Canadian Antiques Roadshow comes to Lethbridge

[Music] giving us away welcome to left bridge in the Canadian Antiques Roadshow this is the best-known symbol of the city the one they put on the postcards because the high-level bridge is the longest and tallest viaduct bridge in the world spanning the Cooley over the Old Man River five thousand five hundred and sixteen point nine feet built by the CPR to replace an old wooden trestle the first train passed over June 23rd 1909 and they're still running now the railway was one of the pillars upon which this city was founded without that and coal and agriculture there'd be no left bridge to be hosting the Canadian Antiques Roadshow you brought in some great things today can you give me some history on these well I worked for the railroad in the 60s when I got out of school Rudd and I was in the CPR station in oak River Alberta and these posters are advertising posters that went on the wall and there was about four frames of the posters at rug and what they were supposed to do is when the agent Scott new posters ever take the old ones out destroy them and put the new one in rug well what they did is they put poster after poster after poster one of those brothers yes though so when the close the station down in the 60s I rescued these posters and kept him and folded them up and put them in a way and I've ever since why were you smart you have some fantastic pieces of Canadian history men of valor you have the whole series here there were three according to print 1944 Lee this this is just Canada at its best a coming through the Rockies the last from the serious agentive dollar these guys on a submarine attacking the Nazis one of my favorite Europe by land sea the Lawrence root and this is a great one this is something never happens anymore you can't go anywhere for $15 you can't even take a cab down the street and here it is 15 bucks well what you have here is a little time capsule of great Canadian art that relates to Canada relates to the war relates to transportation in Canada it just fills in whole gaps we don't have anymore these are rare rare survivors of early Canadian poster art and how many do you have in total 43 43 I would say that you would have a value on these of approximately $30,000 well that's really good first just a bunch of paper or a bunch of papers that's got to take on three giggles I guess you could call that your work bonus yeah there you go your retirement lag well this is a wonderful technological item you've brought in technology of the day see this is a five cent early pay phone but yeah when we put one of today's dimes in here doesn't work and this is before because before nineteen twenty three twenty two when we introduced the Canadian nickel we had the Canadian silver five cent piece which would have worked in here so this certainly dates it before that time and probably early as 1910 1915 it's made up of two different components we've got the great L pain folk patent and mechanism which allowed someone to put a coin in and make the call and then we have the northern electric chromed candlestick telephone with its original bakelite earpiece hard to put a value on without actually doing some work on it but in my mind seeing it there as an object a collective technology surely would have to pay at least a thousand dollars for it if not more all right yeah I think it's a really tremendous item perfect well thank you thank you whose dress is this this was my grandmother's dress that she wore when she came from Japan and when they landed in Lethbridge by train she they were told that she had to have a gown and my grandfather had to have the tails and the trousers look how he would have played their dress to walk on the boardwalk you up for it and picked up by farmers wearing their coveralls so they were a little overdressed but we've kept the dress isn't that Ben and this is your mom is my mom and she was only two when this picture was taken look how immaculately Lord I'm rather excited to see this page in here today what can you tell me about it how did you come to be in possession of it well this painting has been in my home as long as I can remember my grandfather was C D Lennox he and his brother were the architects of the Old City Hall in Toronto and this I believe it was done by George Reed and he was commissioned to do some murals in the Old City Hall around 1896 my grandfather was given this study after the mural was painted I think that story is almost accurate George read upon his return from Europe he wanted to implement a policy of public murals in municipal and federal buildings he did the two murals in the Municipal Building in Toronto on a free basis to get politicians interested in the program ultimately that program failed due to budgeting Reid went on to have a very successful career doing murals for private commissions private homes and some federal and municipal buildings this I believe to have been painted perhaps in Paris prior to that time Reid was studying abroad and saw a log yard which reminded him of stories that his father had told him about logging in Ontario so he hired a bunch of French models to go stand on the logs and he painted sketches from them the theme is very similar to the murals in Toronto the painting appears to be unsigned there are some issues of damage on the painting which should likely be restored over the past two years we've seen a real run-up in values of George Agnew read if your painting was to come to market today I would anticipate that it would realize forty to fifty thousand dollars which is a rather nice thing to have in your home it's certainly yeah especially we've given your family history yes I don't stay in the family wonderful there are so many great things here in left bridge we'll be back with more this is a really nice looking guitar tell me about how you got it well I bought this at a secondhand store back in 81 and I've been playing it ever since you play in the band I did have a group I don't do it so much anymore as you know this is a Gretsch country gentleman guitar yes and I would guess it's probably made in the early 1970s and at the time that this guitar was made the Baldwin Piano Company owned Gretsch but this is early on in that period Canadian rock music icon Randy Bachman is a major collector and enthusiast of the Gretsch guitars the country gentleman was a really desired model II was the preferred guitar of Chet Atkins and this is a really nice example could I take a quick look at it it's in really beautiful condition there's a little bit of wear on the metal and we're here none of this where is abuse it's just from use and I think you've probably lovingly used it some of them had an opening in the back this one doesn't have it very desirable by country players and rockabilly players and if I wanted to put a value on it today because the condition is so fine and you've got the original case I'd say three to four thousand very interesting a lot more than eight hundred I've paid for it yep it sure is nice guitar thank you for bringing along thank you for having me I took my school kids across Western Canada following the routing amount increases thirty four years ago we found this and I wondered what it is ever since so you may Oh golly it's heavy we don't have any idea what it is but well I think this is a good opportunity to stop the experts might be a rare case of petrified ice cream my goodness dog out of the ground you're the first one to sniffing really you know those Buffalo that came over that jump well that's what they did to finish them off at the bottom of the hill this is unbelievable well do you know what it is no I don't know what it is here's snow either okay Bruce you win the profit doesn't happen because they're so smart the you win a Canadian Antiques Roadshow geez Wow but the sad thing is you still haven't solved your mystery I guess that's so it's gonna be this is film to you yes does it really how did you catch it well it's from my great-grandfather Marge it's from the poor board okay hey it's a big sword right well it certainly is it's a British sword used by Canadians and it's called the the patent 9 - 1898 cavalry sword and it's quite the weight so this was your great-great-great grandfather's well I can tell you something about it that we're looking at a lot of the markings on this and writing writing here we've got some markings that say that it belonged to a regiment called the princess Louise's Dragoon Guards but that's been crossed out and what we find here is a lord Strathcona force and the Lord's wrath colours horse of course is one of our Berta's favorite regiments what you need to do when you get home just put some oil on the blade to keep it nice and shiny don't polish it with just a little oil and it will last you for us but as long as when you're my age which is getting up there you know and it also you should look after it because it's also worthless it's going to increase in value but right now you're looking at this sword which is probably worth around $500 so you're gonna have to look after yes great thank you [Music] we think we count our answer that someone is actually just visiting the antiques road - not even one of our experts tell me what you think I believe what you're looking at here is a new-laid it's a naturally occurring item it wasn't man-made at all it grows very much like a pearl in May and an oyster and what kind of stone is it then like a mineral deposits a girl deposit late double o L ite mystery saw why what genius I've we're lucky we ran into you which like to work on the show but lucky for you someone really smartly that's great thank you thank you [Music] doesn't get much more Canadian than this I'm thinking of Lorne Greene during this radio show in front of this microphone in World War two what's going on on the front over in Europe I mean I have a certain attachment I saw this but I would first I'd like to know what is the orders how did you come across this I actually lost my father him and my mother were shopping for a house in Northern Ontario and they're at open house and saw this sitting on the shelf like my dad fell in love with it because it said CBC on it he wanted it the gentleman that owned the house didn't want to sell it lucky for my dad my mum loved the house so they put in an offer and my dad included the microphone in the offer after how I haven't have never heard of somebody purchasing a hosting it I'm like their dad to get the P yeah and all that what do you know there there's a wonderful story I mean I've got an old CBC microphone I've been on radio for 25 years at CBC Harris such a big fan of what Peter saw ski and what he gave me in the love country somebody saw the microphone I just said oh I wish I could take adversity but that kind of story they never yeah my dad lost the fiery thing it's a wonderful blessing in their Western Electric microphone a 6:33 what was interesting is is companies like CBC would modify the microphone for their the top part here this is called the flag this is where the call letters are very very scarce in the world of collecting microphone everybody's looking for that when you're looking at the old microphone the nickname of the microphone is a salt shaker because get the design of it it's crammed like a salt shaker you know depending on how you look at imagination I get into it all any idea of value you know do you know if it works no never even side of that no in today's market I mean take into consideration to call letters here it would be no less than $700 now with the call letters or two flying at the top there could easily be $1,000 or greater depending on who's looking but somebody who has departed - that wouldn't be a problem so wonderful wonderful story thank you very much this is how the West was opened up where did you get this my dad made it in the early 40s for his parents as a gift saved all the box tops from the Forex bleach and he had to send them in and you would get the mules and we got it but it all so it's probably about 65 years old I would think that's for the 20 Mille Team borax to the tree and how shallow yeah because it's in good shape standing here looking at this very fine precious little object I am amazed at the quality of the work this is a little Japanese lacquer screen all beautifully inlaid with mother-of-pearl tortoiseshell a little bit of stained ivory coral a whole variety of materials and and and the overall work is just spectacular I'd like you to tell me how you came by this piece and also how you've managed to keep it in such great condition it was always as far as I can remember on my mom's dresser when she passed away I just had to have it and I keep it really carefully in the pouch and I keep it at the bank actually because I'm afraid that you know in case of fire it's totally gone there is nothing that well it's too bad that it's not out on display but I can understand your concerns it is it's what's called Japanese Shiva Yama lacquer now the Shiva Yama family were working in the 1700s and they were the first ones to start in laying lacquer with with this kind of precious material now this piece dates from the last quarter of the 19th century and is highly collectible by discerning Japanese collectors I would have said that auction sale it's probably worth something in the 10 to $15,000 rank by making these value about 10 to 15,000 I think it will save the family absolutely immaculate just tremendous what can you buy for $5 I bought this steel I think so and where did you buy it a Salvation Army thrift store and it must have said something to you oh I saw it I grabbed it immediately I'm not as beautiful well it is I mean it's Ukrainian it was probably painted by it an immigrant it's so cheerful it's just such a happy piece you must love living with it it's it's not all painted but I don't think that detracts from it at all this part here the faces washed it was probably cut out of the magazine in the birds as well the frame is just magnificent if so if I was going to put it in a show and ask the price I would put at least $800 on I think it's almost like the happiest most decorative pieces I've seen obscure how this terrific looks I love it I couldn't believe that it was sitting there I thought who would have given this away like they're saying congratulations out here $5.00 good deal you brought in an large painting but in a very small format when you look at the painting you can just see how you can go into the far distance of the painting in this area here and there's more and more to see many layers yeah do you know anything about the paint oh I don't like we've had it in our house in my bedroom for since I was since as a little child it was in my grandparents place and my mother remembers it just from from when she grew up who was always there great above the fireplace yeah well it's an English painter Henry H Parker okay and he lived from 1858 to 1930 but he was superb in this type of harvest scenes of the painted in England and as you can see there's such incredible details in the sky and in the far distance he detailed everything so it could be a painting that was four by five feet it would not it you know because the scene there's so much going on in the pending yeah the thing that this painting would be greatly enhanced if you have a cleaned okay the colors would come up beautiful the sky would be blue and and the white clouds okay and you will get much more enjoyment out of it did you have it insured or no for the no assistant it's just a painting we've always had yeah well he's a wonderful painter and this is 10 out of 10 for him no way yeah and you should insure for about $9,000 no way we've got another one oh bring them all in oh my gosh that's amazing I can't believe that no it's a very very fine painting we had a stunning response from the people of Lethbridge and southern Alberta I'd say this was the most successful shows we've ever had in terms of crowds thousands of people coming with this great variety of objects again the sort of reflects the immigrant experience the pioneer experience and really a great interesting variety of things and awfully good natured about having to stand in line but the appraisers are very very happy today wonderful Antiques Roadshow from left bridge Alberta

Channel: Bruce Haig

Views: 30,380

Rating: 4.8074865 out of 5

Keywords: 2018-11-24

Id: jYoxNo98rA8

Length: 21min 25sec (1285 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 24 2018