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Antiques Roadshow (US) - Season 30 Episode 15 -
Grant's Farm, Hour 2
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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. You're telling me you bought this painting for $40. I
00:13loved her braids and her glasses and her bangs. I can see the resemblance.
00:36Grant's Farm is a special blend of wildlife park mixed with the history of St. Louis beer making.
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. What treasures are pouring into Roadshow at Grant's Farm?
01:10Wow, what you got here? I don't know. That's why she says she doesn't know.
01:16It was in my grandma's basement during Prohibition. Anheuser-Busch sold other products besides beer,
01:22and this one in particular was used for egg products. So they sold egg whites during Prohibition.
01:33It's my grandfather's train. He used to run it around under the Christmas tree every year,
01:39so I know that at one point it worked and it's been in the family for probably a hundred years.
01:44So this is a German-made train. Actually, if we turn it over and look on the underside,
01:48right at the top here, it's marked made in Germany. Now, normally there would also be the company logo,
01:54which is an M and a C from Marklin. Marklin is the maker of the train. Circa about 1906-1907,
02:02Marklin was a producer of children's toys at the turn of last century, and they really made the top,
02:07top quality toys. Trains was sort of the rise to the top. They're actually still a company today.
02:12England, France, and the United States were the three markets for exporting their trains, and they
02:17designed the trains specifically for those export markets. So in this instance, it's an American beer
02:23car, Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Schlitz started around the mid-1800s. In fact,
02:29it's actually still a brewery today owned by Pabst Blue Ribbon. There's three different variations of
02:34the beer cars that Marklin made. There's a Pabst Blue Ribbon, and there's also a Budweiser. They're all
02:39very desirable. The Schlitz car in this size, which is a gauge one train car size. In the past 20
02:45years,
02:45there's only been a dozen or so that have come up, so quite a rare piece. What's also very interesting
02:51about these toys, they're tin plate, and they're all hand painted with an enamel paint, which does
02:55hold up really well, and that's why it's still so well preserved here 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
03:08access to the interior load. This would be a refrigerator car, so this one would be refrigerating
03:13Schlitz beer. As is often the case for all of these toys, condition is king. This is in really nice
03:21condition. It is. It's very sharp. Colors are great all the way around. They're somewhere your grandfather
03:27obviously did play with it, but the paint is really well kept. It can actually be cleaned up a little
03:33bit
03:33to really brighten up the color even more. Now, in valuing the train car, it's a select market.
03:39This is an American-focused marketplace. Do you have any idea what the value is on a train like this?
03:45No. You might want to pour a nice cold glass of beer after I tell you this, but this train
03:50car
03:50should easily fetch $10,000 to $20,000. Dollars? Wow. That's amazing. That's wonderful. Now,
04:02with that said, there have been examples of this car that have sold for $30,000 or even $40,000.
04:09I'm almost speechless, and if you know me, that's...
04:22I got this at a thrift store about a month ago. I paid 70 bucks for it, and I want
04:27to know more
04:27about it. I know it's a Windsor. It's creaky, but that's how I know it's old.
04:37This is a 1970s Ballin Howell radio. My grandpa worked for Ballin Howell for about 35, 40 years,
04:45so I think this was probably like a gift that they gave at Christmas or something. I rescued it from
04:50the
04:50garage like five years ago and got it cleaned up, and now it outlives my office. And it also has
04:56a
04:56cassette tape player in the back that you can take off. It gets really, really loud. I have a couple
05:01Grateful Dead cassette tapes that I still play. Much to her chagrin in there. Yeah.
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. All of the jewelry that was hers was laid out on a large meeting room table at the trust
05:31company,
05:32and my sister and I were agog at all the wonderful things, the diamonds, everything. But it was up to
05:41my father to choose, and he chose these. At 20 years old, I was really disappointed.
05:50I wanted the diamonds, but these are so beautiful. What you have here are micromosaics, some of the most
05:58beautiful examples that I've ever seen, actually, in my career. And it's not just one piece. It's
06:03three pieces that go together. A brooch, earrings, and a bracelet, which together form what you might
06:08call a perure. So we started to look at it more carefully and realized that not only was it a
06:14great
06:14example of micromosaic work, it had hallmarks on it that indicated that it was from Rome. It had the
06:20papal state marks with the St. Peter's Cross keys, which placed it around 1840, 1850. What you have in
06:29that era is a confluence of a number of things going on. This was before Italy was consolidated.
06:35Rome was an independent state. It was the era of the grand tour, when Europeans and English and
06:40Americans would make the big tour of Europe. Italy was already known for great micromosaics, but there
06:46was a great output in that era in order to feed the souvenir market. They came in all levels of
06:52quality, but these are among the best pieces of jewelry of that type that I have seen. Micromosaics
06:58are made of tiny little pieces of glass. There's a lot of very detailed handiwork involved in creating
07:03these. You've got really beautiful floral designs here. You'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. Wow. Increase my insurance. Yes. That's wonderful. Maybe 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. Tiffany exhibited at the World's Fair in 1904
07:52here in St. Louis, and that's when my grandfather met him and commissioned Louis Comfort Tiffany
07:58to manufacture his pieces just for his house. And the stained glass window is reminiscent of a stag
08:05in the Black Forest of Germany, so it reminded my grandfather of his homeland.
08:14I brought my American Girl Molly doll. I actually got her from the warehouse sale at the Pleasant Company
08:22in Middleton, Wisconsin, probably 25, 30 years ago. So you don't remember the exact date when you got her?
08:29I don't. I just know I was in elementary school. I know that she was made by the Pleasant Company
08:34before the Mattel buyout. Me and my mom and my best friend and her mom went together for a fun
08:40girls weekend. It was kind of a crazy event. Lots of people in line rushing for dolls, and I just
08:47had to
08:47have Molly. I loved her braids and her glasses and her bangs. I can see the resemblance. Do you know
08:55what you paid for her? Fifty dollars. Molly was produced by Pleasant Rowland. Pleasant was a child's
09:05textbook author, so she was very aware of history. In 1984, she went to Williamsburg, Virginia, and she
09:12loved the historical aspect. And then at Christmas time, she was shopping for some nieces, and there
09:17was only Cabbage Patch and Barbies. And she thought about Colonial Williamsburg and about creating a doll
09:23line to bring historical events to young girls, eight to 14 or so, that she felt were very underserved
09:33in textbooks, in history. So she came up with these three girls, Samantha, Felicity, and Molly. She made
09:41them historically significant. She got girls reading a six-book series teaching girls about
09:46whatever went on during that period. Molly's dad went off to war in World War II. So it was all
09:52about
09:52the things they were going through and rationing and what it was like to miss your dad. And
09:57Samantha becomes an orphan, and kids related to that because they were orphans. So bravo to her for
10:03creating this and seeing and filling that need, because it was needed. Pleasant had the dolls made in
10:09Germany by Gottz. And Gottz produced them for about 1986 to about 1990-ish. At that point, Pleasant sold
10:19the company to Mattel. And Mattel changed the name into American Girl Dolls. So this particular Molly
10:26is one of the first Mollies. And we know that because she has a white body. We're going to be
10:31modest here.
10:32We're going to try and protect her modesty. You know, she is from the 40s.
10:35So on her back here is a green sticker and an X. That says to me that she came from
10:42one of your
10:42factory sales. Later on, they changed these bodies to be more flesh-colored, matching whatever skin
10:48tone that doll had. She has her original clothing on. And on here, we have made in West Germany,
10:54which, again, indicates the Gottz. Her glasses have real glass in them and a real knitted sweater.
10:59Those were all made in Germany. So yours being an early 1986, one of the first ones coming from
11:06Germany, makes her a little more significant. We took great care of her. Yeah, I never took out
11:11her braids. Which is great, because so many kids, they come in with crazy hair and they played with
11:16them and that kind of stuff. I would estimate her value at about $1,200 to $1,500. Oh, my
11:22gosh.
11:23That's amazing. I'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. Absolutely. Thanks, Mom. Yeah, for sure.
11:40It's always been in our house. It was our mother's. In the 1950s, she went to a used store. She
11:46saw this
11:47and asked the lady, you know, how much? And she said, well, $5 or $10. It is groovy and a
11:53beautiful
11:53example. Groovy's almost always green 95% of the time, but almost always only green. Ah.
12:00So to have a second color is very good. This is also larger than most pieces of groovy.
12:06Well marked. This dates about 1904 to 1905. Oh, okay. Great.
12:09When I see this kind of a mark, you see that little green thing? When that's on the bottom
12:13of a piece of groovy, it's meant to be a lamp base. The fittings themselves, it looks like it's
12:18Tiffany to me. Oh, wow. And groovy worked with Tiffany on a bad day at auction. It's between
12:23$6,000 to $9,000 and it could bring $10,000 or more at auction. Wow. What a treasure for
12:27us.
12:28Yeah. It's a really, it's a really good one. Makes me cry.
12:35In 2019, I was in San Antonio and there was an auction house I used to go to. I love
12:41rugs. I
12:42have several rugs at home. This one came up for sale and I really enjoyed the motion in it. It
12:47was wool
12:48and I believe goat hair. So I just really liked the colors. I think I paid about $100. Wonderful. Do
12:54you
12:54have any idea what type of rug it was or where it came from? No. And I do have a
13:00gentleman here in
13:01St. Louis that I do take rugs to and he had no idea of its history or background. This rug
13:08was woven
13:08by the Qashqai tribe in the Zagros Mountains in southern Persia. So technically it's a tribal rug.
13:15It's referred to as a gabe. And gabe in Persian translates to raw, uncut, and natural. It's raw
13:25because they're using natural wool for the majority of the wool. It's not heavily dyed. Uncut would refer
13:33to the pile. It kind of has a shaggy long pile to it. And that's also related to the weave
13:39quality.
13:40It's rather coarse. This rug is maybe about 50 knots per square inch or less. So it would make it
13:48one of
13:48the coarser Persian rugs that are woven. As this rug is a tribal rug, they didn't have a large supply
13:55of wool when they were weaving it. So they used different dye lots of wool. And as you can see,
14:01there's a line over here of demarcation where the brown color is slightly lighter and slightly darker.
14:06This is a term that's referred to as abrache. It's natural. Especially in nomadic pieces,
14:11you tend to see that occurring. The value of these rugs really is in their pattern. These abstract
14:18geometric designs are very bold and graphic and they're very popular. They always have been.
14:23This one was woven around 1940. And with the resurgence of contemporary design,
14:29they became very popular in the late nineties up until the current day. Most of these were small
14:35in size. Naturally, there's a demand to get this aesthetic and room size pieces. So they started
14:41making modern reproductions of them in Iran, India, and Pakistan. So this really is what set the whole
14:49wheel rolling in the first place. Do you have any idea what this rug is worth?
14:53A hundred dollars? No, I have no idea. Okay. It's really in fine condition. And this rug would retail
15:04for between $3,500 and $4,500. So it's really wonderful. Thank you so much.
15:17They're my father-in-law's comics. Uh, I didn't quite get where he acquired them, but he's had them in
15:23his
15:23basement for quite a while now. Yep. And, uh, he's got, he's, oh no, not quite the best condition,
15:30but he's got some notable ones.
15:36I bought it from a lady. I was redoing her kitchen. I hope she's not listening,
15:41but I think I paid $30 for it. But I've had it for 50 years maybe. I've been told that
15:47this is a
15:48commercial butter churn from England. I guess you could use it, do your laundry in two, but you might
15:54want to clean it first. I don't think I've ever seen another one.
16:01My father was very interested in Charles Lindbergh. So we have this dollar bill that Charles Lindbergh
16:08carried on the Spirit St. Louis from New York to Paris in 1927. He heard that this bill was going
16:16to be sold at an auction in Kirkwood, Missouri. So he went to the auction and ended up buying it
16:23in a
16:24fierce battle, I understand, for $225. And what year was that? 1972. There's some writing on it. On
16:31the top here, it says, to Harry H. Knight from Charles Lindbergh, June 17th, 1927. Now, Harry H. Knight
16:39and his brother were both part of the nine investors that backed the transatlantic flight. And Harry,
16:46his credit as being the one who got everyone else interested. And June 17th is the day the Spirit
16:53of St. Louis arrived back in St. Louis after that transatlantic flight. We know that he carried this
16:58on the plane. He actually written on here, it says, this bill was carried on entire flight Charles A.
17:04Lindbergh. He signed it again. We can't find any other examples of Lindbergh signing, inscribing dollar
17:09bills to anyone. So it is both unique and it's this fantastic, I think of these things as a
17:16witness to history. And on the right side here, he's listed all the cities that the Spirit of St.
17:21Louis flew to. The silver certificates were at the time, this one dates in 1923, you could exchange it
17:28for a silver dollar. They are a little bit larger than a normal bit of American currency. The flight
17:34was on May 20th when it left New York, 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. No one had done this. He did it on his own. He flew straight. He
17:52had no bathroom
17:53breaks, no going to the back of the plane, no sleeping. I think for you and I, Charles Lindbergh was
17:58Jimmy Stewart in the Spirit of St. Louis. I remember watching that film at school on a projector in the
18:02gym and that's who I thought he was. He was a hero. In 2025, people look at him a little
18:08differently. They talk about
18:09during World War II and before the war, his sympathies with the German government at the
18:14time, the Nazi party. He was against the U.S. going into the war. He had a secret family in
18:20Germany.
18:21Is there anything else? Do you remember what your father thought about it? Clearly he fought for it.
18:25Oh, he did fight for it and he treasured it. I mean, this is something that he was very proud
18:31of.
18:31He didn't get to the age where all the things about Lindbergh became clear. So for him, Lindbergh was a
18:38hero and because he was an amateur pilot, he really looked at this as something that drew them together.
18:45Right. Would you be surprised if I told you that at auction we would estimate that at $20,000 to
18:50$30,000?
18:52Very much so. Yes, I would. But I wouldn't want to sell it.
18:57No, nor would I. Without the writing, without the inscription, that silver certificate's worth about $20.
19:08Really cool what you brought in at the jewelry table. It's not gold, but I find it very interesting.
19:13I know. Where'd you go? Presky's Dive Store.
19:16Huh. I think this one came from Woolworths.
19:18And back in the day when you were a kid? 1964.
19:21Aha. And that's when these were made. The Beatles had a ton of promotional stuff being licensed out.
19:27Did you ever wear this? Oh, yeah.
19:29Yeah. On a chain? Oh, yeah.
19:31So it's amazing that it survived. I know.
19:33And then it's a little book, but when you open it, boom, there they are.
19:38Yeah. A 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. I probably paid five. Five.
19:49If that much. Yeah.
19:50Now, you have another one there. This one, while it has the same theme outside with the fonts and
19:56everything, probably not as much money. Probably around $75.
19:59It's more than I thought.
20:01I appreciate it. Thank you.
20:07It's one of the best paintings I've seen of Harold Newton, a leader of the group of Hyriemen 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,
20:21come on out and see today's paintings, and you can buy them for 25 bucks.
20:25When did you get this painting and how?
20:27I got it about 13 years ago. 13 years ago.
20:31And an estate sale in St. Louis. And being in St. Louis, there's not many people
20:35that knew about the Hyriemen painters. And so when I got down to the basements of this house,
20:40I saw some sort of wetland painting. I said, that could be Florida. And then when I saw the frame,
20:46I said, that's a Hyriemen painting. It's that distinct. So I wanted to go closer and my heart
20:51beating, and I looked at the signature. Draw 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. You'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 Hyriemen.
21:10A bunch of African American artists who, out of necessity in their mid-50s,
21:14established the group. During a time of segregation and discrimination, they had difficulties
21:19showing their work, getting training. All the opportunities that were available to other
21:24artists were not available to them. And so they formed this group as a way to support one another
21:29and develop their skills. And as you pointed out, they were selling the works by knocking on people's
21:34doors, selling it out of the trunks of their cars next to the highway. That's where the Hyriemen name
21:39came from.
21:39Banks, gas stations, restaurants.
21:42Yes.
21:42They would just go in wherever they could.
21:43Exactly. And so this particular painting, though, it's just a striking image. It demonstrates
21:49his skill as an artist. Shortly after this was painted, he'd probably sell this for maybe 50 or
21:5460 bucks. Typically range like 25 to maybe 50 dollars. It's an oil on fiberboard. He was born in 1934,
22:03and he died in 1994. So it'd be like a circa 1970s, I would say. That's a guess, because the
22:08painting is
22:08not dated. But it is signed H. Newton. It's in very good shape. The painting looks great. I think if
22:14it were to
22:14come up to auction, I would put an estimate of between $10,000 and $15,000.
22:19Wow. That is nice.
22:20Yes.
22:20Thank you very much.
22:30There's quite an assortment of animals at Grant's Farms Deer Park. Deer from Europe,
22:35Asia, and North America, as well as alpacas and llamas. And this big horned bovine.
22:43A Watusi cattle are from Africa, and they are distinctive for their very large horn. It's about
22:49that big around, and it kind of curls up. We currently have nine, but we do have a successful
22:54breeding program with Watusi, so hopefully this season will be even more beneficial than last
22:58season, which was very successful. My 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. These pictures here are from
23:15Buchenwald in Germany. He was there when the concentration camp was liberated.
23:20And what relation does this doll have? The 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,
23:35which had these pictures on them. I shipped it back to my aunt, who was one year old then, and
23:42left a
23:43note saying, please do not let Darlene play with the doll, and my aunt never played with the doll.
23:50And do we know what unit he served in? He was in Patton's Third Army.
23:55Your dad was involved in two fairly significant liberations. He was at Ordruf, and that's April 4th
24:03of 1945, and then a week later at Buchenwald. Ordruf was a satellite camp of Buchenwald,
24:11and Eisenhower came in to visit that camp. And when he saw that, that really redirected the focus
24:20and opened the eyes about what was going on inside the camps. The stark reality of it was just
24:30jaw dropping. And when you brought these photos in, even to open those envelopes and look and see the
24:38images, they have a profound effect on you as a human being. You had a number of pictures of the
24:44atrocity. We're not going to display those out of respect to those that lost their lives, but these
24:51photographs out front here face down represent that. They are shocking and disturbing on a
24:58deep level. These places existed within a mere kilometer or two of occupied towns. There were
25:05plenty of people who knew. There were plenty of people who thought that they were doing the right
25:09thing. That's the scary thing. Once you start seeing other people as something other than human beings,
25:16that's when truly terrible things can happen. One of the first things that happened was General
25:22Eisenhower ordered that the local German civilians be brought in to see what had been happening.
25:27Here we see them digging graves for executed prisoners. And then your dad has some annotations
25:37on the back that explain what the ones on the far side here indicate. You've got a woman coming out
25:42just in complete tears because she's either in disbelief or shock or horror or whatever. She's had that real
25:48reaction that any true human being will have. And the woman to her right is laughing and making fun of
25:54her according to your father's notation, which she hasn't gone through yet. The other woman's coming
25:59out. You hope for her soul that she had a change of heart once she was in there. These are
26:05other
26:05photographs of the German civilians being forced to witness these atrocities. Your dad was so compelled
26:12that he felt the need to actually break all the rules and smuggle those images home to make sure
26:20that they were seen. One of the most disturbing things about the history of the Holocaust is that
26:27there were non-believers at the time. And one of the truly most disturbing things is that there are
26:32non-believers today. Historians' best estimates at this point are that over 6 million Jews perished
26:39in the Holocaust and another 6 million or so others died as well. They enslaved the entirety of the
26:46continent. They shot Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, petty criminals. It's hard to put a value
26:56on something like this because we're talking about cultural value and historical value. But let's say,
27:01for example, you wanted to have this insured. We are comfortable with an insurance value on this set
27:07at $10,000. Oh, my God. It's amazing. It breaks our heart. I know it broke my heart looking at
27:15these
27:15images. They're powerful. I brought this piece of art. I don't really know much about it. About a year ago
27:25in our office, they were demoing out all of our cubes. This was hanging on the cube wall in our
27:29office.
27:30They ended up putting it in the dumpster. And then at that time, I had a new office with, like,
27:35nothing on the walls. So I decided to grab it out of the dumpster and hang it on the wall
27:39because I
27:39like the color of it. And then about, you know, a year later, here we are today. This is a
27:44Victor
27:45Vasarelli three-dimensional limited edition bas-relief sculpture. The piece is from 1972. He was a painter
27:54and printmaker, less this kind of three-dimensional stuff, but he did some of these kinds of things.
28:01Op art was his specialty. It's basically made of plastic on a metal base. And the frame is part of
28:07the whole piece. It's not like it was then framed. Okay. It has an odd title. It is CTA 102
28:12POS Gold.
28:14It's in a very small edition. It's an edition of four. He's in major museums. He also was sold in
28:21commercial galleries and malls in the 70s and 80s. So he was very popular for many years. It's a
28:27signed piece. He did paintings. He did a lot of silk screens and lithographs. The prints are mostly
28:33in the $400 or $500 range into the real low thousands. There's lots of that kind of thing.
28:39I saw the square prints like on a painted for like $1,000 or $2,000. Yeah. I couldn't find
28:44this
28:45when I looked online. It'd be hard with an addition to four. Do you want to guess on a number?
28:50Maybe
28:50like $5,000? $6,000? You're getting there. Okay. It's the most recent auction price was right around
28:56$10,000. $10,000. So I would say an $8,000 to $10,000 auction estimate on it. A retail
29:03price,
29:04maybe even more. But I mean, it actually brought in that $8,000 to $10,000 range within the
29:09last few years. Okay. Recently. That's awesome. I appreciate you pulling it out of the dumpster
29:13because it was going to be an addition of three if you hadn't done that.
29:19I believe we have a burlesque poster. My best friend gave it to me about six years ago. She's
29:27had it for 30 years. It was given to her when she lived in LA and she had it framed
29:32then and it
29:33hung in her house for years and it's been hanging in my house. When do you think it's from?
29:38I think by her outfit, probably 1920s. I don't know. You're close. I would say it's early 1930s,
29:45circa 1931. And it's not exactly cabaret. It's more like French musical. She was a performer and an
29:53elegant performer. You can see by her feathers and especially the jewelry on her arm is so elegant.
29:59It's great. And I can see why a performer would like it. I could see why a jewelry person would
30:03like
30:04it. You're just smiling because you just like it. She's pretty. She's pretty. At auction,
30:10I would expect this to sell for between $600 and $900. Okay. All right. Good to know.
30:14Thank you. Thank you. I 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 and they wanted the GMT and that's what
30:29I wanted. But
30:31my friend bought the last one. So when this one came out, the lady said, you might like this one
30:37better. And actually I did. So I was just real happy. 1969. You're a pilot? Yes. We were developing
30:43drone technology. I 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. We would fly the aircraft either
30:56remotely controlled or with a pilot in it. We had to complete, just like flying in the airplane,
31:00like a simulator. I could actually control the aircraft. And so I wanted the watch to help in
31:07my job. Did it help in your job? It did. The engine quit one day on a mission and I
31:13pushed the button
31:14for the sweep secondhand to tell me how fast the ground speed was. I was steering the aircraft. I had
31:20to tell the helicopter where I was going to crash the airplane and tell the pilot when to jump out
31:25of the
31:25airplane so we could bring the helicopter rescue squad in to pick up the pilot without much
31:30time on the ground wasted. And this was in enemy territory? Yes, over in Laos. The enemy was all
31:36in the jungle and he didn't want to be on the ground very long. I had to blow the wings
31:41off the airplane
31:41because it had to be destroyed. It was all top secret. I said, you have to jump within 10 seconds.
31:46And I'm counting now, 10, nine. And so at 10 seconds, I blew the wings off. And I hoped he
31:53was out,
31:54which he was. The helicopter was able to retrieve them? They were right there at him. And within five
32:00minutes, he was in the helicopter heading back to our base. So the watch actually saved somebody's
32:05life? It did. The major that was flying it was very grateful for that. Wow, that's amazing. It was.
32:11I see on the warranty papers, it says 1966. It was first purchased by a Navy pilot in Saigon in
32:201966.
32:21And the story I got from the Navy exchange was that he was either killed in action or was captured.
32:28And they sent the watch to Bangkok to the Navy exchange there. So they let me buy it in 1969.
32:35I paid $500 for it. Did you wear the watch after the war? I've worn it every day since 1969.
32:431969. Wow. Until I had it serviced in 2012. I took it off. I've not worn it since. The watch
32:50is a Rolex
32:516238. It's what's dubbed the pre-Daytona. It was a transition between the earlier chronographs
32:57and the 6239, which was the later model of the new versions of the Daytonas.
33:02It has a plain bezel and it's just a very elegant watch. It's function. It's all stainless steel
33:09and it has a registry. So it's a push button chronograph in which you can do one minute,
33:1630 minutes, up to 12 hours. The dial on yours happens to be, considering the age, an incredibly
33:22fine shape. Out of a 1 to 10, it's probably a 9. Wow.
33:26The dial is really, really nice. Production 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. Okay.
33:42Notoriously, other than a pilot or a race car driver, these were not particularly popular watches.
33:47A lot of them ended up overseas because they didn't sell particularly well in the stores.
33:52It was perfect for what I needed though. Right. Perfect. Right.
33:54So you've managed to keep all these years, the original box that came with it and here you've
34:00got the original warranty paper. So it's pretty complete. The only thing that's missing are a
34:06couple of hand tags. Okay.
34:08Yeah. They would have come with it. I might have those. I'll have to look. I think I might have
34:12them.
34:12Everybody's looking for one owner complete pieces and you've got the whole ball of wax here. Today,
34:18to a collector in the retail market, this watch would probably trade in around the $45,000 price range.
34:24Oh, 40? Oh my. I had no idea.
34:30And what's interesting is if you would have gotten the GMT, which would have been the model 1675, the
34:35Pepsi, that watch would probably be worth today probably in the $17,000 to $20,000 range.
34:41Okay. So by having your two friends in front of you get the 1675 GMTs, you came out well all
34:50these years
34:50later. And if you were insuring it, we would probably easily put an insurance appraisal of $55,000 on the
34:56watch.
34:56I found it in a coffee can that I bought at an auction. 10 bucks, something like that. It wasn't
35:10very much. Opened it up when I got home and this was inside. It's a land grant signed by President
35:18Buchanan.
35:24This is a Robert Indiana print from his series Decade Auto Prints. I found it in a local auction. I
35:32think
35:32it was only about 300 plus shipping. I love it. It's above the fireplace.
35:43I brought some silk boxer shorts that John F. Kennedy left in our house. My father was a prominent
35:50politician in Indiana. He got very involved in JFK's presidential campaign. In October of 59,
35:57Kennedy came through our hometown in southern Indiana and my dad created a big fundraiser for him. Kennedy
36:04needed a place to stay for the day and so he stayed in our house. He was battling a very
36:10sore back
36:11apparently. So he bathed in our upstairs bathroom. After the whole event was finished and he left town,
36:18my mom found these boxer shorts on the bathroom floor. Apparently he forgot them.
36:23In 1959, Kennedy was the junior senator out of Massachusetts and he wouldn't declare his official
36:30candidacy for the presidency even though it was expected until January of 1960. But as you said,
36:36in the fall, he would have been traveling around America, continuing to lay the groundwork for his
36:42candidacy, getting ready for the primaries and meeting important democratic supporters and fundraisers
36:48of which your father was one. Right. I had a chance to take a look and on October 4th, 1959,
36:53in your hometown of Huntingburg, Indiana. It was a hot fall day. It made it to 88 degrees. I did
37:01not know
37:01that. He had events to go to, a lot of standing. He then retired to your family's home. Your father
37:07was
37:07sort of his host and where he could cool off. And who hasn't left things behind as a guest? Right.
37:13This is a
37:13pair of silk or synthetic undershorts. There is a store label from Lewis and Thomas Saltz and Company from
37:20D.C. And they were a very prominent haberdashery menswear in Washington, D.C., serving all the politicians
37:27and businessmen. On the inside front of the waistband is also some block letters in a permanent ink
37:34that say K-E-N-N. I imagine that's from the junior senator having his clothes sent out to laundry.
37:40And you've
37:41also bought a photo of Kennedy in your family home. It is our family home. He's standing on the stairwell
37:46and he signed it to my parents. The best kind of provenance is when the individual who's a historic
37:52person has given it to a trusted confidant or it's from the family of the historic person. And we don't
38:00have that. We don't have, we don't have a picture of JFK giving these to your mom. What we do
38:05have
38:06is a meticulously documented history. And also it's documented in two books. One book was written
38:13about my father. In it, the story is described just as I told you. Then there's another book,
38:18the history of Huntingberg itself. And the same story is described there. So apparently in that
38:24book, it's said that my father wrote him a humorous letter saying, well, if you're accustomed to leaving
38:30your boxer shorts around the country, maybe you need another pair. So he sent him a new pair.
38:34That is utterly charming. And that's my dad's sense of humor.
38:37Kennedy's special. Yes, he is. The idealism, the charisma and the social impact of the president
38:45and his family. For auction purposes, we put an estimate of $3,000 to $5,000.
38:50Yeah, that's nice. This is probably about $500 itself, but it is helping to verify the story. And so
38:59these kind of need to be kept together. For insurance value, I would have $10,000 on these, the collection.
39:06Yeah. Okay.
39:10This carriage behind me is one of our oldest in our collection. It was built in 1878 in Concord,
39:16New Hampshire. It's a 12 passenger coach that has leather strap suspension, which gives it a very
39:21soft ride. It was restored back in 1976 and 77 in New Hampshire as well. All of the carriages in
39:28the
39:28Bush family collection have been used by the Bush family over the years, including the one behind me.
39:35I brought a store display of the original Star Wars characters that came out of my father's toy
39:41store. I just happened to keep this instead of collecting any of the toys themselves. I didn't want
39:46the characters, but I liked the sign. Star Wars, right? Little to no introduction needed for the film.
39:51It came out May 25th, 1977, became an overnight international sensation. What you've brought today
39:59is a 1978 Kenner Star Wars store display. This is referred to as the bell hanger style. They use the
40:05styles over multiple iterations of the Star Wars toy line, but this is not just any, it's the absolute
40:11first. What it depicts here are the 12 original figures that were first made available as part of the
40:16Star Wars toy line. And when it comes to display pieces like this, condition is so critical, crucial
40:22to the value. Overall, I say it's rather phenomenal compared to the ones you mostly see out there.
40:28There's some edgeware, minor staining here, a little surface stain, but the big part is there's no surface
40:33tears. There's no actual losses to the cardboard. There's no major creasing. There's no wrinkles.
40:39Overall, it presents exceptionally well. If I were to give it a numerical grade in toy speaking terms
40:45to be conservative, I would say it's about a 75 plus to maybe an 80. As far as displays go,
40:51this is a pretty prime example that collectors watching this are going to be drooling over.
40:55At auction today, if this were in a well advertised toy and pop culture sale,
40:59I would place a pre auction estimate of five to 8,000 for the display. Really? Wow. That's shocking.
41:08Perfect premium examples that received 85 plus grades have sold upwards of $20,000 on the market.
41:14Wow. This 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,
41:31and this was presented to him. It's a maquette of an arch, of the arch.
41:40I think it's a hood ornament. I don't know who made it. I found it in my aunt's house.
41:46But if we turn it around, you can see it actually is signed. It's hard to see in the glare.
41:51Okay, okay. But it says Sabino, France. What you have here is a Sabino Art Deco car hood
41:58ornament from the 1920s. Then you have this wonderful frosted glass, and it is a St. Christopher,
42:04the patron saint of travelers. Right.
42:08So that makes a lot of sense to have on the bar. It makes a lot of sense.
42:11Conservatively, at auction, I would say between $400 and $600.
42:15Oh, okay. Great. Well, that's really neat. Thanks for pointing that signature out.
42:20Yes. Yes. My wife and her mother and father, before she was my wife in 1963,
42:29went to Gallup, New Mexico to the Indian International Tribal Council show and bought
42:36that first picture from Jerome Tiger directly from him at the show. It actually won first prize in the
42:42show that year. The second picture over here, my wife's aunt bought it at the Philbrook in 1963.
42:48History of Jerome Tiger's life and his career is meteoric. He died in 67 in a gunshot situation in
42:57Eufaula. Yeah, 26 years old. 26 years old and tremendous loss. His impact in the art world was
43:04fairly significant. The title of that picture next to you is called The Defeated Ones. He really brought
43:10that depth of feeling about what happened to Native Americans really to the forefront.
43:16Jerome Tiger was born in 1941 in Tahlequah. And I expect the reason he was born in Tahlequah,
43:23Oklahoma, is that's where the big Indian hospital is. But he's Muscogee Creek in Tahlequah's Cherokee
43:29capital. Both of these paintings Jerome painted in 1963, which was very early in his career. This is a
43:37family that suffered a lot of pain. They've had a lot of tragedy. And the way Jerome got through this,
43:43as have his relatives and descendants like his daughter, is by creating great beauty. And the
43:51beauty depicts the pain of their history as well. President Andrew Jackson, after a war with the Creek
43:58Tribe, which involved Sam Houston and David Crockett, where the Creeks were brutally put down, signed the
44:05Indian Removal Act of 1830 to clear out the Southeast. The first tribe was the Muscogee
44:12Creeks, the Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and then his supposed allies in the Creek War, the Cherokee
44:20that Sam Houston was married into. They would ride into one of the towns and say, we're moving you this
44:27week, pack your things, we're done. The worst of it was in the middle of winter. And everyone suffered
44:32about 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. That's what these depict. I've never seen one this big with this
44:46many figures in it. These are military officers on horseback that are part of the removal team.
44:52More people dead in the snow. This did not just set the standard for Native American politics in the
45:011830s. It set the tone for Native American politics with the United States government till today. It just
45:11changed their world permanently. And it was a very painful change. They're painted on matte board,
45:18and they're painted with temper paint and watercolors. He changed the approach to Native American painting
45:26in my thinking. He didn't do just outline color blocks, which was very popular at that time and
45:32before. You see more things in diagonal as opposed to profile. You see things like this man laying face
45:40down in the snow. Do you know what these paintings cost? We have the receipt for the one next to
45:46you for $65.
45:47On the back of this one, on the tag from the Philbrook, it's $85. These never come on the market.
45:54He was such
45:55an agent of change in the short time he was alive. These paintings in a retail situation would sell
46:03each $20,000 to $25,000. So $40,000 to $50,000 for the pair. Wow. They're wonderful paintings,
46:13and they certainly depict a huge tragedy in American history.
46:20I don't know much about it. I bought it for $5 at Goodwill. My sister and I like to go
46:25there a lot.
46:26My brother-in-law likes bright colored stuff in my niece's bedroom. So we thought it was cool and took
46:31it
46:31on. I brought an original sculpture from the late artist Bob Cassily. He's world-renowned, built the
46:44City Museum here in St. Louis. This is a hippo prototype for cement land, which was a shuttered
46:51play scape up in North City.
46:58I brought a portfolio of prints by Ansel Adams. A good friend of mine knew that I was a backcountry
47:04hiker. My wife and I would go to national parks. I'd bring him pictures to show of the trips and
47:08he said
47:09one day he had something to show me. And this was in his possession. And later in his life,
47:14he called me back to see it again. And he said he wanted me to have this. Wow. That's incredible.
47:20I mean, even today, pulling them out to look at them and seeing them here like this, these gave
47:24me goosebumps. It's awe-inspiring. Yeah. So this is portfolio number three, the third portfolio that
47:31Ansel Adams published. It was published in 1960 by the Sierra Club. And the images inside were made
47:38starting in either circa 1926, which is how this image is dated in the portfolio colophon. Sometimes
47:45it's dated 1927, very early, all the way up to 1959. But they were printed in 1960 for the set,
47:54for the portfolio. And they're each signed by Ansel Adams. They really represent the qualities that
48:00people love about Ansel Adams. He's one of the most collected, one of the most well-known photographers
48:05still in the world. That precise focus, the clarity of vision, the contrast, the detail. And of course,
48:15as 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. It's one of his most famous pictures. He had a sense
48:27of being able to see the finished print in his mind and then use what he knew about the camera
48:33to create
48:34the right conditions in order to be able to make that print. So the dark sky, the sky, of course,
48:41was not dark when he made this image. He used a red filter in his camera to create the visual
48:47effect.
48:48His legacy is also as a teacher of these skills. The photograph closer to you is called Winter Storm.
48:54And that image is really what Ansel Adams is most well-known for, which is these sort of sublime
49:02landscapes that capture the big vision of the place. There's a sense of drama. There's a sense of beauty,
49:10majesty, the contrast between the light and the clouds, the snow in the landscape, and even captures
49:19the details of all the trees so perfectly. This really represents Adams at his most skilled. There were
49:27originally 16 photographs in this portfolio, and there are three that are no longer a part of the
49:32set. Do you know what happened to those prints? I really don't. We think they were given away as
49:36gifts to other people. So as is, at auction, my estimate for the set would be $40,000 to $60
49:43,000.
49:45That's a lot of money. If it was complete, an estimate might be $50,000 to $75,000. So the
49:54good news is
49:55that the prints that are missing from your set you own are not among the most desirable or the most
50:01valuable in the group. The two that I've pulled out here are the two most valuable and desirable
50:07because they're the most well-known. At auction, individually, this print would be estimated between
50:14$7,000 and $10,000. The Winter Storm would be estimated between $8,000 and $12,000.
50:21Wow, that's my favorite one.
50:24Good. You mentioned that you have taken your own photographs in Yosemite.
50:29Yes. Oh, yeah.
50:30How do you think they, would you call yourself a photographer?
50:32No, I own a camera.
50:34Okay. And 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. I found out this black print I have, which I purchased for $2,
50:50dollars is worth $500. So today is a lot better than prom was. No offense, babe.
50:58The family lore said that my great uncle brought this doll back from Paris in the 1940s after the
51:04war. And what actually happened is she's from the 1960s from America, and she's not worth a lot.
51:10But we had a great time.
51:12We had this painting that we found inside the walls of my brother's house when we were
51:17finishing his basement, and it was really creepy. And found out that it's not worth anything because
51:23it's fake, and so we're probably going to burn it.
51:26This lovely Bristol glass vase was purchased by my father and given to me. My mom was with him when
51:34he bought it, and she thought he was crazy for the amount he paid. Turns out, Mom was right.
51:41And I have my grandfather's watch. It was supposed to be gold, but it's made out of brass.
51:47I bought this statue from 1858. It's not going to keep me from going to work tomorrow, but it's worth
51:53about $200. This replica Civil War reconnaissance map barely made the cut of the things that came
52:00with me today to Antiques Roadshow, but I'm sure glad I brought it because it's real from 1862,
52:07and it's worth $1,000. Thanks, AR. By the time this show airs, this will be sold and we'll be
52:13living in
52:14Bora Bora, baby! He's lying.
52:18Thanks for watching. See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
52:22Antiques Roadshow.
52:22world peace
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