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00:04Antiques Roadshow has turned Grant's farm into a vetting zoo for America's treasures.
00:09These are all lost films. We don't have any complete footage.
00:14I didn't realize that. Thank you.
00:35If you're wild about animals and antiques, Roadshow's stop at Grant's farm in St. Louis has just what you're looking
00:42for.
00:44The 280-acre wildlife park has more than 900 animals on site from all over six continents.
00:53And today, Roadshow is giving our thousands of curious human visitors something to squawk about.
00:59Check it out.
01:01So it's a bracelet that was my mother-in-law's.
01:04She got it about 20 years ago and gave it to me about eight years ago.
01:09And where did she get it?
01:10She got it at a yard sale.
01:12My mother-in-law loved her yard sales and her flea markets and all things junk.
01:16She saw this bracelet and it spoke to her and she thought she needed it, even though she said it
01:20was too ugly for her to wear.
01:21And what did she pay for it?
01:23She paid a dollar for it.
01:24My mother-in-law, we found out she was terminally ill in 2018.
01:28And so I was looking at the bracelet and I saw a marking on the back.
01:32And so I just put the name in and I saw a contact us.
01:35And so it's a company I'm probably going to butcher, Lakin Etsy.
01:39And so I sent them an email and they confirmed it.
01:42My husband says it could be like gold and maybe some diamonds and lapis, maybe?
01:49It is 18 karat gold.
01:52It is lapis and diamonds.
01:54And it is by Lakin Etsy.
01:57And the company was founded in 1932 in Hollywood, California.
02:02And they became very popular among the film elite in Hollywood.
02:08And the name actually comes from a complaint from Gloria Swanson that the Lakin Diamond Company just didn't have the
02:17right ring to it.
02:18So they changed the name to Lakin Etsy.
02:21This dates to the 1960s.
02:24The bracelet is signed Lakin Etsy.
02:27And we can see the signature right back here.
02:31And it's also marked made in France.
02:33Nice.
02:34And then on the tongue here, we can also see French hallmarks.
02:41Oh, wow.
02:41And the French hallmarks are for 18 karat gold.
02:44And the diamonds are mounted in platinum.
02:46It's a great thing for $1.
02:49Yeah, $1.
02:50The company is still in business.
02:52I think if you went to go sell this at auction, I think someone would pay in the $15,000
02:59to $20,000 range for it.
03:01Oh, wow.
03:02It's a really beautiful thing.
03:05That's amazing.
03:05Any other questions?
03:06No, none.
03:07I'm just surprised.
03:09Good dollar.
03:13She is my husband's great-grandma's doll.
03:18And she sat around in a bedroom scaring the kids for years.
03:24And I took her home with me to use for Halloween.
03:27And everybody's, like, loved to hate her since.
03:29She's happy to be here today.
03:32If she is haunted, she's a pleasant spirit.
03:35Well, it's a non-functional model replica of a traction engine.
03:40If you don't know what that is, it's basically a steam-powered tractor that was used in, like, the olden
03:45days before gasoline powers and stuff.
03:47How much did you guys have to pay for it?
03:50$500.
03:51Maybe too much.
03:54Well, I believe I brought you a placard or a poster on heavy card stock advertising Bandelier National Monument in
04:04the National Park System.
04:05And it's a WPA poster.
04:07My wife and I have visited northern New Mexico for years, 36 years, proposed to her there, honeymoon there.
04:15This piece happened to be in kind of a dirty corner of an antique mall.
04:19It was covered with dust, New Mexico dust.
04:22Just kind of struck a chord in my heart.
04:24We paid $22 in 2024.
04:27What you have here is a silkscreened poster.
04:32You say placard, I would say poster.
04:34It is printed on card.
04:36As an archaeological site, it was the home to the ancestral Pueblan people.
04:40Just an incredible monument to the early peoples of America.
04:44It dates from 1941.
04:46The national parks were created in 1916.
04:49In 1934, the WPA, the Works Progress Administration, designed the first series of posters promoting the national parks by an
04:57artist named Dorothy Waugh.
04:58And then in 1938, they began a second series promoting the parks, which ran from 1938 until 1941, at which
05:07point the Second World War broke out.
05:09And basically, most of the artists and artisans were taken from the WPA workshops and put to work for the
05:15war effort.
05:15At the very bottom here, it says WPA CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps.
05:21And they were responsible for building the infrastructure in the national parks.
05:25These were done in Berkeley, California, in the WPA workshop there.
05:30They made $100.
05:32When they were made, they cost $12 for every $100.
05:37So that's 12 cents each was the price of these posters.
05:41Because this is printed on card, a lot of times these were taken, they were cut into quarters and used
05:46as file dividers in national park offices.
05:49I've heard that.
05:49There are about six intact copies of this poster, all in public institutions.
05:57This may be the last one privately held.
05:59It's not one of the famous national parks.
06:02And you know, they always say location, location, location.
06:04So a Yosemite poster might fetch more money.
06:07But they're all so rare, and they're all so collected.
06:10My estimate on this at auction would be between $8,000 and $12,000.
06:23That's surprising.
06:24That's surprising.
06:26I thought maybe $1,000.
06:29Two of them for the Wind Cave and the Smoky Mountains.
06:32There are no original copies that have yet to be found.
06:37Well, it's a cuneiform tablet from Mesopotamia.
06:42It came through the family.
06:43So all I know is family lore on it.
06:46A great uncle was a British officer in Iraq around the late 1800s, early 1900s.
06:53And there was some insurrection that was going on, and family lore has it that he was stabbed to death.
07:01And then his stuff was sent back to England, and presumably this came with that.
07:08Ah, okay.
07:09I've lived and worked all over the Middle East, so I was quite aware of what it was.
07:14I might know a little Arabic, but I don't know how to read cuneiform.
07:18Cuneiform is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, writing systems.
07:21What they did was they took clay and they pressed it with reeds to create these pictographs.
07:29And the language was born.
07:30And because of cuneiform, small villages were able to advance in complexity into urban city-states.
07:39Probably it's around 2100 BC, 2200 BC, so making it over 4,000 years old.
07:45It's written on all sides.
07:46It's completely intact.
07:47You sometimes have these referred to as biscuits because of their shape.
07:51I actually did email a photograph of it to a colleague of mine who's a scholar.
07:56And I do have an exact translation of it.
08:01It's an Ur 3 administrative tablet dating to year 9 of King Amin Suru of Ur in the third month.
08:09And it accounts for barley rations to be ground into the goats and taken to the granary by the officials
08:15in Igar-Sharan.
08:16The transaction was conducted through Lagina, which would have been the center.
08:21Yeah, so it was in a beautiful little protective box.
08:25And in the little box, I saw a card.
08:27It helps us today because that card had a date on it of 1916.
08:33And today was the first time I've seen that.
08:36It's a documentation that puts the collection history of this pre-UNESCO, which was where they protected all the cultural
08:44artifacts.
08:44Yeah.
08:45And also with all of the recent turmoil in the Middle East, you know, there's been looting.
08:50So provenance for these items, it gets tricky.
08:53But this is absolutely 100% safe in the marketplace because the little card is dated to the early part
08:59of the 20th century.
09:00And I believe that little card was written by an Assyriologist at Yale University, Albert Clay.
09:08Is it right?
09:09He was a very early language expert because of the great provenance.
09:14If I were to insure it, I would say $3,000.
09:17Wow.
09:18Wow.
09:19That's very interesting.
09:20It's not for sale.
09:22And now it'll be in the World Cuneiform Database.
09:30One unique thing about Grant's Farm is we also are the home of Grant's Cabin.
09:34So this property was originally Frederick Dent's property, Grant's father-in-law.
09:39So when Grant met Julia and they got married, Frederick Dent gave 80 acres of what is now Grant's Farm
09:45to them as a wedding gift.
09:46It was built on the grounds but not where it sits today.
09:50It has moved a few times.
09:51It served at one point as a coffee house at the 1904 World's Fair, which is actually where August Bush
09:57Sr. found it.
09:59August A. Bush Sr. purchased the cabin and had it rebuilt here on its now home since 1907, Grant's Farm.
10:07After it was built, President Grant's wife, Julia Dent Grant, called the cabin hardscrabble for its rough and simple appearance.
10:19So about two years ago, my uncle passed away, and this painting was in his house that he grew up
10:26in.
10:26It was given to his mother, Rose Carubia, for a wedding.
10:31Her dad was Angelo B.M. Carubia, and he was a well-known architect in St. Louis,
10:37and he was friends with Tom Barnett, who's the artist of this painting.
10:41And so now it's your painting.
10:43Now it's my painting.
10:44Tom Barnett was an architect and a painter.
10:48First and foremost, he was an architect.
10:51His father, George, was an architect of some renown.
10:56Tom was born in 1870, and he started his own architecture firm, Barnett Haynes Barnett,
11:02with his brother and brother-in-law.
11:04The firm did a lot of noteworthy buildings around town, including the Cathedral Basilica.
11:11Later on in his career, he started painting.
11:14He studied under Paul Knoyer, who was a very well-respected artist.
11:19The painting is oil on canvas, and it's done in an American Impressionist style,
11:25using very bold strokes of bright color.
11:29And this painting, The Rapids, was done in 1926, so three years before he died,
11:37so it was at the height of his career.
11:39Because he was so already established in architecture, there was a demand for his paintings,
11:45and he was quite talented as an artist.
11:47He painted a mural for the state capitol in Jefferson City.
11:52His work is in permanent collections at the St. Louis Art Museum, the Missouri History Museum,
11:59and also right here at Grant's Farm in the collection of the Bush family.
12:05Wow.
12:05So, it's kind of notable.
12:08It's been hanging on a wall for 50 years.
12:10It's really impressive due to its size.
12:12And being in the auction business myself, and also from St. Louis, I always get excited when I see a
12:20work by Tom Barnett.
12:21It's not that often that you find his work.
12:24This is a case where I think the value in St. Louis would be greater than the value if you
12:32were to ship it to New York or California.
12:36Easily, an auction estimate for this painting would be $5,000 to $7,000.
12:40Wow.
12:42That's awesome.
12:43If you were to send it somewhere else, it might be around $2,500 to $3,500.
12:49I'm going to keep it at home.
12:51It's a Hassenforder safe.
12:53It was handed down to my mother from her mother.
12:58It was locked for many years, and I had to have an expert picket.
13:02Was there anything inside?
13:04Some antique opera glasses and some notes from the late 1800s.
13:09You were rooting for diamonds.
13:10Yeah, I was.
13:12No diamonds.
13:18My dad worked at McDonnell Douglas, and he worked in aviation.
13:23And he has a lot of the space memorabilia from when they first started.
13:28And this was the sign that hung in McDonnell Douglas when they were creating all the space shuttle and everything.
13:38They made airplanes, rocket ships, every type of aviation within St. Louis.
13:44I brought in a few of the many heirlooms that have been handed down from my grandmother and grandfather who
13:52were parent to John Young, who is one of the astronauts in the program, well-known astronauts.
13:57And he joined NASA in the second wave of the astronaut recruitment.
14:04John Young, a well-known astronaut, Gemini 3, which he was on, was the first crewed mission of the Gemini
14:09program.
14:10And then Gemini 10, and then Apollo 10, he was commander of the command module, which made him the first
14:17person to orbit the moon by his lonesome.
14:20So pretty cool.
14:21I didn't know that, yeah.
14:22And then Apollo 16, he became the ninth person to walk on the moon, right?
14:27Yeah, that's very cool.
14:28And here we have a picture of John Young jumping on the lunar surface.
14:34With the salute.
14:35Right.
14:36And then with a flown flag, a mission patch and beta cloth, fireproof material.
14:42And then the crew were allowed to bring stuff.
14:45And they brought flags and insignias and things like that.
14:49Sandwiches.
14:49Sandwiches, space food.
14:52And they were allowed to take those as personal items that they could give out to friends and family, et
14:57cetera.
14:58So you have a flown flag with the emblem.
15:02And in the world of space collecting, it kind of breaks down between those two camps, flown and not flown,
15:08because only a handful of things ever got it into space.
15:12Yes.
15:12So it's great.
15:13You have a wonderful flown flag and the beta cloth patch, which it doesn't designate that it was flown.
15:19It might have been, but we're going to assume for sure at least the flag was flown.
15:23Okay.
15:24Okay, great.
15:25Then he becomes the first pilot for STS-1.
15:29STS stands for Space Transport System.
15:31And the STS-1 was really just kind of the working out the bugs flight.
15:35It was only a two-man crew making sure that all the systems were working and everything was going to
15:39go just fine.
15:40And there you have a flown flag as well as mission patch and signed by John Young and his crew
15:49member, Bob or Robert Crippen.
15:51Pretty cool.
15:53John Young was actually the only astronaut to have been on the moon as well as a space shuttle pilot.
16:00Yes.
16:00So that's a pretty cool.
16:01Wow.
16:02Yeah.
16:02Whatever adhesive they were using for the flag is starting to turn up brown a little bit.
16:06That needs to be looked at by a conservator at some point, but presumably it probably could be at least
16:13halted.
16:14I like the STS-1 patch and flag, and the condition issues hold me back from being a little bit
16:20aggressive.
16:20But I would say at auction, we'd have something like a $1,500 to $2,500 auction estimate.
16:26If you had to insure it, easily in the $5,000 to $7,000 range.
16:30Okay.
16:31The Apollo 16, you've got the flag and a wonderful beta cloth emblem.
16:35I would say an auction estimate would be $3,000 to $5,000.
16:39Okay.
16:40Okay.
16:41For insurance, you could do as much as $10,000.
16:43Okay.
16:44Perfect.
16:46Oh, my gosh.
16:47Well, they've always been, he was such an inspiration to all of us.
16:51And just to have these, this makes me feel good about being able to display this kind of thing.
17:05There are two chairs that my husband bought at a thrift store on the south side of St.
17:13Louis in 1990.
17:14And we are here to see if they're legitimately Harry Bertoia for Knoll.
17:21That's what we're hoping.
17:22Harry Bertoia is a great designer and even better artist, but he did make some iconic furniture
17:29designs.
17:29And he worked with the great manufacturers of the day, like Knoll.
17:34I'm certain, without inspecting these too much, that these are Harry Bertoia chairs.
17:39You made them in various sizes.
17:44There's child size.
17:46There's dining chairs.
17:47The design is 1952, but they've been in production ever since.
17:52They look relatively early.
17:54They might be 60s or 70s.
17:57At auction, a pair would probably sell for $300 to $500.
18:03Nice.
18:04Perfect.
18:07My dad spent 20 bucks on them.
18:09Yeah.
18:10A good deal.
18:17It's painted by a Moroccan painter named Ahmed Yacoubi.
18:20In 1965, my parents met Ahmed and his fiancée, and they all got along.
18:29My parents were invited in to New York to his studio, and my parents saw this piece of
18:35work, and they fell in love with it and asked Ahmed if they would hold it for them.
18:40He said, $200.
18:41$200.
18:42$200 in 1965.
18:44I think my parents were lucky if they made $2,000 that year, so they must have really
18:48loved this piece of work.
18:49Absolutely.
18:51Ahmed called it a spell against evil, and there is a human figure in there, and you
18:56can see the hands casting spells, but he didn't paint overt human figure at this time because
19:03he was a practicing Muslim.
19:05Ahmed was discovered, actually, by the writer Paul Bowles in Morocco, and Paul Bowles' wife
19:14got him his first show in Tangier.
19:18He also met Francis Bacon, the great British realist painter, and Bacon was a huge proponent
19:27of Ahmed's work.
19:29The painting is oil on canvas, and he used layers and layers of glazes, and then he used this
19:39richly surfaced dark black paint and kind of worked through the paint, scraping away, and
19:47in some areas adding a little bit of lighter color, the orange and the yellow.
19:53It is signed in a very distinctive way.
19:57With little polka dots on it.
19:58His work comes on the market mostly in British sales.
20:03Works of this size sell very consistently in the auction market between $20,000 and $30,000.
20:13Oh, my.
20:15Wow.
20:16That's not bad for a $200 investment in 1965.
20:20Wow.
20:21I would insure it for closer to $40,000.
20:25It's never going to be for sale.
20:27I've known this painting my whole life.
20:31This is my husband's grandfather's collection from the Civil War.
20:36He wrote in here a letter.
20:39He was at the Second Battle of Memphis, and these are the things that he had there.
20:45His sock got soiled, so he washed it and hung it up.
20:50The next day at like 3 in the morning or something, they attacked, the rebels attacked and shot
20:57the tent up and shot up the sock.
21:00And this is hard tack that he had at the same time.
21:03And those were some of the bullets.
21:05I wasn't expecting a sock to come in today.
21:07That would catch my eye so much.
21:09But this is a super special sock.
21:11Yes.
21:12So it happened in August of 1864.
21:14Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest brought Union soldiers, which were really Confederate
21:19soldiers dressed in Union blue, bringing in prisoners to the camp.
21:22They were looking to get two Union generals captured and take their Confederate prisoners
21:27home with them.
21:27They opened fire and surprised the Union with this attack at about 4 a.m.
21:32The sock says it was hung at 3 a.m. because it was soiled and dirty to dry on his
21:36tent.
21:37Really basic.
21:38You know, two guys, one little tent as coverage drying out his wet socks.
21:41I noticed on there he said the boys called it a dog tent?
21:44They called it a pup tent or a dog tent.
21:46And when the battle came in at 4 a.m., not long after he hung up the sock, they shot
21:52through
21:53the camps.
21:54And that tent sustained 72 musket or bullet strikes.
21:58It had 72 holes pierced in it.
22:00Yeah.
22:00And the letter attests to that.
22:01And that's what we're looking at here is the holes that the bullets caused to that sock.
22:05So the tent itself is pronounced by that document as being taken and being sent by a captain
22:11to the governor of Illinois.
22:13Yes.
22:14He also picked up a piece of hardtack.
22:15So it wasn't necessarily his ration, but he was souvenir hunting.
22:18And he brought a piece of hardtack, which was the ration of the Civil War soldiers.
22:22So it was what they had to sustain, not the most delicious food.
22:25These are neat in the fact that it's a before and after.
22:28So they're Civil War-led bullets.
22:30And this is an unfired, or what we call a drop bullet.
22:33This is a fired example that obviously hit something harder than itself.
22:37You can see the striations from whatever it struck, some rifling within the grooves.
22:42And you can see they're both what we call three-ring Union mini balls.
22:44So they were standard issue and undoubtedly picked up on the same field as the 137th Illinois
22:50was only in one engagement.
22:51And this is a fired bullet.
22:53So that would attest to it belong to the same battlefield as the other two objects.
22:56These passing through, you've got to imagine the scene of these soldiers leaving the camp
23:03and nearly losing their lives, 72 rounds.
23:0772 of those is quite a few.
23:09They left with a lot of arms, a lot of supplies, and about 500 Union prisoners.
23:13Do you have any guesses as to their value?
23:15No, I just know that probably most people didn't save their socks.
23:19So it's probably rare.
23:21Would you say you've ever heard of a sock being worth on the retail market $5,000 before?
23:26No.
23:27Well, you have now.
23:28Oh my gosh.
23:29Wow.
23:30That's exciting.
23:33Always wondered what happened to the other sock.
23:35On insurance estimate, I would go a little higher to about the $6,000, $6,500 range.
23:43Conservation efforts have always been a part of Grant's Farm.
23:45And mainly the way we focus on conservation is through education.
23:49Check out these large bovines with insulating and thick shaggy coats.
23:54We have a population of yaks, a breeding group of yaks.
23:57Right now I think we have five or six.
23:59They're found in the Himalayas.
24:00They are capable of enduring very cold temperatures.
24:03All these different species of bovine found from all over the world can cohabitate here and get along very well.
24:11This is a bronze that an aunt who lived in Arizona sent to me.
24:18Everyone got oil paintings and she sent me the bronze.
24:21I've always liked westerns and I've seen beautiful bronzes that I liked.
24:26The bronze is signed.
24:29And then I certainly didn't see that on the back.
24:33It's very hard to see in the back here.
24:35Right.
24:35But it appears to say Gschutz.
24:38Gschutz?
24:39Gschutz.
24:40Okay.
24:41Which refers to a patent.
24:44This name, C-K-A-U-B-A.
24:50And that is Karl Kauba.
24:54Kauba.
24:55Okay.
24:55So Karl Kauba was an Austrian artist, lived from 1865 to 1922.
25:02And this probably was cast right around the turn of the century, let's say circa 1900.
25:07What's interesting about Karl Kauba, imagine somebody who may or may not have ever actually gone to the Old West.
25:17Right.
25:18That's what's been said about Karl Kauba because he is from Vienna.
25:22Karl Kauba was fascinated by the American West.
25:26Cowboys, Native Americans, Rough Riders, and did a number of great naturalistic bronzes.
25:35Very realistically rendered like the one we have here.
25:39The textures are particularly great.
25:42The details in the back of the boots.
25:44I noticed those, yes.
25:46Really well done.
25:48Yes.
25:48And then we've got the holster with a pistol and then we've got the rifle here.
25:55He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but his background is a little bit of a debate.
26:02What's not debated is that sometimes you now hear his name in the same circles as artists like Frederick Remington,
26:08an artist that we know spent a lot of time in the West.
26:11It's on a marble base and naturalistically rendered with a variety of textures, great detail,
26:18by an artist who today has become an Austrian artist but synonymous with the American West.
26:25We believe this is a lifetime casting by Kauba as opposed to a bronze that would have been created posthumously.
26:32And in its present condition and given the strength of the market for Kauba and Western subjects,
26:39I would probably insure this for about $6,000.
26:43Wow.
26:45Wow.
26:46That is great.
26:48But I don't want him to go anywhere.
26:50I don't want him to go anywhere either.
26:52I think that's great.
27:00It is a little porcelain hippo.
27:03I got it at an antique mall a couple of years ago and I've just loved it.
27:07I burn incense out of it.
27:08It says 1968 NS on the bottom.
27:13It was like five bucks.
27:19I like kind of orphan things and this theme struck a nerve with me so I bought it.
27:25It struck a nerve with me too.
27:26My wife is not a fan.
27:30We call it the creepy kid.
27:32I don't need another set of eyes following me around.
27:34The eyes follow you when you walk past it.
27:38It was 1979, the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
27:4352 Americans were stripped of their freedom, their dignity and their pride,
27:47known as the Iran hostage crisis.
27:49That lasted 444 days.
27:52The Shah had fled in January of 1979.
27:56The government of Islamic Republic of Iran was formed.
27:59I arrived October 7th when we were taken hostage.
28:03I was a young 22-year-old kid.
28:05My part at the American Embassy was a Marine security guard.
28:08And I'm happy to say that for four hours that morning of November 4th,
28:13seven Marines held at American Embassy waiting for the host government,
28:16the Islamic Republic of Iran, to come to free us.
28:19But that never happened.
28:20They basically broke through the basement window and attacked the embassy.
28:25President Carter at that point in time said to give ourself up that they were going to work on diplomacy
28:31to basically free us.
28:33Well, that lasted 444 days.
28:36What was it like being a hostage?
28:38The first 30-plus days we sat tied to a chair and not allowed to speak.
28:42It wasn't until January of 1980, I was put into the room with Billy Gallegos, another Marine,
28:48and Jerry Plotkin, the only American civilian.
28:51And in that room, we came up with something to do.
28:54And that consisted of those playing cards that we created.
28:57We were locked in that room.
28:58We went outside seven times out of 444 days.
29:01We were put into offices of the American Embassy.
29:04And in the offices, there was a table with a typewriter.
29:07The Islamic Republic of Iran, they wanted us to write derogatory statements to our government,
29:13asking for the shawl to return.
29:15Instead, I took the paper and started typing my diary, which really helped me pass the time.
29:20Within weeks, they took the typewriter away.
29:22Then I just got the paper and I started writing the diary.
29:26There was about 600 pages.
29:27Every time I would move, I would put it in a plastic bag and tie it around my thigh.
29:32January 20, 1981, when we were let go, that night, I had it in a plastic bag.
29:39I took two socks again, tied it around my thigh, and I didn't take it off my body until we
29:44got to Germany.
29:45That's the first page when you had the typewriter.
29:48Yes, sir.
29:48That's the last page just before you put it around your leg and brought it out of the country.
29:53So we get to Germany, and President Carter jumped on Air Force One and came over immediately to meet with
29:59us.
30:00When did you get the signed picture and the note?
30:02It was that year of November, 1981.
30:06He had presented each one of the hostages.
30:09The note that Jimmy Carter sent.
30:11Now, he was not president at the time.
30:13Reagan was president.
30:14Yes, sir.
30:15But can you read a little of that?
30:18It is a photograph of us together in Wiesbaden the day after you were released from imprisonment.
30:26This was one of the happiest days of my life, and I wanted to share this memory with you in
30:33this way.
30:34The two items of Jimmy Carter, usually the more valuable items would be when they were president.
30:43But the sentiment that he expresses by sending you that picture and saying this is one of the happiest days
30:50of your life,
30:51I think easily an insurance value would be $5,000 on the pair of them.
30:55You have four cards of the deck.
30:58People collect cards.
30:59People collect POW items.
31:03So the cards of insurance value, I would say, would be $2,000.
31:08Wow.
31:09When people are looking for diaries, the reason they buy it, one, is because the information in it is unknown.
31:18In other words, it's something that can be studied.
31:20It's bringing forth new information.
31:22The other reason you buy it is it's a great item in and of itself.
31:27It's a display piece.
31:28You published a book.
31:30From what I understand, the book is almost covering word for word.
31:36Yes, sir.
31:36So in a way, that cuts what somebody might pay for it.
31:41Right.
31:41An insurance value, I think, is more on the $20,000 value.
31:46Got it.
31:46It's a priceless piece because it was really a way for me to survive each day and think of home.
31:59It's been passed down through the family since my grandmother, and I've had possession of it since 1986.
32:06You know the name.
32:08Zark.
32:09I think it's one of the nicer pieces of Zark I've ever seen.
32:13Really?
32:14The piece is marked Zark, which is short for Ozark Pottery, which operated in St. Louis here from 1906 to
32:21about 1910.
32:23Locust Street.
32:24Yes.
32:24I'm not sure where Locust Street is.
32:25Downtown.
32:26Downtown.
32:26Yes.
32:27What's unusual about it is the naturalistic treatment of the dragonflies.
32:32There's one, two, three dragonflies on here.
32:35Right.
32:35And you will note also, besides saying Zark on the bottom, there are other initials.
32:42That would be the artist who actually did it.
32:44Okay, the potter?
32:44Yes.
32:45Or the person who did the decoration.
32:47Okay.
32:47This is a combination of incising and slip decoration.
32:52I don't know who the artist is.
32:54This brilliant blue may be more prevalent up here than you think.
32:58I think you can use mild soap and warm water.
33:03This might clean up quite a bit.
33:05Do you have a sense of value?
33:08No.
33:09Pieces that I was looking at on the internet, I mean, on auction sale, anywhere from a couple
33:15of hundred up to a thousand, I thought, no way would that be in that range.
33:20Well, I think this is a better example.
33:22And truthfully, I talked to my colleagues, we think a conservative auction estimate would
33:28easily be in the $1,500 to $2,500 range.
33:32No, no, no, no, no, no.
33:33Maybe $2,000 to $3,000.
33:35Are you serious?
33:36I am.
33:39Oh, thank you, Irish gods.
33:41I told you I'm not Irish.
33:43But I am.
33:44Continue to take care.
33:46Oh, I will.
33:47It's a sweetie.
33:48I love it.
33:48I love a squat little body.
33:52I bought a picture that was done by Roy that worked for Walt Disney.
33:57And I was at Disneyland in 1958.
33:59We were walking down the street.
34:01I got the picture and then we went for ice cream.
34:04And we went inside the ice cream store.
34:06And the mother that I was with pointed and said, there's Walt Disney.
34:11So we walked over, introduced ourselves.
34:16He was very nice.
34:17And he said, would you like me to autograph your pictures?
34:21I mean, that's what he did.
34:23Okay.
34:23And you were about how old then?
34:25I was probably 10.
34:27So you're 100% right.
34:29It's a drawing by Roy Williams, who is an early Disney illustrator, who is also a co-host of the
34:34Mickey Mouse Club in the 50s when it first went on air.
34:37He's also credited with inventing the Mickey Mouse hat.
34:41Signatures from Walt Disney are extremely prized.
34:44We've looked at it.
34:45We think it's 100% right.
34:47We've got a combination piece here.
34:48So we've got the value of the drawing by Roy, who they are fairly common.
34:53They do come up.
34:54And then we've got the value of Disney.
34:56So the value on the Roy drawing, if it was just this by itself, you're looking at $200 to $300.
35:02You add the Disney on top, you're looking at $3,000 to $5,000 for this piece.
35:09Wow.
35:10That's something.
35:11That is really something.
35:17My aunt passed it to me when she passed away.
35:21Right.
35:21But it's been in my family for a very long time.
35:25My grandparents were antique dealers back in Massachusetts.
35:28The story goes that they got this out of an estate sale that had certain items that belonged to John
35:38Quincy Adams.
35:39And supposedly this desk was one of them.
35:42That was probably in the 30s.
35:45My understanding from what you've just said is that the Adams Family Association is more family lore than firmly documented
35:54provenance.
35:54Correct.
35:55I just have the stories that we grew up with.
35:59Okay.
35:59There are some characteristics of the desk that make it certainly plausible in the sense that it is an American
36:06Chippendale desk in tiger maple or figured maple.
36:11And it's from Massachusetts mid-century, probably 1760-ish.
36:15Okay.
36:16One of the things I really love about this desk is the fact that it appears to be in virtually
36:21untouched condition.
36:22But one of the things that really stands out for me for this desk is the fact that it has
36:26extraordinarily tall feet and highly figured feet.
36:31Lots of times they didn't use this super desirable wood on the feet.
36:35But in this case, they did and they are intact.
36:39And the reason that feet break so frequently is that people grab this loper and pull it across the floor
36:44by themselves.
36:45Then they have a repair on their hands.
36:46I didn't even know that's what this was called.
36:48A loper?
36:49Loper.
36:49L-O-P-E-R.
36:51So why don't you pull that one out?
36:53Okay.
36:53And we'll take a look at the inside of the desk.
36:55Okay.
36:56And again, classic Massachusetts slant front desk.
37:01Somewhere would be the ink stains, the patch here where the knot is, patches here where the hinges broke out
37:07because somebody probably didn't pull the lopers out and the lid crashed down toward the floor.
37:13And then it has this other very cool, very quintessentially Massachusetts treatment.
37:18And that is what is normally a prospect door and hinge to swing as the door does.
37:24This is a prospect panel.
37:26And the only thing that holds it in place is the lock.
37:30So it has two pins here at the bottom.
37:33Yeah.
37:33That go in.
37:34Exactly.
37:35You can see where they've been dragged back and forth.
37:37But if you just set it in place, it tends to fall forward on its own.
37:41So you would use the key here to lock it and keep it in place.
37:44And it's easily lost and often replaced because it's not attached to the desk.
37:49It was always in one of the drawers.
37:51Taking the provenance aside and just looking at it as a beautiful Massachusetts desk.
37:57Okay.
37:57And I would say that if it were to go to auction, I would put an estimate on it of
38:02$5,000 to $8,000.
38:07I had no idea.
38:16This is Cora.
38:18Her 40-inch bronze is at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
38:22It was my grandmother's.
38:24Then we learned that her name was Cora after I had my daughter Cora.
38:28So it's a special piece that's very close to our family and we enjoy hanging out with her.
38:34My mom bought it at the antique store.
38:36They told her it was really old and it came from India.
38:39Found out today it was manufactured probably in India, but within the last 50 years.
38:44And it was made to look old.
38:46I don't know if it was worth lugging it all the way in here.
38:49Yeah, now we have to lug it all the way back out, but that's okay.
38:59I know that it's from a person named A. Paul Brooks.
39:03I think he ended up in Shreveport, Louisiana, which is where I purchased these at an estate sale about three
39:07years ago.
39:08I know that they're movie cards and he worked at an old movie house.
39:12He was on the art director there.
39:14And how much did you pay for it?
39:15A dollar.
39:16Where do you keep these at the house?
39:18So currently they stay between the wall and a piece of furniture.
39:24Because I don't know what to do with them just yet.
39:26So how do you know who the artist is and how did you find out so much about him?
39:29The front of the portfolio has his name, A. Paul Brooks.
39:33And so I contacted someone that knew things about silent films and gave him name and information.
39:40And he sent me an obituary for the man.
39:44You brought in this great portfolio, but I only chose a couple of pieces.
39:46There are three up here, but there are five more in the portfolio.
39:50I love silent era films.
39:52And the interesting part about these is these are all hand painted artwork probably used in a lobby or in
39:59the front window to sell tickets to silent films.
40:02And these date from about 1927 or so.
40:06These are all lost films.
40:08These are all silent films where we don't have any complete footage of the film.
40:13Wow.
40:15But these two aren't based off movie posters.
40:18They're based off of the cover of a movie fan magazine from about 1919 to 1924 called Shadowland by a
40:25German fellow, A. M. Hoffmuller.
40:27And it was kind of an art and design and movie fanzine all in one arts and culture magazine.
40:34And these were the color covers.
40:36This is the cover from, I believe, 1921 wild geeses from 1919.
40:41And this artist, A. Paul Brooks, copied the cover, but he did a better job.
40:47There's more detail, a little more color, a little more life.
40:50And he added this amazing text design, The Land Where You Are Not.
40:55It says that dainty little star, Louise Brooks, who is a fairly famous actress.
41:00I can find the novel, The Land Where You Are Not, but we can't find the film.
41:04Oh.
41:05I don't know if the film was ever made.
41:07There are records of the rights being sold for the book for a movie to be made.
41:11But was this ever actually made into a film or was it ever released?
41:14More research needs to be done.
41:16These are by really skilled hand and a unknown artist.
41:20These are gouache on cardboard.
41:22And the cardboard is, frankly, trash.
41:25It is very thin because these weren't supposed to last.
41:28They were going to be up on the display for just a couple of weeks.
41:31Most of these in here, they're beautiful.
41:33They're all great.
41:34And they would average at auction around $500 each.
41:38Wow.
41:39That's around $2,500 for the portfolio.
41:43Do you have any idea what the better pieces might be worth?
41:47No, I would not have said 500 pieces.
41:51For each one of these at auction,
41:53I'd be looking at around $1,500 to $2,000 each.
41:58Wow.
41:59Wow.
42:00Well, they are gorgeous.
42:02I've really enjoyed them.
42:03And now I'm probably going to have to take them out from between the wall and the piece of furniture.
42:08For that $1 investment in your portfolio, you're looking at $7,000 to $8,500.
42:13Wow.
42:16Of the hundreds of interesting animals at Grant's Farm, there are some feathered friends that refuse to be ignored.
42:24Peafowl, the term used for both male and female birds, are originally from the Indian subcontinent.
42:31These beautiful show-offs really do seem to be as proud as, well, peacocks.
42:40These are my husband's grandfather's wife.
42:44After three girls, she had her first boy.
42:47And so the grandfather gave her those two bracelets.
42:51And it goes back to 1890 is when he had this first boy.
42:58Who do we see in this photograph?
42:59This is my husband's grandmother and grandfather.
43:06So in the picture, my husband's grandmother is wearing the one bracelet on her arm.
43:13The other one is probably behind his back because they wore two, one on each arm at the time.
43:19I wear one now at a time, just, you know, but I love them.
43:25They are Victorian.
43:26They're big.
43:27They're beautiful.
43:28This is black enamel that you have here.
43:31Yeah, that's nice, isn't it?
43:32It's beautiful.
43:33And what I love, it's this kind of garter style, almost that belt style.
43:38Yes.
43:39And it makes them a bit modern.
43:40Like you could still wear these today, right?
43:43Yes, I love them.
43:43Yeah, they're very, very chic.
43:45And the fact that you have two, not one, also makes them a little bit more rare and even more
43:51desirable.
43:51So I did weigh them and you have 50 grams of gold.
43:54They're 14 karat yellow gold.
43:56No hallmarks though, but they are 14 karat gold.
43:59Also, this is, I love this part of it, is that when you open the mop, what's inside?
44:06That's her name.
44:07That's his grandmother's name, Madalina Bellotto.
44:11Engraved inside.
44:12If you had to walk into a retail store to purchase those today, it would be $10,000 for the
44:17pair.
44:20I didn't realize that.
44:31Tell us what you brought in today to share with our viewers.
44:34Two pieces of Golden Venture prison art.
44:38Golden Venture was a ship that was bringing immigrants in and it ran aground in New York.
44:43I think a few drowned and the rest were taken to different detention centers to be held until it was
44:49decided if they would be deported or if they would be granted entry into the country.
44:53You bought these when?
44:56We were thinking about 10 years ago at an auction in York, Pennsylvania, which is where many of them were
45:02held.
45:03Well, this was a very, very well known and controversial news story.
45:07The Golden Venture was a ship that started out in China and was holding 286 Chinese dissidents.
45:17In 1993, the ship ran aground 300 yards from shore right off of Fort Tilden.
45:23There was panic.
45:24It was 2 o'clock in the morning.
45:25It was pitch dark and a lot of them jumped overboard.
45:2910 of them drowned and a few of them actually got away, never to be seen again.
45:35What we're talking about today revolves around the dissidents that were sent to York, Pennsylvania prison.
45:42And they were held there for various amounts of time while their cases were determined and what they're going to
45:50do with these prisoners.
45:52Around 50 remained in prison and finally in 1997 were ordered to be released by President Clinton.
45:59These pieces of the Golden Venture were done at the prison and they were done for two reasons.
46:06Number one, these people were very proud and they were done to raise some money to pay for their legal
46:14expenses.
46:16They were also done to prevent boredom.
46:18There was no glue.
46:20It was strictly folded paper.
46:22Reports are that they made upward of about 10,000 pieces.
46:25Oh my gosh, I love you.
46:26Very, very interesting.
46:28Bowls, baskets.
46:29Later on they did much larger pieces.
46:31And I'll share something with you.
46:33I still have eight pieces.
46:35Do you?
46:35I do.
46:36And they're very meaningful to me.
46:38We keep one of them on our mantle as a reminder of this journey, this plight of these dissidents.
46:47Some of them had violated the one child's law and they were scheduled to be sterilized.
46:54So they were seeking asylum for those reasons and it became a real political football.
47:02This hard surface, what they did is they used soap and water and they made almost like a mache out
47:11of toilet paper.
47:12Okay.
47:13And soap and water.
47:15Good to know.
47:16And they allowed it to dry out and harden.
47:18And you can see printing on there because they cut up magazines and newspapers to do this.
47:25And you also see the ghost image of what used to be on there, a label.
47:31All of mine have labels on there.
47:33They had the names of the prisoners who made them.
47:35Yes.
47:36My husband removed it.
47:37Yes.
47:38They all were named.
47:39The other one was underneath.
47:40So what did you pay for them?
47:42No more than $20 each.
47:44We don't see them come up that often.
47:46I do see them trade from time to time.
47:48And typically they're in the $300 to $400 range.
47:52So they're innocent numbers, but the story is so profound.
47:57And are you going to keep these?
47:59Oh, yes.
47:59We have them displayed.
48:00This one's in our bedroom all the time and this one's in our living room.
48:10So this was my grandparents' clock.
48:13It sat on their mantel for years.
48:15And then when they passed, they handed it down to me.
48:17According to them, that was their grandparents' clock.
48:20And you want to see if that adds up?
48:21I want to do the math.
48:22Yeah, yeah.
48:23We'll see if the math makes sense.
48:24I've been trying to get tickets for years.
48:26And I finally got drawn.
48:27So we're brought from Iowa.
48:28So we just drove on down here.
48:30I've got a 1969 Gibson Hummingbird.
48:33My dad acquired it in the early to mid-90s.
48:36He was in country bands in Northern Virginia.
48:38He had given it to my grandfather and then my grandfather gave it to me.
48:44I just picked it up in a thrift store and liked it and thought it was pretty.
48:49Can you tell me when you got this?
48:51Probably 2018 or 19.
48:53It's an absolutely exquisite art deco purse.
48:58This is a lovely little giardinetto decoration on the front.
49:02Giardinetto actually means little garden in Italian.
49:05And it's constructed in platinum, gorgeous carved rock crystal, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and old European cut diamonds.
49:16This style in the art deco period would be known as tutti frutti.
49:20And it was made really popular by a specific maker, Cartier.
49:25So right when you brought this to the table, I immediately thought to myself, is that Cartier?
49:31Fortunately, because the piece is sewn on to the front and we can't see the back of it to see
49:37how it's marked.
49:38When I opened up the bag, I saw here that it's signed Cartier.
49:43While we can't say for certain without flipping it over and seeing the reverse, I believe it's probably Cartier, France.
49:49Do you remember what you paid for this?
49:51$1.50.
49:52And do you have any idea of what you think it's worth?
49:55I was hoping maybe $2,000 or $3,000.
49:57Conservatively, in an auction situation today, it's worth about $35,000.
50:04And that's fair market value.
50:08Wow.
50:14Well, that's something.
50:16Sorry.
50:17No, it's wonderful.
50:19You're an expert looker, a wonderful picker, and you have an incredible eye to be able to spot this.
50:26Insurance would easily be over $100,000.
50:31Wow.
50:33Wow.
50:35It was worth the trip.
50:36It's been so much fun.
50:38We've just been treated like royalty, and I just feel so welcomed.
50:42Oh, I'm so glad.
50:43I'm so happy for you.
50:44It's been so hard not telling you for the last three hours.
50:49Wow.
50:52Whew.
51:00And now it's time for the Roadshow Feedback booth.
51:03So we brought in a meteorite, but it turns out it's not actually a meteorite.
51:09Darn it.
51:09I'm still happy though, even though it's just a rock, because I got to miss a day of school.
51:14She was the doll that was placed on the stairway so that the toddlers wouldn't crawl on the stairs when
51:21I was growing up.
51:22So we were all terrified of her, but the appraiser today just fell in love with Hannah.
51:28So happy to be here at the Antiques Roadshow.
51:32Got a bag of big little comics, and they're worth $20 each.
51:38And I paid $25 for the whole bag.
51:41So I think I scored.
51:42Found out that my grandparents' beer stein and clock were both from the 1890s.
51:48Beer stein's more for function than fashion.
51:51Worth $100.
51:51And this clock was worth about $700.
51:55Had a great time.
51:56Love Antiques Roadshow.
51:56I brought my grandfather's hand-painted chess set from the 1970s.
52:02They're not beautiful, but they're worth nothing.
52:05But it was all fun.
52:06And I brought this memorabilia from the Chicago World's Fair, and it is also not worth anything.
52:13But we've been watching Antiques Roadshow since we were kids, and so it's really great to be here.
52:17We had a lot of fun.
52:18Yep, we love Antiques Roadshow.
52:19We love Antiques Roadshow.
52:20We love Antiques Roadshow.
52:21Thanks for watching.
52:22See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
52:25I think we've got brown.
52:26I'm sorry, Marks, we're not good Reading.
52:26It's a Hundred Tariff.
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