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00:04Antiques Roadshow has motored into Charlevoix, Michigan, to Castle Farms.
00:09On the tube, we have saved these, Janet! Big exclamation point!
00:13Wow, all right, yep. That blows right past what I was expecting.
00:35Castle Farms is ready for Roadshow's thousands of guests and their treasures.
00:40Adding to the atmosphere are charming gardens, tranquil water features, and inside, a curious cluster of collectibles.
00:51Roadshow certainly appreciates an eclectic collection, and we've got lots of amazing finds to share from Michigan Today.
00:59This is a Civil War drum major's baton. I got it from a history professor from Kalamazoo College.
01:06He told me, you're very lucky to get that, because I could have sold that three or four times to
01:11different people.
01:13I don't recall the price anymore. It couldn't have been more than several hundred dollars.
01:19This owl, I picked him up at a yard sale. I just thought he was just very compelling and cute.
01:23He is, I believe, silver. I think he's Dutch. But the cool part is, his little head pops open,
01:30and it's some kind of shaker on the inside. I paid two dollars for it.
01:40We had friends, a wonderful older couple, who collected art and wine and beautiful things.
01:48And on Christmases and birthdays, around their beautiful dining room table, they would come out,
01:54and they'd bring a painting or a piece of silver or a piece of jewelry like this and gift it
02:01to us.
02:01What year do you figure you got this from?
02:04I would think about 1995.
02:06It's a clip brooch. It's made by a gentleman called Pierre Stirlet.
02:12He's born in a somewhat wealthy family in Paris.
02:17And in World War I, around that time period, his father dies.
02:22And he goes to work and live with his uncle, who owns a jewelry store called Manier Ponson.
02:29Soon after he's working there and designing, his uncle realizes he's quite talented.
02:36And he works there and hones his chops, as they say.
02:38But eventually he moves on.
02:40He works for Ostertag, Boucheron, and Shaw May.
02:44I mean, that's a, you know, that's the hit list.
02:47I mean, three fabulous French jewelers.
02:50But in 1934, he goes out on his own, and he opens his first shop.
02:57He's known for working with experimental gemstones.
03:01Do you have any idea what the head of the bird is made out of?
03:05I do not.
03:06This is a type of rock gemstone that comes from the foothills of Kilimanjaro.
03:12Really?
03:12It's ruby zoocyte.
03:14It has another name called aniolyte.
03:17It's ruby crystals embedded in the zoocyte matrix, which is the green portion.
03:23It's not two stones that were put together.
03:26Oh.
03:27This occurs naturally when these stones were being formed under intense heat and pressure.
03:33I called my dad, who's one of the original jewelry guys on the table.
03:38He's 95, and without a hesitation, it's a hummingbird.
03:43So we kind of check it out.
03:45We're going with a hummingbird.
03:46For anybody out there who thinks it's not a hummingbird, let us know.
03:49The next element, the bamboo, wonderfully just curved and executed.
03:55Then you have the feathers.
03:57You notice how they have all this texture?
03:59Yes, they do.
04:00Then you have the accents of the diamond.
04:03So it's done in 18-karat gold.
04:05There's 66 tiny little stones.
04:07They're probably two carats in total.
04:10The white sections on top of the 18-karat yellow gold are platinum.
04:15On the back, there's some French assay marks.
04:18One of the marks is an eagle.
04:20It tells us that it's 18-karat yellow gold.
04:23It's also signed Stirlet Paris, and then it has some stock numbers there.
04:29Birds were one of his specialties.
04:31This is from around 1960.
04:33These are highly desirable.
04:36In an auction today, I would put this in for $30,000.
04:42Really?
04:44I'm not done.
04:45Really?
04:46I can't believe it.
04:48That's the low.
04:49$30,000 to $50,000.
04:53I can't believe it.
04:55It's just beautiful, isn't it?
05:03It's Yves Saint Laurent.
05:05Gigi Jean-Marie, who happens to be the main character in the painting, was one of his muses and a
05:11famous ballerina, I think.
05:12Her husband was Roland Petit, who produced a lot of ballets.
05:17I purchased it in 2006 in Manhattan in someone's, some gentleman's basement.
05:25And I paid $1,800 for it.
05:27Well, Yves Saint Laurent needs no introduction.
05:30He's obviously an iconic 20th century fashion designer.
05:35But what is perhaps less known is that he was a pretty prolific sketch artist, as he would have to
05:42be.
05:42He was designing shoes and dress lines.
05:45This is a pretty compelling example.
05:47It's signed in the lower center.
05:49And as you mentioned, we have Ballet de Roland Petit and Zizi Jean-Marie, who was indeed a famous ballerina.
05:59And her husband was Petit, Yves Saint Laurent, associated with the two of them.
06:04He was friends of theirs.
06:05It's a pretty busy scene.
06:07We have some dancers in costume.
06:09It's pastel, gouache, and charcoal.
06:13Sort of a mixed media.
06:14In all likelihood, this would have been around the 1960s or 70s.
06:19Really at the height of his career and after he had started his own fashion line.
06:24On the back of the painting, there was a label that indicated that it had sold before.
06:28I tracked that sale down.
06:30It was in 1997.
06:32Oh, cool.
06:33And it sold for the amount of $2,700.
06:37But that's almost 30 years ago now.
06:39His work frequently comes up at auction.
06:43His sketches.
06:44And the vast majority are portrait studies.
06:46This is a little more substantial than most of what you see selling.
06:52An auction estimate for the work would fall in the area of $10,000 to $15,000.
06:59Okay.
06:59Wow.
07:00Yeah.
07:00Good.
07:01I'm pleased.
07:02It's a killer example.
07:04Yeah, it is.
07:13Castle Farms was built in 1918 by the former acting president of the Sears and Robot Company.
07:19And he built it as a working dairy farm so he could advertise all of the farm equipment that he
07:24had for sale in the catalog.
07:25And he loved castles, so he just built it to look like one.
07:28In the 60s, a metalworking artist named John Van Haver named it Castle Van Haver and wanted to turn it
07:35into an artist mecca.
07:36In 1969, John Van Haver sold it to Art Rival, who was a local judge and tax attorney.
07:42And he turned this into Rock and Roll Central, nicknamed it Castle Farms.
07:47And any one that you can imagine from ACDC to ZZ Top played here.
07:52In 2001, our owner, Linda Mueller, purchased it.
07:55And she was able to get the blueprints from the original descendants of the family so that she could remodel
08:01this so it's now historically accurate.
08:03And she decided to turn it into a wedding facility.
08:09Probably around 2005, I had a good friend of mine that knew I loved Asian art.
08:14He saw these two lamps at a house sale.
08:16So he called me and he said, I've got some lamps that have your name on them.
08:20He shows up at the front door with these two lamps.
08:22I went, I'll take them.
08:23They're beautiful.
08:25So I paid him a couple hundred bucks and he was on his way.
08:28And I told my husband, I said, get this lamp stuff off of these beautiful vases.
08:32Somebody had converted these into lamps.
08:34This guy came from an estate sale about, it's got to be almost 35 years ago.
08:39I was sitting out in front of this house at four o'clock in the morning, waiting for the door
08:46to open, which didn't open till eight.
08:48It was freezing cold out and I only had a quarter tank of gas.
08:52That's dedication.
08:53That was dedication.
08:54And where did you get our final piece of the puzzle?
08:57That came out of the same estate sale.
09:00I think I paid about 200 bucks for it.
09:02That's it.
09:02Okay.
09:03And this fellow?
09:03About the same thing.
09:04There's one of these that I am most interested in.
09:09Okay.
09:10We'll start with the lamps.
09:11Okay.
09:12Oh God.
09:13Lamps.
09:14They are an archaistic form covered in these little designs.
09:18Those are meant to symbolize baby dragons.
09:21Okay.
09:21And they have objects on here, Buddhistic objects, and likely were produced in the 1920s.
09:28And as odd as it may seem, shortly after their date of production, they were probably turned into lamps right
09:34about then.
09:34These fellows are worth about $200 to $200 to $300.
09:38Okay.
09:39This is stylistically an 18th century Chinese box, a birthday gift box.
09:45Okay.
09:45Lacquer, but it is not 18th century, it's 20th century, 1970s, 1960s, worth about $200.
09:55Oh my gosh.
09:56Well, okay, even Steven.
09:57This one is what I find to be the most intriguing and most interesting.
10:01It is a Japanese bamboo ikebana vase used to display flowers that has been beautifully decorated with manuki, which are
10:10sword fittings.
10:11Every sword has a handle, of course, and the handles are wrapped with rope.
10:15And that cord, you can stick little objects underneath it.
10:18And that's what you would do with these, to show off, to say, this is what I'm interested in.
10:24Beside every single one of these, there's a little inscription.
10:27Those inscriptions are the makers.
10:30So what I suspect is that this was a family's collection of manuki, and they decided to display all of
10:39them in one way.
10:41So they put them all together on this fantastic vase.
10:45There's also an inscription on the base that says, front left.
10:52So that makes me think, perhaps this was part of a set.
10:56To really get the full value, I would have to sit down and translate each one of these names, find
11:02the makers, see who they are.
11:04We do have some damage.
11:06The bamboo is split.
11:08Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
11:08There are some manuki that are missing.
11:11Overall, though, the inscriptions are strong, the coloring is good on the gilding and the silvering, and it's beautiful.
11:18This is the first time that I've ever seen anything like it, and I showed it to my colleagues at
11:22the Asian art table.
11:23We'd never seen anything like it.
11:24Really?
11:25I would estimate at auction, without having translated the makers, that this would sell for at least $5,000 to
11:33$8,000.
11:34Really?
11:36I did okay.
11:37I did okay.
11:39You did more than okay.
11:42That's awesome.
11:44That's amazing.
11:46Wow.
11:48I found a pre-World War I golf trophy from Margaret Fonstock.
11:53I'm a high school music teacher, and I was actually looking for musical instruments.
11:57Looking around for trumpets, I found a trumpet bell trophy.
12:00It's from 1911.
12:02That was her married name.
12:03It was actually Margaret Sawyer Davis, who was one of the wealthiest women in the United States in the early
12:081900s.
12:09She had a major theft at her house in 1942, where all of her jewelry was stolen, and this may
12:15have been part of the loot.
12:16I paid $10 online.
12:18I didn't get a trumpet, but I got this great trophy.
12:22We got it at a thrift store for $5.
12:25It is authentic, and there were about 500 of them made, and Picasso did touch it.
12:31He didn't make it, but he did come through and do something on it.
12:41I found myself on Rush Street about 2 o'clock in the morning in 1980 in October.
12:47We were there for a print convention, and I was walking along, and my buddy kind of was lagging behind
12:52me, so I went back to him.
12:54And he was standing in a doorway.
12:55It was pretty dark, and there was this ragged older woman doing this drawing, and I think he gave her
13:03like $20 or something.
13:04We got back from the convention, and he said, do you want this thing?
13:07I said, sure, I'll take it.
13:08So I took it, and I rolled it up, and I put it in a tube in my closet.
13:12When we got these tickets, I said, maybe this is something.
13:15So the artist is Leigh Godey, and she was homeless, but more by choice than by necessity.
13:23She preferred the outdoors to indoors.
13:25She was born in 1908 to a family of 11 children, Christian scientists.
13:31All the girls had to sleep together in the attic.
13:33She was married twice, had four children.
13:36Two of her children died, and that seemed to be such a traumatic event that she decided to reinvent herself.
13:43Her second husband had a chicken farm in Washington State,
13:48and she had hoped that he was going to support her career as a nightclub singer,
13:53but instead she found herself on a chicken farm, so she ran away.
13:57And then she showed up in Chicago in the 70s as an artist,
14:03and she used to spend a lot of time on the steps of the Art Institute,
14:06where she would sell her work, and she would introduce herself to people as a French impressionist.
14:12And she would also say that she was better than Cezanne,
14:15so she was quite a colorful character,
14:18and she would sell her works on the street for between $5 and $20.
14:22At a certain point, she started to speed up the process
14:26by tracing older works of art and then reselling the copies,
14:31so she could make as much as $1,000 a day.
14:34But she would only get a $10 room at night if it were really, really cold.
14:39She loved everything French.
14:41So at one point, one of the curators from the Art Institute
14:44decided she would take her inside to show her the French impressionist paintings.
14:48And the artist was so worried that she was going to be overwhelmed and faint
14:53at the sight of these wonderful paintings
14:55that she decided to give herself strength
14:58by eating a piece of cheese that she had stored in her armpit.
15:02This one was a self-portrait.
15:04The medium is pen and ink,
15:06and this orange appears to be a colored marker.
15:09This is sort of standard artist's paper,
15:12but she would also paint on pillowcases,
15:15discarded window shades, whatever she could find.
15:18She got a lot of publicity.
15:19There were articles about her in People magazine and Wall Street Journal.
15:22Her daughter read an article in the Wall Street Journal about her mother.
15:25She had no idea she was an artist.
15:27And so they were reunited,
15:28and not too long afterwards, her mother started developing dementia,
15:32so her daughter became her guardian,
15:34and then she died in 1994.
15:37I would say at auction, it might be worth about $2,000.
15:40Really? Wow.
15:43Jeff's going to be really surprised.
15:45Do you think he's going to reclaim his property?
15:47No way.
15:49That's great. Thank you.
15:58It was in my great-great-grandmother's possession.
16:02My great-grandmother lived in Muskegon, Michigan.
16:06Back in the 1800s, these candies were given out,
16:11and she did not like the taste of them.
16:14So she would put them in the jar and start saving them,
16:17and when people found out that, they gave her more.
16:20It's scary for me to even look at it.
16:22Right.
16:23Because I'm afraid after all these years,
16:25I will be the one to damage it.
16:26Oh, that's quite the pressure on your shoulder.
16:28It is, yeah.
16:29Well, first of all, I think it's fantastic.
16:31It's cool.
16:32We have a pretty basic glass jar with a metal lid
16:35that's full of this Valentine's candy,
16:39primarily heart-shaped, but some others,
16:40most likely by the New England Confectionary Company.
16:44Oh.
16:45And you may know the New England Confessionary Company
16:47by its acronym of NECO or NECO Wafers.
16:52Oh, okay.
16:53So the New England Confessionary Company
16:55first introduced the candy to the country in around 1866.
16:59Okay.
17:00And they were called conversation starters
17:02or conversation candy
17:03because they had these sayings on them.
17:05One of the more prominent pieces of candy
17:07has got Grover Cleveland.
17:08Yeah.
17:09So Grover Cleveland was president of the United States.
17:11He was actually the first president
17:12to serve two non-consecutive turns,
17:171885 and then again in 1893.
17:20Of course I will, is one heart.
17:22No doubt of it, with all my heart.
17:25And then will you marry me?
17:26No, no, no shouldn't.
17:27Don't be shy there, right?
17:28Yeah, right.
17:29Hope and smile.
17:31Keep your eye open.
17:32So there you go.
17:33Always be vigilant.
17:34Maybe Mr. or Mrs. Wright is out there somewhere.
17:36It's really a snapshot in time
17:38from the like turn of the 19th century
17:40of what the Valentine candy was like.
17:44The collection was assembled fairly randomly,
17:46but care was given into the final placement.
17:50Grover Cleveland is kind of centered
17:51and the other ones with their sayings facing out.
17:54It took a bit of energy in order to do that.
17:56And then she carefully placed
17:57these other kind of candy roses at the top.
18:00This is a tricky one because there's no collecting category
18:04of candy from the 1900s.
18:06There's no, there's nobody that really has a lot of this
18:08because it's mostly eaten or thrown away or whatever.
18:13So to have this many collected is quite unique
18:15to the right person of which that would be
18:17folk art collectors, candy people, Valentine's people.
18:21There's a lot of people that would think this is really fun.
18:22An auction estimate, 800 to 1,000 bucks.
18:25OK. All right. I can deal with that.
18:29That's actually a relief.
18:31OK.
18:33Relief because...
18:33Because I was afraid I was going to...
18:36Yeah, it would be too valuable to be afraid to own it.
18:40Precious, but not so precious
18:41that you have to lose sleep over it, OK?
18:43I love it. That is awesome. Thank you.
18:47I have a trench periscope from World War I.
18:50My dad found it cleaning out a basement in the mid-60s
18:53and he said they wanted him to throw everything away,
18:56but he thought it was cool, so he kept it.
18:57So the top of your periscope is up over your trench
19:00or your entrenchments, your fortification,
19:02allowing you to see.
19:03And down here, we've got our viewfinder
19:05that lets you stay nice and safe
19:07and not expose yourself to potential fire.
19:10Really cool piece.
19:11At retail, it's probably going to sell
19:13in the $600 to $700 range.
19:15Oh, really?
19:16Obviously, it's militaria,
19:17but there are people that collect antique optics.
19:20They might find it interesting.
19:21And also, just from a sort of Deckard's standpoint,
19:24it looks really cool set up.
19:27So you can almost picture having this
19:29in front of a big bay window with a view,
19:31allowing people to look out and see what's going on.
19:35My great-great-grandmother
19:38won it in a raffle for a church.
19:40She spent a nickel,
19:42and it has the President Theodore Roosevelt
19:46and his wife, Edith Kermit Roosevelt
19:48and John Wanamaker.
19:50And it was in Philadelphia.
19:51When she passed away,
19:53she gave it to her daughter,
19:54which was my great-grandmother.
19:56And then when she passed away in 2003,
19:59it went up for an estate auction.
20:01And my mom paid $1,000
20:03to get it back into the family
20:05from the estate auction.
20:06This quilt was most likely made
20:10by the church group who had the raffle.
20:13And I think a lot of these very involved squares
20:17with all of the signatures
20:18were church members
20:20who either contributed to piecing it together
20:24or cutting the fabric apart to make the quilt,
20:27and wealthy people in Philadelphia
20:29who might have contributed
20:30to have their name included on the quilt.
20:33The most prominent names on the quilt
20:35would be Theodore Roosevelt
20:36and his wife, Edith,
20:38and then John Wanamaker,
20:40who had the major department store in Philadelphia,
20:43with a logo that turns out to be his exact signature,
20:47which is here on the quilt.
20:48And we do have a date over here.
20:51Yes.
20:521904.
20:52It was 1904.
20:54As far as the value goes,
20:56it's very close to what your mother paid for it
21:00because the interest in these quilts is really narrow.
21:03Right.
21:03I would put a retail value on this piece
21:07of $1,000 to $1,200.
21:11You know, you also have a bit of fading condition issues.
21:15Yeah.
21:15But it's just a remarkable piece of Philadelphia history.
21:19It is.
21:23These belong to my great-uncle.
21:25He was an antique collector.
21:27I remember them as a child,
21:29sitting up on shelves very high up.
21:30You didn't touch them.
21:32There was a built-in bookcase on top,
21:34and he had a mirror that was custom-made,
21:36and the mirror sat, like, vertically behind the vases.
21:38That way you could see the backside of the vases,
21:41which are also very interesting.
21:42Absolutely.
21:43And then when he passed away,
21:44he gave them to my grandma,
21:46left a note that when she passed,
21:48they were to be passed on to me.
21:50My grandma passed in 2012,
21:52so I've had them since she passed.
21:55So what we have here is a matched pair of vases.
21:58Now, many pairs of vases made by all kinds of manufacturers
22:01are exactly identical,
22:03but these are companion vases.
22:06Each one has a different scene on the front
22:08of similar birds facing in,
22:11and this technique is really interesting.
22:13It's called pat-serpat,
22:15which means paste on paste.
22:17They originally was just a vase.
22:19It was kind of this lavender color,
22:21and then the decorations were added on top of that.
22:25It was painted in layers with white slip,
22:30and they were inspired by Japanese design,
22:32so we call them Japanism.
22:34They were made by Minton,
22:35who was located in England,
22:37and this is something that Minton was known for.
22:39Okay.
22:39When they were new, they were very expensive.
22:42This was a very tedious, time-consuming process.
22:45We have the initials of the man who painted it,
22:48and his name is Henry Hollins,
22:52and he started working at Minton in about 1873.
22:56There's raised enameled flowers.
22:58It's a repetitive pattern
23:00in these wonderful greens and turquoise blue,
23:03and one color that Minton is especially known for is turquoise.
23:08There's not a lot on here, but that's a really nice feature.
23:11Then if we turn to the back,
23:12we have a completely different pat-serpat design
23:16of the same flowers with a wonderful insect,
23:20but my favorite part is next.
23:23Okay.
23:24So we turn this one around to look at the back,
23:29and there's a wonderful spider web with a spider,
23:32and I'm crazy about that,
23:34and that makes them so much more interesting
23:36than just flowers.
23:38Flowers are good.
23:39Birds are good, too.
23:40The spider web definitely helps the value.
23:44Really?
23:44And both the marks are a little hard to see.
23:47Minton's with an S.
23:48It went from Minton to Minton's in the 1870s,
23:53and normally there is an impressed symbol for a date,
23:57and these just don't have it.
24:00But we still pretty much know where they're from.
24:02Okay.
24:03Pretty much probably the 1870s
24:04or maybe very early 1880s.
24:07There's a chip on the top edge.
24:09It does affect the value some.
24:11A retail price for the pair
24:13would be somewhere between $3,000 and $5,000.
24:17Okay.
24:17Wow.
24:18If we didn't have this chip,
24:20I think we could add another $1,000.
24:23Wow.
24:26I believe it's a sock knitting machine
24:28that belonged to my late husband's grandfather.
24:31There's still some thread on it.
24:34So I don't know for sure, but...
24:37It's kind of cool.
24:44Family lore is that this is a relative of mine from long ago.
24:51My middle name is Van Rensselaer,
24:52and supposedly this guy comes through that lineage.
24:57150 years in Michigan that I know of.
25:00It's been in my life since I was a little boy,
25:03and I'm in my mid-60s,
25:05and my dad had it growing up.
25:11I brought some Pearl Jam posters.
25:13They were a gift from a friend
25:15that was in the rock and roll industry.
25:18He said they are some of the first Pearl Jam
25:22concert tour posters ever created.
25:25He was on tour with them.
25:27They were given to him by the brother of Pearl Jam's bass player,
25:31and apparently the brother was the one
25:34who produced all the posters.
25:36How long ago did he give them to you?
25:38Within the past 10 years.
25:39This poster was for the Prague,
25:42November 15th, 1996 concert,
25:45and apparently they got into town.
25:48There was a massive snowstorm.
25:50They were two hours late.
25:51They threw everything up onto the stage,
25:54and they just started playing.
25:56Eddie Vedder climbed up on the scaffolding of the lighting
25:59and sat up there and sang the last song.
26:02Oh, I tried to envision this in my head.
26:04This is awesome.
26:05There are not enough words to describe.
26:08I feel I can't even do it proper justice
26:10of how important Pearl Jam is
26:13when it comes to 90s rock, alternative rock.
26:16I mean, that Seattle sound, grunge music.
26:18They were part of the tastemakers
26:21at the forefront of this movement.
26:23They formed in 1990.
26:251991, their debut album, 10.
26:27I mean, that just shot them into the stratosphere.
26:30And you are correct that these are
26:31some of the earlier concert posters for Pearl Jam,
26:34what in the trade today collectors call gig posters.
26:37They weren't meant to survive.
26:39I mean, they'd, you know, hang up in a college dorm.
26:41They'd be in a bar.
26:42They're meant to be tacked up.
26:43Rip them down.
26:44The show's over.
26:45They were all by the Ames brothers,
26:47Colby Schultz and Barry Ament.
26:49With the silk screening process
26:50and how these were made,
26:52they're highly limited.
26:53They were printed in small batches.
26:55And when you just look at the quality of the artwork,
26:58even outside of the connection to Pearl Jam,
27:01the graphics are just visually stunning.
27:04And we only have three on the board here.
27:05You have a total of 10.
27:06And that's why I love the story,
27:08because on the tube,
27:09we have saved these, Janet!
27:11Big exclamation point!
27:13Pearl Jam, still performing today,
27:16has gone on for over three decades.
27:18The only reason that I brought them here today
27:21was because my friend who passed away last year,
27:26Nick Scott, he loved music.
27:29He worked in the industry.
27:30He loved art.
27:32He and his best friend
27:33would try to find the coolest things.
27:35And he loved this show.
27:37We've kind of taken on celebrating things
27:39that reflect things that he loved in his life,
27:42kind of to try to keep his memory alive.
27:44This is a big surprise that you liked these,
27:46and I'm so glad that you did,
27:48because they're really special to me.
27:50Your friend, Nick, gave you something very special.
27:52For the collection of the 10 that you have here,
27:55it would easily be $10,000 to $15,000 at auction.
28:06Whoa!
28:14They're phenomenal.
28:16Nick was phenomenal.
28:18It's amazing.
28:28It was at my grandmother's house
28:30as long as I can remember.
28:31I have really early memories
28:33of trying to climb up into it.
28:34And actually, she lent it to my mom when she had me,
28:37so it predates my memory a little bit.
28:40I know that it's an Eames rocking chair.
28:42My grandma gave it to me as a gift
28:44when she was moving out of her mid-century home,
28:48and I've treasured it ever since.
28:50So I'm excited to be here and learn more about it.
28:52So, as you said,
28:53this rocking chair was designed by the Eameses,
28:56Charles and Ray.
28:57When you look at it,
28:58there's no doubt in your mind
28:59that Charles Eames made this chair.
29:01And the first ones were designed right after the war.
29:05They are easy to tell.
29:06If you look at the back of them,
29:08they have a rope that follows the outline.
29:10We know for a fact that yours is a little bit later than that
29:13because yours is dated on the bottom, 1960.
29:16We can take a look.
29:18It's upside down,
29:19but February 4th, 1960.
29:22Most of them are marked that way with a date.
29:24So a lot of them are,
29:25especially the early ones,
29:26are marked with a date.
29:26And this is considered to be an early piece
29:29of Eames Herman Miller furniture.
29:30Right on.
29:31And they've been made pretty much constantly.
29:33They're well-loved.
29:34And all the rest of the work Eames did
29:36from the end of World War II to about 1960
29:39is so groundbreaking.
29:41And it just pushes the boundaries back.
29:43I like people that trespass on the future.
29:45Usually red ones or darker colored ones
29:48or colors that kind of reach out and grab you
29:50tend to be worth a little bit more money.
29:52The white ones are a little less valuable.
29:55But even with that,
29:56the condition I think offsets that somewhat.
29:58And so I would estimate at auction,
30:01this share would bring $8 to $1,200.
30:04Wow.
30:04All right.
30:05Yep.
30:05That blows right past what I was expecting.
30:08That's awesome.
30:17When my father was a student at Purdue
30:21down in Indiana,
30:22he and his older brother ran into the guy
30:25who was the chief timer of the Indy 500.
30:28And he asked,
30:29would you boys like to time the Indy 500?
30:31Oh, yeah.
30:32So each of them did it for almost 40 years.
30:35Every year,
30:35the timer would get one of these beautiful bronze badges.
30:39And I timed for 37 years myself.
30:41There's one timer for each car.
30:43So there's 33 cars, 33 timers.
30:46And we all sat with a number of our car
30:49pinned on our back.
30:50And we sit in rank order.
30:52So in this great run
30:53of your father's pit badges,
30:55we have a 26-year consecutive run
30:57from 1947 to 1973.
31:00Now, although they did make passes
31:01and badges earlier,
31:02it wasn't until 1947,
31:04which we have the first year in 1947,
31:06that they actually made a badge
31:07that branded all access.
31:10And I would put a value
31:11for this collection at auction
31:12of $4,000 to $6,000.
31:14Oh, my gosh.
31:16Oh, I wish my dad was here to hear that.
31:23I got the set from my mother
31:24on my wedding day.
31:26It's a traditional Pakistani wedding set.
31:30So girls, when they get married,
31:31get a full set of jewelry.
31:32And I got this from my mother,
31:34who was Pakistani.
31:35Her and my father immigrated here.
31:37And so we were born,
31:38my brothers and sister and I were born here.
31:40But when I got married 30 years ago,
31:42I got this set.
31:43They have two sides of jewels.
31:45So the first side is emerald.
31:47The other side is multiple stones.
31:50In Pakistan, the ceremonies are two to three days.
31:53And so on the first day,
31:55you would wear one side
31:55and then you'd be able to just flip it
31:57and wear it with your different sari dress
31:59on the second day.
32:00And so that's traditional.
32:02The emeralds appear to come
32:04from Swap Valley in Pakistan.
32:06It's likely from the 40s to 50s.
32:10We would consider this a muhal style.
32:12Okay.
32:13And that's just a traditional
32:14Indian jewelry design.
32:17Although this is Pakistani,
32:19it's derived from the same art style.
32:22Well, and in the 40s is when the country split.
32:24So really at that time,
32:26it was all intermixed.
32:27Let's take a look at the reverse side of the pieces.
32:32It's a silver material with a gold plating overlay.
32:36Here you can see all the colorful gemstones,
32:40rubies, turquoise, pearls, coral.
32:44Let's take a look at the ring,
32:45the way it spins over.
32:47The hinge design just allows it to spin freely.
32:51So with the earrings here,
32:53you can really see the difference
32:56and gemstones and just the feel of the earrings
33:00and the entire set.
33:01One's more playful,
33:03the other one's more traditional.
33:04And actually on this one,
33:06you can see where the pearl is missing.
33:09So you can see the silver foil
33:11that was underneath the pearl.
33:13We see a lot of traditional varietal sets like this
33:17selling retail for anywhere from $200 to $300 to $400.
33:24However, your set,
33:26because of the natural emeralds
33:28that really connect the culture
33:30with the history and the design,
33:32your particular set,
33:34we would place a estimate of retail value
33:38anywhere from three to $4,000.
33:42Oh my goodness, I can't believe that.
33:44Wow, well, that's exciting
33:47and it's news to us.
33:48Obviously, it has a lot of special meaning to my family,
33:51so it isn't something I would auction or anything
33:54and I plan on passing it forward to my kiddos.
34:03This is a sword from the Civil War era
34:06and she has a bayonet,
34:09also from Civil War around late 1800s.
34:13Our grandfather was kind of a history buff
34:16and he collected these from a friend's dad.
34:25This was my father's.
34:27I think it was purchased maybe $63 to $65
34:30because he passed away in $66
34:32and it's a Gibson LG1.
34:35It sounds great.
34:41And I was close to it in tune
34:43and I hadn't been in tune for a long time.
34:52It's been in the family a number of years,
34:56maybe five, ten.
34:58It came through my uncle
35:00who received it as a gift
35:03from a friend after he passed away
35:06who received it from then
35:09and the daughter of the painter
35:12who is Grace Hall Hemingway.
35:15It's an original oil on canvas.
35:17So as you point out,
35:19the artist is somebody from a pretty famous family.
35:23Yes.
35:24This is Ernest Hemingway's mother
35:26who's from the local area here in Charlevoix.
35:30They have a place,
35:32had a place here in Walloon Lake.
35:34So from where we stand today,
35:35we're about 15 miles from Walloon Lake, Michigan.
35:39Right.
35:39Where the Hemingways had their summer home
35:41and where young Ernest would go for the summers.
35:44So the painting is clearly signed in the bottom left,
35:48Hall Hemingway,
35:48and Hall was Grace's maiden name.
35:51She was born in 1872.
35:53She lived till 1951.
35:56I think it was probably executed around 1930.
36:00A couple years earlier,
36:01some major events went on.
36:03Her husband took his life.
36:06Also in 1928,
36:09Grace, who had all of two years training
36:13at the Art Institute of Chicago,
36:16traveled to the Southwest
36:17and began painting the local vista.
36:21That same year,
36:22she had an exhibition at the Hemingway home.
36:24There were 42 paintings.
36:26Doing a little checking,
36:27this does not appear to have been one of them.
36:29Okay.
36:29But I think it's fair to say
36:31this would have been executed just a bit thereafter.
36:33But Grace felt that as a female artist,
36:37she had a hard go of things
36:39if she put the name Grace in the signature.
36:42Okay.
36:42So on the label on the back,
36:44which in my opinion is in the artist's own handwriting,
36:47we have the title,
36:48sagebrush by Hall Hemingway,
36:51studio with the address,
36:53and the price, $500.
36:55She's really captured the Southwest here,
36:58and I think it's a wonderful example of her work.
37:00But I think we have to pay really attention
37:02to the fact that this is a Hemingway.
37:04Right.
37:04And on the one hand,
37:06her son,
37:08arguably one of the top American 20th century authors,
37:13if not figures.
37:15And on the other hand,
37:16she wanted to not play that up too much, I think.
37:20And I think wanted to particularly not play up
37:23the fact that she was a female artist.
37:24I think we have to play that up a little bit
37:26because I think there's a little bit
37:27of a celebrity factor here.
37:29Fewer than five paintings have really come up to auction.
37:32I think at auction today,
37:34although her paintings don't bring
37:36a tremendous amount of money,
37:37I do think this is one that could be comfortably priced
37:39at $4,000 to $6,000.
37:42Okay, wow.
37:51Another part of the castle's collections,
37:53cake toppers.
37:55From the 1880s through the 21st century,
37:59these decorations seem quite fitting
38:01for a venue that hosts about 150 weddings annually.
38:05That's a lot of cake.
38:09This is a samovar that's been in my family
38:12for over 100 years.
38:14My grandfather purchased it.
38:16The characters on the bottom
38:18are the four horsemen of the apocalypse,
38:19and most of them have swords.
38:22However, there's one that my father replaced.
38:25It's more like a cocktail spear,
38:27and he swears that it's the original,
38:29but I know it isn't.
38:31The last time I remember this being used
38:33was for my parents' 25th anniversary,
38:36sometime in the 50s, if that long.
38:39I have had it in my possession since 97.
38:42There were some people in the East Lansing area
38:44who looked at this,
38:46and whoever looked at this said
38:47they think it's from Great Britain.
38:49My sister thinks it's from Russia.
38:51It does tip, and the inside is grody.
38:57I just love it.
38:59It is, in fact, British.
39:01The hallmarks are not Russian.
39:03They're British hallmarks.
39:05Instead of a samovar,
39:06it's a tea kettle that tips
39:08rather than a samovar with a spigot
39:10where you get the liquid out.
39:12It is sterling silver.
39:14It has lots and lots of hallmarks on it,
39:17hallmarks for R.G. Garrard and Company.
39:22They were jewelers and silversmiths to the crown.
39:25They were appointed in 1843.
39:27They've merged,
39:28but they're still in business
39:29making high-end luxury jewelry and silver.
39:33British hallmarks are made up
39:34of different symbols
39:35that tell you the city,
39:37the date, the maker.
39:38The rampant line stands for sterling.
39:40The body has a date letter of 1872,
39:45and the top up here
39:46has a date letter of 1871.
39:48So perhaps it took a while to make this.
39:51It's pretty monumental.
39:53We think it's more than likely
39:55a presentation piece.
39:56Up here we have figures of victory,
40:01winged victory,
40:02and they're all holding laurel wreaths,
40:04and that's a symbol of victory.
40:05When we come around the bottom,
40:07it's all supported by these
40:09sort of tortured figures.
40:11You called these
40:12the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
40:14That's what I was told.
40:16That's what you were told.
40:17They look more like anguished,
40:19harpies or furies.
40:21I do think it's a presentation piece,
40:23more than likely,
40:25to like a returning general.
40:26The sword that you pointed out,
40:28you said that your dad
40:30placed this little middle.
40:32Yeah, at some point,
40:33the sword got lost,
40:34and he put that in there.
40:36That and then this,
40:37there was a trumpet up here
40:39that this one's holding
40:40that has been broken off.
40:42It's so much silver.
40:43It has so much going on.
40:45For insurance value,
40:46we'd insure it at $75,000.
40:49Okay.
40:50Wow.
40:51Yeah, it's pretty amazing.
40:59I brought a powder horn
41:02from the Revolutionary War
41:04owned by Levi Green.
41:06He was a patriot
41:07in the Revolutionary War.
41:10Belongs to me right now,
41:11but it's part of the Green heritage.
41:13My late husband,
41:14it was his great-great-great-grandfather,
41:17Levi Green.
41:17He was born in the 1700s.
41:20He came in from Massachusetts,
41:22but he settled right in this area,
41:25West Bloomfield, Michigan.
41:26They developed a farm there.
41:281832 is when they came
41:29and settled into Michigan.
41:31The farmhouse is still there
41:33in the barn,
41:34but everything else is developed.
41:36He died in 1851.
41:38Yeah, 94 years old.
41:40Levi Green was a cousin
41:42to General Nathaniel Green.
41:44Who most people
41:45who study the Revolutionary War know.
41:46So it says,
41:47Levi Green, his horn,
41:50who enlisted
41:51in the Continental Service,
41:53all the great misspellings
41:54it should have,
41:55to range in the county of Albany
41:57in the year 1776
42:00under Lieutenant Jackson.
42:02I looked up his pension records
42:04and he left a great description
42:06of his service.
42:07Oh, my God.
42:08Yeah.
42:08He came through Rhode Island
42:09and then into Massachusetts.
42:11He lived in Lanesboro, Massachusetts,
42:13which is out by the New York border.
42:14In July of 76,
42:16he went into service as a ranger
42:18and he was around Albany
42:20and it says that they were searching
42:21for Tories and protecting property.
42:24So what they were doing
42:25is they were looking for people
42:26who were loyal to the king still
42:28and arresting them.
42:29And then because loyalists were,
42:31Tories were raiding the area,
42:33so they wanted to protect the area
42:34from those people.
42:35In the early stages of 1777,
42:38he was drafted
42:38into the Massachusetts militia
42:40and he ended up in Vermont
42:43and at the Battle of Bennington
42:46on August 16, 1777,
42:49he fought in the battle.
42:50And during that battle,
42:52they killed and captured
42:53a bunch of Hessian German troops.
42:54And he mentions helping the dead
42:57and dying off the battlefield
42:58that day.
42:59He helped take the prisoners
43:01back towards Lanesboro, Mass.
43:02He ended up living in New York
43:04after the revolution
43:05and as you said,
43:06he moved out this way.
43:07I didn't expect to see
43:08something like this.
43:09I'm from Massachusetts
43:09and I didn't expect to see
43:11a horn carried by a guy
43:12from Mass here,
43:13which is fantastic.
43:14It's made from cow
43:15with a pine plug
43:17and as far as it being carved
43:19by Levi,
43:20it's hard to say.
43:20It could have been,
43:22but there were people
43:22in the camps
43:23who were paid
43:24to carve horns for people
43:26that had artistic skills
43:27and the size is kind of small.
43:29Oh, okay.
43:30The regulations
43:31in Mass Militia
43:32were that they were
43:32to hold a pound of powder
43:34and this one
43:34couldn't hold a pound.
43:36Probably didn't.
43:37It has the perfect patina.
43:39Is that right?
43:39Yes.
43:40The color, the carving,
43:41everything is beautiful on it.
43:43Now it does have
43:43a little bit of damage.
43:44You can see the cracks
43:45here on the spout
43:46and this screw
43:47was added at a later date.
43:48You can also see
43:49two little nubs right here.
43:51Those are from an iron wire loop
43:52which would have been
43:53on here originally
43:54to hold a strap
43:55so he could sling it
43:55over his shoulder.
43:56The value of these horns
43:57is based upon
43:59where they fought,
44:00who the person was.
44:02Even with the condition issues,
44:03it has a value at auction
44:05of $4,000 to $6,000.
44:08That's awesome.
44:09Yeah.
44:09Wow.
44:10It's really good.
44:11I would insure it
44:12for $8,000.
44:13Oh, I will do that.
44:15I appreciate that.
44:19It's a Griswold cast iron
44:21bundt pan.
44:22I bought it at an auction,
44:23in a state auction,
44:24for a couple hundred dollars.
44:26I assume it's over
44:27100 years old.
44:34It's got a stamp mark
44:35on the bottom,
44:36I believe from England.
44:37It's been in our family
44:38for years
44:38and so I just brought it
44:40to figure out
44:40what it is
44:41and what it's for.
44:42My daughter looked it up.
44:44She thinks it might be
44:45a biscuit holder
44:46from England.
44:49This was a toy
44:50from my father's collection.
44:52He was an avid toy collector
44:54for many, many years.
44:56Following his passing
44:57in 1993,
44:59I took approximately
45:0050 or 60 of his toys.
45:03His collection
45:03was several hundred toys
45:05and I focused predominantly
45:07on the holiday theme,
45:09Christmas,
45:10and the Disney themes.
45:12And what happened
45:13to the rest?
45:13They went to auction.
45:15This is a classic
45:17lithograph tin toy
45:18from the 1920s
45:19and 1930s.
45:20It was made by a company
45:21called Ferdinand Strauss.
45:23Two major makers
45:24of tin wind-up toys
45:26of that era,
45:2720s and 30s,
45:28was Lewis Marx
45:28and Ferdinand Strauss.
45:30They were the best
45:32of the best
45:32of that era.
45:33Marx was much more prolific,
45:36but Ferdinand Strauss' toys
45:38were, to my mind,
45:40much more inventive,
45:42much more colorful.
45:43One of the great things
45:44about Strauss' toys,
45:45his toys,
45:46had some of the greatest
45:47lithography
45:48and some of the greatest
45:49artwork.
45:50And the colors
45:51are really vibrant.
45:53Here he is,
45:54being pulled
45:55by the reindeer,
45:56and here he is,
45:57putting out his toys.
45:58And it's just
46:00a fantastic piece.
46:02The golden era
46:04of the lithograph tin toys
46:05in America
46:06were the 20s and 30s.
46:08You can see it has
46:09the patent dates
46:10of 21 and 23.
46:12The market on these values
46:14have sort of softened up,
46:15which is a generational thing.
46:17You made a good choice
46:18in keeping with
46:19the holiday stuff
46:20because that market
46:22is quite strong.
46:23In today's market,
46:24the run-of-the-mill example
46:26of this is in the
46:26$400 to $500 range.
46:28But this is not
46:30run-of-the-mill.
46:31This is an exceptional example.
46:33It has the, even,
46:34I've never seen this,
46:35the original range.
46:36There's no question
46:37and you can see
46:38the little knot here.
46:39I mean, it's extraordinary.
46:41I think this example
46:42on today's market
46:44would easily sell
46:45for $800 to $1,200.
46:48So you kept the right one.
46:51But let's see.
46:53What's the best part
46:54of these 10 wind-ups?
46:57For me,
46:57it's the fundamental value
46:58of my father.
46:59But I mean, in general.
47:01In general,
47:01whether they work or not.
47:03Yes, and that's
47:04one of the key elements
47:05of popularity of the toy.
47:07And so we're going
47:08to have to make this work.
47:11We're going to give it
47:12a good wind to get it going.
47:14So let's see what happens here.
47:23And now he's coming back.
47:26These were in my parents' home.
47:28It was a historical home
47:29that was in the
47:30National Historical Society.
47:31And I was told that my father
47:34and his first wife
47:35brought them over from Europe.
47:37They used to go over
47:38and collect antiques.
47:39And I know they hung
47:39in our house for about 50 years.
47:41It was my childhood home.
47:43And when I closed the house
47:44about a year ago,
47:46I pulled them off the wall
47:47and took them with me.
47:49I think that they might be Tiffany's,
47:51but I'm not sure.
47:52Yes, these are
47:53Tiffany Studios sconces.
47:55They were made
47:56somewhere between 1900
47:58and probably 1905.
47:59I think that these are
48:01on the early side,
48:02particularly because
48:03they're just very delicate
48:05and maybe even a little smaller
48:08than the shades
48:09that you see produced
48:10a little later.
48:11They're all hand-blown.
48:12Wow.
48:13And while they look similar,
48:16they're always just
48:17a little bit different.
48:19These came in different finishes.
48:20The gold finish
48:21meant it cost a little more
48:23because the metal
48:24is actually gold-plated.
48:27And what is lovely
48:29about these
48:30is that you have
48:31the original switches.
48:33I love to see those.
48:35There are some screws
48:36missing on the sconce plates.
48:38Yeah, I actually,
48:39I do have them at home.
48:41I'm sorry,
48:41I didn't think we would
48:42be displaying them today,
48:43but I do have
48:43all the original pieces with it.
48:45Well, it's great
48:46that you have them
48:47because they're really hard
48:48to get the originals.
48:50Don't lose sight of them ever.
48:52I won't.
48:52Now, as for the shades,
48:55the shades are pretty dirty.
48:57Yes, they are.
48:58I was scared to clean them.
48:59I don't blame you.
49:00I was scared to take these
49:02out of their holders.
49:04I was tempted
49:05because I wanted to see
49:07if there were any signatures
49:08on the ends
49:09because if there are signatures
49:11on the necks of the shades,
49:14then they're obscured
49:16by the cluster
49:17that's holding them.
49:19Okay.
49:19Frankly, I always say
49:21the signature's not
49:22how you determine
49:23whether something is real.
49:24I look at these shades
49:25and I know they're real.
49:26I don't need to look
49:28for a signature.
49:29If the signature's there,
49:30great!
49:31Yeah.
49:31But it's not critical
49:32to the value
49:33of the sconces.
49:35Okay.
49:36You do have one shade
49:37that has cracks.
49:40Yes.
49:41And someone way back when
49:42put two pieces of scotch tape there.
49:45It's very old and dirty.
49:46But it's, you know,
49:48something,
49:48it didn't cause any further loss,
49:50so this is actually
49:51a good solution.
49:52Okay.
49:53If these were in a retail shop,
49:56these would be very sought after
49:58because they're five lights.
50:00Okay.
50:01Usually they came in three lights.
50:04Sometimes they come
50:05in different configurations.
50:07Sometimes the metalwork
50:08is more detailed.
50:10But because these are five lights,
50:13they have more value.
50:14Okay.
50:15And I would put a retail price
50:18on these of $45,000 to $55,000.
50:22Oh my gosh, really?
50:24Wow.
50:25That is incredible.
50:26Wow.
50:28That's amazing.
50:30I was told they were valuable,
50:31but not by any means
50:33that kind of value.
50:34So that's amazing.
50:35If you were to replace the shade,
50:37it could cost as much
50:39as $3,000 to $4,000,
50:40but it would increase
50:42the overall value
50:43of the sconces
50:44to as much as $65,000.
50:47Okay.
50:48And now it's time
50:49for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:52Today we brought in
50:53our hideous clowns.
50:55They told us
50:56that they were pretty much
50:58worthless,
50:59but if we went to the right shop,
51:01we could sell them.
51:01But we had a good time
51:02at the Antiques Roadshow.
51:03I brought this print
51:05from 1969.
51:07He said that I didn't look
51:08old enough to own it
51:09and turns out that compliment
51:11was worth more
51:11than the print itself.
51:13I brought a family menorah
51:15that has passed down
51:16for my mom.
51:16He told me that it was
51:18from a tourist trap shop
51:19in Israel.
51:20So very touristy,
51:22very fun.
51:23And we had a great time
51:24and we love Antiques Roadshow.
51:26And we came here today
51:27to find out
51:28about our grandmother's jewelry
51:30and to see if this painting,
51:31which I purchased for $5,
51:33would make us rich enough
51:34to go on a trip together.
51:36But we didn't.
51:37It's only worth about $15.
51:39And it might not be
51:41going on a family trip,
51:42but this was the best
51:44girls' trip ever.
51:45Molly had me stand
51:4645 minutes in line
51:47and spend $50
51:48on this horse charcoal drawing
51:51that we just got appraised
51:52for $3,000.
51:54So as usual,
51:55my wife is always right.
51:56We came to Antiques Roadshow
51:58to celebrate our friend Nick.
52:00Nick was a rock star husband,
52:02father, and friend.
52:03And after an unimaginable day
52:05in Charlevoix,
52:06it looks like
52:07we'll be celebrating
52:08a little longer.
52:09Thank you, Nick.
52:10And thank you,
52:12Antiques Roadshow,
52:13for swinging by the mitt.
52:19Thanks for watching.
52:20See you next time
52:22on Antiques Roadshow.
52:23Antiques Roadshow,
52:24on Antiques Roadshow.
52:25You
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