your great-grandfather his friends looked fairly armed and dangerous in this photograph leaves me breathless because I had no idea [Music] it's been 15 years since Antiques Roadshow visited Oklahoma City in that time the antique market has gone haywire the market for african-american art has skyrocketed in the last five years the market for this stuff has dropped considerably antiques values constantly change based on buyers interests what was once a treasure can soon become trash let's see how these pieces of concert ephemera have fared in this Rock and market this is a collection of pilgrim material related to its concerts promotional material the vast number of collectors of this material go for the posters you have one example of a poster here in your collection here is what the poster you have the flyer and you have the tickets for every poster that bill Graham did just about he did a handle very few people collect the handbills they might collect a poster and then say I'll get the handle to go with it but you've amassed an almost complete collection of every Bill Graham hand bill is that right yes I like three there are three that are missing what made you decide to focus on that well two things storage space and I love miniatures and each one of these is a little miniature piece of art exactly it's a miniature poster dealers just love Bill Graham because he numbered all of his posters exactly you want to point out the number on that one there this is 231 and this here the Jefferson Airplane is number one exactly that was the first in the series yes sir and people are familiar with this artwork of course this is West Wilson and this is the height of the psychedelic San Francisco movement whenever you refer to the San Francisco psyche it all movement you're talking about Bill Graham posters basis exactly and this is an interesting piece he's very seldom seen I loved it because Jimi Hendrix was third on the bill right unless it has first appearance that after the Monterey Pop Festival this one says copy rod I've been looking for that one for 18 years this is one of a Holy Grail it is the Holy Grail that's when Bill Graham took the five major rock bands to Toronto and he shipped all the paper ephemera overland and the truck was stolen and so there's almost none of these animals none and this piece here is the famous flying eyeball by Rick Griffin have you ever had a valuation put under stuff oh just with the guys that are trade with I've never had a real appraisal individually they sell anywhere from $50 into the high hundreds what's the most you've ever paid for one I paid $1,200 for the one for the play called the beard that was a non concert one rock yeah but it fits into the series because it's not the numbers fit in exactly it is one of the numbers it was a play that Bill Graham produced right yeah if you were to break up the sin and sell them individually you would gross about 18 to 20 thousand dollars for the entire collection but you have something else here often the total is worth more than some of the parts you have an almost complete collection its complete as anybody can get practically and I would think that if you were to take this and sew it as a collection a unit and not break it up at a pop culture option you'd be looking at in the range of 28 to 30 thousand dollars with this collection I'm shocked I'm shocked well that's that's what it comes from really paying attention to the details of a collection thanks for bringing it in all right it's my pleasure thank you [Music] these Spurs were passed down in my family from my great grandfather he got land from the land run didn't like it moved to Indian Territory while he was there a gentleman moved into Indian Territory that was from Ireland the story goes that he got into some trouble in Ireland killed a man his family sent him to Texas he killed a man in Texas so he moved up into the cognition mountains in Indian Territory which is now Oklahoma he was able to hide out there from the Texas Rangers for a while and he was following us build the Texas Rangers came for him he went for his gun and the Texas Rangers went for him nobody really knew anything about him in the community so they auctioned off his belongings to pay for his burial so my great-grandfather which is the guy in the black hair bought the Spurs from the auction they were later passed down to my grandfather who is actually the car guy here in the white and then passed to my father and then to me and this auction took place when it was in 1915 the gentleman from Ireland was able to hide out until a little bit after statehood 1907 was statehood so your great-grandfather his friends looked fairly armed and dangerous' in this photograph those are all of his children and his wife and a few others mixed in there but yes that's my family let me tell you about these Spurs okay it all fits the Spurs are McChesney John Robert McChesney he made his first pair of Spurs in Indian Territory which is the eastern part of Oklahoma in 1887 and he decided he was going to be a major force in the spur world so he moved to Gainesville Texas about 1890 well he realized he wasn't quite the major force he thought he was and he moved back to Pauls Valley Oklahoma in 1910 so those Spurs could have been made any time during that period they're called gal leg or lady leg Spurs in this case they're called double mounted double gal legs most gal legs especially McChesney 'he's only had the gal egg on the Schank which is this part back here these have them on the shank and going around the Bootheel and they're on both sides a lot of Gallagher only on one side so these are double doubles plus they've got the heart button and the brass overlay on the shoe they've also got something that John Robert McChesney is said to have patented it's called the locking round in most trials when you hit them they spin this one locks down it's got that slot cut in it with a bar so when you dig into a horse that rail locks down and it just stops this is full silver overlay on both sides if you went to put them on the market they're gonna bring twenty-five to thirty-five hundred easily especially in this condition but it's hard to beat a story like that that's great Sylvan Goldman invented the grocery cart here in Oklahoma City in 1937 and by 1940 he was mass producing there's a label here on the front of the car folding carrier company Oklahoma City that's a big piece but the value is really more of a novelty it's not a real valuable piece that's probably worth a few hundred dollars after spinning like 30 years in the grocery business it's kind of unique to have one I just inherited it from my husband's family his great-grandfather came to Oklahoma in the fall of 1893 for the Cherokee Strip run when Oklahoma settled then he went back to Kansas married and brought his bride here in March of 1894 the family lore is that the watch came along in the covered wagon it's a 4,300,000 watch was made in 1889 there's a good likelihood it was in the covered wagon this is a waffle watch it's worth about $300 when it came up for option I just liked it I guess $100 the scales on the serpent are broad not particularly well defined his face is almost childlike in its simplicity where did you fight in World War two the European theater I found that in France in Alsace we sheltered in a glass factory there and this was in the stockroom over that and Germans run us out and when we laughed I took it with me I've been to that same Factory it's still there by the way it's the Lalique factory in bingen sewer motor in Alsace and they made this just before the war so it would have been there in the in the early forties this was a heavy thing to put your backpack but you brought back a good piece you didn't bring back the most valuable piece I'll warn you there were other things even smaller things that would be more valuable today the religious la Ligue that was made mostly in the 30s has some value today but not a great deal this one would only be worth in the hundreds of dollars over three maybe 600 700 dollars originally this has a little wooden base and that would add to the value my father was when he graduated high school 1937 got a scholarship to go to Paris and he collected these posters when he was there in Paris then the Germans invaded and he was forced to flee the country and went to Denmark where he got put in prison because he had no money he got money wired to him from my grandfather they got on board ship he had back United States and it was torpedoed on the way to the United States and had to limp into New Orleans and the posters made it back the Oklahoma City and restored until about three months ago when I found them upon going through the house and my mother's death and these are only a sampling of all the posters right how many were there altogether we counted approximately 65 to 70 and I have chosen from among the 65 or 70 by and large posters that have to do with ships now I've also included one airplane poster to show that the collection is multifaceted not just ships it's also Airlines and Air France when I look at these what I see is a rather interesting collection of art deco travel images really from the Golden Age of travel right there mostly from 1938 and 1937 right and within the poster world one of the things that collectors look for are powerful art deco images and that's what we have here some of these I have sold before at auction some of them I have never seen before it makes students familiar with the artists they're all signed some of the artists are more famous than others right they're not all in great condition two of these posters actually have a swastika on them the Bremen poster here yeah and then by you the Patriot poster the swastika was the German flag these posters do predate the Second World War but people don't like posters that have swastikas on them because of all the negative connotations right so should I give you the good news or should I give you the bad news oh give me the bad news first well the bad news is the posters really by and large are in the kind of shape where it will take maybe ten to fifteen thousand dollars to restore the whole collection now on the other hand the posters that we have hanging here these eight posters yes I've tallied them up in my mind and I estimate conservatively at auction these posters alone were worth somewhere between eighteen and twenty two thousand dollars twenty thousand and for the rest of the collection again conservatively once restored right a total of forty to sixty thousand dollars that's amazing it's a good thing I don't think this was my mother's and the other one I found on our little shopping spree and what made you look for another one you kind of like the one that she has I did and I have had people show interest in it so it intrigued me well the bellies are the prominent piece of course you've got I assume you've got rhinestones but the bellies are made out of lucite and it's a good thing that lucite came along when it did a new form of plastic simply because so many metals were being used in munitions plants during the war they substituted the acrylic for a lot of other gemstones because it could be dyed different colors also these appear to be gold but yet they're silver and they're again they couldn't get the base metal so they made the piece in sterling and then they put a coating of gold on the top of it so it's like a berm a finish and they have a design patent number on the back so one of them was made between 1944 and 1945 and the other was made between 1943 and 44 this is the older of the two here and these were made by true fari it has the crown and true 400 which is a very very collectible name in custom jewelry right now and the clear lucite is now called Jelly Bellies when they first came out they were called clear bellies how much did you pay for this little slithering critter here well he was a real bargain he was marched $45 but just so happened everything in this shop does have fries oh he what anything you get half-price is a bargain with that I have seen these priced individually as low as 700 also priced at 2400 this one is missing some stones and I'm wondering should not have them replace oh definitely because it's going to make it more of wearable for you they should be not more than three dollars a piece I was very interested in folk art painting and I knew about Peter hunt and we were in antique show in Minneapolis I happen to spot this Peter hunt bench and it not my husband's sort of thing but I convinced him that we should buy it today at the end of our bed and has been there for 10 or 15 years the exciting thing here is really the painting on the top tell me what drew you to buy this piece the colors and the little figures and I felt we were very fortunate to find it I hope it really is the Peter hunt bench well it's a wonderful bench and it's painted in the mid 20th century in the 1940s Peter hunt was a decorator and a man about town in Provincetown and Cape Cod region in Massachusetts and he had a shop where he sold old furniture that he had hand painted himself and the reason that I think this is particularly interesting is that he is drawing on when he painted this a long tradition of folk painters over the last two centuries of the Pennsylvania Germans and other painters who were decorating furniture the painting on this is very fun is the picture of a boat departing with wonderful ladies here offering flowers up at the departure the inscription here is in French and talks about the departure of a boat and there's a date after that that looks like 44 which is on the right time frame for when Peter hunt was sort of at the height of his work below that you can see his signature ovince which is a shortened version of Provincetown which is just locating it and it's it's his way of signing the piece you were curious about whether this was in fact by Peter hunt in a new emerging market like this there's very little scholarship to go on Peter hunt published books on how to paint so we know that he was influencing lots of other people but I do think this was painted by Peter hunt the way the paint is rendered on the top of this is very fluid and painted with great ease and that's a difficult thing to copy if you are only emulating what someone else is doing it tends to look more strained and carefully done so I think it's a wonderful bench and I think you've bought it at a great time in the market and maybe down the road this will be worth exponentially more how much did you pay for it at the show I'm pretty sure it was two hundred and twenty-five dollars I would expect in the current market for it to be worth probably a thousand to fifteen hundred dollars like never do toilet sets on the show they were made to be used and abused it's made by the Roseville pottery company Russell made a lot of pottery and this was made in around 1915 just at the time when they were not doing hand decorated art we're switching to production where it's also in absolutely pristine condition these are family items he brought in to us today is this correct yes they are and they're both poisoning the families had him for years and the person supposedly that collected them have been a lot of travels this is Japanese it's Meiji period 1858 to 1912 and it's done in this fabulous race technique called mori okke this is worth at auction between twenty and thirty thousand dollars [Music] marli to you this is also very interesting this is Chinese pleasant egg also quite early it's late seventeenth members it's got a little period any idea in the value at the little s because the markets a little soft there for this type of thing but it's worth in the range of about five to seven thousand dollars when you walked in and we saw these four just it's very ornate but I'm not sure what it is well what you've got is a civil war-era medical bleeder you know the all the pictures that you see of the doctor sitting around with the jar of leeches yeah this took the place of the leech that's good get rid of the bad blood it's spring-loaded when you pull back the top portion it releases it almost like a switchblade knife the case is in very nice shape the piece fits into it really well we actually see a lot of these dug in civil war camp sites throughout the South where the traveling civil war doctors had them in their surgeons kids for you to get it out I bought it at an antique store and it just caught my eye what'd you give for it ten twelve dollars what about investment today most of them in this kind of shape with the engraving will usually run about two to three hundred and fifty dollars a painful but nice place well I'm originally from Oklahoma the American bison is a cultural icon to me it's the monarch of the plains I found it in a gallery in upstate New York of all places it seemed to be quite out of place there yeah did you pay a lot of money for it I paid about $3,500 for it about how long ago within the last ten years and you obviously know the artist Frank Tenney Johnson there's a museum in northeastern Oklahoma in Bartlesville by the name wool Iraq that had his pains that I saw as a young kid growing up we'd take high school trips up there and but it was a very different style those paintings I saw work night paintings Frank Tenney Johnson he's known for those night paintings he's does cowboy sees season the range he was born in Iowa trained in New York came out to Colorado around the turn of the century then went to California around 1920 he was a commercial artist did a lot of illustrations and knew people like Russell and Rockwell and other people like that but I thought there's a nice thing that he bought in the American bison I think it's a state animal here his market has really gone up it's gone up and down but recently it's very high there's a lot of interest in American painting especially American paintings in the West and when you get something that's very iconic very centered very large bison there it's something that collectives really like it's a little bit small for him there's only one other thing I would say would be a detriment to this painting okay and something I learned early on in the art world is what you have here is a southbound view of a northbound bison okay and so when you're looking at are you're looking at not his best side right but I would say a value of these days it's probably when they wrote a 15 to $20,000 really yep Wow I purchased it about 1995 in Milwaukee we were living there at the time and I bought it in a consignment shop I had done some museum work before and I kind of thought it was an older piece and this consignment shop kept any information they had on it and they had an appraisal of it in 1985 I upon looking at the price will decided to go ahead and purchase it have been had it in my home ever since and what did you pay I paid a hundred and seventy five dollars and what was it appraised for it was appraised in 85 for $5,800 $5,800 from 1985 so you want to know from me is it real yes is it worth a hundred and seventy five or is it worth fifty eight hundred right okay first stylistically it is exactly what you would want to see essentially for a tongue horse the Tong dynasty 7th 8th century in China it is made of a type of high fired earthenware and as you look at it actually you see the white that is what's called a slip and a slip is a very refined white clay with it was put over the buff terracotta pottery body so when you painted it it would the paint would stand out in contrast it wouldn't just blend into the background so that's something that's good to see it's a lively pose got a lot of action with a raised figure and when you lift it up on the inside you'll see there's a lot of dirt these were buried these were kept in tombs and so a lot of the dirt would have adhered to the surface if it had come out of a tomb so I'm sure you thought you saw that new you're thinking gee this is this looks great the other thing that one sees is here on the front leg you can see that it's broken so it's got some condition issues right it's got all these features that make it look authentic it is an authentic it's a hundred and seventy five dollar horse which is fun yes what you paid you didn't do anything bad but the reason the person appraised it so highly before is that they did not do the research and they weren't experts yeah they looked at the surface appearance they saw the dirt they saw the slip and read a book and they thought gee this is right yeah but when you look at this break and this had been bought in the 1920s from the woman that owned it and believed you told me there's a metal armature in this which doesn't make sense in addition to that you wouldn't find this kind of high fired pottery so what this is was a purposefully made fake in the 1920s that's why they put the dirt on it that's why they put the slip on it and they wore the slip off because you don't see the slip on the rest of the surface it's just where it's gone into these little spots they've made it appear as realistic as they can because they wanted to fool people it wasn't made as a replica to take home as a museum copy it was made to fool people and we hope that the other owner wasn't fooled yeah it's a good lesson don't rely strictly on documentation go to an expert somebody who really knows the subject right I love him regardless of what he's he's worth I I think he's got a lot of energy in him it does perfectly great you paid the right price and it's a good lesson for a lot of people and I'm delighted you shared it with everybody it's really helpful thank you breezy it belonged to my father and he bought it new in 1937 from music store in Shawnee Oklahoma and he played it in a band for quite a few years and then he when he entered service it kind of set around for a long time so you remember the instrument being around the house as a child I was never allowed to touch it so can you tell me what's been done to it since you had it well my dad played it up until 1986 and at that time it was the frets were wore out and it was buzzing when he tried to play and everything so I contacted Martin guitar I was lucky because there was a gentleman here in Oklahoma City they could repair it and he drew fretted it and reset the neck and has a couple of little minor cracks in the side that he'd repaired the mother was in the shop my dad passed away so he never got to play it it's a 1937 Martin d-18 at the time sold for around $75 yeah it was the simplest of this dreadnought guitars it was the least ornamentation you could get but as time has gone on it's proved to be a very desirable guitar amongst professional musicians there have been some things changed about the instrument if you look on the top here there's a couple holes that have been filled yeah there are some repairs on the side and some finished touch-ups but still there are no cracks in the instrument structurally sound obviously had a very good repair job and is in great playing condition has anyone given you any indication of its real value no not really I know there's a couple of guys in music stores that have offered me 3 or $400 for it but I knew that was worth way more than that usually when an instruments had some alterations it affects their value greatly but being that this is such a prized instrument for its sound it still is a significant value in pristine condition the system would bring somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 to $20,000 but still it's a very nice thing very desirable I think it's the value would be 12,000 to $14,000 it is the right year and the right model if it were 2 years later its value would be after that really pretty good investment for $75 [Music] well I brought this painting of Geronimo I always wondered if that was a real painting or not how long have you owned it I can't remember this - what year was but I've had it quite a while I got it from a little shop not too far from here and I disliked it because of the character in his face well it does have quite a bit of character the name of the artist is Elbridge Eyre Burbank and it's signed here in the lower-left he was known for painting Indian portraits he was from the Midwest from Illinois like many of the American Western painters were he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago so he had a lot of training and he started life as an illustrator a lot like Remington and Russell but around 1898 he made it his goal to paint Indian portraits and he painted over 1200 Indian portraits from 125 different tribes and his claim to fame it that he's the only artist whoever painted Geronimo from life oh yes so that's quite exciting if we look on the lower right edge here we see Fort Sill Ooty meaning Oklahoma Territory well one thing while we were here at the show that we discovered after you brought the painting to us is an early photograph of Geronimo at Fort Sill with the head of security who was guarding him named David Alexander Hadden and the people who brought this were actually descendants of hadn't quite interesting to see what Geronimo looked like here visa Vee here because he's wearing quite a fancy headdress now in terms of the authenticity the signature looks very plausible it's exactly what you would expect but in terms of evaluating a painting it's often best to actually look at the reverse of the painting and this is a painting that's an oil-on-canvas board and here we have the board on the back and if you'll note there is the remnant of a label here now part of the label is missing this label actually is a label for a gallery called Kennedy galleries which is in New York and people who are familiar with American art and with the Kennedy gallery label would recognize it it says that is of chief Geronimo and by Burbank and since this is a very reputable gallery that handled a lot of Western art this makes a lot of sense and help verify that what we're seeing on the front is accurate now have you ever had the painting evaluated do you have any idea what it's worth no I don't and how much did you pay for it at the time you know it's been so long I can't remember it wasn't much at the time a painting of Geronimo recently sold at auction for around $4,000 really yes now that painting was larger than yours but Geronimo was more head-on in terms of the way he was sitting and it was not as finally done the face did not have as much character so I think actually although yours is smaller it's a better painting and I would evaluate it at $6,500 really yeah no not at all this was my sister's she found this underneath the floor facedown covering a hole that would have been like this is sealing from the downstairs the date is clear because this is what it Colbert and Cleopatra and it's a tie-in piece for cigarettes [Music] I bought this in about 1963 or 1964 they wanted $2 for now take it there's tough I didn't know if I could spin the tune but a friend talked me into go ahead five it's a great on little book rack known as a little journeys book rack made by the roycrofters and East Aurora New York if you bought all 24 volumes of the little journeys he would give you the book rack we have a civil war diary of George Washington Rhodes my great-grandfather people was very skin they would write this way then they'd turn it this is a great example of what's called cross riding probably worth thousand fifteen hundred dollars when I was a child that was at home we have Iranian New Year my mother set up to have seen for the Iranian New Year this was always in our former living room on the back of the sofa she had only put it out for this you know at that time it's a very finely woven shawl what's interesting is that it's made in India for the Persian market and they're extremely fine and this piece was actually originally about ten feet long but if you look carefully there's a scene that runs across from one edge to the other and that's been shortened down to about six or seven feet the value is going to be in the range of three to four thousand dollars even though it's been cut down it has been in my family for a number of years it was my granddad's he passed it on down to his elder son when he passed away he gave it to my dad and when my dad passed away then it has come to my brother and I do you know anything about the only thing I did know is that it was a peace medallion from Thomas Jefferson I had heard that the Lewis and Clark expedition took several of the peace medals along with them and that's about all I really know of it it's a very rare piece matter and they were given to the Indians as a token of peace Lewis and Clark carried these with them on their expedition which Jefferson's boxer it was 1803 in 1804 this was made in two pieces I didn't know they'd notice that or not but it's two pieces of metal if they struck then put together with this rim and as I say it's a very rare medal I've had a number of peace medals I've never had a Jefferson a real Jefferson there are number of reproductions but this is real I think it would be in the range around 40 to $50,000 it's a really rare piece of Americana it's a great piece of history never thought it would be worth that much should I have it fixed the room yeah my daughter took it to school and showed it off do that anymore this is the first time we've had examples of cool pottery on the show oh yeah and these are two beautiful examples he said your daughter found these yes she bought them at an estate auction about 15 years ago I believe she paid I'm going to say in the neighborhood of three three and a quarter a piece for them Charles Poole was making his metal-clad pottery from about 1903 til about 1950 it was influenced by a piece he saw that JP Morgan had had that was unearthed outside of Rome in the late 19th century it was an early Roman piece and what he did is he covered his pieces with a metal coating and then he would Patton ate them and freeze the patination process so these colors would be fixed he was from Canton Ohio and he bought blanks from like the Weller pottery in Roseville and Owens and Noel's Taylor Knowles curious thing about cool is when he died he instructed his heirs to burn his formula so that it couldn't be replicated and so the process is now lost there are a number of the math or he made pottery for many years but very seldom do you see pieces at number one or this large number two I've never seen a matched pair this large and I've seen hundreds of pieces of coal number three the color combination is really good on these you have that really nice rust color mixing with that verda green green and on top of that in spite of what they say that the colors are fixed if people try and scrub them make McLean the colors off so very often you see cool pieces where the colors are shredded and these are nice and bright and crisp they're also very clearly marked typical cool mark incised into the bottom or actually more like itched into the bottom with production numbers this just nothing wrong with these they're absolutely perfect if you clean them what would you use to clean them up with I would probably just use a slightly damp cloth and leave it at that because I think the surface is a little more fragile than we've been led to believe in terms of value again I've not seen in matches pair but I think individually they have to be worth at least three to four thousand dollars a piece a matched pair might bring seventy eight thousand dollars you said seven to eight thousand yeah for the pair or the pair and it wouldn't surprise me if they brought more because it defined a pair like this so perfectly match will be very difficult my word we had no idea there's worth anything like that week goodness [Music] my wife and I was out in western Kansas pheasant hunting and on the way back we stopped at this little old dumpy antique store in maxvill Kansas and unbeknownst to me she purchased it she gave 12 dollars for it 12 dollars yeah and she kind of hid it from me until Christmas and she gave it to me for my Christmas present in 1965 and I don't know anything about her no no I couldn't see any markings on it it was made by a company called George curette they were a German company even though he has a French name he was a Frenchman and moved to Germany in the early 20th century late 19th century he made a whole line of wonderful toys now this wood made them around 1905 and this was a period when cars were for the very rich and the toys all based on them were for the very rich it's called a curette limousine it has the original painted tin driver here and has wonderful features including opening doors and actually has a brake mechanism it was quite a deluxe little toy complete with a glass windshield but it's kind of rough condition in the if it is well it's a good thing you didn't do anything to it one of the things that we've taught a lot of people on the roadshow is that you know restoring things or cleaning them up you can really make a big mistake each case is a separate case it depends on the object it depends on what's wrong with it all this enters into the mix it's not a case we're cleaning it or adding replacement parts would damage the value I sold an exceptional example of one of these about three years ago at auction for $5,700 the mint shape excellent condition not mint excellent but now if you were to sell this at auction as it sits right now I think it would easily bring a thousand dollars but this is an eminently restorable and fixable toy the motor can be repaired these wheels could be properly repainted and you can see it has really very good color I think this thing would clean up very easily I think you would have to invest about three to four hundred dollars in restoring it and then it would easily bring 2500 3500 so here's a case where if you fix it properly you've enhanced the value [Laughter] [Music] it's a cruet set it's been in a box for years and seven or eight years ago somebody came by and took a look at it and said you the hallmarks interesting you ought to have it checked so seven years later I raced right down and Here I am sir I know nothing about certainly glad you did it's English what we call Georgian silver which is sterling silver and very beautiful cut crystal it's a six bottle cruet stand and it was made in London in 1805 but good and the maker is a gentleman by name of Paul store sto RR one of England's most famous late 18th and early 19th century silversmiths the very finest quality the detail in the stand the detail and the mountings quality of the cut glass the beautiful markings which are on each one do you have any idea what it might be worth I haven't a clue and I had a heart attack in April so you better come easy on me well I'm gonna try to but you might be rather surprised to find out that in a well advertised auction a piece of paul store silver of this quality is somewhere in the eight to twelve thousand dollar range and I'm shocked I can't speak so smoothly now [Music] these were meant to read but on the sides of barns so as trains went by people could see the advertisement for the circus the value of this poster unmounted to a collector is probably going to be between three and four thousand dollars you've heard the old adage that size really matter yeah in this case it's a little bit of a liability because these posters are so big where would somebody put them you have an occupational portrait of a man before a clavichord what's also known as half a piano the sort of instrument carried by an itinerant preacher I put a two to three thousand dollar s very very shocked well it's a beautiful daguerreotype not every old farmhouse sadako ian has got one of these in these tough organs were really a part of her class America in the Victorian period him singing in Bible reading was very important to the American family technology has outpaced them they take up a lot of room in any modern house today there's one sweet blonde my grandfather he works for the Western Union Telegraph Company he's callin telegraph lines and along the railroad lines one day he and his crew are in the tunnel his watch said the train would not come but the train did come almost killing the entire crew that watch got thrown against the wall of the tunnel and this watch this purchase to replace it if you look at all the indicators you can see it's almost overdone usually we have five ten fifteen twenty this one breaks it all down into increments into total red and black it's made by E Howard in company Boston Massachusetts this watch was manufactured in 1907 most railroad watches with golf filthy this one has 14 karat yellow gold doober case this one has a hinge cover again very rare very unusual so when a watch that I may have told you two years ago was worth $1,500 now I I can confidently say is worth around $3,000 really yeah that's very gratifying but I never knew my grandfather who died before I was born so it's nice ask me if you own you've got this from a auction in Kansas how long ago is that about ten years ago it's called radio nurse it was produced by Zenith and dates from 1937 it is actually kind of an early baby monitor it sprang up out of the fear that was generated after the Lindbergh baby kidnapping you've got two parts to it you've got the Guardian ear which actually sit in your baby's room and then the speaker which would go wherever you would want it in order to monitor it what's significant about this piece is the design it's an excellent example of modern design by a very famous Japanese American designer called Isamu Noguchi Noguchi was born in los angeles but spend much of his life in japan Noguchi went on to design furniture and he was influential to current American designers and architects all over the world and this is very typical of his design it's combining machine elements with a human form I mean it's called radio nurse and this looks like a nurse's head you can see the face and then you can see her kind of hat draped around the back of the side and the reason it's so scarce today is because during the war a lot of these were trashed because of the Japanese association with them and new Gucci esident at Japanese American designer his stock continues to rise and this has become a classic icon of his work and you see it in all the modern design collections in museums throughout the country you often just see this speaker it's not as interesting this part because it's not interesting they designed I think it's thrown away and it's the original finish on it it's pretty significant to have it this case is okay could be buffed up a little but they're easily cracked because it is bakelite you remember how much you paid for it originally I believe it was twenty-five thirty-five dollars a piece like this in the current market is easily in the 2,000 to 2,500 dollar range and I'm really excited that you brought it on and thanks thanks for bringing it in [Music] well that was passed down through my family came from my great-grandfather letters that were written to him from his friend George Brown they went to school together in Baltimore Maryland before George joined the army so explain to me who this gentleman is in this photograph okay that is a George Brown he was with the seventh Cavalry and he was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn this is an archive of a corporal George Brown who served in the seventh Cavalry with Custer and died at the battlefield on June 25th 1876 and correspondents after the fact from a friend of his private Kim who served with him - your great-grandfather yes the Battle of Little Bighorn is a pivotal moment in American history and so anything that sort of survives in the seventh Cavalry and that event is pretty special and what is this here that's a map of what the battlefield looked like after the battle was over it was made by John Kim he was with the major Reno group and what we have here is this is actually George Browns appointment as a corporal yeah in the seventh Cavalry that's pretty impressive and this is George Browns documentation of his trips in the Black Hills with Custer yesterday right do you know this letter over here that was from Kim telling about finding George's body and being with Custer and you company the letter is dated July 20th 1876 and as you probably know the battle was on June 25th right so here you have notes of his travels with Custer up until the battle then he died at the battle and then his friend continued his correspondence yes that's correct it's really wonderful and I mean I haven't had time to look through all these letters but they're really special I believe it's a total of 23 letters all total do you have any idea of what this material is worth I had someone generally that it might be worth $10,000 I would think that 10,000 is a fairly conservative value and I think that in the right environment and the right circumstances the whole archive could be worth around $25,000 or more that's very good that's a very special gift that your that your mother left you yes it is [Music] this belonged to my grade and and she ran an antique store in Colorado in the 40s and the 50s when she passed away her estate was settled and my dad received this space and then when he died it became mine what did your dad tell you about this piece did he know anything about it all they told me about it was that it was a delay vase did you know who he was not really okay let me tell you a little bit about who he is French man his first name was a meal he was born in 1846 and Nancy France his father owned a glass factory in a ceramics factory he kind of dabbled a little bit in ceramics and started working in glass himself and he took some of his glass wares to the Paris International Exposition and they went over very well galilei's biggest influence was nature you know you see that by the beautiful flowers that are on this face and you also see things enameled with insects and bugs all kinds of organic type things this was made around the turn of the century Emile Galilei died in 1904 however they continued to operate his glass works until 1936 and they closed the quality of the pieces after he died kind of went down and you would not see pieces like this produced after his death earlier pieces like this are called marquetry which is a technique that he made that we don't see very much of he also did things in enamel and cameo glass which are the things that we show most often here on Antiques Roadshow and that you see in the antique stores we recognized the style of this piece but we also see that it says Galilei you told me that you hadn't even recognized that it was signed before no we didn't recognize that it was signed until today whoever's holding it and waiting these things don't come on today's market very much if this piece came up at auction today because of the size and because of the rarity this piece would probably bring anywhere from 60 to 80 thousand dollars sure kid you know I'm not you know that just almost leads to be breathless because I had no idea I knew it had a value to it if it was actually Glee I knew that but never that well your great aunt she had amazing taste and now it's time for the roadshow feedback my dad did I brought an arrowhead that my husband thought was very worthwhile as I always suspected he paid too much he pays too much for everything and this was not worth much now all of a sudden I think I like my wife's collection and I'm Way excited about it 600 bucks for this ugly thing in that great because oh it's such a nice winter's chair that's such a nice widget to turns it upside down oh it's such a nice reproduction winter chair we had a great time Oh pottery filled part I forgot to take my high blood pressure this morning so I'm a little uptight so I can go home and tell my husband I did good it'll be so good and I can shop some more thank you it's only worth a hundred two hundred and fifty that you'd have to break off my right arm to get it I live right here my dolly I gave forty dollar store he just told me it is worth two thousand dollars which is absolutely taking my breath away it's a wonderful experience I thank you ever so much I'm Mark Wahlberg thanks for watching see you next time on Antiques Roadshow
