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00:04Not to brag, but Antiques Roadshow is prouder than this guy to be showing off
00:08treasures at Grant's Farm.
00:10You're telling me you bought this painting for $40?
00:13I loved her braids and her glasses and her bangs.
00:16I can see the resemblance.
00:36Grant's Farm is a special blend of wildlife park mixed with the history of St. Louis beer
00:42making.
00:44August Anheuser-Busch Sr., former president and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association,
00:51bought this property in 1903 from the family of President Ulysses S. Grant.
00:57Grant's Farm opened to the public in 1954 and today entertains hundreds of thousands
01:03of visitors every year.
01:07What treasures are pouring into Roadshow at Grant's Farm?
01:10Wow, what you got here?
01:12I don't know.
01:13That's why she says she doesn't know.
01:16It was in my grandma's basement during Prohibition.
01:19Anheuser-Busch sold other products besides beer and this one in particular was used for
01:25egg products so they sold egg whites during Prohibition.
01:33It's my grandfather's train.
01:35He used to run it around under the Christmas tree every year so I know that at one point
01:41it worked and it's been in the family for probably a hundred years.
01:44So this is a German-made train.
01:46Actually if we turn it over and look on the underside right at the top here it's marked
01:49made in Germany.
01:50Now normally there would also be the company logo which is an M and a C from Marklin.
01:57Marklin is the maker of the train.
01:58Circa about 1906-1907 Marklin was a producer of children's toys at the turn of the last century
02:05and they really made the top top quality toys.
02:08Trains was sort of the rise to the top.
02:10They're actually still a company today.
02:12England, France, and the United States were the three markets for exporting their trains
02:17and they designed the trains specifically for those export markets.
02:21So in this instance it's an American beer car, Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous.
02:26Schlitz started around the mid-1800s, in fact it's actually still a brewery today owned
02:31by Pabst Blue Ribbon.
02:32There's three different variations of the beer cars that Marklin made.
02:36There's a Pabst Blue Ribbon and there's also a Budweiser.
02:38They're all very desirable.
02:39The Schlitz car in this size, which is a gauge one train car size.
02:44In the past 20 years there's only been a dozen or so that have come up.
02:48So quite a rare piece.
02:50What's also very interesting about these toys, they're tin plate and they're all hand painted
02:54with an enamel paint, which does hold up really well and that's why it's still so well preserved
02:58here for being over 100 years old.
03:00It has opening doors on the sides with a little hinge and you can even open the hinge roof to
03:08get access to the interior load.
03:10This would be a refrigerator car, so this one would be refrigerating Schlitz beer.
03:15As is often the case for all of these toys, condition is king.
03:20This is in a really nice condition.
03:21Oh good.
03:22It is.
03:23It's very sharp.
03:24Colors are great.
03:25All the way around.
03:26They're somewhere, your grandfather obviously did play with it, but the paint is really well
03:31kept.
03:31It can actually be cleaned up a little bit to really brighten up the color even more.
03:35Now in valuing the train car, it's a select market.
03:39This is an American focused marketplace.
03:42Do you have any idea what the value is on a train like this?
03:45No.
03:46You might want to pour a nice cold glass of beer after I tell you this, but this train
03:50car should easily fetch $10,000 to $20,000.
03:54Dollars?
03:54Yes.
03:55Wow.
03:56That's amazing.
03:59That's wonderful.
04:01Now, with that said, there have been examples of this car that have sold for $30,000 or even
04:07$40,000.
04:08Good.
04:10I'm almost speechless, and if you know me, that's...
04:22I got this at a thrift store about a month ago.
04:25I paid $70 for it, and I want to know more about it.
04:28I know it's a Windsor.
04:29It's creaky, but that's how I know it's old.
04:37This is a 1970s Bell & Howell radio.
04:42My grandpa worked for Bell & Howell for about 35, 40 years, so I think this was probably
04:46like a gift that they gave at Christmas or something.
04:49I rescued it from the garage like five years ago and got it cleaned up, and now it outlives
04:54in my office.
04:55And it also has a cassette tape player in the back that you can take off.
04:59It gets really, really loud.
05:00I have a couple Grateful Dead cassette tapes that I still play.
05:03Yeah, yeah.
05:04Much to her chagrin in there.
05:06Yeah.
05:11I brought a bracelet, a pin, and a pair of earrings that I first saw 50 years ago after my
05:22grandmother
05:22died.
05:22All of the jewelry that was hers was laid out on a large meeting room table at the trust
05:31company, and my sister and I were agog at all the wonderful things.
05:37The diamonds, the everything.
05:40But it was up to my father to choose, and he chose these.
05:46At 20 years old, I was really disappointed.
05:50I wanted the diamonds, but these are so beautiful.
05:55What you have here are micromosaics, some of the most beautiful examples that I've ever
06:00seen, actually, in my career.
06:02And it's not just one piece.
06:03It's three pieces that go together.
06:05A brooch, earrings, and a bracelet, which together form what you might call a perure.
06:09So we started to look at it more carefully, and realized that not only was it a great
06:14example of micromosaic work, it had hallmarks on it that indicated that it was from Rome.
06:20It had the papal state marks with the St. Peter's cross keys, which placed it around 1840,
06:281850.
06:28What you have in that era is a confluence of a number of things going on.
06:32This was before Italy was consolidated.
06:35Rome was an independent state.
06:36It was the era of the grand tour, when Europeans and English and Americans would make the big
06:42tour of Europe.
06:43Italy was already known for great micromosaics, but there was a great output in that era in
06:49order to feed the souvenir market.
06:51They came in all levels of quality, but these are among the best pieces of jewelry of that
06:56type that I have seen.
06:58Micromosaics are made of tiny little pieces of glass.
07:00There's a lot of very detailed handiwork involved in creating these.
07:04You've got really beautiful floral designs here.
07:07You've got two doves mounted in 18-carat gold.
07:11We had a lively discussion among the appraisers because everyone was impressed by these pieces.
07:16We're thinking that a retail price for these could be $28,000, $32,000, in that range.
07:24Holy cow.
07:26Wow.
07:28Increase my insurance, yes.
07:31That's wonderful.
07:33Maybe I'll wear them now.
07:40The Bush family's mansion, affectionately called the Big House, has a one-of-a-kind,
07:46seven-paneled Tiffany stained glass window.
07:49Tiffany exhibited at the World's Fair in 1904 here in St. Louis.
07:53And that's when my grandfather met him and commissioned Louis Comfort Tiffany to manufacture pieces just for his house.
08:01And the stained glass window is reminiscent of a stag in the Black Forest of Germany, so it reminded my
08:08grandfather of his homeland.
08:14I brought my American Girl Molly doll.
08:17I actually got her from the warehouse sale at the Pleasant Company in Middleton, Wisconsin, probably 25, 30 years ago.
08:27So you don't remember the exact date when you got her?
08:29I don't. I just know I was in elementary school.
08:31I know that she was made by the Pleasant Company before the Mattel buyout.
08:36Me and my mom and my best friend and her mom went together for a fun girls weekend.
08:41It was kind of a crazy event.
08:43Lots of people in line rushing for dolls.
08:46And I just had to have Molly.
08:48I loved her braids and her glasses and her bangs.
08:52I can see the resemblance.
08:54Do you know what you paid for her?
08:56$50.
08:58Molly was produced by Pleasant Rowland.
09:02Pleasant was a child's textbook author, so she was very aware of history.
09:08In 1984, she went to Williamsburg, Virginia, and she loved the historical aspect.
09:14And then at Christmas time, she was shopping for some nieces, and there was only Cabbage Patch and Barbies.
09:19And she thought about Colonial Williamsburg and about creating a doll line to bring historical events to young girls, 8
09:29to 14 or so, that she felt were very underserved in textbooks, in history.
09:34So, she came up with these three girls, Samantha, Felicity, and Molly.
09:40She made them historically significant.
09:43She got girls reading a six-book series teaching girls about whatever went on during that period.
09:49Molly's dad went off to war in World War II.
09:51So, it was all about the things they were going through and rationing and what it was like to miss
09:55your dad.
09:56And Samantha becomes an orphan, and kids related to that, because they were orphans.
10:01So, bravo to her for creating this and seeing and filling that need, because it was needed.
10:07Pleasant had the dolls made in Germany by Gottz, and Gottz produced them for about 1986 to about 1990-ish.
10:17At that point, Pleasant sold the company to Mattel, and Mattel changed the name into American Girl Dolls.
10:24So, this particular Molly is one of the first Mollies, and we know that because she has a white body.
10:31We're going to be modest here.
10:32We're going to try and protect her modesty.
10:34You know, she is from the 40s.
10:36So, on her back here is a green sticker and an X.
10:39That says to me that she came from one of your factory sales.
10:43Later on, they changed these bodies to be more flesh-colored, matching whatever skin tone that doll had.
10:49She has her original clothing on, and on here we have made in West Germany, which, again, indicates the Gottz.
10:56Her glasses have real glass in them, and a real knitted sweater.
11:00Those were all made in Germany.
11:02So, yours being an early 1986, one of the first ones coming from Germany, makes her a little more significant.
11:08We took great care of her.
11:10Yeah, I never took out her braids.
11:12Which is great, because so many kids, they come in with crazy hair, and they've played with them, and that
11:16kind of stuff.
11:17I would estimate her value at about $1,200 to $1,500.
11:21Oh, my gosh.
11:23That's amazing.
11:24I'm so glad that I never took her hair out and played with her.
11:30And thanks, Mom, for taking me to the warehouse sale.
11:33Absolutely.
11:34Thanks, Mom.
11:35Yeah.
11:35For sure.
11:40It's always been in our house.
11:42Uh-huh.
11:42It was our mother's in the 1950s.
11:45She went to a used store.
11:46She saw this and asked the lady, you know, how much?
11:49And she said, well, $5 or $10.
11:51It is gruby and a beautiful example.
11:54Gruby's almost always green, 95% of the time, but almost always only green.
12:00Ah.
12:00So to have a second color is very good.
12:03This is also larger than most pieces of gruby.
12:06Well marked.
12:07This dates about 1904 to 1905.
12:09Great.
12:09When I see this kind of a mark, you see that little green thing?
12:12Uh-huh.
12:12When that's on the bottom of a piece of gruby, it's meant to be a lamp base.
12:16The fittings themselves, it looks like it's Tiffany to me.
12:18Oh, wow.
12:19We worked with Tiffany.
12:20On a bad day at auction, it's between $6,000 to $9,000, and it could bring $10,000 or
12:26more.
12:27Wow.
12:27What a treasure for us.
12:28Yeah.
12:28It's a really good one.
12:29Makes me cry.
12:35In 2019, I was in San Antonio, and there was an auction house I used to go to.
12:40I love rugs.
12:42I have several rugs at home.
12:43This one came up for sale, and I really enjoyed the motion in it.
12:47It was wool and, I believe, goat hair, so I just really liked the colors.
12:52I think I paid about $100.
12:54Wonderful.
12:54Do you have any idea what type of rug it was or where it came from?
12:58No.
12:58And I do have a gentleman here in St. Louis that I do take rugs to, and he had no
13:04idea
13:04of its history or background.
13:07This rug was woven by the Qashqai tribe in the Zagros Mountains in southern Persia.
13:13So, technically, it's a tribal rug.
13:15It's referred to as a gabe.
13:18And gabe in Persian translates to raw, uncut, and natural.
13:24It's raw because they're using natural wool for the majority of the wool.
13:30It's not heavily dyed.
13:31Uncut would refer to the pile.
13:34It kind of has a shaggy, long pile to it.
13:37And that's also related to the weave quality.
13:40It's rather coarse.
13:41This rug is maybe about 50 knots per square inch or less.
13:46So, it would make it one of the coarser Persian rugs that are woven.
13:50As this rug is a tribal rug, they didn't have a large supply of wool when they were weaving it.
13:56So, they used different dye lots of wool.
13:59And, as you can see, there's a line over here of demarcation where the brown color is slightly lighter and
14:06slightly darker.
14:06This is a term that's referred to as abrache.
14:09It's natural.
14:10Especially in nomadic pieces, you tend to see that occurring.
14:13The value of these rugs really is in their pattern.
14:17These abstract geometric designs are very bold and graphic, and they're very popular.
14:22They always have been.
14:23This one was woven around 1940.
14:27And, with the resurgence of contemporary design, they became very popular in the late 90s up until the current day.
14:34Most of these were small in size.
14:36Naturally, there was a demand to get this aesthetic in room-sized pieces.
14:40So, they started making modern reproductions of them in Iran, India, and Pakistan.
14:46So, this really is what set the whole wheel rolling in the first place.
14:51Do you have any idea what this rug is worth?
14:54A hundred dollars?
14:57No, I have no idea.
15:00It's really in fine condition.
15:02And, this rug would retail for between $3,500 and $4,500.
15:09So, it's really wonderful.
15:11Thank you so much.
15:17They're my father-in-law's comics.
15:19I didn't quite get where he acquired them, but he's had them in his basement for quite a while now.
15:25Yep.
15:26And, he's got...
15:27Oh, no!
15:29Not quite the best condition, but he's got some notable ones.
15:36I bought it from a lady.
15:37I was redoing her kitchen.
15:39I hope she's not listening, but I think I paid $30 for it.
15:44But, I've had it for 50 years, maybe.
15:46I've been told that this is a commercial butter churn from England.
15:51I guess you could use it to do your laundry in, too, but you might want to clean it first.
15:55I don't think I've ever seen another one.
16:00My father was very interested in Charles Lindbergh.
16:05So, we have this dollar bill that Charles Lindbergh carried on the Spirit St. Louis from New York to Paris
16:13in 1927.
16:14He heard that this bill was going to be sold at an auction in Kirkwood, Missouri.
16:20So, he went to the auction and ended up buying it in a fierce battle, I understand, for $225.
16:27And, what year was that?
16:281972.
16:29There's some writing on it.
16:31On the top here, it says,
16:32Harry H. Knight from Charles Lindbergh, June 17th, 1927.
16:38Now, Harry H. Knight and his brother were both part of the nine investors that backed the transatlantic flight.
16:45And, Harry is credited as being the one who got everyone else interested.
16:50And, June 17th is the day the Spirit of St. Louis arrived back in St. Louis after that transatlantic flight.
16:56We know that he carried this on the plane.
16:59He actually written on here, it says,
17:01This bill was carried on entire flight Charles A. Lindbergh.
17:04He signed it again.
17:05We can't find any other examples of Lindbergh signing and scribing dollar bills to anyone.
17:10So, it is both unique and it's this fantastic, I think of these things as a witness to history.
17:17And, on the right side here, he's listed all the cities that the Spirit of St. Louis flew to.
17:22Silver certificates were, at the time, this one dates from 1923.
17:27You could exchange it for a silver dollar.
17:30They are a little bit larger than a normal bit of American currency.
17:33The flight was on May 20th when it left New York.
17:36It arrived in Paris late the following night on the 21st.
17:40And sometime at the beginning of June, both the plane and Charles Lindbergh came back to the States.
17:46What he did was amazing.
17:48No one had done this.
17:50He did it on his own.
17:50He flew straight.
17:52He had no bathroom breaks.
17:53No going to the back of the plane.
17:55No sleeping.
17:56I think for you and I, Charles Lindbergh was Jimmy Stewart in the Spirit of St. Louis.
18:00I remember watching that film at school on a projector in the gym.
18:03And that's who I thought he was.
18:04He was a hero.
18:06In 2025, people look at him a little differently.
18:09They talk about, during World War II and before the war, his sympathies with the German government at the time.
18:14The Nazi party.
18:15He was against the U.S. going into the war.
18:18He had a secret family in Germany.
18:21Is there anything else?
18:22Do you remember what your father thought about it?
18:24Clearly, he fought for it.
18:25Oh, he did fight for it.
18:26And he treasured it.
18:28I mean, this is something that he was very proud of.
18:31He didn't get to the age where all the things about Lindbergh became clear.
18:36So, for him, Lindbergh was a hero.
18:39And because he was an amateur pilot, he really looked at this as something that drew them together.
18:46Right.
18:46Would you be surprised if I told you that at auction we would estimate that at $20,000 to $30
18:50,000?
18:52Very much so.
18:54Yes, I would.
18:56But I wouldn't want to sell it.
18:58No, nor would I.
19:00Without the writing, without the inscription, that silver certificate's worth about $20.
19:08Really cool what you brought in at the jewelry table.
19:11It's not gold, but I find it very interesting.
19:13I know.
19:13Where'd you get them?
19:15Presky's Dive Store.
19:16Huh.
19:16I think this one came from Woolworths.
19:18And back in the day when you were a kid?
19:201964.
19:21Uh-huh.
19:22And that's when these were made.
19:23The Beatles had a ton of promotional stuff being licensed out.
19:27Did you ever wear this?
19:28Oh, yeah.
19:29Yeah.
19:30On a chain?
19:30Oh, yeah.
19:31So, it's amazing that it survived.
19:32I know.
19:33And then, it's a little book, but when you open it, boom, there they are.
19:38Yeah.
19:39A lot of these are around, but a lot of them don't survive in this condition.
19:43So, believe it or not, these bring about $100 today.
19:47Oh, wow.
19:47I probably paid five.
19:48Five.
19:49If they have much?
19:50Yeah.
19:50Now, you have another one there.
19:52This one, while it has the same theme outside with the fonts and everything, probably not
19:57as much money.
19:57Probably around $75.
19:59It's more than I thought.
20:01I appreciate it.
20:07It's one of the best paintings I've seen of Harold Newton, the leader of the group of
20:11Hyremen painters.
20:12They were in Fort Pierce area, and I grew up in the Indy Atlantic across the river.
20:17And they would drive up to the family business and knock on the door and say, come on out,
20:22see today's paintings, and you can buy them for $25.
20:25When did you get this painting and how?
20:27Wow.
20:27I got it about 13 years ago.
20:3013 years ago.
20:31And an estate sale in St. Louis.
20:33And being in St. Louis, there's not many people that knew about the Hyremen painters.
20:37And so when I got down to the basement of this house, I saw some sort of wetland painting,
20:42and I said, that could be Florida.
20:45And then when I saw the frame, I said, that's a Hyremen painting.
20:48It's that distinct.
20:49So I wanted to go closer, and my heart beating.
20:52And I looked at the signature.
20:54You saw the signature.
20:55And I said, this is the best one, and I'm going to get it for $40.
20:59So wait a second.
21:00You're telling me you bought this painting for $40 13 years ago.
21:03Unbelievable.
21:04That's an incredible, incredible story.
21:07Harold Newton was a founding member of the Florida Hyremen.
21:10A bunch of African American artists who, out of necessity, in their mid-'50s, established the group.
21:15During a time of segregation and discrimination, they had difficulties showing their work, getting training.
21:22All the opportunities that were available to other artists were not available to them.
21:26And so they formed this group as a way to support one another and develop their skills.
21:30And as you pointed out, they were selling the works by knocking on people's doors,
21:34selling it out of the trunks of their cars next to the highway.
21:38That's where the Hyremen name came from.
21:39Banks, gas stations, restaurants.
21:42Yes.
21:42They would just go in wherever they could.
21:44Exactly.
21:44And so this particular painting, though, it's just a striking image.
21:48It demonstrates his skill as an artist.
21:50Shortly after this was painted, he'd probably sell this for maybe $50 or $60.
21:55Typically ranged like $25 to maybe $50.
21:58It's an oil on fiberboard.
22:01He was born in 1934 and he died in 1994.
22:04So it would be like a circa 1970s, I would say.
22:07That's a guess, because the painting is not dated.
22:09But it is signed H. Newton.
22:11It's in very good shape.
22:12The painting looks great.
22:13I think if it were to come up to auction, I would put an estimate of between $10,000 and
22:17$15,000.
22:19Wow.
22:19That is nice.
22:20Yes.
22:20Thank you very much.
22:30There's quite an assortment of animals at Grant's Farms Deer Park.
22:34Deer from Europe, Asia and North America, as well as alpacas and llamas.
22:40And this big horned bovine.
22:44Watusi cattle are from Africa and they are distinctive for their very large horn.
22:48It's about that big around and it kind of curls up.
22:52We currently have nine, but we do have a successful breeding program with Watusi.
22:55So hopefully this season will be even more beneficial than last season, which was very successful.
23:01My father was a World War II veteran and also an amateur photographer.
23:07So he took his camera to Europe and took pictures all along on their march.
23:13These pictures here are from Buchenwald in Germany.
23:17He was there when the concentration camp was liberated.
23:20And what relation does this doll have?
23:24The pictures that he took, he couldn't just develop and send back.
23:28So he bought this doll in France and opened the head on the back and stuffed in film canisters,
23:34which had these pictures on them.
23:37They shipped it back to my aunt, who was one year old then, and left a note saying,
23:44please do not let Darlene play with the doll.
23:47And my aunt never played with the doll.
23:50And do we know what unit he served in?
23:52He was in Patton's Third Army.
23:55Your dad was involved in two fairly significant liberations.
23:59He was at Ordruf, and that's April 4th of 1945, and then a week later at Buchenwald.
24:07Ordruf was a satellite camp of Buchenwald.
24:11And Eisenhower came in to visit that camp.
24:14And when he saw that, that really redirected the focus
24:20and opened the eyes about what was going on inside the camps.
24:25The stark reality of it was just jaw-dropping.
24:31Yeah, yes.
24:32And when you brought these photos in, even to open those envelopes and look and see the images,
24:38they have a profound effect on you as a human being.
24:42You had a number of pictures of the atrocity.
24:45We're not going to display those out of respect to those that lost their lives,
24:50but these photographs out front here face down represent that.
24:54They are shocking and disturbing on a deep level.
25:00These places existed within a mere kilometer or two of occupied towns.
25:05There were plenty of people who knew.
25:07There were plenty of people who thought that they were doing the right thing.
25:09That's the scary thing.
25:11Once you start seeing other people as something other than human beings,
25:15that's when truly terrible things can happen.
25:20One of the first things that happened was General Eisenhower ordered
25:23that the local German civilians be brought in to see what had been happening.
25:27Here we see them digging graves for executed prisoners.
25:34And then your dad has some annotations on the back that explain what the ones on the far side here
25:40indicate.
25:40You've got a woman coming out just in complete tears because she's either in disbelief or shock or horror or
25:47whatever.
25:47She's had that real reaction that any true human being will have.
25:51And the woman to her right is laughing and making fun of her, according to your father's notation,
25:56which she hasn't gone through yet.
25:58The other woman's coming out.
26:00You hope for her soul that she had a change of heart once she was in there.
26:04Right.
26:04These are other photographs of the German civilians being forced to witness these atrocities.
26:10Right.
26:10Your dad was so compelled that he felt the need to actually break all the rules
26:16and smuggle those images home to make sure that they were seen.
26:21One of the most disturbing things about the history of the Holocaust
26:25is that there were non-believers at the time.
26:29Right.
26:30And one of the truly most disturbing things is that there are non-believers today.
26:34Historians' best estimates at this point are that over 6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust
26:40and another 6 million or so others died as well.
26:45They enslaved the entirety of the continent.
26:47They shot Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, petty criminals.
26:54It's hard to put a value on something like this because we're talking about cultural value and historical value.
26:59But let's say, for example, you wanted to have this insured.
27:03We are comfortable with an insurance value on this set at $10,000.
27:09Oh, God.
27:10It's amazing.
27:12It breaks our heart.
27:14I know it broke my heart looking at these images.
27:16They're powerful.
27:21I brought this piece of art.
27:22I don't really know much about it.
27:24About a year ago in our office, they were demoing out all of our cubes.
27:28This was hanging on the cube wall in our office.
27:30They ended up putting it in the dumpster.
27:32And then at that time, I had a new office with, like, nothing on the walls.
27:36So I decided to grab it out of the dumpster and hang it on the wall because I like the
27:40color of it.
27:41And then about, you know, a year later, here we are today.
27:43This is a Victor Vastarelli three-dimensional limited edition bas-relief sculpture.
27:49All right.
27:50The piece is from 1972.
27:52He was a painter and printmaker, less this kind of three-dimensional stuff, but he did some of these kinds
28:00of things.
28:01Op art was his specialty.
28:02It's basically made of plastic on a metal base, and the frame is part of the whole piece.
28:07It's not like it was then framed.
28:09Okay.
28:09It has an odd title.
28:11It is CTA-102 POS Gold.
28:14It's in a very small edition.
28:17It's an edition of four.
28:18He's in major museums.
28:20He also was sold in commercial galleries and malls in the 70s and 80s.
28:23So he was very popular for many years.
28:26It's a signed piece.
28:27He did paintings.
28:29He did a lot of silk screens and lithographs.
28:31The prints are mostly in the $400, $500 range into the real low thousands.
28:37There's lots of that kind of thing.
28:39I saw the square prints painted for like $1,000 or $2,000.
28:43Yeah.
28:43I couldn't find this when I looked online.
28:46It'd be hard.
28:46With an edition of four, do you want to guess on a number?
28:50Maybe like $5,000?
28:51$6,000?
28:52You're getting there.
28:53Okay.
28:53The most recent auction price was right around $10,000.
28:57$10,000.
28:58Wow.
28:58So I would say an $8,000 to $10,000.
29:00Holy cow.
29:01A auction estimate on it.
29:03A retail price, maybe even more.
29:05Wow.
29:05But I mean it actually brought in that $8,000 to $10,000 range within the last few years.
29:10Okay.
29:10Recently.
29:10That's awesome.
29:11And I appreciate you pulling it out of the dumpster because it was going to be an edition
29:15of three if you hadn't done that.
29:19I believe we have a burlesque poster.
29:22My best friend gave it to me about six years ago.
29:27She's had it for 30 years.
29:29It was given to her when she lived in LA and she had it framed then and it hung in
29:33her house
29:34for years.
29:35And it's been hanging in my house.
29:37When do you think it's from?
29:38I think by her outfit probably 1920s.
29:42I don't know.
29:42You're close.
29:43I would say it's early 1930s.
29:45Okay.
29:46Circa 1931.
29:47And it's not exactly cabaret.
29:50It's more like French musical.
29:51She was a performer and an elegant performer.
29:54You can see by her feathers and especially the jewelry on her arm is so elegant.
29:59It's great.
30:00And I can see why a performer would like it.
30:02I can see why a jewelry person would like it.
30:04You're just smiling because you just like it.
30:06Whatever.
30:07She's pretty.
30:07She's pretty.
30:09At auction, I would expect this to sell for between $600 and $900.
30:13Okay.
30:13All right.
30:14Good to know.
30:20I was flying over in Thailand, flying out of Bangkok, actually North Park.
30:24And I went to the BX with a couple of my friends.
30:27And they wanted the GMT and that's what I wanted.
30:30But my friend bought the last one.
30:32So when this one came out, the lady said, you might like this one better.
30:37And actually I did.
30:38Okay.
30:39So I was real happy.
30:401969.
30:40You're a pilot?
30:42Yes.
30:42We were developing drone technology.
30:44I was flying with the UNIVAC Corporation under contract to the Air Force.
30:49And our drone would fly orbits over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.
30:54We would fly the aircraft either remotely controlled or with a pilot in it.
30:58We had to complete, just like flying in the airplane, like a simulator.
31:02Oh.
31:03I could actually control the aircraft.
31:05And so I wanted the watch to help in my job.
31:08Did it help in your job?
31:09It did.
31:09The engine quit one day on a mission and I pushed the button for the sweep second hand
31:15to tell me how fast the ground speed was.
31:18I was steering the aircraft.
31:19I had to tell the helicopter where I was going to crash the airplane and tell the pilot when
31:24to jump out of the airplane so we could bring the helicopter rescue squad in to pick up the
31:29pilot without much time on the ground wasted.
31:32And this was in enemy territory?
31:34Yes.
31:34Over in Laos.
31:35The enemy was all in the jungle and he didn't want to be on the ground very long.
31:39I had to blow the wings off the airplane because it had to be destroyed.
31:43It was all top secret.
31:44I said, you have to jump within 10 seconds and I'm counting now, 10, 9.
31:49And so at 10 seconds I blew the wings off.
31:51Oh my God.
31:52And I hoped he was out, which he was.
31:56The helicopter was able to retrieve him?
31:58They were right there at him and within five minutes he was in the helicopter heading
32:02back to our base.
32:03So the watch actually saved somebody's life?
32:05It did.
32:05The major that was flying it was very grateful for that.
32:08Wow.
32:09That's amazing.
32:10It was.
32:11I see on the warranty papers it says 1966.
32:16It was first purchased by a Navy pilot in Saigon in 1966.
32:21And the story I got from the Navy exchange was that he was either killed in action or was captured.
32:27And they sent the watch to Bangkok to the Navy exchange there.
32:33So they let me buy it in 1969.
32:35I paid $500 for it.
32:38Did you wear the watch after the war?
32:39I've worn it every day since 1969.
32:44Wow.
32:44That's amazing.
32:45Until I had it serviced in 2012.
32:47I took it off.
32:48I've not worn it since.
32:49The watch is a Rolex 6238.
32:52It's what's dubbed the pre-Daytona.
32:54It was a transition between the earlier chronographs and the 6239 which was the later model of the
33:01new versions of the Daytonas.
33:02It has a plain bezel and it's just a very elegant watch.
33:07It's function.
33:08It's all stainless steel and it has a registry.
33:10So it's a push button chronograph in which you can do one minute, 30 minutes, up to 12 hours.
33:18The dial on yours happens to be, considering the age, an incredibly fine shape.
33:23Out of a 1 to 10, it's probably a 9.
33:26Wow.
33:26So the dial was really, really nice.
33:28Production year of your watch is very late 1964, very early 1965.
33:34The total production in the five or six year run is probably somewhere, they estimate between
33:392,500 and 3,000 units.
33:41Okay.
33:42Notoriously, other than a pilot or a race car driver, these were not particularly popular
33:46watches.
33:47A lot of them ended up overseas because they didn't sell particularly well in the stores.
33:51It was perfect for what I needed though.
33:54Right.
33:54Perfect.
33:54Right.
33:55So you've managed to keep all these years, the original box that came with it and here
34:00you've got the original warranty paper.
34:03So it's pretty complete.
34:04The only thing that's missing are a couple of hand tags.
34:07Okay.
34:08Yeah.
34:08They would have come with it.
34:09I might have those.
34:10I'll have to look.
34:11I think I might have them.
34:12Everybody's looking for one owner complete pieces and you've got the whole ball of wax
34:17here.
34:17Today to a collector in the retail market, this watch would probably trade in around the $45,000
34:23price range.
34:2540?
34:25Oh my.
34:27I had no idea.
34:28Yeah.
34:30And what's interesting is if you would have gotten the GMT, which would have been the
34:34model 1675, the Pepsi, that watch would probably be worth today probably in the $17,000 to $20,000
34:40range.
34:41Okay.
34:42So by having your two friends in front of you get the 1675 GMTs, you came out well all these
34:50years later.
34:51And if you were insuring it, we would probably easily put an insurance appraisal of $55,000
34:55on the watch.
34:56Wow.
34:57Oh my.
35:04I found it in a coffee can that I bought at an auction.
35:0810 bucks, something like that.
35:10It wasn't very much.
35:11Opened it up when I got home and this was inside.
35:14It's a land grant signed by President Buchanan.
35:24This is a Robert Indiana print from his series Decade auto prints.
35:30I found it in a local auction.
35:32I think it was only about $300 plus shipping.
35:34I love it.
35:35It's above the fireplace.
35:43I brought some silk boxer shorts that John F. Kennedy left in our house.
35:48My father was a prominent politician in Indiana.
35:51He got very involved in JFK's presidential campaign.
35:56In October of 59, Kennedy came through our hometown in southern Indiana and my dad created
36:02a big fundraiser for him.
36:04Kennedy needed a place to stay for the day and so he stayed in our house.
36:08He was battling a very sore back apparently.
36:12So he bathed in our upstairs bathroom.
36:14After the whole event was finished and he left town, my mom found these boxer shorts
36:20on the bathroom floor.
36:21Apparently he forgot them.
36:23In 1959, Kennedy was the junior senator out of Massachusetts and he wouldn't declare his
36:30official candidacy for the presidency even though it was expected until January of 1960.
36:35But as you said, in the fall, he would have been traveling around America, continuing
36:40to lay the groundwork for his candidacy, getting ready for the primaries and meeting important
36:45Democratic supporters and fundraisers of which your father was one.
36:49Right.
36:50I had a chance to take a look and on October 4, 1959, in your hometown of Huntingberg, Indiana,
36:57it was a hot fall day.
36:59It made it to 88 degrees.
37:00I did not know that.
37:01He had events to go to, a lot of standing.
37:03He then retired to your family's homes.
37:06Your father was sort of his host and where he could cool off.
37:10And who hasn't left things behind as a guest?
37:12Right.
37:13This is a pair of silk or synthetic undershorts.
37:16There is a store label from Lewis and Thomas Salts and Company from D.C.
37:21And they were a very prominent haberdashery menswear in Washington, D.C., serving all the
37:26politicians and businessmen.
37:28On the inside front of the waistband is also some block letters in a permanent ink that
37:35say K-E-N-N.
37:36I imagine that's from the junior senator having his clothes sent out to her laundry.
37:40And you've also bought a photo of Kennedy in your family home.
37:44It is our family home.
37:45He's standing on the stairwell and he signed it to my parents.
37:48The best kind of provenance is when the individual who's a historic person has given it to a trusted
37:56confidant or it's from the family of the historic person.
37:59And we don't have that.
38:00We don't have, we don't have a picture of JFK giving these to your mom.
38:05What we do have is a meticulously documented history.
38:10And also it's documented in two books.
38:12One book was written about my father.
38:14In it the story is described just as I told you.
38:16Then there's another book, the history of Huntingberg itself.
38:20And the same story is described there.
38:23So apparently in that book it's said that my father wrote him a humorous letter saying,
38:28Well, if you're accustomed to leaving your boxer shorts around the country, maybe you need another pair.
38:33So he sent him a new pair.
38:34That is utterly charming.
38:36And that's my dad's sense of humor.
38:37Kennedy's special.
38:38Yes, he is.
38:39The idealism, the charisma, and the social impact of the president and his family.
38:46For auction purposes, we put an estimate of $3,000 to $5,000.
38:49Yeah, that's nice.
38:52This is probably about $500 itself.
38:55But it is helping to verify the story.
38:59And so these kind of need to be kept together.
39:00For insurance value, I would have $10,000 on these, the collection.
39:06Okay.
39:10This carriage behind me is one of our oldest in our collection.
39:14It was built in 1878 in Concord, New Hampshire.
39:17It's a 12 passenger coach that has leather strap suspension, which gives it a very soft ride.
39:22It was restored back in 1976 and 77 in New Hampshire as well.
39:27All of the carriages in the Bush family collection have been used by the Bush family over the years,
39:32including the one behind me.
39:35I brought a store display of the original Star Wars characters that came out of my father's toy store.
39:42I just happened to keep this instead of collecting any of the toys themselves.
39:45I didn't want the characters, but I liked the sign.
39:48Star Wars, right?
39:50Little to no introduction needed for the film.
39:52Came out May 25th, 1977.
39:55Became an overnight international sensation.
39:58What you've brought today is a 1978 Kenner Star Wars store display.
40:02This is referred to as the bell hanger style.
40:05They use the styles over multiple iterations of the Star Wars toy line, but this is not just any.
40:10It's the absolute first.
40:12What it depicts here are the 12 original figures that were first made available as part of the Star Wars
40:17toy line.
40:18And when it comes to display pieces like this, condition is so critical, crucial to the value.
40:23Overall, I say it's rather phenomenal compared to the ones you mostly see out there.
40:27There's some edge wear, minor staining here, a little surface stain, but the big part is there's no surface tears.
40:34There's no actual losses to the cardboard.
40:36There's no major creasing.
40:38There's no wrinkles.
40:39Overall, it presents exceptionally well.
40:41If I were to give it a numerical grade in toy speaking terms to be conservative, I would say it's
40:47about a 75 plus to maybe an 80.
40:49As far as displays go, this is a pretty prime example that collectors watching this are going to be drooling
40:54over.
40:55At auction today, if this were in a well-advertised toy and pop culture sale, I would place a pre
41:00-auction estimate of 5,000 to 8,000 for the display.
41:04Really? Wow. That's shocking.
41:07Perfect premium examples that received 85 plus grades have sold upwards of $20,000 on the market.
41:14Wow.
41:15This is A-plus material when it comes to Star Wars.
41:22This was our grandfathers who had a business downtown in St. Louis called Lambert's Furniture,
41:27and he was on a board called Downtown St. Louis when they were building the arch, and this was presented
41:32to him.
41:32It's a maquette of an arch, of the arch.
41:40I think it's a hood ornament.
41:42I don't know who made it.
41:44I found it in my aunt's house.
41:46But if we turn it around, you can see it actually is signed.
41:50It's hard to see in the glare.
41:51Okay, okay.
41:52But it says Sabino, France.
41:54Yes.
41:54What you have here is a Sabino Art Deco car hood ornament from the 1920s.
42:00And you have this wonderful frosted glass, and it is a St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers.
42:08Right.
42:08So that makes a lot of sense to have on the car.
42:10It makes a lot of sense.
42:11Conservatively, at auction, I would say between $400 and $600.
42:15Oh, okay.
42:16Great.
42:17Well, that's really neat.
42:18Thanks for pointing that signature out.
42:20Yes.
42:20It doesn't look in the right place.
42:21Yes.
42:23My wife and her mother and father, before she was my wife in 1963, went to Gallup, New Mexico
42:31to the Indian International Tribal Council show and bought that first picture from Jerome
42:37Tiger directly from him at the show.
42:40It actually won first prize in the show that year.
42:43The second picture over here, my wife's aunt bought it at the Philbrook in 1963.
42:48The history of Jerome Tiger's life and his career is meteoric.
42:53He died in 67 in a gunshot situation in Eufaula.
42:57Yeah.
42:5826 years old.
42:5926 years old and a tremendous loss.
43:02His impact in the art world was fairly significant.
43:06The title of that picture next to you is called The Defeated Ones.
43:10He really brought that depth of feeling about what happened to Native Americans really to the forefront.
43:15Jerome Tiger was born in 1941 in Tahlequah.
43:20And I expect the reason he was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, is that's where the big Indian hospital is.
43:26But he's Muscogee Creek in Tahlequah's Cherokee capital.
43:30Both of these paintings Jerome painted in 1963, which was very early in his career.
43:36This is a family that suffered a lot of pain.
43:38They've had a lot of tragedy.
43:40And the way Jerome got through this, as have his relatives and descendants like his daughter, is by creating great
43:49beauty.
43:50And the beauty depicts the pain of their history as well.
43:54President Andrew Jackson, after a war with the Creek Tribe, which involved Sam Houston and David Crockett, where the Creeks
44:02were brutally put down, signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to clear out the Southeast.
44:09The first tribe was the Muscogee Creeks, the Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and then his supposed allies in the Creek War,
44:19the Cherokee, that Sam Houston was married into.
44:22They would ride into one of the towns and say, we're moving you this week, pack your things, we're done.
44:29The worst of it was in the middle of winter, and everyone suffered.
44:33About 3,000 to 5,000 Muscogee people died on the Trail of Tears going to Eastern Oklahoma, which at
44:40that time was Indian territory.
44:42That's what these depict.
44:44I've never seen one this big with this many figures in it.
44:47These are military officers on horseback that are part of the Removal Team.
44:53More people dead in the snow.
44:55This did not just set the standard for Native American politics in the 1830s.
45:03It set the tone for Native American politics with the United States government till today.
45:10It just changed their world permanently.
45:14And it was a very painful change.
45:15They're painted on matte board, and they're painted with temper paint and watercolors.
45:22He changed the approach to Native American painting in my thinking.
45:27He didn't do just outline color blocks, which was very popular at that time and before.
45:33You see more things in diagonal as opposed to profile.
45:37You see things like this man laying face down in the snow.
45:41Do you know what these paintings cost?
45:43We have the receipt for the one next to you for $65.
45:47On the back of this one, on the tag from the Philbrook, it's $85.
45:52These never come on the market.
45:54He was such an agent of change in the short time he was alive.
45:58These paintings in a retail situation would sell each $20,000 to $25,000.
46:07So $40,000 to $50,000 for the pair.
46:11Wow.
46:12They're wonderful paintings and they certainly depict a huge tragedy in American history.
46:20I don't know much about it.
46:21I bought it for $5 at Goodwill.
46:24My sister and I like to go there a lot.
46:26My brother-in-law likes bright colored stuff from my niece's bedroom.
46:29So we thought it was cool and took it home.
46:37I brought an original sculpture from the late artist Bob Cassily.
46:42He's world renowned, built the city museum here in St. Louis.
46:46This is a hippo prototype for cement land, which was a shuttered playscape up in North City.
46:58I brought a portfolio of prints by Ansel Adams.
47:01A good friend of mine knew that I was a backcountry hiker.
47:05My wife and I would go to national parks.
47:06I'd bring him pictures to show of the trips and he said one day he had something to show me.
47:11And this was in his possession.
47:12And later in his life he called me back to see it again and he said he wanted me to
47:17have this.
47:18Wow.
47:18That's incredible.
47:19I mean, even today, pulling them out to look at them and seeing them here like this, these gave me
47:25goosebumps.
47:26It's awe-inspiring.
47:27Yeah.
47:27So this is portfolio number three, the third portfolio that Ansel Adams published.
47:32It was published in 1960 by the Sierra Club.
47:35And the images inside were made starting in either circa 1926,
47:41which is how this image is dated in the portfolio colophon.
47:44Sometimes it's dated 1927, very early, all the way up to 1959.
47:50But they were printed in 1960 for the set, for the portfolio.
47:55And they're each signed by Ansel Adams.
47:57They really represent the qualities that people love about Ansel Adams.
48:01He's one of the most collected, one of the most well-known photographers still in the world.
48:06That precise focus, the clarity of vision, the contrast, the detail.
48:14And of course, as we've already discussed, the emotion that is conveyed through the images is really powerful.
48:21This picture is called Monolith Face of Half Dome.
48:24It's one of his most famous pictures.
48:26He had a sense of being able to see the finished print in his mind
48:30and then use what he knew about the camera to create the right conditions in order to be able to
48:37make that print.
48:38So the dark sky, the sky, of course, was not dark when he made this image.
48:43He used a red filter in his camera to create the visual effect.
48:48His legacy is also as a teacher of these skills.
48:51The photograph closer to you is called Winter Storm.
48:54And that image is really what Ansel Adams is most well-known for,
49:00which is these sort of sublime landscapes that capture the big vision of the place.
49:06There's a sense of drama. There's a sense of beauty, majesty.
49:12The contrast between the light in the clouds, the snow in the landscape,
49:18and even captures the details of all the trees so perfectly.
49:22This really represents Adams at his most skilled.
49:26There were originally 16 photographs in this portfolio,
49:29and there are three that are no longer part of the set.
49:32Do you know what happened to those prints?
49:34I really don't.
49:35We think they were given away as gifts to other people.
49:38So as is, at auction, my estimate for the set would be $40,000 to $60,000.
49:45That's a lot of money.
49:48If it was complete, an estimate might be $50,000 to $75,000.
49:53So the good news is that the prints that are missing from your set you own
49:59are not among the most desirable or the most valuable in the group.
50:02The two that I've pulled out here are the two most valuable and desirable because they're the most well-known.
50:09At auction, individually, this print would be estimated between $7,000 and $10,000.
50:17The winter storm would be estimated between $8,000 and $12,000.
50:21Wow.
50:23That's my favorite one.
50:24Good.
50:25You mentioned that you have taken your own photographs in Yosemite.
50:28Yes.
50:29Oh, yeah.
50:30How do you think they...
50:30Would you call yourself a photographer?
50:32No.
50:33I own a camera.
50:34Okay.
50:36And now it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:40The last time we were here at Grant's Farm was for his senior prom in 2010.
50:45And we're back here today.
50:47I found out this black print I have, which I purchased for $2, is worth $500.
50:53So today is a lot better than prom was.
50:57No offense, babe.
50:58The family lore said that my great uncle brought this doll back from Paris in the 1940s after the war.
51:04And what actually happened is she's from the 1960s from America.
51:09And she's not worth a lot.
51:11But we had a great time.
51:12We had this painting that we found inside the walls of my brother's house when we were finishing his basement.
51:18And it was really creepy.
51:20And found out that it's not worth anything because it's fake.
51:24And so we're probably going to burn it.
51:26This lovely Bristol glass vase was purchased by my father and given to me.
51:33My mom was with him when he bought it.
51:35And she thought he was crazy for the amount he paid.
51:39Turns out Mom was right.
51:41And I have my grandfather's watch.
51:44It was supposed to be gold, but it's made out of brass.
51:47I brought this statue from 1858.
51:50It's not going to keep me from going to work tomorrow, but it's worth about $200.
51:55This replica Civil War reconnaissance map barely made the cut of the things that came with me today to Antiques
52:02Roadshow.
52:02But I'm sure glad I brought it because it's real from 1862 and it's worth $1,000.
52:09Thanks AR.
52:10By the time this show airs, this will be sold and we'll be living in Bora Bora, baby.
52:16He's lying.
52:18Thanks for watching.
52:19See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
52:22Antiques Roadshow.
52:24Any are doing?
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