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00:04Roadshow found the sweetest treasures in the Peach State when we visited the Georgia State
00:08Railroad Museum. I've got a basketball signed by the 92 Dream Team. I see why people cry on Roadshow.
00:35The Georgia State Railroad Museum is more than a whistle stop for Antiques Roadshow today.
00:41We've set up at the former Savannah Repair Shops, where steam-powered trains once chugged in for
00:48maintenance. Completed in 1855 for the Central Railroad and Banking Company, the site was
00:55transformed into a museum over a century later, and has been managed by the Coastal Heritage
01:00Society since 1990. Check out the treasures that made our experts stop in their tracks.
01:15My mother bought it for me when I was a child in like 1951 or 52. It's probably 73 years
01:24old.
01:30This is my grandmother's copy of Gone with the Wind. She was born in 1900, and she was friends
01:36with Margaret Mitchell. They were childhood friends, grew up in Atlanta. And so when the book came out,
01:41she bought it new. I guess she asked Margaret Mitchell to sign it for her, and she did. So
01:45it's an autographed copy by the author. Let's take a look, because it's not just Margaret Mitchell in
01:50here signing. We've got Margaret Mitchell inscribing to your grandma. Yes. After about six months,
01:57she was so swamped, she refused to sign anymore, which is good for us on the collecting side of
02:03things. And then over here, we have some Hollywood greats. We have the movie stars' names, the ones who
02:10are living who went to the centennial premiere, which was in 1961. So we have the autographs of Olivia de
02:17Havilland and Vivian Lee, who won the Academy Award, and David Selznick, who also won the Academy
02:23Award as producer of the movie. They played the movie for the centennial of the beginning of the
02:28Civil War, so 1961. There are some very interesting points about this book. Points are ways that we
02:35determine the edition of a book. And for Gone with the Wind, it was very popular, went into second edition
02:42almost immediately. And the way we can tell is this copyright date. This one says May 1936. And that
02:49means, for sure, 100% first edition. So that's important for value. There are more signatures.
02:57Yes. So on that page, it looks like my grandparents went out to a Confederate veterans home and met with
03:04some very old Confederate veterans who signed the book as kind of a representation of what the book was
03:11about. I think they thought it was important to document these people. And then here, there are
03:16signatures of people that were formerly enslaved that were still living. I think my grandfather dated
03:22both of those two pages, like 1939, 1940. So just a couple of years after the book and a year
03:29after
03:29the movie. The signatures in the back really speak to the epic nature of the story itself and, of course,
03:36the time period that it's trying to cover. The fact that there are people that fought in the Civil War
03:41on
03:42the Confederate side and people that were formerly enslaved. Writing their names in here, it's just
03:47sort of a testament to what an important work this was. It was a big story for the city of
03:53Atlanta.
03:54The other thing is this photo, which is fabulous because it's got Margaret Mitchell. Which one is she in
04:02that photo? Yeah, she's in the front and the center. That's a picture when my grandmother and great
04:07grandmother and great uncles were on a house party out in the country with Margaret Mitchell. And we
04:12think that's maybe her first husband before they were married. It's a 1920 photograph. So they were 20
04:18years old. And she's wearing pants. I read that her skirt caught fire when she was little and her mom
04:24was so afraid that she dressed her in pants and they called her Jimmy. Interesting. Which is just the cutest
04:31thing. Have you ever thought about value of a signed first edition of Gone with the Wind? We've thought
04:36about it. We were guessing $1,000 if we're happy if it's that or more. Well, all of those special
04:42features of your grandmother's copy, an auction estimate would be $20,000 to $30,000 for your little
04:50book. That's fantastic. If I would have been happy with $1,000, I'm 20 to 30 times happier. I like
04:56that.
05:02It's kind of a long story, but it was in a house and I rescued it from what it turned
05:07out a couple
05:08weeks later to be certain doom. And to be honest, for all the research I've tried to do, I really
05:14can't figure out what it is. I don't know if it's a game or if it's something for writing. I'm
05:19not really
05:19sure. The most interesting thing about it is it never happened. Since the 1976 Winter Olympics,
05:29they were supposed to be in Denver, Colorado, but the city defunded it. That's about the extent of
05:34what I think it was Helsinki, but that might be totally wrong. So I just kind of wanted to get
05:38a
05:39little bit more info. I thought it was pretty neat. I've got a basketball signed by the 92 Dream Team.
05:49My father-in-law immigrated to the States. He's Dutch. And he did that in the early 90s. And he's
05:57been telling me that he has a basketball signed by Michael Jordan and the Dream Team. And I never
06:02believed it. Last week, I told him that we were going to the Roadshow because we're big fans. And here
06:07it
06:07is. It's been in his attic since then. He just said he got it as a gift from a friend
06:12when he
06:13moved here. Hey, that's a pretty good gift. Yeah. This is a basketball signed by the 1992 Dream Team
06:19from the 92 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. This ball would have been made available at the 1992
06:25Tournament of the Americas in Portland, Oregon. It was a qualifying tournament before the Summer
06:30Olympics in Barcelona. It's a limited edition. 200 of these were made available. When it comes to the
06:35Dream Team, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Larry Bird, Clyde Drexler, David Robinson,
06:41Charles Barkley. I mean, it is, as a nerd, it's like the Avengers of basketball assembling on the
06:48court. The Dream Team, they're literally, when you talk about domination, they were straight
06:54steamrolling the competition. Average of 44-point lead for every game. In the final gold medal game
07:01versus Croatia, I remember the score being 117 to 85. So even in the end, it was just total
07:08annihilation. They were incredible. And being in the 92 Olympics, this was the first time FIBA,
07:14International Basketball Federation, allowed for players from the NBA competing in the Olympics.
07:20When it comes to a package, this being a known addition, you really can't get any better. In terms
07:25of marketing as an auctioneer, this is a slam dunk for collectors today. Conservatively, at auction,
07:32you would easily see this ball in the $30,000 to $40,000 range.
07:40That's amazing. What a gift, right? Yeah, what a gift.
07:50The Central Railroad and Banking Company became the Central of Georgia Railway Company in 1895.
07:59The railroad was really critical to Savannah and to Georgia. It was developed in order to transport
08:06the goods from the interior of the state, from farms and plantations, to the port. Savannah is a port
08:12city. And so then those goods would go on a ship and be transported across the ocean or to other
08:17parts of the country. In 1963, the Central of Georgia ultimately closed the repair facility,
08:24and it was left vacant for many years, and these properties really fell into disrepair.
08:30And so when the property was being demolished for the very valuable Savannah gray brick and scrap metal
08:37that was here, the city of Savannah stepped in and halted demolition. And we're able to save
08:42it, and we've operated this property as a museum ever since.
08:51I brought a wristwatch my dad gave me in high school that has a slide rule around the outside
08:59when I was taking trigonometry. He was a Methodist preacher and couldn't afford good things.
09:06So he gave you quite a gift?
09:08He did.
09:08Have you worn it or used it since?
09:10Not so much.
09:12Okay.
09:13It's made by Juvenia, a very fine Swiss watchmaking company. They were founded in 1860.
09:19This particular model is called the Arithmo. Comes from the word Arithmeten.
09:25They introduced this in 1945. It's in a stainless steel case. It's a 17-joule automatic self-winding
09:34movement. This was a calculator. This company, Juvenia, they proclaimed theirs to be the best.
09:43Solid, nice construction, the rotating bezel. So you can do your calculations by moving it
09:51around. Currently, it's not moving. It's not working. It's probably gummed up, which is
09:56very common with these watches. It happens. And a cleaning and an overhauling, it'll be working
10:02just fine again. This watch today. Retail. This will sell for between $7,000 to $8,000.
10:11Wow.
10:13It's priceless to me because my dad gave it to me. But that's wonderful to know. And I made
10:21an A in trick. So it helped. I guess it worked. It did its job, didn't it? It did its
10:26job.
10:28So this is what I believe might be an animation sell from Disney's masterpiece, Fantasia. I
10:35picked it up in an antique and bookstore in Philadelphia, where we're from. And it was
10:40the shabby little store. It had great, wonderful treasures. I picked up so much stuff over the
10:44years. And I thought this was just a sketch. And then I took it home, opened it up, and it's
10:48translucent. It's on a translucent film, which looked like a good design. So we'll see.
10:54Yeah, we're just happy to be here. We love it. Fantasia is my favorite movie. So I know
10:58this guy's turnabog from the night on Bald Mountain.
11:01So me and my mom were yard sailing one day, and we were on one side of the highway, and
11:07she
11:08saw the lamb across four lanes of traffic. And we did maybe a little bit of a dangerous U-turn.
11:14And we jumped out of the car, and the guy told us it was $5. So, yeah, we took it
11:19home.
11:20So I would say that this is a sheep designed by Hans Peter Kraft. And he has an apt last
11:28name, since this is a wonderful piece of Kraft work.
11:31Oh, wow.
11:32It was made in Germany, and it is done with this wonderful wool, boiled wool. And all of
11:41the legs are original in their ash, wood, with his ears in leather and those glass eyes.
11:50He's so alert. It's a spirited, wonderful, fun object.
11:56Well, you can see these, really, in a retail setting in the $4,000 range.
12:02Oh, wow.
12:02Yeah.
12:03You might just try to get his tail attached so you don't lose his tail, because that's
12:07important.
12:08Okay.
12:08This muzzle is a little dirty, and that's good. So, lovely, wonderful $5 yard sale find.
12:15Absolutely. Thank you so much.
12:18I brought in a cast iron mechanical bank. I got it in western New York. A friend of mine,
12:23who's an antique dealer, he borrowed money from me, and we were making a business investment
12:29into a friend of his. And a few months later, his friend died, and so did the business.
12:33He's kind of felt guilty a little bit about it, so once in a while, he'll give me a few
12:36items.
12:37So, what can you tell me about the bank itself?
12:39Well, it's a shooting bank. It'll shoot a penny from the rifle into the tree.
12:44First, you cock the holder back. You slip a penny on there, and see how the head went
12:50down. Now, you hit the toe.
12:53What did you find when you looked it up?
12:55The J.E. Stevens Creedmoor.
12:58Creedmoor Bank.
12:59Okay.
12:59How about the age of the bank? Do you have any idea?
13:02Well, the original ones came out in 1877, as I am aware.
13:06Okay.
13:06But then they made reproductions after that.
13:08Sure.
13:08The entire basis of the design of a mechanical bank was to make saving money fun for children.
13:14That way, they wanted to save the money.
13:16So, by introducing a movement, it created a toy, an action.
13:20Your research was spot on.
13:23The Creedmoor Bank was made by a Connecticut company, J.E. Stevens, and we see it quite often.
13:27It's a fairly common bank, a very popular bank.
13:311877, 1880, that's the time frame we see that bank and associate with that bank.
13:35However, there are slight differences between this bank and the Creedmoor Bank we normally
13:39see.
13:39They did make a few variations of this style shooting bank, with the figure wearing a different
13:45hat, and then right here on the front is a base plate.
13:49That's often where we'll see Creedmoor Bank, the new Creedmoor Bank, Volunteer is another
13:55name.
13:56I'm happy that yours is blank.
13:59And even though your paint is very thick, a bit drab in color, I believe the paint to
14:04be completely original.
14:05Oh, nice.
14:06The casting is also a little crude, a little more crude than I'd expect from the American
14:10cast iron manufacturers.
14:12This one, instead, is a cast iron mechanical bank, but made in Europe, either in Germany
14:18or in Austria.
14:19This bank was a few years later, circa 1890.
14:23This is actually much, much rarer than a Creedmoor Bank by J.E. Stevens.
14:26Oh, wow.
14:27Yes, much better, much better example here.
14:29I'll turn it around so we can see the back side of the bank as well.
14:32Another characteristic which is different is the color of his uniform itself.
14:37It's almost in a reverse painted colors.
14:39We have a red robe, and he has white pants.
14:42Normally, we'll see a gray, red, and blue, but in a different configuration than that which
14:47he's wearing.
14:48Now, this bank is quite dirty.
14:49I do believe it will clean up very nicely with a little time and energy, but you have
14:57to be careful what you're doing.
14:58You don't want to disrupt the original paint.
14:59Now, a normal J.E. Stevens Creedmoor, there are thousands of them out there.
15:03Of course, condition is king, but you can pick up a Creedmoor Bank around $300 to $500 range.
15:10When it comes to the variations, they're much scarcer and hard to come by.
15:14Anyway, the paint on this example is quite chipped and worn.
15:18However, it's authentic, and I would value this with an auction estimate of $1,000 to $1,500.
15:25Well, that's good news.
15:26That's awesome.
15:27Yeah, it's cool.
15:35My husband is a retired surgeon.
15:38He had a patient who gave it to him at the end of her life.
15:43He had taken care of her for many years, and it was a thank you from her to me for
15:50all the
15:50hours that he had spent with her in the hospital and making house calls.
15:54And when was that?
15:56Hmm, 2019.
15:58She said that her husband had had it made for her.
16:02The bracelet is made by Jean Schlumberger by Tiffany & Company.
16:07It's in 18-karat gold, some full-cut diamonds, and cultured pearls.
16:13It is made in New York, and it came in this Tiffany box that is original to the bracelet.
16:19It's stamped 18K with the maker's mark on the clasp.
16:23He was from France.
16:24He began working for Tiffany in the 1950s and created this amazing sort of latticework bracelet.
16:31His main goal was to have natural motifs and naturalistic organic designs.
16:36It was just a beautiful sort of way of approaching jewelry.
16:40The name of the bracelet is a heliodor, or gift of the sun.
16:46It's actually articulated all in the center.
16:48These little pearls, everything sort of rocks back and forth.
17:20Right.
17:22It would be between $20,000 and $30,000.
17:25Wow.
17:26And people covet his jewelry designs.
17:28Wow.
17:28So it's quite a collectible piece.
17:30It is beautiful.
17:31Thank you so much.
17:33A roundhouse is a building where locomotives are maintained and repaired.
17:39The turntable behind me is essentially the heart of a roundhouse.
17:43Without a functioning turntable, you can't get the locomotives in and out of the roundhouse.
17:48So why a roundhouse?
17:50It's the most efficient way to house and repair and maintain a large fleet of steam locomotives.
17:56So this turntable had to be expanded twice in its history.
18:01The original turntable is only 50 feet long.
18:03It was also manually operated.
18:06What that meant was the steam locomotive had to be centered on the table and perfectly balanced.
18:11Each end of the turntable had a handle that stuck out,
18:14and you would have a couple of men on each end that would push on that handle.
18:18They could actually turn the locomotive manually.
18:21Later, the turntable was steam-powered, air-powered, and now it's electrically powered.
18:34That's a pickle jar that originated in Dahlonega, Georgia.
18:38At one point, it was used to serve the Yankee soldiers pickles at the end of the Civil War.
18:43When it was over, soldiers left, and my great-great-grandmother wound up marrying one of them
18:49and took off with him.
18:50Oh, my goodness.
18:53How was the family feeling about that?
18:55I'm sure it all worked out for the best because here I am.
18:58So how do you know that the Union Army ate pickles out of this?
19:04There was a document in there that was written by my great-great-grandmother.
19:08She detailed what took place at the Mint City, as it was known, as Dahlonega.
19:14The first thing I look at when I look at a piece of glass like this,
19:19I look at the coloration and what it is,
19:23but I also look all around all four sides to make sure that there's not any broken places in it.
19:31But, you know, the kicker on this is to look up under the bottom and see if it has wear.
19:41Yeah, there is some.
19:42Look right there.
19:43You see all that wear?
19:45Right.
19:45This bottle was molded, and it was made in a factory.
19:50There's no way to know for sure which factory made it,
19:53but I'm 99% sure that it's an American bottle.
19:56This is the size bottle that would have sat on the countertop in a country store in the 1860s or
20:0170s.
20:02Right.
20:03If you look at the pattern, it's called cathedral,
20:07but it goes right along with the Gothic style of decorative arts
20:11that was real popular in America and England in the 1840s and the 1850s.
20:17And the color is called light aqua.
20:20But the thing that really makes this neat is that story.
20:23So if we went out of here today,
20:26we could probably find one of these bottles for sale retail for $300 or $400.
20:32But I think with that story, to somebody who values that history,
20:37it's probably more like a $1,000 bottle.
20:40I would have thought if I walked into an antique store, it would be $40 or $50.
20:45And that would have been my thought.
20:47Well, we can add a zero at least.
20:49Well, that's good news.
20:57It is an enamel by Alexander Fisher
21:03that was purchased by my husband's grandfather in 1926.
21:09You brought this wonderful enamel plaque set in its original architectural bronze frame.
21:17He did sign the plaque and dated it 1901.
21:22He is an Englishman born in 1864.
21:28He died in 1936.
21:31And he was a master of the enameling technique.
21:37Fisher won a scholarship to attend the National Art Training School in London,
21:42where he studied in the mid-1880s.
21:45And part of that then became a traveling scholarship to go on and study enameling in France and Italy.
21:51But I think it was with the French masters that he really developed the techniques
21:55that he brought back to both create works with and to teach others about.
21:59After his studies in the mid-1880s, he came back to London and established his own studio
22:06where he both created enamel and taught enameling.
22:10This form of enameling is painted enamel.
22:13And the depiction comes from the verse from Genesis.
22:17Under it, the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair.
22:22It's a magnificent, magnificent example of his work.
22:26And you have this letter from Fisher, dated 1926, in which he writes how special this work is.
22:35P.S.
22:36I am so glad the enamel is a pleasure to you.
22:39It was a great effort as a piece of enamel.
22:43There is nothing like it in the world.
22:46While we know there are other Fisher enamels out there, that says something, that he said that 100 years ago.
22:52Despite the very minor condition issues, it's a magnificent item.
22:56This truly is a museum-quality work of art.
23:00Do you have an idea of what it would cost originally?
23:04We don't have a receipt, but we were told he paid $8,000 for it.
23:08And in about what year?
23:101926, when the letter was written.
23:12Well, that would have been a lot of money back then, but that's appropriate because, again, at the time, he
23:18was an important creator of these things.
23:20This should be insured for $100,000.
23:25Woo.
23:27That's quite a bit, yeah.
23:29Wow.
23:29Well, I guess we better up the insurance a little bit.
23:35Wow.
23:37Well, this is a letter written to my wife's foster uncle in 1957 when Kennedy did the commencement speech at
23:47the University of Georgia.
23:48He didn't get to talk to him when he came there, but he wrote him a letter and said he
23:53was sorry he missed him, and they discussed what they did in World War II.
24:03Well, I do a lot of thrifting and estate sales, and I just, this is from a home in Williamsburg,
24:10Virginia.
24:11An old lady, her mom, it was her mom's, and she, her mom passed, and that's pretty much all I
24:17really know about it is that it was her mom's.
24:21It was probably about $80.
24:26Christmas of 1978, my mother and dad decided that instead of giving us a bunch of stuff that wouldn't last,
24:34they would give us some art, and so these four squares are a sculpture from Carl Andre, and, of course,
24:44when they gave them to me, I had no idea who Carl Andre was.
24:47I took him back to college with me.
24:49I took him to graduate school after that.
24:51When I tried to explain it to my fraternity brothers or friends, they said he looked like drink coasters to
24:58me, and they have been used as drink coasters.
25:02Came back, moved back to Savannah, got married, had four children, and I sort of forgot about it, and then
25:08last year I read in the New York Times that he died, and so I remembered that I had him.
25:13So they are by Carl Andre, he was the leading minimalist artist, and we're showing him this way, but let's
25:20show the way it's really supposed to look.
25:23I have the receipt, I have the receipt, but I don't have it with me.
25:26The picture with the receipt has a picture of it arranged like that, so I've assumed that that's the way
25:32it was meant to be.
25:33His work is meant to be flat on the ground.
25:36Right.
25:37The larger works can be 10, 15 feet square.
25:40He felt that people should be able to walk on them.
25:43Wow.
25:43This minimalist movement, it was a reaction against abstract expressionism, and the idea was to reduce art to the most
25:51simple, basic forms.
25:52He was very prominent, he had exhibitions in major museums, the Guggenheim, the Tate.
25:57He's quite controversial in his personal life.
26:00I read a little bit about that in the Times.
26:04Carl's wife was Ana Mandietta, and she was a very prominent Cuban artist.
26:09She was well known for her Earthbody series.
26:11His wife died, and he was tried for secondary murder, and he was acquitted.
26:19But many, many people in the art world felt that he was guilty.
26:25And as a result, every time he showed after that, this was in the 1980s, there would be huge protests
26:31saying that he really was guilty.
26:34He went off to Europe, he stopped showing, and his career was really in decline.
26:40Do you know who your father bought it from?
26:43After I got more interested in it, I found out that the art director had introduced him to a friend
26:48of his, Angela Westwater, in New York.
26:51And she was a very prominent art dealer at that time.
26:55Right.
26:55So he has a really great provenance.
26:58And I understand you have all the material.
27:00We do, and I can't remember how much he might have paid for them.
27:06If I had to guess, I'd probably say maybe $2,000 or $3,000.
27:09His work is very desirable, very, very collectible.
27:12I think an insurance valuation would be in the $10,000 range.
27:17Probably shouldn't use them as drink coasters anymore.
27:21Unless it's a really fine wine.
27:27This I actually ended up finding at a rag house, and it had a piece of paper in the pocket,
27:33and it has a stamp here from Marseille.
27:35And I ended up looking everything up, amazingly found a lot of information.
27:39It was made for the archers in a parade for a town in France's tricentennial.
27:46And I actually found a video of the guys marching in it.
27:49So I have a great story. It's beautiful, and it fits me like a glove.
27:53She wears it around the house.
27:55I do wear it around the house.
27:59This is an Andy Warhol collection of prints.
28:05My grandmother met Andy at one of his exhibits in Sacramento, California.
28:11And had him sign the front of this collection for my mother, Catherine.
28:16And that's about all I know.
28:18Mm-hmm.
28:19I'm nervous.
28:22Well, so Andy Warhol is one of the most desirable American artists, not just for the 20th century, I think
28:29overall.
28:30This is one of the most iconic groups that Andy Warhol put together later in his career.
28:36It's called Andy Warhol Myths.
28:39So in this case, it was really terrific that he signed the cover of this group as well as the
28:48image of Howdy Doody.
28:50What I thought the most striking image, actually, is that Andy Warhol included himself in the group of portraits.
28:58You get the shadow on the wall and him sort of looking into the picture.
29:03These are essentially postcards and the group was an advertisement for large poster-sized lithographs that numbered and signed.
29:17It was a collaboration between Warhol and his gallerist Feldman, who was the publisher of the cards as well as
29:30the lithographs.
29:32Have you ever had them appraised?
29:34No.
29:35They've been sitting in storage in my mother's house.
29:39Mm-hmm.
29:39And I've only heard about them.
29:42Okay.
29:42This is like the longest I've spent time with them and seeing them and looking at them.
29:48Uh-huh.
29:49At auction, I would place an estimate of about $2,000 to $3,000 on this group of products.
29:55Okay.
29:55Great.
29:57Thank you for bringing me those.
29:58Oh, yes.
30:04I brought in a brooch that can also be worn on a pendant.
30:09I've had it for approximately four years, and it was given to me by my former fiancé.
30:18He passed away about two years ago.
30:21It belonged to his mother.
30:23Now, he was 95 when he passed away, and so you can imagine how long this has been with her.
30:33So, I was thrilled to have it.
30:36When the jewelry moves when you're walking, when you're dancing.
30:38Oh, yes.
30:40It's scintillating and catching the light.
30:42I love the use of the baguettes, kind of ribbon-like.
30:46And then you have marquees, cut stones, you have pear-shaped stones, and it's all set in platinum.
30:55Most people who come in to see me in my regular everyday life, and they have this brooch or something
31:01like this,
31:02they always come in and they tell me I have a piece of Van Cleef and Arpel's jewelry.
31:07And if you turn around and you look at the back, it looks like it says Van Cleef.
31:14It's signed Van Cleef.
31:16This is his full name.
31:19George Bud Van Cleef.
31:22He was a jeweler from the same state that I come from, New Jersey.
31:26Okay.
31:27He was born in Union City in the early 1920s.
31:31He had an office in New York in a manufacturing facility at 609 Fifth Avenue.
31:38And he was in the business for 50 years.
31:42Oh, that's a long time.
31:43And he made a lot of fabulous jewelry like this.
31:45Obviously.
31:46I think this was probably made in the early 1960s.
31:50You can find comparable things like this for sale.
31:54And they're around $40,000 to replace this today.
31:58It's a beautiful price.
32:00Yeah.
32:01I mean, look, if it was at auction.
32:02Yeah.
32:03I would probably put it in for $12,000 to $18,000.
32:08I see.
32:09If it was Van Cleef.
32:10Oh, I know.
32:12It'd probably be $60,000 to $80,000.
32:15Right.
32:15For an auction estimate.
32:16Retail would be a hundred and over.
32:19It's not.
32:20It's not, but it's still fabulous.
32:21It is.
32:22It looks very Hollywood.
32:25Okay.
32:26What we have here is a 1964 Crucianelli 702V.
32:30It was made by the Crucianelli Company in Italy.
32:33And they were most famous for actually making accordions.
32:36And it's pretty comparable in appointments to Gibson in the period,
32:39though it was much cheaper at the time.
32:41And it sounds like a million bucks.
32:50They said that this guy was, like, they didn't know how somebody could taxidermy this toad.
33:00This guy might be worth at least $100, which is blowing my mind.
33:06But when I got him at the store, he was either $24 or $20.
33:12Ribbit.
33:14Ribbit.
33:23In 2021, my father-in-law passed away and my husband inherited this artwork.
33:30The artist is Alexis Jean Fournier.
33:32And as we went through a collection of things of my in-laws, we also saw some other pieces
33:38that had his name, his picture.
33:41And so it really had me interested in digging.
33:44And so I did an ancestry dive.
33:47And come to find out, the artist Alexis Jean Fournier was married to my husband's great-aunt,
33:53Emma Frick, was his first wife.
33:55This is a wonderful oil painting.
33:58It's by Alexis Jean Fournier, as you know.
34:00He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on July 4th, 1865.
34:05He trained first in Minneapolis.
34:07And then, as so many 19th-century American artists did, he went to Paris to train.
34:13And he went first to the Académie Julienne.
34:14He then traveled around Paris and northern France.
34:18And he was especially interested in the Barbizon painters.
34:22And over the 1890s and the 1901s, he did a whole series of paintings.
34:29He called the series the home and haunts of the Barbizon masters.
34:33And given the architecture and the style, we know that it's clearly something that would have been painted in France.
34:40Probably would have been painted in the 1901s as part of that series.
34:45What makes it special is its light.
34:47That light is just beautiful.
34:49But it's a light that's more very late 19th century or in early 20th century.
34:54And so that's part of the key to knowing about when it would be dated.
34:58It's had a troubled past.
35:00And it's had some condition issues.
35:01Okay.
35:02And you know what?
35:03When you're 100 years old, you end up with condition issues.
35:06But if you look closely, you can see there's a fair amount of retouch.
35:10If we look up here, you can see sort of some discolored areas.
35:13It's especially obvious here if we look along the edge.
35:16You can see where it's been retouched.
35:18The other thing that's going on, especially with the sky, is the painting is starting to cup.
35:23So instead of lying flat on the canvas, the edges are just starting to cup up.
35:28Right now, it's pretty stable.
35:30But at some point, you will probably lose more paint.
35:33Condition affects value.
35:34Other than condition, the thing we tend to harp on is provenance.
35:37Mm-hmm.
35:39This was in the artist's family.
35:42You can't get better provenance than that.
35:44Mm-hmm.
35:44In its current condition, if it were to be brought up at auction, we'd estimate it at $20,000 to
35:49$30,000.
35:50Okay.
35:51I would recommend conservation.
35:53When everything is properly laid back down and consolidated, you're probably looking more like $35,000 to $55,000 for
36:02an auction estimate.
36:03Okay, wow.
36:12Another integral part of the operation of the repair shops was this 125-foot-tall smokestack.
36:20The smokestack exhausted the smoke and hot gases from the forges in the blacksmith shop and also the boiler in
36:30the boiler and engine house.
36:31It did this through Bernoulli's principle, which is a movement of air from high pressure to low pressure.
36:39So those fires in the forges and in the boiler create a high-pressure system.
36:44And at the top of the stack, there's a low pressure system.
36:47The air is cooler.
36:48The breeze is blowing.
36:49And it sucked that smoke off of those fires and exhausted it up into the air to keep that out
36:55of the shop complex so it was a little bit more comfortable for people to work here.
36:59This was the height of technology in the 1850s when this facility was built.
37:08I brought a belt that I acquired in the 1980s.
37:13I really wanted to know more about the belt.
37:15Okay.
37:16Where did you buy it?
37:17I bought it in a pawn shop.
37:19Really?
37:19Yes, I did.
37:20And where was that?
37:21In Atlanta.
37:22Oh, wow.
37:22Yeah.
37:22And what drew you to it?
37:23It reminds me of items that I collect from North Africa.
37:27Well, it is in fact Ottoman.
37:30Ottoman.
37:31So that means it's from Turkey and more specifically the Caucasus region.
37:35It's silver, silver gilt, also niello worked, which are these beautiful oval panels here picked out in black.
37:43It's also got filigree on it.
37:45And each one of these panels is cast and made individually and then worked together with a pin along each
37:52one.
37:52So it creates a belt shape.
37:54And niello work is characteristic of pieces from this region and from this time.
37:58So each one of these has a slightly different decorative element to it.
38:03You have a little foliate motif in a sort of star shape.
38:06You also interestingly have a stylized tugra mark on several of them.
38:10And that is the symbol for the Ottoman sultan who lived in Istanbul.
38:15And it is marked behind the buckle in Arabic or script.
38:20How much did you pay for it when you bought it?
38:22Well, when I bought it, I bought it for the weight of silver.
38:25Ah, okay.
38:26So I paid less than $100 for it.
38:28Interesting.
38:29Okay.
38:30But I think this is worth much more than the silver content.
38:33I think a retail price for this today should comfortably sit within $1,000 to $1,500.
38:40Very good.
38:42You're welcome.
38:42Thank you very much.
38:50I played it when I was in my twenties.
38:55I bought it in Miami.
38:57It has a repair sticker inside from a Miami violin maker.
39:05But an even older one dated 1899.
39:18This is a gramophone.
39:19We picked it up maybe 25 years ago in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
39:25Okay.
39:25We had just completed a week-long hiking tour of the Slovenian Alps.
39:31Wow.
39:31And it was Sunday morning, and they had like a flea market set up with booths and tables
39:38along the river.
39:39And this was all polished and shined up and caught the sun, and it caught my husband's
39:45eye, and it was going to go home with us.
39:48Okay.
39:49We think we paid around $100 for it, but we're not sure.
39:53Right.
39:53And we know that we made the vendor's day because within 10 minutes, he had folded up shop and
39:59went home.
39:59And I have to settle a bet between you and your husband?
40:02My husband has always been convinced that it's got to be authentic because it came from Europe.
40:08Right.
40:09I know that there are all kinds of knockoffs that look exactly like this that are worth
40:14about $100 a piece.
40:15So you can settle that for us.
40:18Okay.
40:18Well, I'll try to do my best.
40:20So I remember when I first did the first season of Roadshow, these gramophones would
40:24come in, and they were always a big hit.
40:26Now, the markets have changed since then, and there are also real ones and later productions.
40:32Uh-huh.
40:32I think you're both right.
40:34I want to settle this.
40:35Oh, you're a diplomat.
40:36I did not want to offend anyone, but there's a couple of things that I want to point out.
40:42First of all, this label in green, that is a later reproduction of the piece.
40:48I would date this in and around the 1940s.
40:51Okay.
40:52The other part of it is the back mounting that's holding up the whole horn is either replaced
40:58or a later production.
41:00Okay.
41:01You also have this dog, and tell me the story about this.
41:05That dog I found at an outlet store in Savannah.
41:10This is Sparky.
41:12He should have his head cocked and the sound of my master's voice.
41:16Right.
41:16The mold maker thought that the dog was defective because his head was cocked.
41:23Oh.
41:23So he changed the mold and made all of them with their...
41:27So I have a Sparky with his head on straight, and he's probably not worth very much because of that.
41:31Well, his name is actually Nipper, not Sparky.
41:35Oh.
41:36So it was Nipper.
41:37And even on the record, you can actually see that he is there with his head cocked.
41:42Right.
41:42And that's Nipper.
41:43Also, he has the black spot around his eye, which he shouldn't because that Nipper never had that.
41:50And also, the way that this is painted, you can see that there's the paintbrush.
41:55They paint it outside of the lines.
41:56So this is the knockoff Nipper.
41:59So this is the knockoff.
42:00Uh-huh.
42:01This is a later production.
42:02However, with everything together, with the gramophone and the reproduction Nipper,
42:07I would put an auction estimate in the $800 to $1,200 price range.
42:11Really?
42:12Yes.
42:13Okay.
42:14So am I right, or is my husband?
42:18That is the question.
42:20I think you're both right.
42:22Okay.
42:28This painting was bought at, um, in Sumner, Georgia.
42:32It had an antique shop.
42:34My son bought it for 37 bucks.
42:36I don't know anything else about it other than, um, that.
42:45We inherited it from my grandmother.
42:48And, um, we have a picture of it from the early 1890s in the home that it was living in
42:58at the time in Wisconsin.
43:00It's so nice to have a picture of a clock in its original setting.
43:04It really places it, time-wise.
43:06And my aunt and uncle told me that, that it had been in the family since the 1800s.
43:13Do you know about its origin at all?
43:15I do not.
43:16Okay.
43:16Do you know who made it?
43:18No.
43:18Never had it appraised at all.
43:20Okay.
43:21Well, this is a figural clock.
43:23And it was made by the Insonia Clock Company in New York.
43:27And it really was made to sort of be less expensive than a French clock.
43:32But it's still a beautiful thing.
43:34It's one of these clocks that's worth fixing because it'll be a good timekeeper for years to come.
43:38So it's worth putting money into the movement and having it restored.
43:42I can see that the movement is a little bit grungy or dirty.
43:45It hasn't been attended to in a long time.
43:48So it might be time to get that done.
43:51A clock like this in a retail situation would probably be priced anywhere from, oh, $550 to $850.
43:59And you've got to know that the market's down right now.
44:02It used to be more valuable.
44:03And I'm sure it will come back.
44:05But right now, these figural clocks are a harder sell to younger generations.
44:10I actually found it at a thrift store.
44:13I think it may be attributed to the artist Frank Stella.
44:16And how much did you pay for it?
44:18$3.99.
44:20So what you have here is a color screen print with pencil marks by Frank Stella.
44:27A great post-war abstract artist.
44:30You recognize it right away.
44:31A very modern, mid-century look.
44:33And Frank Stella was a pioneer of abstraction in the 1960s.
44:38He was one of the first artists to do non-objective painting.
44:43And this is a print version of some of the paintings he did.
44:48It's a 1967 screen print called Fortin de las Flores.
44:53And it comes from a portfolio called Ten.
44:56It included ten works by ten different artists.
44:59Works by Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg.
45:03Really, at the time, the cutting-edge artists.
45:06Published by the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York.
45:09And it was published to honor their 10th anniversary.
45:13It was printed in an edition of 200.
45:16It's initialed and dated and numbered in the lower right in brown ink.
45:20And has the emboss mark of the printer, lower left.
45:24The colors are really strong.
45:26It's got a great color.
45:27It has pop.
45:28And it's on this great graph paper.
45:30So this is a color screen print.
45:33Which is a print made through screens, individually printing each color.
45:39And they're separated by fine lines that were done by pencil.
45:42Someone would have done that by hand.
45:44It's well documented as a screen print of Frank Stella.
45:48It's in many museum collections, including the Museum of Bonnard.
45:52Frank Stella rose to prominence in the late 60s in New York.
45:57And this is also from 67.
45:59So this is an early work by him.
46:01So it's really a great example.
46:03This is a Kulik frame.
46:04It's a classic mid-century design frame that was actually pioneered at MoMA.
46:11Kulik was a frame maker.
46:13He was also a painter.
46:13But he was a frame maker who pioneered this frame was cutting edge in the 60s.
46:20And quickly adapted by many contemporary artists and galleries.
46:23Do you have any sense of the value?
46:25Somebody had mentioned like $2,000 to $5,000 for Frank Stella.
46:30So if it's more than what I paid for it, then I'm happy.
46:35Well, I think it's in good condition.
46:37We see that for the bright colors.
46:38Mm-hmm.
46:39There's a little dust inside the frame.
46:41But I'm glad you didn't touch it.
46:43I would estimate it at auction at $5,000 to $7,000.
46:46Nice.
46:48That is wonderful.
46:51I'm thrilled.
46:57We got it at an estate sale a few years ago.
47:00I don't think more than five bucks.
47:02I have no information about this thing other than it's pretty and I like it.
47:15We inherited it from my mother and it was by far the most expensive piece of art she purchased.
47:21I believe it was 1992 and she paid $16,200.
47:29Okay.
47:30So not nothing.
47:31Not nothing.
47:32Especially for her.
47:33She liked having women artists in her house, their artwork anyhow.
47:39And this we knew was a woman from Chile and it's something that always got a lot of attention.
47:47And who is the artist?
47:48Olga de Amaral.
47:51Yes.
47:51So Olga de Amaral is a quite well-known fiber artist and actually from Colombia, not Chile.
47:58Oh, really?
47:59And is still living and actively working.
48:01She is 93 years old, still has her Bogota workshop.
48:06This work is signed on the reverse, so we do have a date, May 1992.
48:10It comes from her series called Lost Images or Imagen Perdida.
48:16That was a series of about 17 works, at least that many are known and some are in museum collections.
48:23Really?
48:24And it was a traveling exhibition at the time that went to several venues throughout the U.S.,
48:30including the Allrich Gallery in San Francisco, where your mother had acquired this.
48:35And where was this piece displayed?
48:37In her bedroom, actually.
48:39And she spent the last years of her life in bed, so it was significant.
48:44It was an important piece for her.
48:47When this came in, I kind of couldn't believe what I was looking at.
48:52I did not think I would get this close to a work by damn at all.
48:57Get out of here.
48:59This is really exciting.
49:01Really?
49:01And what do you think this material is?
49:04Well, it looks like leather, but I'm sure it isn't.
49:09Exactly.
49:09It's not leather.
49:10It definitely has that look to it.
49:12It's cut strips of linen that she has gessoed, painted, and then gilded.
49:19And before the last gilding, she's also pulled out threads in a weaving process called drawn work.
49:26And so she's cut and drawn these threads out to create little breaks in between each square of gold.
49:35Now, going back to what your mother paid, remind me again.
49:39$16,200.
49:41Okay.
49:41So about $35,000 today.
49:44That's not nothing.
49:45That's a decent price.
49:47That's a decent price.
49:48Taking into consideration that it does need some conservation, I'm going to be very conservative.
49:54Conservative.
49:55Conservative.
49:55In this condition, untouched, I would say easily, comfortably, an estimate at auction of $150,000 to $250,000.
50:07Yikes.
50:08All right.
50:12It's worth doing the work on it.
50:15Definitely.
50:16I think you wouldn't need to spend more than a few thousand to get it really in tip-top shape.
50:21Would that change the value?
50:23Oh, yeah.
50:24Again, I'm going to say conservatively, I'd add another $100,000 to that.
50:28$250,000 to $350,000.
50:31I see why people cry on Roadshow.
50:37I would insure it for $500,000, because her works have gone for well above that number at auction in
50:45recent times.
50:46Oh, my.
50:47They're very sought after.
50:49Thank you very much.
50:53And now, it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:56And this is my grandfather's watch.
50:59It's about 100 years old.
51:02And it's just a family heirloom.
51:05And it wasn't worth much, but it's worth the world to me.
51:09This Charles Lindbergh chair is one of a kind and heavy to carry, but this ring is worth more than
51:15it.
51:16It's $2,000, and it was a lot lighter.
51:18The item we thought was going to be a million-dollar winner for us was about $150, but since I
51:26paid a dollar, that's fine.
51:28This was a wonderful 50th anniversary trip.
51:31We appreciate it.
51:33Yes, and I bought this ring watch, it's worth a couple hundred dollars, and found out this was a reproduction.
51:38And I bought this cup, and they told me it's only worth about $12, so.
51:44We had a great time, though.
51:45Yes.
51:46This is my antique rattan hat, and I asked how to keep it clean, and they said it don't matter,
51:52because it's only worth $50.
51:55Wah-wah.
51:57I brought this clock that belonged to my grandfather, and it's worth about $100.
52:03And I brought Tom.
52:04He's priceless.
52:07We wanted to come to the Antiques Roadshow for a long time, and we brought these timepieces, and we had
52:14the time of our lives.
52:16Thank you, Antiques Roadshow.
52:18Thanks for watching.
52:19See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
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