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Post by auntkelly on Apr 18, 2017 13:47:33 GMT
If I had tickets to an Antiques Roadshow taping, I'd love to bring a porcelain vase that my grandparents received as a wedding present. It is very delicate with lots of delicate tiny flowers all over it. My grandmother once told me it was Polish, but I don't know if she really knew.
I think my grandparents were married in 1924 so i assume the vase is about 100 years' old. The vase is probably not worth much, but I'd love to know its origins. It's amazing that the vase is so delicate and has been moved so many times but is in perfect condition. My grandmother took good care of her things!
What would you bring if you were going to an Antiques Roadshow taping?
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Post by Peamac on Apr 18, 2017 13:51:41 GMT
I'd bring some of my antique books. I have the first Nancy Drew book in the series, published sometime in the 1930's I think. My dad gave me his dad's huge Pilgrim's Progress that was published in the 1860's. I found a small copy of the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" that's quite old, too.
I have a bunch more old books that I'm curious about, too.
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Post by Mystie on Apr 18, 2017 14:01:01 GMT
I wonder that every week when I watch the Roadshow!  They were in my region about a year ago and I didn't go because although I own a lot of "old" stuff, I don't think any of it is valuable. If pressed, I have a couple of old paintings I would take. My husband bought me a 100-year-old watercolor painting of daffodils for Valentine's Day years ago, and whenever we watch Antiques Roadshow together and some old painting comes up as worth $50,000, he'll turn and gaze appraisingly at that painting of mine.  |
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Post by freebird on Apr 18, 2017 14:01:54 GMT
I've been to antiques roadshow! You could actually see my husband and I in the corner in the closing credits. hah. We took a block print, a sketch, a bowl and a wooden toy horse. Everything we took in was worth more than what we paid for it. The best was the block print. It's an original by Kioyshi Saito that we paid $30 for at an antique mall. It ended up being worth $1500. I really do like it, it's 2 cats (very common for him).  You can go to ARS. Just watch for when they are taking applications for tickets for your area then apply. You can sometimes snag some tickets on ebay too. |
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Post by cmhs on Apr 18, 2017 14:12:15 GMT
I had tickets for AR when it was in Atlantic City many years ago. I ended up giving the tickets to a friend's aunt and uncle and they were beyond thrilled to have them. AC was just a bit too far and it was an inconvenient weekend so I was happy to give them to someone who appreciated them. As for what I would bring if I went: an antique porcelain vase painted with purple flowers -- just like you, auntkelly.  It belonged to DH's mom and I doubt it has much monetary value but I'd love to find out more about it. As it is, I know nothing about it other than it was MIL's. |
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Post by Anita on Apr 18, 2017 14:16:27 GMT
DH has a silver tea set from the 1700s that he inherited. One piece has a bullet hole in it where his ancestor tried to shoot the maker stamp off of it. The guy was insane. I'm sure the tea set has little value, but what a great story it would make for TV.  |
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Post by gorgeouskid on Apr 18, 2017 14:27:01 GMT
I went to Antiques Roadshow about 12 years ago.
I have a painting of a fencing salle that was painted by Eugene Chaperon. I knew a little bit about him, and paid $20 for it about 25 years ago. The appraiser was impressed with it and said it was worth $700-$1000. I didn't get on air, but the appraiser said they really look for people who know nothing about their item, and have a good story to go with it, not just that it's worth a ton of money. He said I knew too much about the painter.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Apr 18, 2017 14:30:36 GMT
Antiques Road show was in Austin a couple of years ago and I applied for the ticket lottery. While I waited to hear if I got tickets (I didn't  ) I went over nearly everything in my house, trying to figure out what I would take with me! Most likely I would have taken a pair of ceremonial Kuba masks that we brought back from Kinshasa. They are pretty cool! One is a Bwoom mask similar to this, while the other is a Mwaash mask similar to this one. The guy who sold them to DH swore they were old, but I've always had my doubts. Would love to know for sure! |
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Post by Jamie on Apr 18, 2017 14:35:22 GMT
I have a doll dressed as a nun from my great-grandma that she received for her first communion. She was born in 1899 and rec'd the doll in 1907. The dolls head is attached to the rest of the body by a rubber band, which allows it to bobble some. My grandma had it and when she passed away I received it. My grandma displayed it on her dresser, but I've tucked her away for safe keeping.
I also have an old Kewpie doll of my GGM's as well. It's probably not worth much, but she crocheted a very delicate set of clothes for it and when I was little and would go visit her with my grandparents I remember always standing in front of the table it was on and just looking at it.
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Post by ntsf on Apr 18, 2017 14:53:47 GMT
I would take a lead soldier making kit I have (circa ww 1).. and maybe some of the clothes I have from a great aunt.. circa 1915.. I have lots and lots of old stuff. If I was at my dad's, I would take the tea kettle stand that was brought over from Wales (circa 170's) and the nursing rocking chair.. it did travel from wisconsin to iowa on a wagon about 1860.
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Post by Nanner on Apr 18, 2017 15:17:05 GMT
I have a very old book of Robbie Burns poetry. Its cover is bordered in copper. It was given to my grandmother about 50 years ago by an old woman who lived next door to her. She had no children and my grandfather was Scottish, so she gave it to my grandmother.
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Post by Grom Pea on Apr 18, 2017 15:28:50 GMT
I went and wanted to bring an opera glass which was my only eBay purchase back in the 90s. However I couldn't find it so I brought an old piccolo and my mom gave me a tea pot to bring which looked like an antique but I was told it was a reproduction and my min late told me it made sense because she bought it at a department store, lol, would have been nice to know before I took it on antiques road show!
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Post by janeinbama on Apr 18, 2017 15:48:37 GMT
We went in 2006 and had a great time. I took a beautiful ring - and necklace that had been passed down from a Great Great Uncle. The appraiser told us if we had been there in the morning, she could have gotten us on TV with the ring (black opal with enameled sides! We had a late afternoon slot. We also took a letter with stamped envelope and gum wrapper from Wrigley's gum my Dad received when he turned 1. The letter talks about how good gum is for new teeth! No value really. MY GF took some china - no value, and my sister took a painting. It had some value. The people in line were so much fun to talk with as we weaved back and forth for an hour or so. It was just like TV I still love to watch the show. |
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Post by Zee on Apr 18, 2017 15:52:58 GMT
I own absolutely nothing of any real value. Any family antiques did not come my way.
I have a few cool vintage things, but nothing AR-worthy!
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Post by used2scrap on Apr 18, 2017 16:16:00 GMT
Not sure we have anything of value, the antique high chair we have has been re-caned, but maybe the carved dragon style Norwegian chairs? They were part of a dining set great-great grandmother immigrated to the US with. Everyone in the family has a pair now, so it must have been a massive table!
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Post by littlemama on Apr 18, 2017 16:35:33 GMT
I went to Antiques Roadshow about 12 years ago. I have a painting of a fencing salle that was painted by Eugene Chaperon. I knew a little bit about him, and paid $20 for it about 25 years ago. The appraiser was impressed with it and said it was worth $700-$1000. I didn't get on air, but the appraiser said they really look for people who know nothing about their item, and have a good story to go with it, not just that it's worth a ton of money. He said I knew too much about the painter. And that is the problem with reality tv of all kinds! Not everything needs to have a good story, or a sob story, or whatever! I am more interested in seeing the items - worth a lot or not, story to go with it or not. |
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Post by birukitty on Apr 18, 2017 16:49:30 GMT
I have a postcard of the Titanic that was written on the back and the date is the date of the sailing April 10, 1912. It is a short letter to someone (very hard to read) and I'd love to find out how much it is worth and who the person was if at all possible. My sister found it when she was living in England and sent it to me because she knows how Titanic crazy I am.
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Post by tiffanyr on Apr 18, 2017 16:55:59 GMT
I went to AR several years ago with my Aunt. The only thing I can remember us taking was a Civil War Land Grant certificate that belonged to my great great grandfather. It was signed by Abraham Lincoln. We just knew it was going to have some value!! That was not the case...the experts said that because of the quantity of things having to be signed...Lincoln did not sign everything himself...he would have his secretary or another appointed person to handle that task! Oh well...we had a lot of fun seeing what other people brought and just seeing the behind the scenes stuff!
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Post by katlaw on Apr 18, 2017 17:01:54 GMT
My uncle was RAF during WWII and my aunt was in England with him. My grandmother went to visit at the end of the war and brought back a couple of china dishes that are very pretty and very unique. I would take them.
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Post by grammanisi on Apr 18, 2017 17:16:33 GMT
We have a large, oval print/painting of Jenny Lind in an ornate frame. It was my husband's grandmother's.
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Post by eversograceful1 on Apr 18, 2017 17:21:10 GMT
I would bring glassware from my grandmother. I've tried looking into their monetary value but would love a professional opinion.
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 18, 2017 17:21:49 GMT
I went to the antiques roadshow a number of years ago and things have changed. I would not take anything ordinary that you could find information about online.
My mother took an old glass boot with German writing on it that she got from her great aunt when she was little. she had always been told it was a German Santa boot. The person who appraised it who used to be a regular and she lost a ton of weight if you know who I'm talking about - she didn't know anything about it and I mean nothing. Turns out it is a small German beer glass and is clearly identified as such in gold letters in German.
I dragged an 18th c spinning wheel and it was appraised for between half what I paid for it and what I paid for it, he told me nothing about the provenance, wood, era, nothing. Barely gave me the time of day.
Now the Keno brothers did appraise a chair I brought and looked it over, told me the amount I paid was about right, just what they would value it.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Apr 18, 2017 17:22:35 GMT
I haven't watched the show in a long time. It went through a spell where it seemed like so many of the appraisels were of absolutely no surprise to the people who brought the items in. In fact, some seemed more surprised that the item was *not* worth more. The people who brought the items in just sort of sat there and said "oh how nice" when told of the value.
I enjoy watching the episodes where they update the value and show if the value stayed the same or went up or down. Now *that* I find very interesting.
Neither of my parents inherited much of anything of any value. Sentimental value yes, monetary value, no.
DH's family did have a few things, but everything went, for the most part, to his older siblings.
One of the only items that got overlooked when splitting the estate was a ladies 4-diamond band ring. We have no idea who the ring belonged to - it could've been his grandmothers on either side of the family. We don't think it was his mom's because we never saw her wear it. We took it to a jewelry store, but they were unable to read the jewelers mark on it and their best guess is it is about a total of 3/4 carat. The four stones are set in what appears to be white gold and the setting has sort of an Art Deco style. (I love Art Deco!) On one side of the ring, the setting looks a little deformed with a small hole. The jeweler did know that that was actually a "notch opening" where another ring would have hooked into it. This made the jeweler believe that this was in fact someone's wedding band. It should have had a matching engagement ring. We of course never saw the matching engagement ring in any of the estate jewelry. Not sure if it ever existed or if it did, who inherited it. I'm not really much interested in the value but I'd love to know how old it is and what jewelry manufacturer made it. I want to pass it down to my daughter, who can then pass it down to her son. I think it would make a nice family heirloom.
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 18, 2017 17:26:40 GMT
The people in line were so much fun to talk with as we weaved back and forth for an hour or so. It was just like TV I still love to watch the show. When I went we wove back and forth in line for just over 10 hours, and the first 2 were spent outside on the road waiting to get in the building.
Thank God they changed the process to have time slots because in our time the tickets were handed out in the morning about 8 am and the doors opened at 9 - we didn't even get in the building until 11 am and finally got into the appraisal room at 7 PM.
A horrible experience back then and tainted how I feel about the show ever since, but I still watch it, as well as the British one.
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Post by anniefb on Apr 18, 2017 17:36:42 GMT
I don't think I have anything that's worth a great deal but there is some family china I don't know anything about. I think it's probably Bohemian because several other things are but it would be interesting to find out.
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Post by milocat on Apr 18, 2017 18:02:26 GMT
The few old things I have wouldn't be worth anything and aren't really that old. I do have 5 Lucy Maud Montgomery books, including Anne of Green Gables. They are 4th editions or something. I'm sure I could find the value online. They were giving to one great aunt for various birthdays from her sister. It's written in pencil in the front.
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Post by auntkelly on Apr 18, 2017 22:02:28 GMT
I have a postcard of the Titanic that was written on the back and the date is the date of the sailing April 10, 1912. It is a short letter to someone (very hard to read) and I'd love to find out how much it is worth and who the person was if at all possible. My sister found it when she was living in England and sent it to me because she knows how Titanic crazy I am. Did you see the episode of Antiques Roadshow where the guy brought in the painting of the Titanic, which was supposedly painted by a Titanic survivor? The appraiser said the painting was worthless. However, the appraiser went on to say that when he was examining the painting off camera, he noticed that something was stuffed inside the paper on the back of the picture frame. It was a lunch menu from the day the Titanic sunk! The appraiser said that as far as he knew, only one other menu like it had ever surfaced. He estimated it to be worth $100,000! That was my very favorite episode of Antiques Roadshow. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 0:00:44 GMT
I would take these. The red cut glass creamer and sugar bowl belonged to my great aunt Rose. They were from her wedding dishes. Sadly, her finance was in a buggy wreck, the buggy overturned and he was killed before the wedding. I'm sure they aren't of any value (except to me), there's no maker's name that I can find.
This was my grandmother's spoon holder. It has a few chips and cracks but otherwise in fairly good shape. It's stamped with Alfred Meakin Ltd England.
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Post by birukitty on Apr 19, 2017 3:42:26 GMT
I have a postcard of the Titanic that was written on the back and the date is the date of the sailing April 10, 1912. It is a short letter to someone (very hard to read) and I'd love to find out how much it is worth and who the person was if at all possible. My sister found it when she was living in England and sent it to me because she knows how Titanic crazy I am. Did you see the episode of Antiques Roadshow where the guy brought in the painting of the Titanic, which was supposedly painted by a Titanic survivor? The appraiser said the painting was worthless. However, the appraiser went on to say that when he was examining the painting off camera, he noticed that something was stuffed inside the paper on the back of the picture frame. It was a lunch menu from the day the Titanic sunk! The appraiser said that as far as he knew, only one other menu like it had ever surfaced. He estimated it to be worth $100,000! That was my very favorite episode of Antiques Roadshow. No I didn't see that, but that is really amazing and wow what a find! If I was that guy I would have been thrilled! |
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Post by melanell on Apr 19, 2017 4:46:09 GMT
I don't think that I currently have anything that dates earlier than 1900, and none of it is of any value. (To anyone else, that is. ) |
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It belonged to DH's mom and I doubt it has much monetary value but I'd love to find out more about it. As it is, I know nothing about it other than it was MIL's. 
) I went over nearly everything in my house, trying to figure out what I would take with me! Most likely I would have taken a pair of ceremonial Kuba masks that we brought back from Kinshasa. They are pretty cool! One is a Bwoom mask similar to 
