
09:15What do you think these are?
09:17When I was growing up, they were always referred to as the Sevre vases.
09:21The Sevre factory started in 1740, and in 1756 they moved to Sevre, which is on the outskirts of Paris.
09:30These are very typical of what we would expect Sevre porcelain to look like, especially if we look at the
09:36hand-painted designs, the raised gilding, the ram's head handles is very typical of Sevre porcelain.
09:44So when we look at what we think might be Sevre porcelain, we have to look at all kinds of
09:49things.
09:49When I see a Sevre mark, they're almost always fake.
09:54In fact, I would say 99% of the Sevre marks that I see on porcelain or pottery are actually
10:00fake marks.
10:01Oh, wow.
10:02So it's definitely a category where they're guilty until proven innocent.
10:07So the quality of the painting is quite nice.
10:09If we turn it, we see on the backside, there is another scene, a pastoral scene of a landscape with
10:18trees and so forth.
10:19The one near you is a little wobbly.
10:21And because it's a little wobbly, I don't want to spin it.
10:24It might be a little precarious.
10:26But the back scene is very similar, complementary, but different.
10:30If we turn it over, we do see a hand-painted Sevre mark, but we can see that this is
10:38actually made of pottery and not soft-paste porcelain.
10:42So even though there are other things that might suggest that this could be authentic Sevre, Sevre didn't do pottery.
10:49So, bam.
10:50They, sadly, were not made by Sevre.
10:53Okay.
10:53So these are antique, hand-painted, pottery, Sevre-style urns.
10:58I would guess that they are late 19th century.
11:02They could be early 20th century.
11:05Who made them?
11:06Don't know.
11:07I'm going to guess that they're British.
11:09Okay.
11:10But they could be French.
11:11Both lids have damages.
11:14This lid has, like, five chips on it.
11:16And there's a little bit of goldware.
11:18So with damages, I would think a retail value for the pair might be in the range of $400 to
11:24$600.
11:25Okay.
11:25Lovely.
11:33I have purchased it a couple years ago from Wayne Klein Estates and didn't know much about it.
11:40But I heard about the artist, which is Beverly Buchanan.
11:43And I know she was a well-known artist.
11:45So I decided I would purchase it.
11:47I know she was a black artist.
11:48It was from a...
11:49Wayne Klein Estate.
11:51He was the printer.
11:52The printer.
11:52Yes.
11:53This is a color lithograph by Beverly Buchanan.
11:55And it's called Happy Shack from 1987.
11:59Beverly Buchanan was born on October 8, 1940.
12:03And she died at the age of 74 in 2015.
12:07She is not known as a printmaker.
12:10So it's really exciting to see a work of Beverly Buchanan in this form, as a color lithograph.
12:18I could see it's Beverly Buchanan right away because of what she's depicted here.
12:24The shank.
12:24Exactly.
12:25These shacks.
12:26She grew up in the South and she saw houses like this in the South.
12:31She was a scientist and she worked in public health in New York and New Jersey before becoming an artist.
12:37And when she started to work as an artist, she always went to this image, the images of these shacks.
12:45But she's probably best known for doing sculpture.
12:48Little models out of painted card and wood that represent these shacks.
12:55So this was exciting to see a big color lithograph by Beverly Buchanan.
13:00And it's signed by the artist.
13:01It's annotated artist proof with a number.
13:05And it comes from an edition.
13:07There was an edition of 50 of these made.
13:09And then typically there's a certain number of artist proofs that are set aside.
13:14And some are often kept by the printer.
13:17So that's why when you went to this estate, the printer's estate, they had this still.
13:23That was sometimes a way to pay the printer.
13:26They got to keep some of the prints.
13:28And the colors are super bright.
13:30Each of the colors in a color lithograph is printed separately.
13:33They overlap.
13:34So it's almost like a stacking of all these colors to arrive at this image.
13:39As far as I know, this is the only lithograph she made.
13:43But it's in a number of museums.
13:46But this has also never come to auction before.
13:49I couldn't find any auction results.
13:51What did you purchase it for?
13:53I purchased about $500.
13:54Because, like I said, I liked the color in it.
13:57And I knew she was a black artist.
13:59She had passed away.
14:01And I knew that one day it would be worth money.
14:04I would estimate at $5,000 to $7,000.
14:08And I would be not surprised if it sold for much more.
14:11It would have a lot of interest at auction.
14:15Okay, wow.
14:17Good to know.
14:18I would insure it for at least $10,000.
14:26This is what I believe to be a late 16th century halberd, I think, from Germany.
14:33I bought it about 10 years ago on an auction site in London.
14:37It's hung on my wall for so many years.
14:39And I thought it would be the perfect thing to bring to Roadshow just because of just how unique and
14:44cool it is.
14:44I paid, I think, around, like, $800, so no small sum, but hoping to get good news today.
14:51This is our family violin, and it's been handed down to Madison, so it's now hers.
14:57It's been in the family since the 1800s.
15:00Do you all play violin?
15:02No.
15:03We're hoping Madison will.
15:10This was my mother's.
15:11My mom and dad had moved from Detroit down to Colorado Springs, and they fell in love with the Southwest.
15:18And mom got into collecting turquoise and Indian jewelry.
15:22And this is Navajo, but she had also Hopi and Zuni, and usually got the pieces in Santa Fe or
15:29Taos.
15:30I was probably in middle school when she got this, so I don't really know what she paid.
15:35You have a Navajo squash blossom necklace here.
15:37It's made out of silver and turquoise.
15:39It dates to about 1930.
15:41This was probably made for the trade.
15:44During the first half of the 20th century, there was a heavy tourism through in Santa Fe and the Southwest
15:50because of the railroad system.
15:52The nausea in the center is a Spanish design that was adapted by Native peoples in the Southwest and Plains.
16:00The original form was used on horse bridles, and it would have been on the center of the brow band.
16:05And then it was later adopted into the squash blossom necklace.
16:08The squash blossoms are the little pendants along the side here.
16:11These are very stylized ones.
16:13Typically, they're a ball bead that flares out.
16:15Your beads are handmade beads, so they made the beads in two parts.
16:19And if you look at them really closely, you'll see that the metal points outward.
16:24So they would dome them and make them in two parts and then punch them from the inside.
16:27You see the seam, and then they were welded together.
16:30The nausea is a hammered technique.
16:32It's a more traditional silver technique.
16:34Any idea on its value?
16:37In 2021, my brother, little brother, got a verbal just somewhere around $2,000.
16:44So at auction, I would expect this to sell in the $2,000 to $4,000 range.
16:49If you were to insure it, I would insure it in the $5,000 to $6,000 range.
16:54$5,000 to $6,000.
16:54It's a lovely, lovely early example.
16:57Okay.
16:58All right.
17:02My mother had two bishops as her grandfathers, and their children went to China as missionaries
17:10around the turn of the last century.
17:12They married and set up a household in China.
17:15Every day, my grandmother and her sister walked to the market, and they passed a Chinese antiquaries
17:21dealer.
17:21They wanted a Ming vase, and we are told this is a Ming vase reportedly.
17:25Mm-hmm.
17:26And after about five or six years, they wore the gentleman down, and they bought their Ming
17:30vase.
17:30How long have you lived with this?
17:32About 25 years.
17:33I'm here in 1999.
17:34What city were they in?
17:36They were in Shanghai.
17:37This was probably purchased in about 1920.
17:40It's kind of a pear-shaped.
17:41In the bulbous part of the body, there's a mask, and that's called a Tao Tei mask, T-A-O
17:48-T-I-E.
17:48So it's literally a monster mask, and that's something that was characteristic of ancient
17:55Chinese bronze ritual vessels.
17:58When I say ancient, we're talking about archaic vessels from a very early period of time, roughly
18:04around 1000 BC.
18:06Around the neck, there's a very complicated design.
18:09It's kind of a wave form.
18:10It's referencing ancient Chinese jade carvings, and on the foot, you'll see this grid-like
18:18pattern, which is something that would have been seen on ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessels
18:25of a much earlier date than the Ming Dynasty.
18:28It's a reasonable assumption to be able to say this is from the Ming Dynasty.
18:33It's very possible with additional research that it might be something that we could actually
18:38push back to an earlier date.
18:39On the inside here, on the wall, what do you see?
18:43It looks like it's been repaired.
18:45It looks like a break marked in the surface.
18:48It does.
18:49And then as I turn this, now the outside, it's a jagged patch.
18:54If I violently knocked this off, and it fell onto a stone floor, and it happened to have
19:02a handle that was a curved handle, starting here, one would expect at auction this to realize
19:08somewhere in the $5,000 to $8,000 range.
19:11Okay.
19:12That's what my wife said, so there you go.
19:15It wasn't my $50,000 that I wanted.
19:18Well, that's wonderful.
19:20It was excellent.
19:22Excellent.
19:28My grandmother owned a retail furniture store.
19:31I think it may be a chair she bought that reminded her of the antique chair that she knew growing
19:35up.
19:35So I came to find out how old this might be.
19:38Excellent.
19:39And where was your grandmother from?
19:41Titusville, Florida.
19:43So the great-grandmother lived there with five sisters, and the story was that each sister
19:46had a chair like this.
19:48And when they got married and moved away, they took the chair with them.
19:50It's a great, sort of what we call a twig-form Adirondack chair made of some bent hardwood.
19:57This looks like a combination of ash and oak and interwoven twig branches, which is absolutely
20:06killer.
20:06I love Adirondack camp furniture.
20:09This, to me, feels like it does have some age.
20:12This is probably 1920s to 1950s.
20:15It's got good color, good form, great condition.
20:18If this were to come to auction today, I would put an estimate of $500 to $1,000.
20:23Do you guys use it at all?
20:25It stayed in a garage for at least 20 years.
20:28In a garage, what?
20:29You've got to pull it out.
20:31Put it in a place of honor and rock on it.
20:33There's nothing better than a good rocking chair.
20:35Isn't that comfortable?
20:37That's great, yeah.
20:43I believe it is a wedding bouquet holder that was given to my great-grandmother at her wedding
20:49in 1869.
20:50It was found in the attic as we were cleaning out my father's estate.
20:54You were the first one that showed me that those legs opened up.
20:57We've been scared to move it around too much.
21:01So why do you think they open?
21:03So that it could stand at the table at the wedding afterwards.
21:06Yeah.
21:06So do you know what these are called?
21:08No.
21:08So they're referred to as a tussie-mussie.
21:12Tussie-mussie, okay.
21:13Yeah, that's quite a name.
21:14So also like a posie holder or a nosegay holder made in the Victorian era.
21:19So the dates of your ancestor fit in perfectly.
21:22Queen Victoria was on the throne from 1837 to 1901.
21:27But the form originated in the Middle Ages.
21:30Really?
21:30There were odors of the day.
21:32So you would have a small bouquet mixed with flowers and herbs that you'd be able to have
21:37with you on your person at all times to rid the odors.
21:41And at the time, again, these sort of, you know, odors were thought to sort of carry disease.
21:45So you'd protect yourself.
21:46But it became really popular during the Victorian era because Queen Victoria used one.
21:51You'd hold it in your hand.
21:52So there's a little ring here which you could put on your finger or women of the day would
21:57wear a chatelaine, which was sort of a group of accoutrements that they'd wear from their
22:02belt or sash.
22:03And there's also a pin, so you'd be able to pin it to your clothing.
22:06And at the time, too, there was sort of this language of flowers, silent language of flowers.
22:10So depending on what flowers were in the bouquet, it could have a meaning.
22:16Yes.
22:16So you've brought up a note.
22:18Yes.
22:19What is that?
22:20The note is inscribed by my great-grandmother.
22:23And we felt it was rather racy, saying that this was given to her on her wedding day by
22:27her lover, who was actually her husband.
22:29Oh, good.
22:30That was a question I had.
22:32It would have been racier if it hadn't been her husband.
22:35Absolutely.
22:35I didn't see any markings on it.
22:36It's made out of a filigree, fine wire of silver.
22:39It's either silver or silver plate.
22:41Value-wise, it's a funny item.
22:43They're not usable in today's society as much.
22:46My sense is at auction, you'd be looking in the $300 to $500 range.
22:50Interesting.
22:51For insurance purposes, you can see them online for upwards of $1,000.
22:55Very good.
22:56Thank you so much.
22:57Learned a lot.
22:59Well, this is a painting by Mr. A.E. Backus.
23:02He was a South Florida artist.
23:04And when I was growing up in Coral Gables, Florida, he would stop by our house in an old
23:09car and pull a painting out of the trunk and knock on our door and try to sell it to
23:14my
23:14father.
23:15And sometimes he'd buy it and sometimes he wouldn't.
23:17And he would also tell Mr. Backus what he would like in a painting for a future painting.
23:21I was very young at the time.
23:23He just seemed like an older man when he came to our house.
23:26He was just in love with his paintings.
23:29When my dad passed away, I chose to get this painting because it was different than other
23:33paintings I'd seen from Mr. Backus because it was not an Everglades scene.
23:37It was a scene of a woman picking peas.
23:41How many did he have in total by the artist?
23:44He probably had about five or six paintings.
23:46My brothers have a couple.
23:47Do you have any idea what your father may have paid for this painting?
23:51I think hundreds of dollars, not more than a few hundreds of dollars.
23:55And approximately what time period would that have been?
23:58Any idea about?
23:59In the 60s.
24:00This is an oil on canvas painting by Albert Backus, also known as Beanie Backus.
24:04He is really the best known 20th century painter of the Florida landscape.
24:09He's known as the dean of Florida painters.
24:11He, of course, is known for the wonderful landscapes of the Everglades, also just Florida life in general.
24:19He went on to be a real sort of mentor.
24:22He would just host parties and bring artists together and created a real energy around that South Florida art market.
24:30There's a very famous group of Florida artists, the Florida Highwaymen or the Highwaymen.
24:35They are really the best known folk artist group of Florida artists.
24:40There's 26 African-American artists that he mentored the founders of that.
24:45Alfred Hare and Harold Newton are the two best known Florida highwaymen.
24:49And they traveled around Florida a lot of times with paintings in their trunks of their cars, selling the colorful
24:55landscapes.
24:56And they were very influenced by Albert Backus.
25:00Now, he was really self-taught for the most part.
25:02He did take some summer art classes.
25:04This one is particularly interesting because he had an unfortunate personal event in 1955 when his wife passed away, his
25:13wife of only five years.
25:15And it really took a toll on him.
25:17And he went to spend some time in Jamaica.
25:19And so he started painting some new subjects while he was there in Jamaica.
25:22This painting is called Shelling Gungo Peas.
25:26That title is on the back with a date of 1966.
25:30You have a figure who is quietly sitting.
25:34And it kind of evokes that solitude that he may have felt after his wife passed away and he went
25:39to spend some time in Jamaica.
25:41His paintings have become quite popular, as have the paintings of the Florida Highwaymen.
25:45We see them continuing to go up in value.
25:48An auction estimate on this painting today, I would say, should be $15,000 to $25,000.
25:54That's quite a lot.
25:56That's very nice.
25:57Just looking at it in this light is beautiful and brings back a lot of memories of my childhood and
26:03my father wanting these paintings.
26:04I love it very much.
26:07Just a minute.
26:09An insurance value for this painting, I would put at $35,000.
26:13Okay.
26:14Thank you very much.
26:16This old iron horse is the Central of Georgia locomotive number 223.
26:21The steam engine was manufactured in 1907 by Baldwin Locomotive Works of Pennsylvania.
26:29It had a long run pulling freight cars and was traded to the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad, but returned to
26:35Central of Georgia when it was retired in 1952.
26:39Number 223 came to the museum in 1998, where it has undergone three restorations and is a centerpiece in the
26:47collection.
26:51The story that I received was that it was a relative of mine who is a great, great, great uncle,
27:00and he was a prisoner of war.
27:03He was a Confederate, was captured and sent to a place called Johnson's Island on Lake Erie.
27:11It was for officers, and they evidently had pretty much free reign and were allowed pastimes like carving.
27:20He made this while he was a prisoner there and then presented it back home when he was released.
27:28The gentleman was interned on Johnson's Island.
27:31Yes.
27:31Which is a bit unusual within the Civil War prison system in the north.
27:35This is an island off of Sandusky, Ohio.
27:38Yes.
27:38In Lake Erie.
27:40They designed this in late 1861, opened it in very early 1862, and they were running it through the end
27:47of the war.
27:48Of all those individuals to go through, about 200 passed on from exposure, disease, and the things that normally hurt
27:55people during the war.
27:57It was considerably nicer than most other Civil War prison situations.
28:03The value that is associated with it, both decorative, historical, monetary, does not really change because it's Union or Confederate
28:13made.
28:13It's just simply, it's a piece of Civil War prison art, and they're all of considerable interest to people who
28:20collect that material.
28:22This one is of considerably more interest, in my opinion, because of the beauty of the work.
28:26It's a nice, open-work box.
28:29You can see it's got the open-work details on the front and on the top, and just an absolutely
28:36gorgeous thing.
28:36It seems to have seen happier centuries.
28:39Yes.
28:40It looks to me like your hinges may have been replaced.
28:43There are a couple of replacement nails, and somebody went wild with the wood glue down in there.
28:49Much as we might have done something a little differently, that has kept it together.
28:53And open-work like this is pretty fragile.
28:56We've got a couple of cracks in here, one right here, one right here from expansion.
29:01But on the whole, there's nothing that threatens it structurally or aesthetically.
29:07It's a beautiful piece.
29:08You're looking at a piece that would have an auction estimate between $2,000 and $4,000.
29:13Wow.
29:14Okay.
29:16Well, it's not for sale.
29:21No, it's going to stay in the family.
29:24That's a little surprising to me.
29:26So, that's fantastic.
29:28This is one of the most intricate and interesting Civil War pieces that I've ever run across.
29:36I was in Florida at an antiques auction in Palm Beach, Florida.
29:42Purchased a space there.
29:43I was from a really nice estate.
29:45When you were at the auction, did they give you any ideas of what it might be, or you just
29:50like the color?
29:50I just like the color.
29:51It matches a lot of my outfits.
29:54It does.
29:54You are correct.
29:55It's rather fabulous.
29:57It's a large base, very bright and colorful.
30:00A glass blower would have taken the molten glass and then rolled it into gold leaf.
30:07As the flakes are inset within the glass, they start to melt, and then you get kind of those striations
30:14to it.
30:14It's actually signed, hard to see, on the base here.
30:19Oh, okay.
30:19And it's Dôme Nancy France.
30:22So, you have a French base made by Dôme.
30:25Are you familiar with the Dôme manufacturers?
30:28I've heard of them, but most of the time, the pieces I've seen have been more of cameo-type glass.
30:33I've never seen anything like this.
30:35Yeah, most people do think of them as cameo glass, and that's generally earlier.
30:40And this was done during the Art Deco period, so after the cameo.
30:45Okay.
30:45So, you're looking at around 1920s for this base.
30:48So, what's great about this is it's an unusually large size.
30:52In the marketplace, generally, we see them smaller come up.
30:55What did you pay, may I ask?
30:58$400.
30:59That's a decent price.
31:00Right.
31:01I think it's worth a little bit more in today's market.
31:03Okay.
31:04When was that?
31:05How long ago was that?
31:05It was, I wouldn't say, two or three years ago.
31:07Okay.
31:08Okay.
31:08If this were to come to auction today, I would say it would bring between $1,000 and $1,500.
31:14Great.
31:14So, you did well.
31:15I did.
31:16Good on you.
31:17I love it.
31:24These are some Rollins baseballs from the World Series that never was because of the baseball strike.
31:30It was 1994, and we were reps for Rollins at the time, and they got the instructions to destroy the
31:37baseballs.
31:38Management gave us all the reps a box of the World Series baseballs, and we have a few left and
31:43one signed by Terry Pendleton.
31:49This is a piece that I saw in an online auction during the pandemic.
31:56This is a bowl, so that is the lid, and I believe it's a medicine bowl.
32:02I paid $400 for it.
32:04The shipping was actually more than the bowl.
32:08This was a gift to my husband from his grandmother.
32:12She worked for American Smelting and Refinery.
32:16When medals came in from whatever wreck they would analyze them, they were working on it, and they kind of
32:22grabbed pieces, I guess, and she wrote all the notes on it.
32:25May 6, 1937, that was the day that the Hindenburg came into Lakehurst and was circling for a landing.
32:31And from accounts that were eyewitness accounts, it seems that they saw some sort of flapping in the skin of
32:38the ship.
32:39First, apparently, gas leak was taking place.
32:43They think static electricity hit that, and it wound up killing 36 people.
32:48Ship went down in flames in a field in Lakehurst, and these are some of the remains.
32:52They did an investigation, Germany and the United States.
32:55A lot of the pieces were reclaimed to Germany.
32:58People were on the fields just grabbing souvenirs.
33:01Pretty terrible, but that's what was happening.
33:03And it really knocked the faith in air travel down for Americans and for people around the world.
33:09So what you have on the board here is three reproduction photos, and it shows the Zeppelin before anything happened,
33:15circling.
33:16You can see where it combusts, starts the fire.
33:19And on the ground here, you can see the flames and the debris.
33:24You have some ribbing, struts, interior portions of the Hindenburg, which are large portions, including some of the canvas.
33:32Not the exterior canvas, but interior.
33:34You would think in the Inferno, those would have been destroyed.
33:37It's an unusual size piece and shape piece.
33:40At auction, I would put an estimate on this conservatively at $3,000 to $5,000 for the piece.
33:46Yes, that's crazy.
33:48Yeah, it sounds crazy, but people are really hot on buying pieces like this, anything related to history.
33:56And this is pure history.
33:58Nice.
33:58Pure history, yeah.
33:59It's so crazy, we just threw it in the closet.
34:01There you go.
34:02Well, the closet was a good, safe place to keep it.
34:11I have brought in a letter that was written by my husband's great-grandfather.
34:18He was in the Ford Theater when Lincoln was shot.
34:23And that next day, he wrote a detailed account of the shooting to his sister, Hattie, and it's been passed
34:32down.
34:33At one point, it was tacked up to some high school bulletin boards, and they realized, oh, it might be
34:39too precious for that.
34:40It is an eyewitness account of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater on the night of April 14th, 1865.
34:49And we actually know it's written in the evening of April 15th because he mentions that Lincoln has already died.
34:55He's shot the night before, and he lingers the next day, but then he dies about 7.30.
35:01It's really well written.
35:03It's really vivid.
35:04I'll read just the first paragraph to you.
35:06Dear Hattie, I'm too excited and nervous to write or compose a letter after having witnessed and been subject to
35:13the shock of the most horrible and atrocious murder history records.
35:18You will probably receive the painful intelligence ere this reaches you of the murder of President Lincoln and the attempted
35:24assassination of Secretary Seward.
35:26Yes.
35:26Have you ever noticed anything weird about this letter?
35:28I didn't.
35:30He doesn't know who did it.
35:32He doesn't mention Booth.
35:34He doesn't.
35:34He doesn't know yet.
35:35No, you're right.
35:36He talks about the dastardly character who did this terrible deed but doesn't know his name yet.
35:42Other people knew it.
35:44I mean, it really is as if a teen idol assassinated the president.
35:49Like, Booth was famous and handsome and a stage star.
35:52Right.
35:52So people in the theater saw him, but it wasn't public knowledge yet.
35:57And he didn't know.
35:58Right.
35:58He didn't recognize him when he ran across the stage.
36:01And then he sort of closes with the shock that you would, one would feel after a really terrible national
36:09disaster.
36:09Yeah.
36:10A letter like this sort of breaks a lot of the rules of manuscript collecting because usually the first thing
36:16we ask is, who's the author?
36:18Who signed it?
36:19Right.
36:19This is a letter where content trumps everything else.
36:23A few letters in the past couple of years of eyewitness accounts have sold.
36:27But they were written by somebody who was at the theater across the street and came out and saw Lincoln.
36:34Oh, I see.
36:34It wasn't in the theater.
36:35Or it was written 10 days after the assassination, not right when he learned that Lincoln had died.
36:42So there's a real immediacy here.
36:44I would put an auction estimate of $20,000 to $30,000 on it.
36:50Wow.
36:50And it probably would blow way past that.
36:52Wow.
36:53I would suggest that you insure it at $40,000.
36:58Okay.
36:59We were thinking a couple hundred dollars.
37:02No.
37:03It's amazing.
37:03Very surprised.
37:07This is a clock I got from my uncle after he passed away.
37:10He went to flea markets and garage sales.
37:13We rented a limousine and put it in the back with all three seats down.
37:18It's seven and a half feet tall.
37:25It's a sculpture.
37:26How much did you have to pay for it?
37:28About 30 bucks.
37:29And it says 1991.
37:32A Michael Ganmon.
37:35I've never heard of him, so I don't know.
37:41I brought a sweatshirt.
37:43It was my dad's.
37:44He got it at an Aussie concert in San Bernardino in 1982.
37:48You've seen your dad wear this?
37:50Because look how tiny it is.
37:51Yeah.
37:51He was a small dude.
37:52He got that when he was 15, so it's been a while.
37:54Okay, fair enough.
37:56Can't fit in it anymore.
37:57Probably not.
37:58You ever rocked the sweatshirt?
37:59I used to wear it a ton, but not recently.
38:01Very cool.
38:02So obviously, as blatant as it is on the front, yes, this is a concert sweatshirt for Ozzy Osbourne.
38:08Really interesting when we look at the graphic on the back, you'll see Blizzard of 82.
38:13The Blizzard of Oz tour was actually 1980 to 1981.
38:17Didn't happen in 1982.
38:191982 was Diary of a Madman.
38:22So that makes the question, how did this sweatshirt come into fruition?
38:26We are confident that this is actually a parking lot bootleg of a sweatshirt.
38:31Correct.
38:31So when you look at the graphic, there's no licensing.
38:35There's nothing that says, like, official property with a year for a record label.
38:38This sweatshirt is actually more desirable because it is a bootleg.
38:42It would have had an extremely low production.
38:44Conservatively, at auction, this would be a $400 to $600 sweatshirt today.
38:49Wow, that's really surprising.
38:59I bought this piece back in about 1985 in Athens, Georgia at a thrift shop.
39:05Do you know where it's from?
39:06No.
39:07I don't know anything about who made it or what part of the country or anything.
39:12It's from the Great Lakes area.
39:14It's made by the Chippewa Indians.
39:17In Canada, they're referred to as the Ojibwa.
39:19They refer to themselves as the Anishinaabe, the people who are the original ones of that area.
39:25It's one of the largest tribes in North America and Canada.
39:28This is called a bandolier bag, made by a woman.
39:32A man would wear this across his shoulder, along his side.
39:35Anybody who saw that man wearing this would instantly know his tribal affiliation.
39:40And the man would put all sorts of things in the pouch, fire-making materials, maybe potions to keep him
39:47safe.
39:47The woman who made this had a certain brilliance for design.
39:51The color combinations are exceptional.
39:53Do you know where the beads are from?
39:55No.
39:56Venice, Italy.
39:57Are you serious?
39:59And all of these cloths are imported from Europe.
40:02You have all this white background in what's called lane stitch.
40:05And they're just laying down horizontal lines.
40:09But notice the pattern on the flowers.
40:11It's all what's called contour beading.
40:13This is not the first bandolier bag that she made.
40:16This is special.
40:17We can date this in a variety of ways.
40:20The beads, particularly these clear beads, came into the Great Lakes region around 1880, 1890.
40:26The floral arrangements have developed from very abstract forms to figurative forms.
40:32And that, too, helps date it, maybe right around 1880, 1890.
40:36These geometric patterns going up and down the sides and across the top, those are called patterns of power.
40:44And in abstract form, they replicate the footprints or patterns of an otter trail.
40:50Otters are very special creatures because they inhabit two domains, both the underwater world and the land world.
40:57And that was considered quite special.
40:58So this is a protective design empowering the person who's wearing this.
41:03And then all of these floral elements, they're not just decorative flowers.
41:07They're representations of herbal healing power.
41:10So there's a lot of symbolism going on here.
41:13This bandolier was longer at one time.
41:15And the lady reduced the size by maybe 8 or 10 inches.
41:20At some point, it got passed on, perhaps to a smaller person.
41:23And that kind of suggests how much it was a treasured object.
41:26It wasn't going to be discarded.
41:28It wasn't going to be packed away.
41:29Do you recall what you paid for it?
41:31I think I paid about $30.
41:32I think on a retail basis today, this would sell for about $1,800.
41:36Okay.
41:37Okay.
41:38And if you were insuring it, maybe about $2,400.
41:42Okay.
41:43I love it.
41:43Oh, I do too.
41:44Thank you very much.
41:50This caboose was built by the Central Georgia Railroad.
41:54It was one of many cabooses that they built in this series.
41:58This caboose was built in the 1930s and was in service into the 1950s.
42:02The caboose had many functions on the train.
42:05It was the break room for the crew.
42:07It was the kitchen.
42:08It was the bathroom.
42:10There's always a spot on the caboose where the crew could watch the train in front of
42:13them to see if there were any problems.
42:15And the most common question is, why is it red?
42:18The answer is for safety and visibility.
42:24I found it on an auction site, Smart Tiffany & Co., and that it was made by Longines for Tiffany
42:30& Co.
42:31And I thought, let me grab that real quick, because it was priced super low.
42:34And I get the thing in the mail, and I see that it has someone's name written on it.
42:37Mary Corbett Warner's name.
42:39She lived in Odessa.
42:40Where's Odessa?
42:41It's in Delaware.
42:43It's called the Sharp Warner House, I believe, in Odessa, that she had given to the state of Odessa.
42:51When I was reading more and more about it, her family just became so interesting.
42:56I guess they'd hid a slave there from the Underground Railroad.
42:59I followed up on your story, and the Corbett House is a famous house.
43:03It's a museum now in Odessa, and it's actually a national historic site.
43:08The story about the Underground Railroad is also correct.
43:12So this is by Tiffany & Co.
43:14They've been around since 1835.
43:16Very prominent designer company in New York.
43:19It's sterling silver with niello.
43:22And what they did was they would engrave this silver out and put this material niello in there,
43:27and they'd bake it on there to give it this beautiful look.
43:30So I opened it up, and I saw the signature in there, the Mary Corbett Warner, and it's dated 1911.
43:36However, I do believe that the watch is from the late 1800s.
43:41So it also comes with this chain.
43:44It is original to the era.
43:46I don't necessarily know that it's Tiffany.
43:48There's no marks on that indicating that.
43:50It's gold-filled, meaning it's covered in gold, basically gold-plated.
43:55Still in great condition, and it has this nice little opal set in the slider there.
44:00Can you tell me what you paid for it?
44:02$360.
44:03How much do you think it's worth?
44:05Oh, goodness.
44:06I would imagine maybe $600.
44:10I believe that in a retail environment, it would sell for around $2,000.
44:15Yay!
44:16I would hug you.
44:18I don't know if...
44:19In a minute.
44:21I would jump over the table and hug you.
44:22That's awesome.
44:31I went to law school at Emory University in Atlanta, and every spring, a group would go to a Braves
44:36game.
44:36And it just so happened we chose the Braves game where Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record.
44:42After he hit the home run, the ushers passed out a certificate to prove that you were there.
44:49I stapled my ticket stub to it, and a short time later, I was able to send it to Hank
44:55Aaron to get him to autograph it.
44:56I think you're the first person I've ever met that was actually there that day.
45:00What can you tell me about that game, about the atmosphere?
45:04It was early April.
45:05The weather was not good.
45:06I'm not sure they would have played the game but for the chance to break the record.
45:11So it was a solid stadium, but cold and cloudy.
45:14When he came up to bat, everybody was standing.
45:16And when he hit the ball, you knew it had a real chance.
45:19So you were just waiting for it to go.
45:22So the emotion built as the ball went out.
45:25Yeah, waiting for it to clear that fence.
45:26Clear that fence.
45:27After he hit the home run, the stadium basically cleared out because of the weather.
45:32So with your certificate here, you've neatly handwritten the event as the certificates were issued blank.
45:37And then you have your ticket stub that you kept from that day.
45:40And then the nice Hank Aaron signature, he was so kind as to sign and send back to you there
45:44lower center.
45:45So your certificate, can you read for me what it says?
45:47I was there when Hank Aaron hit his 715th career home run to pass Babe Ruth as the top home
45:55run hitter in the history of baseball.
45:58April 8, 1974, Atlanta Stadium.
46:02And then he ended up hitting another 40 home runs to finish at 755 home runs for his career.
46:07And Aaron's lengthy career, he started in 1954 and played through 1976.
46:12Aaron had many obstacles to break Babe Ruth's record, including the hate mail and the death threats that he received
46:19as he was on this journey to be the home run king.
46:23And then he holds on to that record until Barry Bonds came along, dethroned him as the home run king
46:28by breaking that record on August 7th of 2007.
46:34Have you ever had it evaluated before?
46:36No.
46:36Okay.
46:37It's the first time I've had it looked at.
46:39Yeah.
46:39Well, it was a wonderful thing you did to keep the stub and to send it off for an autograph.
46:44And I can tell you that that autograph is authentic, which you don't always know when you send off a
46:48request by mail.
46:50It's true.
46:50There are situations where there are secretarial signatures or other non-malicious copies.
46:55But in this case, I can confirm the signature is authentic.
46:59Great.
46:59I was surprised that there weren't more of these certificates that have come to auction, considering it was reported as
47:04a sellout at 53,775 people.
47:08But who knows, by the time they handed the certificates out, who knows how many people were still there if
47:12the weather was poor.
47:14Yeah.
47:15I would put an estimate on that at auction at $2,000 to $2,500.
47:21Wow.
47:22Amazing.
47:23But I'm keeping it.
47:24I don't blame you.
47:30I got these G.I. Joes for Christmas when I was about 11 years old.
47:35So they had been about 1967 or so.
47:40Camouflage uniform.
47:41Fatigues from Vietnam.
47:43The Marine uniform.
47:44World War II uniform.
47:46Snowshoes.
47:47White helmet.
47:48White boots.
47:49Radio.
47:49An old-timey World War II hat.
47:51What's left of a flamethrower that I used to have.
47:54The flamethrower that went with that.
47:56Snow Parkers.
47:57Two machine guns.
47:58All kinds of rifles.
47:59A little .45 caliber handgun.
48:01And for the snow guys, I got their ice picks.
48:04Just a collection of stuff that I've saved for over the years.
48:10This painting was done for my dad, Harold Olson.
48:13He played football with Ernie Barnes in the 60s.
48:16They played for the Denver Broncos.
48:18And they became friends.
48:20And when they would go away for games, they were roommates and things.
48:23He would come over for lunch a lot.
48:25And my mom would fix food and fix sandwiches and things.
48:28And they had a place in their living room.
48:31It was a big empty wall space.
48:33And my dad said, hey, Ernie, can you paint me a painting?
48:36And he said, sure.
48:37And this is what he came up with.
48:40From what I was told, Mr. Barnes is from North Carolina and Dad was from South Carolina.
48:44So they bonded that way.
48:46They were just really good friends.
48:47And this was just something that a friend gave a friend.
48:51Oh, excellent.
48:51Excellent.
48:52That's a beautiful example.
48:53It's very unusual because Ernie is famous for his paintings of football players, basketball players, party scenes, and so on.
49:01This is the first time I've seen a landscape painting by Ernie.
49:05Ernie Barnes was born in 1938 in North Carolina.
49:08He died in 2009.
49:10He's an African-American artist as early as elementary school.
49:13He showed talent and promise.
49:14He actually excelled at art in high school.
49:17And he was an art major in college.
49:19He was a lineman for the Denver Broncos.
49:22And I think your dad was, too, right?
49:23Wasn't he an offensive lineman?
49:25Yes.
49:25Yeah.
49:26So they both were on the offensive line together.
49:28For me, it's an interesting contrast to see the game itself is known as a kind of a violent game
49:33with all these collisions.
49:35And yet, at the same time, he's this painter.
49:38And even throughout the entire time he was playing, he was still painting.
49:42And I was reading, and he was making more money selling his paintings than he was playing football.
49:46Here we have, like, this serene landscape, probably in the fall based on the colors, which I think shows a
49:53whole other side of him.
49:54It's an oil on board.
49:56It's six feet by two feet, and it's signed by him right there.
50:01Just Ernie.
50:01Normally he was signed at Ernie Barnes.
50:03Right, right.
50:03But this is an early painting.
50:04This was painted, I want to say, in the 60s.
50:06And I asked my dad one time, how long did it take?
50:09He said about a month.
50:10Oh, okay.
50:11There's a photograph of you as a child.
50:14Tell us about that.
50:15Sure, that was taken in 1964, and it was the painting in the background.
50:19And the sofa, that was the place that mother wanted the painting.
50:22And I just remember laying on the sofa looking up at this painting, and it was just so serene and
50:27so peaceful because this was definitely not something you would see in Colorado.
50:31It's unusual so that it's hard to come up with a comparable, but I think I would put an auction
50:38estimate on this of anywhere between $85,000 and $95,000.
50:44Wow, okay.
50:52And now it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:56We came hoping that our picture would break the bank.
50:59But instead, I broke the glass in our print.
51:03Womp, womp, womp.
51:04We still have fun, thanks to Antiques Roadshow.
51:06And this is my mom's candy dish.
51:09My sister was going to put it in a garage sale, but I told her, no.
51:14Jackie, guess what?
51:15It's worth at least $100.
51:17I brought my whole Garfield collection.
51:19And here at Antiques Roadshow, Garfield is at large.
51:23I brought my granddad's Buffalo Soldier patch from the 1940s.
51:29He served in Italy during World War II.
51:31It's not worth very much price-wise, but I'm very proud of my granddad and the greatest generation in his
51:38history.
51:39We brought my mother's ring that she passed on to me, and my sisters told me it was fake.
51:45But we found out today that this is not fake.
51:49This is a real, genuine sapphire, and it's worth between $5,000 and $8,000.
51:53So there you go, sisters.
51:55Woo-hoo!
51:56We have the mask from the Perry Mason show, but when it came to value, we got no dough.
52:03We have this painting that she bought from, where did you buy this?
52:06At a yard sale, and I thought it was a great, surreal painting.
52:10And apparently, it's just great to me, but we still love it.
52:14And also...
52:16Which are also not worth anything, but they make me beautiful.
52:20Thanks for watching.
52:22See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
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