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[Music] get your tissues ready i can't believe it really i had no idea thank you thank you very much thank you it's antiques roadshow tearjerkers [Music] this episode of antiques roadshow is made possible by these sponsors let's face it sometimes we need a good cry with emotional reminders of the past as i looked at the how much he paid for it growing up i realized it was a huge amount for that day and time and what's been left behind this is a painting that i was given when my grandmother passed away in this special hour we're celebrating the guests who wear their hearts on their sleeves the cryers the weepers and the joyous [Music] like these overwhelmed sisters my mother found this in the late 60s there was a little neighborhood newspaper flyer and she read that there was a glass lamp for sale and my mother saw it knew what it was and the woman she also knew what it was um it had belonged to her grandfather and she had moved into a very small studio apartment and it was just too large and my mother asked her well what would you like for it and uh she said 125. right 125 so my mother went to the bank real quick purchased it and has had it ever since and your family has taken very good care of it well uh there's five of us and uh my mother did hide it she hadn't been away and because we were kind of rambunctious and it has just recently emerged well let me tell you a little bit about your lamp um you do know that it was made by the tiffany studios which was the firm that was owned and operated by louis comfort tiffany who was the son of the founder of tiffany and company this probably dates from 1905. the shade is called the rose helmet shade the helmet of course refers to the shape looking like a helmet it rests on this absolutely magnificent example of a tiffany base it has a wonderful our nouveau quality to it and it's called the arkan leaf and if you look down closely to the base you will see these wonderful stylized leaf forms that follow all around the edge and then are repeated in a slightly different style moving up towards the top of the base over the years the bases and the shades can get separated and what's very interesting about this base is that i believe that this has stayed together all these years if you notice under the shade this is gold leading and the gold leading matches the gold on the base and i have to say that the base is really unusual i can count on one hand how many times i've seen this base it's so unusual this is a situation where the base is almost as great as the shade these were always luxury items when tiffany was making them you would find them in the homes of many of the people who belong to new york society this lamp probably cost in the neighborhood of maybe at least two hundred dollars to buy and that was a lot of money in 1905 absolutely the woman who was selling it because she didn't know visit me she had taken it into two dealers in her area right and the the one dealer looked at it and she said it's not a tiffany it's the wrong finish on the base okay and so she was turned around by two different okay well that's okay this is called the etch dori finish it's as bright as rain there's just everything is beautiful about this lamp now let me just give you the good news uh this lamp is worth between eighty thousand and a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars mom had a good eye congratulations [Applause] i have to give you guys a hug isn't it great to get news oh you're so cute wow [Music] i'm a speedway spark plug i grew up just a couple of miles from the indianapolis motor speedway track and all through my grade school and high school days i listened to the cars in the early spring going around this flag was signed by 31 of the 33 drivers in 1958 at the conclusion of the race on the day of the race on lap number one 1958 all 33 cars were headed down the back stretch on lap number one and two drivers edelian and dick rathman tried to reach turn three both of them at the same time and it caused an accident that pat o'connor was killed in before they even completed lap number one right so that's what makes this particular year eventful but tragic and of course it was later won by jimmy bryant right and we can only assume that this flag was probably started to be signed a day two days perhaps three days before as we have pat o'connor's signature here the only thing we can't figure out between any of us is how jimmy bryan managed to save the center logo for himself maybe there's a listener out there that can explain why jimmy bryant got to sign the center spot he was the winner yep and it had to have taken place after the race right but yeah we have a signature on there of one driver that knitting completed right and we've looked and we don't see jimmy brian in another spot sometimes what we'll see is we'll see the driver who wins on another spot and then again in that center position after they've won we've got 18 other signatures on here of people that were related to racing racing dignitaries former winners so you've got 31 plus 18. that's the number of signatures that are on this flag as far as i know it's the only flag of its sort through your father's occupation you get to meet a lot of these drivers i did my father had an accounting firm on main street and so i grew up looking over the kitchen table and my dad and maybe a couple of these drivers would be there and they'd have a cold beer while they talk taxes in 1956 i was in the soapbox derby and i had to build my own car and that year pat o'connor came to our house to have his taxes done and he brought ray nichols with him as chief mechanic i said pat i've got my soapbox derby out in the garage would you like to come and see it and he said sure and he got ray nichols chief mechanic and pat went out to my garage and they said looks really good jackie but you've got to align the tires and they spent time and they got my tires are lined and i raced my car and i got more speed out of it in the soapbox derby because of pat o'connor so tell me how you how you got it a photographer by the name of cook had it he passed away about 15 20 years ago an auction company had an estate sale and i went to that hoping to get photographs this came up for sale and i bid on it and bought it and how much did you pay for it no records i couldn't find the receipt but i think around a thousand maybe eleven hundred dollars i'm just in love with it i've kept it all these years what would you think it's worth today oh boy let's think big maybe three or four thousand i don't know yeah it's quite the special piece for you to brought in today especially being here in indianapolis i would put a value on this piece for insurance purposes of ten thousand dollars wonderful wonderful wow i didn't expect that yeah marvelous oh my gosh well it's a part of my growing up and it'll be passed on to my son [Music] they belong to my father his grandfather and he was born in lexington kentucky and then grew up in atlanta before he came west in the early 1900s each piece is so remarkable the canes are really intricate interesting dated signed this this cane on the end has so much intricate work and we call it a puzzle kink the other canes are equally detailed and i love that it tells the journey of his trail out west this carving is especially interesting given where we are because he's in tucson arizona in 1938. as a group we would estimate them at auction for 12 to 14 thousand dollars you're kidding oh my gosh you're kidding they just stand in the corner and we pull them out at holidays and look at them we never we never think of them as anything other than that they're excellent they're great they're great carvings you're welcome thanks for coming thank you [Laughter] oh don't cry no kidding we're dropping him outside [Music] so this is a painting that i was given when my grandmother passed away it always hung right above her bed her dad i'm guessing would have given it to her after she spent the summer at a dude ranch when she was 19 in like the 40s when i got it there was a mosquito underneath the glass so i took it out to the front yard and i opened it up to get the mosquito out so i could take it with me to college and then it kind of scared me a little i closed it back up immediately because it looked like it might be real and have you had it appraised before do you know if she had it appraised it was appraised um and like a general house appraisal twice in 1998 it was appraised as a print at 200 and in 2004 it was appraised at 250 okay do you know anything about the artist i know he was born in france and then he moved to northern pennsylvania so he could have been in the area at the time when he was painting it when it was given to my grandmother and then he moved out to ohio but he had associations with like the sioux tribe so they actually adopted him in and they gave him a cipher long boots and that's what that little circle underneath his signature is that's the artist it's henry francois farney he was born in france he came to pennsylvania when he was about six years old when he was living in pennsylvania he began a relationship with the seneca indians and that's really where his fascination with the different tribes began this piece is really interesting because it's a dense group of figures which is very desirable in his work he did eventually spend a lot of time with the sioux indians and they did adopt him and gave him the name long boots this is really his most prolific time 1890 is about when we start to see some of his very best paintings he represented the native americans in a very kind of peaceful tranquil way and you can see that in this painting he didn't ever really bring conflict into his work as some of the other artists from that time did charles russell and remington so if we were going to put this in an auction today i would suggest an estimate of two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand so i can't hang it up oh my god that's so much i don't even know what to say oh my goodness so i'll keep it away from my dog i bought this at an auction from an artist who was well known in the area i was excited to go to the auction i'm actually postponed to hernia surgery to attend auction when i went to preview the auction i suspected it was eames and then when i looked in the drawer i knew it was and so i sat through the whole auction and i won the bid so the cabinet is designed by charles eames for the hermann miller furniture company in the original catalog from 1952 it was known as the esu series esu standing for eems storage unit this exact model was known as the esu 420 n the end designation is for the neutral color palette 400 is because of the 400 series and 20 designations for the drawers and door combination it was designed at a time when manufacturers and designers were teaming up and the the best design mines were being paired with some of the best manufacturers all of these parts were custom manufactured there's actually 341 pieces on this cabinet i counted them this morning you're crazy there's a lot of companies today that are very successful with producing something that comes in a flat pack and it's shipped out and the consumer actually puts it together right this was far too complex for a consumer to assemble themselves so these all had to be made in the factory at hermann miller in zeeland michigan they all had to be assembled there then put in a large cardboard carton and a crate and shipped out by rail or truck in 1950 across the country to their destination and actually proved to be a little too expensive and also the design of the item suffered in transit the biggest flaw of this design is that the legs are very thin and are designed to take a lot of weight compressed straight down but they're not designed for lateral movement so in shipping or when you pile a lot of heavy items on top of this and then you want to move it even just an inch right those legs can kind of give way it has a label here in the drawer that label is from the early 1950s the reason i know this is from between 1950 and 1952 is that in 1953 this entire cabinet was redesigned oh the weakness of the legs was fixed was was fixed and new legs were designed that were in set into the bottom this version which is commonly referred to as the first series version has these original legs how much did you pay for it i'm 15 in 1952 these were about 200 which was fairly reasonable in today's dollars that would be about seventeen hundred dollars there's few of them that survive in in good condition i would call this one of the best survivors i have ever seen and i specialize in this type of design wow at auction which is probably the most common place that these would show up today i think this would sell for about twenty thousand dollars what really yes really yeah wow i was not i was going to be cool i had no idea i thought maybe 800 dollars well i have two like this and two small ones and we love them oh i had no idea wow that's very cool wow i had no clue these belong to my great aunt and uncle who were pioneer family founders in northern arizona in flagstaff my great aunt came from omaha nebraska as did the artist i don't know if there's any other connection than that but my family had a sheep ranch in flagstaff and he could very well have gone out with the sheep ranch and gone up on the reservation and painted the pictures well the artist augustus dunbeer who signed each of these paintings in the lower left does have connections as you said both to omaha and the west when he studied at the chicago art institute he met a fellow artist and teacher walter uffer who was one of the taos school artists wow and uffer invited dunbeer to come out to new mexico in 1920 so he started spending time every year in the west even though he traveled a great deal he would always go back to his studio in omaha where he painted for 62 years wow taught many classes and he had much good advice for his students one piece of advice that i particularly liked was don't paint what you see he felt that the artist should manipulate the color to create a certain mood he often would make his own frames and these are each in a lovely hand-carved frame right whether dunbeer actually made these i'm not sure but it's something that could maybe be ascertained with more research so here we have a scene of a horse in what looks to be a very hot day in the landscape and here's some indians also taking some respite from the sun if these were to sell in a retail situation this one might be around five to seven thousand and this might be around four to six thousand wow amazing so i'm really glad to see some paintings today with some arizona connection thanks so much for bringing him in you're welcome thank you i told you i was gonna cry it was i think about 1965 my family moved from colorado to washington dc my dad took a job with the department of agriculture and my sister already played the viola she's two years older than i am she was already in junior high i would have been starting sixth grade so my mom wanted to start me on an instrument a string instrument and we chose the violin so we went to what downtown washington dc did you buy it out of violence shop from a violin dealer yes and it was hanging from all these i don't know how many 50 60 violins hanging from the ceiling i mean they must have been down low enough that you could grab them but i just remember walking into this room and i saw this violin and the back of it is kind of white and then it goes out to brown that's what caught my eye first but then when he got it down for me it has a wax seal on the back oh yeah says md look at that we lived in maryland so i thought that stands for maryland an owner who owned it at one point put his seal on the back oh when my dad saw the cost and how much was that it was six hundred dollars in 1965 but we bought a brand new car to drive across country and it was three thousand dollars and so six hundred of that at the time i'm a kid i'm like 11 or 12 years old yeah it was a big chunk of money at that time and my dad went ahead and bought it for me the one i wanted so you looked at the label inside which was now a bit obscured and you found a date on the inside 1760s date i can't really make out what the label says but i can tell you the violin is made about 1750 1740. it looks like a fake label put in later at some point but the instrument is german maybe made in nuremberg maybe vienna but i think more like nuremberg one of the better families of makers perhaps the family named vidhom w-i-d-h-a-l-m-vit home reminds me of vid home instruments and one of the reasons it does is not just this beautiful outline with these beautiful small edges and little corners but also this really intricately carved head really clean work and the kind of work that was not quickly done this is definitely handmade by a small workshop or a particular maker and very high creative work and this was like stylistically i think they're a moddy model which is a very common model of the period the fact that the wood is not very fancy that's okay it's not unusual to plain wood for these german makers all this brown dark finish that's original to it and this used to cover the whole instrument over the years that all gets worn down this violin retains its original neck generally speaking in the 19th century most of these short neck instruments of the earlier periods had their necks removed they would move it right at the base of the head put a longer neck in put the head back on this one has the original neck and it was re-angled at the heel by adding wood to it it's been modernized well 19th century modernized it wouldn't take much to get this up to snuff cosmetically but basically structurally it's great there are some old cracks in the head but i'm not that bothered by that in a retail shop environment it should be worth at least ten thousand dollars and i'm thinking somewhere between ten and fifteen thousand dollars oh you've gotta be kidding me no that's about right and overseas in germany where the market is even a little stronger for this type of instrument perhaps even more so perhaps if this were cleaned up a bit and it were brought up to modern standards maybe even getting up towards twenty thousand dollars oh my goodness that's that's incredible it makes me miss my dad even more he's gone you know as i looked at the how much he paid for it growing up i realized it was a huge amount for that day and time but a good choice and i bet if my dad knew how much it was worth he would still pay that much that would make him happy he loved us that much [Music] i don't know an awful lot about it except that um it was given by kit carson uh whoever i'm sure everybody knows uh in his history given to the foster father of my grandmother and do you know who made this weaving do you know what kind of blanket it is it's a probably a navajo but uh that's about all i know well ted did you notice when you showed this to me that i kind of stopped breathing a little bit yeah you did i'm still having a little bit of trouble breathing here by because i you know didn't think much about it probably a chief blanket but that's exactly what it is and it's not just a chief's blanket it's the first type of chiefs blankets made these were made in about 1840 to 1860 and it's called a you first phase a ute a you first phase wearing blanket are you cheating it was navajo made they were made for you chiefs and they were very very valuable at the time this is sort of this is navajo weaving in its purest form all of these things that we see later with diamonds and all kinds of different patterns comes much later than this this is just pure linear design this is the the beginning of navajo weaving the condition of this is unbelievable unbelievable we see these we've got a little bit of damage over there it's made from hand woven wool but it's so finely done it's like silk it would repel water and this here is dyed with indigo dyes it was a very valuable die at the time and what's really interesting is right here we have an old repair that was probably done in the 1860s and it's done with rivalled by yeta which is in itself a very important thing in navajo weaving so all involved it's an extraordinary piece of art it's extremely rare it is the most important thing that's coming to the roadshow that i've seen um do you have a sense at all of what we're looking at here in terms of valley having the clue are are you a wealthy man ted no well sir um i'm i'm still a little nervous here i have to tell you uh on a really bad day this textile would be worth 350 000 on a good day it's about a half a million dollars oh my god you had no idea i had no idea i just laying on the back of a chair well sir you have a national treasure wow and national treasure gee when you walked in with this i just about died congratulations congratulations i can't believe this now the value of this uh that i'm giving is is not using the kit carson provenance provenance is sometimes very difficult to ascertain if if we could do research on this and we could prove with a without a reasonable doubt that kit carson did actually own this the value would increase again maybe 20 wow can't believe it my grandmother you know were poor farmers they didn't uh [Music] she had her her foster father had started some gold meals and and you know discovered gold and everything but there was no wealth no wealth in the family at all congratulations thank you gee what yeah i'm i'm amazed i'm flabbergasted [Music] when i was a teenager i saw this man at my godmother's house she said one day i'm gonna put this in my will and it'll be yours recently she just gave it to me he's just something that i've always treasured because he's different i like the fact that his hat is missing it's gone but he's trying to get to it and i like the movement that's in his clothes so this fellow was working and then the hat blows away and it's blowing away on a wave this is water you can see it's kind of breaking and frothing and so on it's shallow yeah but it's water he is in a rice field on his back this is where he would put the hoe an area is just leaping forward just this spontaneous reaction that's what that sculptor wanted to do and that is characteristic of a particular school of artisans who were working in the late 19th century in tokyo it's made of bronze and it was in response to a change in japan during the meiji period where there was a real effort to industrialize japan and move it forward to become part of the world of nations to become part of international commerce and so they were creating things that could be sold to a foreign audience and they would be displayed in worlds fairs in places like st louis and philadelphia and chicago right here as a little square mark and it says a number of things but what's important is that it says kanida and that is the name of the sculptor and we know that canada worked in the late 19th century this happens to be one of the very best examples that we know of by this particular artist oh wow you can see the detail on the clothing and on the waves that are cresting the face the features this is a wizard old man who's gone through a whole lifetime of work from a technical standpoint creating a figure that's supported by one leg is hard you've got to balance the weight and this is a fairly heavy object so one of the ways that it's achieved by the base extended so far okay so that's also part of the scene but also look what the figure does it extends far as well and there's enough weight that's balanced by this and pull it out you can see that it's got this fairly substantial block attached to the end of the foot so that this is not going to move that's right and all that was calculated by the sculptor when he came up with this idea for retail replacement purposes i think a figure of 12 000 would be about right really i had no idea [Laughter] that's wonderful oh my gosh thank you wow that's really something i had no idea well this was my grandmother's and she had it over the kitchen sink on the shelf and she'd always put her string in there we should go to the bakery and get a cake or something and it was always wrapped in paper which and that was the jar she stuck a string for future use well it's a wonderful thing i see we have an original maker's label in here where it was made in new york city this dates from around 1880 these were made to be on display behind a bar to advertise the beer in this case gamborinus lager beer yes it has a reverse on glass applied label this is a curved piece of glass actually painted on the reverse and then applied to the mug most commonly you find bottles like a liquor bottle would say the the name of the brand of liquor and it would have a beautiful label on it it's very rare to see a beer stein advertising beer with this reverse on glass when i looked in the side here i saw another little label a little paper label oh 50 on that one well i was going to have a garage sale and i put prices on a couple things i had but i never had the garage sale i wish i'd been at that garage sale because i'll tell you you know what this is worth having a strange idea between two and four thousand dollars i'll go on yes indeed so you have a real real treasure here two to four thousand yes at an auction where you had some real competition you could certainly bring two to four thousand who knows maybe a little more i can't believe this take good care of it thank you [Music] it was my grandmother's and about 10 years ago my mother gave it to me my grandmother came from italy on the boat and landed in the united states sometime in the 1800s and my mother was born in 1917 so i don't know whether it came from italy or if she purchased it after she was in new orleans and got married i think what this is a piece of new orleans art pottery now new orleans art pottery was very short-lived operations roots were in 1885 sometime around 88 89 they were already out of business and teacher ellsworth woodward went to new orleans to teach the ladies how to do decorative arts and started the ladies decorative arts league in 1885 and 86 on baron street opened up a pottery and brought in two potters joseph myers and the famous george orr georgia actually left his own pottery here in biloxi to go to new orleans to throw pots for a couple years with woodward and with myers on baron street so i think this is one of those pieces now how do we how do we know this without a mark on it this work is so obscure there are maybe 20 pieces known of the new orleans art pottery utilitarian forms such as jardin ears predominated and they were used and they were broken so what do we look for several things number one this cross hatching on both sides is typical of work i've seen on new orleans our pottery it's somewhat of a fingerprint i think more importantly this piece has a sophisticated crudeness if you look at the way the handles are formed on the top the the lumpiness of the decoration on the other hand it's really well done it's it's an oxymoron because it's got elements of high art and heavy-handedness at the same time if we look inside at the clay that is the clay i've seen on pieces made from the new orleans art pottery it looks like mud from the new orleans streets in addition to that there are very fine lines going around this pot as though someone used a sponge or a finishing tool while it was still on the wheel to even out the inside several of the pieces i've seen of new orleans our pottery have these concentric circles going through the inside of the pot so again there are many elements of this i doubt very much that your grandmother brought a jardineer over from italy with her on the boat i mean it's much more likely she would have found it here arriving in new orleans which is where this pot would have been made so i think the odds are about ten to one that this is a piece of new orleans art pottery this is an amazing condition considering what it must have been through for 130 years if this was just another victorian cast pot in a majolica style which this glaze is it's worth a hundred dollars okay because it's a hand thrown one rather than cast i'm thinking perhaps at auction a piece like this would bring somewhere between four and six hundred dollars if it's a piece of new orleans art pottery and we're pretty sure about that at auction the value is somewhere between ten thousand and fifteen thousand dollars if we find a picture of this piece in our research i think we have a piece of new orleans art pottery worth between 20 and 30 thousand dollars it just gets better so i think you're looking at a piece probably that's going to be worth estimated at auction somewhere between 10 and 15 000 but we're going to get back to you on that one okay all right wow where should i keep it uh not on the floor where you had it sitting a little earlier even though it's meant to have flowers put in it i definitely keep it protected thank you you're welcome my pleasure [Music] from what i understand it's called a standee i am an avid elvis lover you have your t-shirt on i can see that yes and believe it or not just some awesome friends of mine we're cleaning a home that they bought out to reactivate and lo and behold in the attic was elvis and the minute they found it jack said to his wife well joan we know right where this is going i'm sure you're very familiar with the elvis career yes and this one's particularly important because it's his first feature length film and at the time the film was supposed to be called the reno brothers which are the title characters but his hit single love me tender had already sold a million copies so the the song was so popular at this point they actually retitled the film but because it was his first appearance he actually got third billing in the film which he that never happened again obviously because he was such a huge star they were made to decorate the the lobbies of the movie theaters when the films came to town and they would be passed on oftentimes to the next theater well as you can see you do have a crease that's pretty common most of these were just in pieces by the time a film's run would be finished the crease across the center that's how it was made they're made to fold so they can be shipped there were reports that you couldn't hear the film because the girls in the theater were screaming so loudly because there he was such a heartthrob so i would imagine that many of these were also probably torn to shreds by fans coming out of the theater who wanted a piece of elvis to take home you keep this by your bed oh yes and you wake up every morning and see elvis oh yes there are only about two or three of these known to exist really so many were destroyed so at auction i would estimate it at least ten to fifteen thousand dollars oh my god so are you going to keep it by your bed still absolutely you're kidding no i've never seen one before i've only ever seen pictures so you made my day i'm glad and of all people with elvis thank you very much thank you thank you very much thank you thank you very much oh my really really the only people who have them are probably the very highest end relevance collectors so you're you're in that group well i inherited this painting from my parents my mother wanted to give my father a gift that he would really love and he loved reading to his children books that had illustrations and this is one of the illustrations she knew how much he would love to get one of those so she decided that she needed to make this a secret so what she did was she saved five dollars from her food money every week for probably two years oh wow and didn't tell him this right and then he's either his birthday or their anniversary gave him a card that said you can go down to the schooner studios and pick out a painting and he was elated to say the least oh how exciting and so we went down as four kids and mom and dad and we chose a painting what i remember this would have been in the early 60s early to mid 60s i'll say dark wooden floors paint i think there were big windows at one end and there was partially completed canvases here there was you know old probably i'll say discarded ones there and you know then there was there was sort of stacks of them this is the one with the clipper ship which he thought was extraordinary and then this galleon and i don't know he just he sat on that one and we all of course were thrilled and the title of the painting is privateers of 76 right the story was written by an author named ralph d payne who apparently wrote several books in the early 20th century and a lot of them relating to history on the back of the painting we have the inventory number for the painting which is number 1248. there is a label which actually is hand written and maybe by schoonover himself that says it it's from chapter 13. the title of the illustration is at a hail from the boat he went to the rail at the hail of the boat meaning the one below the figure on top comes to the rail now schoonover uh of course is one of the premier artists of the brandywine school and he studied with howard pyle who's considered the father in the school yes at drexel institute in philadelphia didn't know that and schooner was very good at wanting to get to reality so not only did he go out west but he also went down to the bayous in mississippi to sort of get a sense of how the pirates would have lived in that environment he had a house in bushkill pennsylvania in pike county which is in the poconos and he would spend his summers there but he used the landscape of that area in in many of his paintings you know i think that the card that mr schoonover gave my parents when they purchased this said that it was painted in bush kill is that what it's called yes bush kill pamphlet and certainly he was very popular especially in the early part of the 20th century because he illustrated such classic books as robinson caruso swiss family robinson and he did a whole series of books for um on zane grey western novels so he was quite into it as well as magazine illustrations he was born in 1877 and he actually lived in 1972. so he was primarily painting in the early 20th century and really i think up until he passed away the painting of course is oil on canvas and looks like the original frame this painting is dated in the lower right 23 1923 and that's when the novel was first published he is popular as an illustrator nationwide if this were in a gallery i think that it would sell in the range of 125 thousand dollars i know you're kidding me i'm not getting there it's a wonderful yes really it's a wonderful painting my father would be so thrilled to know that people were being turned on to illustrations yeah and my mother would be really thrilled what you just said yeah well it means that her investment wasn't oh yes oh yes wow there's a big surge of interest in illustrations i love this painting yeah i love this painting i got it from my uncle's aunt she lived in chicago that's about all i know about it well you know a little more you know who made it yeah it's on the bottom yes and what does it say tiffany and company and what else does it say sterling silver and the letter t and some numbers well the letter t means it was made between 1891 and 1902 when charles tiffany was in charge of the production the first number is the pattern number and the second is the order number for the piece it's very unusual and not only is it sterling but it has enamel on it beautiful enamel decoration it's almost over the top i have to admit that and then all the the stones are actually american stones they're american turquoise and various other stones plus the enameling and as i said wow with the sterling mark you have no idea where she got it none but she lifted chicago she lived in chicago right downtown on near the midway placence which was part of the site of the colombian exposition so i don't know if that has anything to do with it or not yeah when was the colombian exposition 1893 i believe okay well i think you've got a winner here this was made for the colombian exposition yes by tiffany when you first came in what did you tell me when you took it out of the bag i said it's ugly well and i agreed with you that boy the more i looked at it i couldn't believe how wonderful it was with all of these stones and then to check the mark and everything it is absolutely spectacular and when you turn it over down here at the very bottom of the mark there is a globe with a t superimposed on it a little tiny line in the middle that says tiffany and that was the exhibition signature of four pieces in the world's fair so uh your great aunt must have had some very special friend that gave it to her or one of her husbands maybe okay there were several yes there were several well she must have done something right to get this piece now do you have any idea what it's worth well just because it's sterling maybe 15 000. if it was sterling that's what it would be worth but with all enameling and everything else an auction value on this piece in today's market which is a little conservative i would say 50 to 100 000 oh wait you're kidding no do you still think it's ugly it does excuse me how much 50 to 100 thousand dollars okay but it's still ugly [Music] it signed down here jay nawahi 1888. joseph now he wasn't primarily a painter was he no that's probably the least of his known attributes he was a lawyer he was a legislator he was an educator and he was the publisher of a newspaper he was the legislature for 20 years he produced a newspaper critical of the rebellion and the overthrow of the government actually landed in jail from around 1893-95 and subsequently caught tuberculosis and died in 96. but he was a native-born hawaiian we see these two snow-capped peaks here and those are they're the two mountains on the big island they're mauna kea monologue right there's volcanoes there this bay here is probably where it's the hilo bay on the big island right and then this island there it's called coconut island it was an amateur painting if you look at these figures sometimes the anatomy and the perspective isn't always right they're a little bit stiff he's a good artist but not a great artist he has a good sense of the uh the landscape but he's not an academically trained artist he has some training not much but it's important because he's the first hawaiian born to paint in this western style he was known for doing volcanoes much like jules tavernier there aren't many paintings by him i think you how many are there we only know of five this is either the largest or one of the two largest ones where'd you get it well we were on our way from our property up in volcano down to hilo town to go to a museum and we stopped on the way at our favorite antiques gallery saw this couldn't quite make out the artist's name but got a fix on it and we had to rush off so we went down to the museum and we saw his name there my husband and i we looked at each other and we said the painting and called the antique shop and asked them to hold it and we zoomed back up there and we got the painting i think we paid about four hundred dollars for 40 dollars that was in the 70s it was very dark and it was grazed the oil painting had cracked and everything so a friend of ours sent it to his restorer in san francisco i think it wasn't somewhere in california and so we did have him do that that has an effect on value on anything but when you talk about five or six pieces that are known we sort of forgive some of the condition issues do you remember what you paid for the restoration probably between six and nine hundred dollars i consulted with one of my colleagues who's from the islands because you have the hilo bay you have monologue mauna kea he called it hawaiian gold for in the in the art market recently works by him have sold as much as 70 000 i think if this were to be up at auction today i would probably put an estimate of 100 to 150 thousand dollars on are you kidding it's a great thing [Laughter] wow it's really important this is a national treasure i mean it's an amazing thing to have here i'm native hawaiian so it's one of the reasons we bought it oh it's great oh gosh [Laughter] well take good care of it you know and put in a very safe place and keep under lock and key excuse me it's all right we're very proud to have this picture thank you so much all right well thanks for bringing in made my day thank you [Music] i found it in a shed it was covered with filth i just kind of cleaned it up a little bit and it's been hanging in my bedroom and when we got tickets for the show i was trying to think of what to bring and i thought well i'll take that plaque and see if i can find out anything about it this was made by the rookwood pottery they worked in many different types of glazes and lines and this is called a scenic vellum plaque it has a snowy dusk landscape which is very desirable the artist has signed right here her name was sally coyne and sally coyne was with them from the 1890s all the way until 1936 a few years before she died this is mounted in its original arts and crafts frame that is the rookwood pottery mark rp and when it's filled with these little flames the dates after 1900 are added in roman numeral so this is 1918. this is the original price of two dollars wow now you said you've cleaned some of it did you remove the piece you can pop these little nails out and soak it in very warm water and a little bit of detergent soak it overnight and that'll get into some of the crazing over here and that should lighten all of that this glaze is very matte which was arrived at by putting an over glaze of lots of little bubbles that refract the light would you like to know what it's worth yes two dollars four to five thousand oh my gosh it's amazing i'm glad it's good news i think it's good news right it is wow that's really something two dollars had sold for him wow i can't believe it that's great thanks for watching see you next time on antiques roadshow [Music] this episode of antiques roadshow is made possible by these sponsors [Music] you

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Length: 52min 41sec (3161 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 26 2021