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Antiques Roadshow - Season 30 (US) - Episode 07: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Hour 1
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00:04Antiques Roadshow has come ashore at the Coastal Main Botanical Gardens in Booth Bay.
00:10You had this one framed beautifully. Why this one?
00:13Because my wife said to.
00:15That's good. That's very good.
00:36On a small peninsula on the rural coast of Maine, you'll find the Coastal Main Botanical Gardens, the largest garden
00:43in New England.
00:46After 30 years of touring, it's Roadshow's first visit to Maine, and we couldn't be more pleased to see folks
00:53with their prized belongings coming in today.
00:58The garden's flowers are bursting with vivid colors, while our experts are bursting with excitement to see all of the
01:04treasures here in the Pine Tree State.
01:16So this is a pair of candlesticks that were gifted to my great-grandmother and great-grandfather after they got
01:25me.
01:25He was a veteran of World War I and ended up being critically wounded and was in hospital in London
01:33for months and months.
01:35And after he was out, he sent flowers and chocolates to all of the nurses, and only one sent a
01:40thank-you note back, and it turned out to be my great-grandmother.
01:50It's a gift from my father, who was a Pan Am pilot from 1940 through 1975.
01:59And he made the acquaintance of a reservation supervisor, and the guy gave him a year's worth of posters like
02:08this.
02:09And how many of them do you have?
02:11I think we brought 14 with us, and there's about three or four more that we've already given to members
02:17of the family.
02:18And yet you had this one framed, and framed beautifully. Why this one?
02:23Because my wife said to. That's the first thing.
02:27The intent for this was to be mounted in a bathroom that has similar coloring, and it seemed to fit
02:33perfectly.
02:34And we loved the colors, plus the airplane, Boeing 377, which at the time was their most luxurious airplane flying.
02:44I am so happy that you are plain familiar, because part of the glory of this poster is the aircraft
02:53itself.
02:54Boeing 377 Stratocruiser.
02:57Right.
02:57One of the most luxurious. Double-decker. Inside, it was the lap of luxury.
03:01One of Pan Am's great vehicles. I believe they flew from 1947 through 1963.
03:08Did your dad pilot one of those?
03:10No, he did not. However, I have ridden on one with him en route to Europe one time, and it
03:17is beautiful.
03:17There was a lounge, a first-class lounge down at the bottom of the airplane. It was really nice.
03:22Amazing. Yeah, they called it the golden age of travel, and that's really why.
03:26It was, yeah.
03:26It was also the golden age of travel posters, and this is a Pan Am airline travel poster from 1949.
03:33And it's by a Russian-American artist named Boris Artsy-Bashev. He did a lot of magazine covers, so Time
03:40Magazine, Fortune Magazine.
03:42He also did a lot of corporate work for Xerox, for Shell, and for Pan Am.
03:48And this poster, advertising travel to Bermuda, which depicts Bermuda as this verdant island in the midst of this delightfully
03:56azure blue ocean.
03:59We have the capital of Bermuda, Hamilton, indicated by the star.
04:04We have this, dare I say, sexy mermaid sort of emerging from the water as the island does, almost embracing
04:13it.
04:14She's also holding these absolutely wonderful Bermuda Easter lilies.
04:19Now, what I don't see is that this poster should have white margins all the way around it,
04:25so perhaps when it was framed, those margins were covered over simply for aesthetic reasons.
04:31And I'm hoping that they're still there.
04:34They are.
04:35They are still there.
04:36So we were told.
04:37Yes.
04:38And so you're telling me.
04:40So, what is this piece worth?
04:44Hopefully more than the frame.
04:48Begs the question, how much did you pay for the frame?
04:52About $700.
04:54$700.
04:55$100.
04:55Hmm.
04:57I admire how much you love your wife.
05:01Uh, and how you do what she says, and I think that's great.
05:04Assuming that the margins are still here, at auction, I would estimate this piece between $8,000 and $12,000.
05:14Seriously?
05:16Wow.
05:19That's frightening.
05:21That a piece of paper is worth that much.
05:25If it turns out the margins aren't here, and what we see is what we get, it would still be
05:30a $4,000 or $5,000.
05:31Wow.
05:32Very impressive.
05:33Yeah.
05:35We call him Neptune Man, and the rest of my family really thinks I'm crazy for buying him.
05:42Um, I paid, put your hands over your ears, honey.
05:45I paid about, um, it was about $700.
05:49Yeah, I know, but I loved it.
05:52I just, what can I say?
05:55Well, I know that my great-grandfather was the first employee of the Atwood and McManus box company in Chelsea,
06:02Massachusetts, way back when.
06:04Um, and I know a number of members of my family work there as well.
06:09One of my relatives took the sign.
06:14Here you have Miss Louisa, and I have known Miss Louisa since I was about five years old.
06:20I have a picture of my mother and Miss Louisa together, and the picture was taken in 1920, when my
06:28mother was about five years old.
06:29And this was in Pennsylvania, where my mother grew up.
06:32So, other than that, I know my mother played with her, obviously, because she was holding her.
06:37I was not allowed to play with her.
06:38She was just to sit quietly under the Christmas tree and look very serene and spiritual.
06:44So, we know she's been in your family since at least 1920.
06:47Correct.
06:48So, Miss Louisa is about 100 years before that, almost.
06:53Oh, wow.
06:53So, Miss Louisa comes about 1830.
06:56That's wonderful.
06:57Yeah, so she is an American papier-mâché.
06:59And there's a cloth body that's all hand-sewn under here.
07:02And these dolls are usually Philadelphia, East Coast area.
07:06She has a body similar to some of the dolls made in Philadelphia, which were Griner dolls,
07:11with these individual-made fingers, individual-stitched toes.
07:15It is a papier-mâché.
07:17These were handmade, hand-painted.
07:19A lot of times you see ones that are very feminine-looking.
07:22This one's a little more masculine, but we do know it is a female because of that part in the
07:27middle of her face there.
07:28She would have been a special-made doll.
07:31So, not cheap, meaning that she made was $5 as opposed to $1 back then, which is a lot of
07:37money.
07:38Miss Louisa, in her condition that she is in, and obviously her clothing has gotten old, but it's her original
07:44clothing.
07:44And 1830s is a long time ago, so we don't expect her to look new or pristine.
07:49Her value at a doll show would be anywhere from $2,500 to $4,000.
07:54Oh, my!
07:55Oh, that's wonderful!
07:57My kids would be super pleased.
07:59And my mother would be, too.
08:09So, we're in the Giles Rhododendron and Perennial Garden.
08:13It was the first garden that was designed and planned here at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
08:18And it's the pristine location for rhododendrons and their companions.
08:23Just because of the location on this gentle slope, rhododendrons prefer the type of habitat
08:31and cultural conditions where we have the well-drained soils, and they've just performed really well here.
08:37And we're fortunate to have over 175 different varieties of rhododendrons and also rhododendron species as well
08:43here in this garden, and it's absolutely spectacular.
08:50This is a cast-iron birdhouse.
08:53I remember my grandparents' house.
08:55It was mounted on a post out in the yard.
08:59As a little kid, we would play, and it was always there, birds around it.
09:03What is so cool about this is it's not just any house.
09:08This is Clifton House.
09:10And Clifton House is a house that still exists to this day in Roslyn Harbor, New York.
09:16On Long Island.
09:17Clifton House is a Flemish Gothic Revival-style home by architect Frederick Copley of New York,
09:24constructed in 1862 to 1863.
09:27Just a few years later, in 1868, the Miller Iron Company in Providence, Rhode Island,
09:34made this model of Clifton House as a birdhouse.
09:38It is stamped patent 1868, and it is likely either made that year or very shortly thereafter.
09:46The Miller Iron Company would have issued this birdhouse in plain cast iron.
09:52And so this was later painted by someone.
09:55And this red roof with green detailing and white brick sides would have been an appropriate color scheme
10:02probably in the early 20th century when this entered your family's possession.
10:09Clifton House, as it is today, is not painted in this color scheme, and we don't know if it was
10:14ever painted this color scheme.
10:16But this is such an important example of American Gothic Revival decorative art
10:23that examples of this have entered museum collections, including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
10:30and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in their American wing.
10:34And examples have appeared at auction, but none of them, except one example I have been able to find,
10:41have this what I believe to be original open work base that you have under the birdhouse,
10:48where this would then be mounted on a pole outside for a birdhouse.
10:53The house is held together by a long central screw.
10:59Here in the back, we see the top of it near the mark of the Miller Iron Company of Providence,
11:05Rhode Island.
11:06We can see the occasional small lacking element.
11:09There's a small piece of this stair banister that's missing
11:15and a couple of lacking chimney pots, a couple of other very small lacking elements.
11:20But overall, it's still an amazing condition considering its age.
11:23I would advise you to insure it for $12,000.
11:28Wow. Really?
11:31I will definitely do that.
11:34Because right now, it's just sitting at home on a shelf, you know, catching dust.
11:38So, that's awesome. Yeah. Unbelievable.
11:41Always been a dream to be here. So, that's awesome. Thank you.
11:48So, this is a Gibson L5.
11:51It's custom, from what I understand.
11:53My great-uncle's wife's brother had polio when he was a kid,
11:58so he needed a special kind of guitar.
12:01And we think it's maybe 50s, 60s.
12:08So, this is based off of a fish that my grandfather and my dad caught.
12:12Back in the early 70s, when my dad was about seven years old, I believe.
12:17And my grandfather had it stored in a freezer for, like, over two years.
12:23And his brother took the fish out of the freezer one day and just told him he tossed it.
12:27But he actually sent it over to a local Maine artist to have this fish carved.
12:32As far as we know, like, a scale replica of that fish that they had.
12:37Today, I brought a cream pot forged by Paul Revere in a diary belonging to Thaddeus Harris and his portrait.
12:47So, it's interesting that there's a contemporary journal.
12:50And he was the son of the person who actually, of the man who owned this cream pitcher.
12:54Yes, William Harris.
12:55So, the diary is depicting the night that they left Charlestown because they got intel that the regulars were coming.
13:02When you say the regulars, that means the British Army.
13:06Yes, the British Army.
13:07So, they grabbed a bundle of important papers and some linens, some silver plate, this cream pot, and some spoons.
13:20And, obviously, the wife and children and the mother-in-law and fled to Lexington.
13:26They didn't stay there long because the Battle of Concord in Lexington had just happened.
13:32On April 19th.
13:34What year was that?
13:351775.
13:36Okay.
13:37And so, they left Lexington and went out to Sterling, Mass, where they felt that they were safer.
13:44Okay.
13:45Paul Revere, of course, is the one maker of colonial silver that any collector would really want to have.
13:51And by colonial silver, I mean silver made before America became the United States, when it was still the 13
13:58colonies and owned by England.
14:01Paul Revere was a silversmith in Boston.
14:03His father had also been a silversmith.
14:06This picture was probably relatively new at the time that this incident occurred.
14:11It's a neoclassical in style.
14:14It's a helmet-formed picture.
14:15And it's got some very lovely engraving on the outside of it with some initials as showing who it belonged
14:21to in the family.
14:22And then the mark of Paul Revere, Jr. on the back of the foot.
14:27A similar creamer sold this year, 2025, for a little over $25,000.
14:33I think with the archival material that you have, the story of it relating to having been something that was
14:41saved from being stolen by the British Army,
14:44makes it a very interesting story and adds some value to it.
14:48I would say that if this were to come up at a public auction of American silver,
14:53the picture combined with the archival material and the miniature portrait would bring in the neighborhood of $25,000 to
15:00$30,000.
15:02And as it's property of your family and has historical importance to your family, I'm sure you're not going to
15:07sell it.
15:08So I would put an insurance value of $40,000 to $60,000 on it.
15:13Wow. That's amazing.
15:25I've had it probably 15 years or so.
15:28It came from my father's basement after he was deceased, and his grandfather made it, who immigrated from Sweden into
15:36Maine with my two-year-old grandmother.
15:39When was this?
15:401888 they came to Maine.
15:41Okay.
15:42And they pretty much settled in Stockholm, Maine, where he started a business.
15:46He built some boats, and he had a cottage on Madawaska Lake.
15:50He eventually had a store, and it was like a stagecoach stop where wayfaring travelers would stay there and maybe
15:57get a meal.
15:58He spoke no English.
15:59He made this, I'm guessing, about 1900, maybe a little bit before.
16:03It's a Swedish soldier.
16:05I was told it's a uniform from, like, 1865.
16:10I'm just guessing that perhaps my great-grandfather had it on his store.
16:15Maybe he was trying to reel in some customers or something like that.
16:19Yeah, that's a really good guess as a sort of a trade figure that he had out in front of
16:23the store to attract people in.
16:25This is solid wood.
16:27The bottom of his jacket is made out of some sort of painted oil cloth.
16:31His cross belt here is probably gold foil that was pressed onto the surface, and his little medal here or
16:40his medallion here is also gold foil.
16:42The belt is leather, and someone has punched out that piece of metal to make a military-style belt.
16:50It's fabulous.
16:51It looks like it was, at one time, very blue, if you can see the blue color here.
16:57Everything about this just screams quality.
17:02What we all love about it is the surface.
17:05It has never been cleaned.
17:06It has never been repainted.
17:08And that's what folk art collectors just love to see.
17:11It's the original surface of the figure.
17:15You can see in the guy's face the bumping, the little crackling from where the varnish is aged and shrunk.
17:23And same things on the paddles here.
17:26I mean, that's fabulous.
17:28That alligatoring like that comes from age.
17:31There's a story that you have about this.
17:33What did you do with it?
17:34Family's got a place on the lake in central Maine, and it was really windy.
17:39That was yesterday.
17:41So I wanted to put it on the dock because I wanted to see how it behaved.
17:44It had some movement.
17:45His arms didn't go flailing or anything like that, but he twisted it in the wind a little bit.
17:50I had to keep my foot on the base because I didn't want him to take a swim.
17:54But that was the first time, really, I've ever spent any time with a young man.
17:58So we all put our heads together and thought that a good auction estimate for this figure would be $8
18:05,000 to $12,000.
18:08Interesting.
18:10If it were an American figure, we would probably have doubled that estimate.
18:14But it's a great figure.
18:16It's the best whirligig that I've seen in 29 years on the roadshow.
18:20Don't put it out on the dock anymore.
18:22No, it was just an experiment.
18:24He twisted a little bit in the breeze.
18:26So do I.
18:29These are my grandmothers, our grandmothers.
18:31She was born in about 1895.
18:34It's her porridge bowl and cup.
18:37It's got her niches on it.
18:38It's very precious to us because it's gone through all four of my children and 11 grandchildren.
18:44So it's a little, it didn't sit in the cupboard.
18:48It's been used.
18:50I'm going to see if anybody else loves it.
18:54So this chair was left in my parents' basement by my brother-in-law.
19:00What I do know about it is it's a high-frequency therapy chair.
19:05It would have electrodes that you can connect to your hand, ultraviolet vacuum tubes, and a lot of things I
19:15don't understand.
19:16So I'm not a, I'm not a doctor.
19:18And even if I was, I probably wouldn't know this medicine.
19:22It's pretty old.
19:28This was my grandfather's watch.
19:30He was in the Navy.
19:31I'm not exactly sure how he came about owning it.
19:34I know it's a Rolex.
19:35Okay.
19:36Other than that, I don't really know anything.
19:39The watch is a Rolex GMT.
19:40It's called a pointed crown guard, which means that the guard that holds the crown comes to a point.
19:47That was the early version of the GMT.
19:50It's a model 1675.
19:53The hands appear to be original.
19:55The bezel insert, which is called a ghost bezel.
19:58This would have been blue and red.
20:01And over decades of wear, it's faded.
20:04And now the term is called a ghost bezel.
20:07The most interesting thing about it is the dial.
20:10And the dial is now called a tropical dial.
20:13The dial would originally have been a black gilt dial.
20:17And over the years, it's oxidized.
20:19And the lacquer has turned.
20:21And it now has a absolutely gorgeous color of sort of a honey brown.
20:26That's lovely.
20:27I just thought it was dirty.
20:28So, if you followed the rules and you sent the watch in, as Rolex would say every seven to ten
20:34years,
20:35that dial and hands and insert would have been changed out at least one time.
20:40He didn't follow the rules.
20:41No.
20:42And you're lucky at this point that he didn't.
20:44Because when you had service dials, they're just worth a fraction of what an original dial is worth.
20:50So, it would appear that this dial has been on since the watch is new, which was probably right around
20:551960.
20:55We can't tell if the crystal was original or not.
20:58It's very scarred.
21:00It's been on there for decades.
21:02The bracelet is an oyster bracelet.
21:04Now, there's a date code on the bracelet, which dates it to the summer of 1968.
21:10Oh, wow.
21:10So, the watch would have been about eight years old.
21:13And more than likely, he, for whatever reason, changed the bracelet out.
21:17It's the original style bracelet.
21:18And all the bracelets during that time period all looked fairly similar.
21:23It showed two time zones simultaneous.
21:25Oh, okay.
21:25So, it was used by a lot of service people.
21:28And they were sold in many of the Army and Navy stores throughout the world.
21:32It would have retailed for somewhere between $275 and $325.
21:37What do you think of value?
21:38Honestly, I thought like $1,000 maybe.
21:41The retail value of a watch in this condition would be in the $40,000 to $45,000 price range.
21:51You guys really like to go for the shock value, don't you?
21:56That's crazy.
21:59I'm going to be very careful about where it goes when we get home.
22:03A watch with a service style and service hands would be worth in like the $15,000 to $16,000
22:08price range.
22:11This is an original illustration done by H.A. Ray for the first Curious George book.
22:17It was drawn in Paris just before the start of World War II.
22:21So, 85 years ago, the German army was approaching Paris, and the Rays, who were German Jews, managed to escape
22:32on bicycles that Ray made himself out of bicycle parts.
22:37And they escaped with this drawing in their backpack and made it out of France and eventually to America.
22:44My father worked for the Houghton Mifflin Company that published the first H.A. Ray books, including Curious George.
22:51He became sort of like an uncle to us children.
22:54He was a wonderful character, and so when I got married, he gave it to us as a wedding present.
22:59What's your favorite thing about this illustration in particular?
23:02I like the happiness.
23:04Curious George and the whole escape of the Rays from Paris are intertwined.
23:10They got into serious trouble in Paris and escaped, and all of the Curious George books have the same theme
23:16of Curious George getting into trouble and escaping and then finding happiness.
23:21And here he is finding happiness in the zoo.
23:24So, the work is dated from 1940, but it also is inscribed to you when he gave you the gift
23:29on your wedding.
23:31It says, to Christopher and Mary Jane, with love and all good wishes from the Rays, July 20th, 1968.
23:40H.A. Ray and Margaret Ray were both from Germany.
23:45They, I think, knew each other when they were quite young and then kind of got reunited later in life
23:49and ultimately got married in 1935 and moved to the very romantic city of Paris.
23:55As the war went on, it did become a little bit too dangerous for them to stay, and the story
24:00of them getting out is remarkable.
24:02On bike, with not very much at all, and only five manuscripts with them.
24:08So, to have something that came out of that time, left Paris with them, he thought prized enough to bring
24:15along, and to have that then given to you many years later to, I'm sure he entrusted it to you
24:21and was definitely feeling like it was a special thing to pass on.
24:25The work is a combination of charcoal, watercolor, colored pencil on paper.
24:32On the back, there is an inscription.
24:34It says, Christopher, this is the original drawing for the end page of the first Curious George book, done while
24:44we were living in France.
24:46Ancient history, isn't it?
24:48In the larger market of the art world and illustration art, this has everything going for it.
24:55It's from the first book.
24:57It's the final illustration.
25:00George is having so much fun.
25:02That smile, it's what we all think of when we think of Curious George.
25:06They don't come to market a lot, so they're also kind of quite rare in that way.
25:11An auction estimate would be $15,000 to $25,000.
25:15Okay.
25:17That's great.
25:19An insurance value should be $30,000.
25:22Okay, great.
25:24I'll call my broker.
25:26Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is known for its beautifully cultivated spaces and wild areas.
25:32But these incredible, colossal trolls, built by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, and over 150 local volunteers, have a gigantic appeal.
25:42This installation is called the Guardians of the Seeds, and so each troll represents a different part of the tree,
25:49and they're spread out so people have to walk through the woods to find them.
25:53And there's a really nice kind of story and lesson that goes with them about the importance of trees and
26:01biodiversity and protecting the ecosystem.
26:03But Thomas' art is so fantastic and magical that you don't even realize that you're learning these lessons and that
26:13you're appreciating why protecting trees is important.
26:16They're giant, I mean, the biggest one here is 35 feet high, so that is the size of a tree,
26:22and they're built out of recycled wood.
26:26So pallets, castoffs from mills in Maine, the faces were built in his shop over in Denmark.
26:34So in order to build the trolls, it was a community effort, and that's a big part of Thomas Stambo's
26:39ethos and a big part of what we do here.
26:48This is an, I believe, ambrotype political pin from Abraham Lincoln.
26:54He's without the beard.
26:56I believe it's from 1860, and it's been in my family since my great-great-grandfather, who lived in Searsport,
27:05Maine, and it's been passed down through my grandmother's family to me.
27:09And what was his name?
27:10Um, Edwin Sargent.
27:12Okay.
27:13He must have purchased it or acquired it during his lifetime.
27:17So it's a campaign pin.
27:18It was used for his campaign in 1860.
27:21He came to New York to do a lecture at Cooper Union.
27:25He had his new $100 suit on, which I think is close to $4,000 in today's money.
27:33That shows you that he really wanted to make himself very presentable and be seen in the right light, but
27:42historians said that he still looked very frumpy in his suit, so I guess maybe it wasn't worth it.
27:47But he had his photograph taken by a very famous photographer, Matthew Brady, who is known for producing some of
27:56the best photographs that we have of Lincoln today.
27:59Now, the photograph that was originally taken shows Lincoln from the knees up.
28:05So it's a very large, almost full-length portrait and obviously has been cropped down here to fit this format.
28:13This was the first time that photographs were used for a presidential campaign to promote a candidate.
28:21And it played a major role because this image by Matthew Brady was hugely popular.
28:27Made into postcards, put in Harper's Weekly, and I mean, it was everywhere.
28:33So the back paper tells us that even though the photograph was taken by Matthew Brady, the amber type itself
28:39was made by George Clark.
28:41He's the one that was actually responsible for turning this image into the campaign pins.
28:47And unfortunately, that part is ripped.
28:49And then we look at the front, and these photographs were extremely susceptible to flaking of the emulsion off of
29:00that glass plate, which is what makes an amber type an amber type.
29:04So unfortunately, there is a little bit of loss there.
29:07But overall, I think that the saturation of this image is really nice for its age.
29:14The brass mat is in really good condition.
29:16These photographs are very rare.
29:19We don't see very many of them at all.
29:22Definitely under 50, probably under 30.
29:26There's one in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
29:29Really, it's going to come down to how saturated that image is, how punchy it is, and the condition of
29:36that information on the back.
29:37So it's really the full package.
29:40I'd say at an auction, probably $12,000 to $18,000.
29:44Wow.
29:45Wow, that's amazing.
29:47I think it's really special.
29:48Nice.
29:49Thank you so much.
29:50I'm so honored that it was passed down to me.
29:53I've seen photographs in the campaign pin format sell for upwards of $30,000.
30:00It's my dad's guitar.
30:02He acquired it back in 1963.
30:06His mother bought it for him at a music store in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
30:10And I had it shipped to him at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia that same year.
30:16And this is your father with the picture right next to you over there?
30:19So this is a picture of my father from the talent show that he was in at Langley Air Force
30:25Base that he won.
30:26He looks pretty happy right there.
30:28He's a very happy guy.
30:29You have, indeed, it's a 1963, I checked the serial number, Martin D-28, which is kind of the workhorse
30:39of the Martin line ever since the early 1930s when the first one was made.
30:43It's called a dreadnought shape.
30:45It's a big, booming, great guitar.
30:48Even today, they still make the same guitar.
30:50It's kind of the go-to guitar for bluegrass and folk music.
30:54It's probably the best-known acoustic guitar in the world.
30:59Martin moved from Germany to New York City in 1833, where he made guitars up until they moved to Nazareth,
31:08Pennsylvania, where they are today.
31:10It's constructed of a spruce top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides and a mahogany neck.
31:17The Brazilian rosewood is rare wood and is on the endangered species list now.
31:23But it was really Martin's go-to back and side wood for all of their high-end guitars.
31:29So this is an incredibly nice condition.
31:33It really looks near mint.
31:36He must have really taken care of this.
31:38He just wiped it down every time he used it.
31:41And I was not allowed to play it at all.
31:43Or if I did, I mean, it was very, like, five minutes.
31:46You had to sneak it.
31:47As wonderful as the Martin Guitar Company is and was, back through the 50s and the 60s and the 70s,
31:56these guitars almost always needed a neck set almost brand new out of the factory.
32:01And that's the one issue with this guitar is it really does need a neck set, meaning that the string
32:08action is quite high as it comes down the fingerboard.
32:12And I'll also mention that the nice bright green of the interior of this case, you don't see that too
32:18often either.
32:19The case is original and beautiful and the guitar is original and beautiful.
32:23Do you have any idea what he paid for it?
32:25His mother paid $269.50 for it back in 1963.
32:321963.
32:32Yeah.
32:33This guitar today, that retail, would bring between $12,000 and $12,500.
32:41Wow.
32:42No way.
32:44Yeah, no, really.
32:46Holy.
32:47Wow.
32:48I am shocked.
32:49It's really one of the nicest D-28s I've ever seen.
32:52No, come on.
32:53Yeah, beautiful.
32:54He's going to be so excited.
32:56It came from my mother's neighbor's house.
32:59I actually had the opportunity of cleaning the house out after the neighbor passed away.
33:03And I found this large doll collection and this was in it.
33:07It's a Ricky Jr. doll, which is like Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's child.
33:14Eyes closed.
33:15I think it does make a noise.
33:23This is a tabletop butter churn with a dasher.
33:28I got it at an auction.
33:31It came in a lot with another butter churn.
33:34I think I paid about $85 for both.
33:37I don't really know a lot about butter churns, so I thought I'd bring it and find out.
33:48It's my wife's grandparents' clock purchased by her grandfather.
33:53My wife remembers it always being in the house growing up.
33:56I know it's J.E. Caldwell.
33:58I don't know if he was the manufacturer or if he was more of an importer and reseller.
34:03Well, he was actually a retailer and his retail shop in Philadelphia became the biggest in the city.
34:11They became very well known for selling clocks of the highest grade.
34:15So the case form is called a bracket clock.
34:17It's a form that was made for a couple of centuries.
34:21This is the Victorian example, meaning that it was probably made about 1880 or so.
34:27It represents the best of its category in terms of having a very solidly built, robust mechanism with fusee compensation.
34:37It has a number of features which are displayed here on the dial.
34:42Here you have a shutoff for the strike portion of the clock.
34:46You can turn this clock silent so it just ticks or you can turn it on and it'll do the
34:51quarter hour striking as well as the hour striking.
34:54And then the center dial here actually is for rating the clock.
34:59So temperature is a variant that affects clocks greatly.
35:04Warm rooms, they slow down.
35:05Cold rooms, they speed up.
35:07Instead of having to turn this clock around and actually adjust the pendulum, you can do some fine adjusting from
35:12the front of the dial.
35:13The case is mahogany, the finest wood.
35:16You can see that it is wonderfully adorned with all kinds of brass appointments, full Corinthian capitals on the fluted
35:25columns, chased feet with roses, applied swags, other flowers and florals.
35:32And here you have this classical theme just below the dome.
35:36Five finials with floral tops.
35:39It's just absolutely over the top in terms of quality.
35:42And the tune selection helps us date the clock.
35:45One of the tunes is Westminster and, of course, Big Ben was installed in 1859.
35:52And that sound of the quarter hour striking became synonymous with clocks of this period.
35:58And this clock has that so we know that it had to be made after that.
36:02So it was top of the market, just an absolute fabulous piece.
36:05That's great.
36:06In its current state, in a retail setting, this probably has a value of somewhere to $3,000 to $4
36:13,000.
36:14Once it's serviced, this clock should easily make somewhere in the $6,500, $7,000 price range.
36:21Oh, that's great.
36:23This is a denim jacket that was owned by my dad when he was a kid.
36:28He was born in 1936, so it likely would have been his parents that would have gotten it for him.
36:32He was probably seven or eight-ish, and I think it just got put in a closet.
36:36I know my grandmother held onto it for a long time, and then my mom had it for a number
36:39of years, and I've had it for a few years since then.
36:41So this is what we call a type 1 Levi's denim jacket, and the years that you were giving seem
36:47about in line with what I was thinking, which is likely late 30s, early 40s.
36:52And there's a couple things which indicate that for me.
36:54So firstly, this cinch on the back right here is in silver.
37:00In silver means that it wasn't during World War II when they started making these more of kind of a
37:05bronze color, as well as during World War II, they eliminated the pocket flap.
37:10So just kind of rationing as much as they could.
37:12The buttons would have also been different if it was a World War II version.
37:16They changed the buttons to be kind of donut buttons that you would have seen on military uniforms.
37:20Another thing which helps me pinpoint the date is the Levi's tab here, the red tab, which is very iconic.
37:26The fact that it only has Levi's written on one side.
37:29Also, it's Levi's with a capital E here, which people in denim and vintage world refer to as a big
37:36E tag.
37:37So all sources indicate that it is late 30s, early 40s.
37:42So Levi's originally was making what they call the 506 XX blouse.
37:47And that was kind of the first shirt jacket that they were making.
37:51The next iteration, the type 2s, which were introduced in 1953, have two pockets, but the same silhouette overall, kind
37:59of boxy and cropped.
38:01And then afterwards, in 1962, they introduced the type 3 jacket, which is kind of the modern trucker denim jacket
38:07that we see today, with the two pockets, has the slanted seams running down.
38:11And also, it's a little bit longer length.
38:14There are a couple features of the type 1 as well.
38:16You can see these pleats here, which are actually stitched shut.
38:19But that allowed for some size adjustability, as did the cinch on the back.
38:23There's a couple of really strong points about this jacket.
38:26Firstly, both here and in Japan, especially, Levi's is the pinnacle for people who collect denim, as they more or
38:32less invented riveted denim clothing.
38:35It's not necessarily the rarest, but it's the most collectible brand.
38:37Other than the kind of 1905, 506 blouses, and ones from that era, these early type 1s are kind of
38:44the most sought-after kinds of jackets.
38:46It's also a great color.
38:48It still has this deep indigo wash.
38:50There's a little bit of fading at points you'd expect, like on the elbows and around the collar.
38:54But overall, this is a strong kind of dark wash color.
38:57The last thing I'd say is very strong about it is the fact that the pleats haven't been cut here.
39:01The downside is it's a smaller size.
39:04These days, there's fewer people that can wear what might have been a normal medium or large or something in
39:10the 1940s.
39:11So taking everything into consideration here, I would think at an auction, an estimate of $3,000 to $5,000
39:19would be about right.
39:21Wow. That's awesome.
39:24That's really cool.
39:25I think my dad would be proud to know that, and I know my family would be proud to know
39:28that.
39:28We'll certainly take care of it.
39:33Supposedly, it was my mother's grandfather, which would be my great-grandfather.
39:38And I know my grandmother had it stripped and varnish, so that probably ruined it.
39:49Well, all I can tell you that's really correct is that I got it through my father, who was in
39:58World War II in the Indochina Theater.
40:00And for seven years, we got a bundle of boxes from that area to our home in Tennessee.
40:11And this is but one of them, probably the smallest of them.
40:16So I inherited this when my uncle passed away in 2011.
40:21In somewhere around 1952 through 1955, maybe longer, I'm not really sure, my uncle worked at I. Miller Shoes in
40:31Fifth Avenue in New York.
40:32He was art director, and while he was there, he hired a freelance artist, Andy Warhol.
40:38And I believe this piece was given to him as a sort of thank you gift.
40:43I remember he said when he met Andy Warhol, he said he was wearing torn dungarees and his hair was
40:52disheveled.
40:52But he said his portfolio was fantastic, so he obviously hired him.
40:57This is a wonderful window into the early work of Warhol when he was, like you said, a young graphic
41:04designer.
41:04This is before the Warhol, most of us know, and it has a dedication up at the top.
41:10So this wonderful artwork is entitled Happy Butterfly Day.
41:15It's a hand-colored print.
41:17It was made in 1955.
41:20Warhol liked to use mechanical reproduction techniques, so he reproduced his ink drawings.
41:26Originally, this was based on a drawing, and then he made an offset lithograph of his drawing, so he could
41:33have multiple copies.
41:35We don't know the edition size of this, but then he later hand-colored ones like yours to give to
41:43people,
41:43and so they became each unique again because they have each different hand coloring and different qualities, different colors.
41:52I think one of his colleagues also received one of these, and my uncle said that that colleague threw it
41:59away because they, of course, Andy Warhol was not a known artist at the time,
42:04and then years later was very upset that he had thrown it away, so...
42:10I'm sure.
42:11Well, he may be even more upset after he watches the Antiques Roadshow.
42:16Okay.
42:16The story that you have of this direct connection to the artist is clear, and he did give these to
42:22people, and so the lucky ones have these dedications in ink,
42:27and then yours has this wonderful signature at the bottom, and a really strong ink signature with a small inscription.
42:36I'm not sure what those numbers represent.
42:39It might be his phone number.
42:41So most of these aren't signed, and some are hand-colored, but yours is hand-colored and signed and dedicated
42:50by Warhol,
42:51which really makes it just a wonderful example of this great pop artist at this early point in his career.
42:58It shows a little bit of its age.
43:00It has some handling marks, some things that could be improved with a little paper conservation,
43:06but the colors still look strong to me, so at auction today, this could do very well.
43:12I would expect a value of between $10,000 and $15,000.
43:15Really? Wow. Okay.
43:17That's surprising to me, just because it's a personalized note.
43:22That's great. Wonderful.
43:24That's what makes it special, actually.
43:26It's the personal dedication as well as the signature.
43:30You inherited this from someone who worked side-by-side with Warhol.
43:34Those stories are priceless.
43:38For centuries, the Wabanaki people have gathered on the lands where Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is located,
43:45and that continues today.
43:48An example of the indigenous knowledge here in this garden are the three sisters, corn, beans, and squash.
43:56They are known as the three sisters because of their personhood within Wabanaki culture.
44:05They're teachers.
44:06They teach us respect, responsibility, reciprocity.
44:12Sister corn grows nice and tall.
44:14She's planted first.
44:15She's the eldest sister.
44:16Sister bean is then planted,
44:18and sister bean provides nitrogen to the soil that helps the corn grow, especially tall.
44:25And the corn also provides structure for the beans to grow up on.
44:30And the youngest sister squash is planted last and provides shade, keeps the soil nice and moist, and they thrive
44:40together.
44:41The seeds we planted here in this garden have been saved for generations by our ancestors,
44:48and we were able to reunite them with the soil with this garden here in Boothway.
44:56I'm a sports fan, a baseball fan primarily, but I do love hockey, and I love Wayne Gretzky.
45:01He was at a sports show right after he broke the record, and he signed it for my dad for
45:05me.
45:06This is a six signed by Wayne Gretzky.
45:10It was after he broke the goal record in 94, so he signed it with an 802.
45:15My dad gave it to me when I was 12.
45:18My dad worked for Easton Sporting Goods, and they used to do super shows every year.
45:22He became well acquainted with Wayne Gretzky.
45:25So, yes, what we have here is a Easton game-issued stick for Wayne Gretzky.
45:31I think most people will agree Wayne Gretzky is the greatest hockey player of all time.
45:35He's the Babe Ruth of hockey.
45:37March 23, 1994, he surpasses Gordie Howe with his 802nd goal.
45:43It was a huge deal.
45:44It was one of the biggest moments in NHL history.
45:47Now, he didn't play with this stick, but it was made for him with his specifications and everything else.
45:54And how we know that, it has that stamp right there.
45:58You have a beautiful Wayne Gretzky signature.
46:01I mean, that's like an A++ signature.
46:03And he added the 802.
46:05So we know definitively when it's from.
46:07It's from one of the peaks of his career.
46:10And it's just a beautiful stick.
46:12Now, the other great thing is this photograph.
46:14Yeah.
46:15And it's a great picture of your dad with the great one himself.
46:19And he's holding the stick.
46:21Yeah.
46:21For collectors to have that kind of provenance is just the best.
46:26You can't ask for better than that.
46:27You might notice in the photograph, the stick looks gold.
46:30But that's because there's a mylar film that goes over the aluminum.
46:35And the light, the way it hit it, made it look gold.
46:38Yeah.
46:38That makes sense.
46:39Game-issued sticks aren't as desirable as a game-used stick, obviously.
46:44But this is a different kind of animal altogether because of the autograph, because of the provenance.
46:50And it's just a good-looking stick.
46:51So I think at an auction, I would estimate this between $2,000 and $3,000.
46:59And I would insure it for no less than $5,000.
47:02Wow.
47:03Yeah, that's entirely over what I thought.
47:07It's never going anywhere, and it's not going back in the closet.
47:09I will take care of it properly now.
47:13This is as good as it gets for a game-issued stick.
47:16Wow.
47:17Without question.
47:17That's incredible.
47:21This is from my grandma's house.
47:23She kept it in great shape.
47:24And her mom got it at an auction in the 60s.
47:30So that's all I know.
47:35It's a big mallet, and it's been in my life for a long time.
47:41I'm not really sure where it came from.
47:44I don't know if it was used to strike parts of ships together or railroad ties.
47:53I don't have any idea.
47:55It's heavy.
47:57It's really heavy.
48:00Oh, yeah.
48:03I'd go with 20, 20 pounds, everyone.
48:05All right, keep holding it.
48:07Keep holding it.
48:08Keep holding it.
48:08Keep holding it.
48:15This belonged to my husband's grandmother.
48:18She lived in Washington, D.C.
48:20They were German-Americans.
48:22My husband's grandfather was a sort of an entrepreneur in Washington, D.C.
48:27And he would go to New York City from time to time and buy pieces of jewelry for her.
48:33And this was one of them.
48:34I believe it was probably for their 50th wedding anniversary.
48:39This would have probably been in the mid-50s, I'm guessing.
48:43I looked at it.
48:44I was dating it, along with my colleagues at the table, for something that was made in the early 19
48:50-teens.
48:51Really?
48:52He could have bought it old, though.
48:54He could have bought an estate piece back in the 50s.
48:57Know anything about the maker of it?
49:00Well, I've noticed that there's a mark on it that says Cartier.
49:04Yes.
49:04It's Cartier, New York.
49:06So it says NY right after the Cartier script.
49:09It's set with two beautiful sapphires.
49:12The main sapphire, which is the large sapphire on the bottom, is approximately 10 carats.
49:17It could be approximately 12, but it's hard to know exactly.
49:21Yeah, it's bezel set.
49:22So conservatively, I'm saying it's about 10 carats.
49:26It looks like a salon stone, which is the region of where the sapphire is from, which is now Sri
49:33Lanka.
49:35And salon stones are usually powdery, more brilliant.
49:38They're lighter.
49:39They're not as saturated as the darker stones are.
49:43And this is very apropos for this time period as well, the 19-teens.
49:47They were mining a lot of these around that time period.
49:50And the smaller stone, I think, is around 3 carats approximation.
49:55Same material, though, the same saturation, the lighter, sort of more vibrant, brilliant color of sapphire.
50:01It's suspending from a beautiful necklace that is very, very fine.
50:05And it's platinum.
50:06And it's so fine that some of the little detail in there that you can see, it's like little tiny
50:12wires.
50:13And that's appropriate for the 19-teens as well.
50:17It's also set with some small round-cut diamonds, just little accent stones.
50:22It's really chic.
50:24I think a conservative value, for insurance purposes, would be $75,000.
50:32Okay.
50:33That's good.
50:34That's very good.
50:35We see a lot of nice things on Roadshow, but this is spectacular.
50:39Yeah.
50:39Well, thank you.
50:40I love it.
50:43And now, it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:46This is a cherry picker, dated 1870.
50:50It's worth about $30 to $50, and it's taken us all this time, at least two years, to figure out
50:58what it is.
50:59Everyone back home laughed at us for bringing this painting, and I have one thing to say.
51:04They were all right.
51:05This belonged to my great-grandmother, Theda, and my mother asked me to bring this today.
51:11She's 90.
51:12She'll be tickled pink, sort of.
51:14She thought maybe Oprah Winfrey would want it.
51:17Yes.
51:17Because Oprah collects these chairs.
51:19So, Oprah, if you're listening, just give us a call.
51:22And we had an awesome day at the Roadshow, and I found out Grandma's cigarette case is worth $8,000.
51:30I know it's precious, but my friend is more precious.
51:33Because it's my birthday.
51:34I brought my Kiddush cup set that I got in Jerusalem, and I thought it was possibly silver, but it
51:41turns out it's fake.
51:42So, it's only worth about $20 or $30, but it was fun.
51:47I brought my bronze elephant.
51:53It's Chinese.
51:55It's not from the Ming dynasty.
51:58It's from the 1970s, unfortunately.
52:01But I still like it.
52:03It's an original print, but he also thinks that it might have been made as a joke.
52:09So, that's what I learned about my print.
52:12And I just had a great day, and thank you, Antiques Roadshow.
52:17Yay!
52:19See you next time on Antiques Roadshow.
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