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Post by kittensaver on May 10, 2017 17:42:16 GMT -5
After several years of trying, we hit the jackpot (literally). Our household got selected in the random lottery for Antiques Roadshow tickets this summer. I'm excited because for the longest time I've wanted to take them some of my grandfather's art for appraisal.
Has anyone here ever actually been to (or know someone who has been to) one of their events? Any words of wisdom about what to expect?
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Post by weltschmerz on May 10, 2017 17:47:11 GMT -5
No. haven't been, but I'd love to go. I have an antique Chinese rosewood, brass and ivory box. It could be a jewellery box or a writing box....I have no idea.
One dealer was so anxious to buy it from me and offered $4,000.
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Post by Jaguar on May 10, 2017 17:49:07 GMT -5
Oh WOW, my late sister watched this show religiously. She lived to find that Antiques Roadshow treasure at every freaking garage sale that she went to.
It was sad, cause she seriously believed she had treasures, she had alzheimer's / dementia.
Just good luck to you!
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 18:01:23 GMT -5
Hopefully, you have something like this Seymour Card Table, ca. 1794, to bring in for appraisal. If I remember correctly, the woman bought it a church rummage sale for like $50. The video does not work on my tablet so I am not sure it is the woman who bought the card table but the estimated auction prices seem about right when this table was featured in other AR shows. Seymour Card Table, ca. 1794
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Post by kittensaver on May 10, 2017 18:19:14 GMT -5
Wow Tennesseer ! But sadly, no - probably nothing close to that. One of my grandfathers was an artist who actually made a living at it (!), but because he was one of the last of the east coast Guilded Age artists who survived principally on patronage by wealthy families, not a lot of his work comes up for sale (it stays in those families). Because of this, the public doesn't really know about him (although the art world has him recorded). I don't want to say too much more because *privacy issues on an anonymous internet board*
My siblings and I have a number of things that did not sell, and I'm just curious about them. I also want some help putting together a pretty, glossy coffee table book of his art (we have old photographs for days, several with him and various famous patrons). I'm hoping one of the AR appraisers can 1) tell me more about the artwork, 2) steer me toward a reasonably priced appraiser in my corner of the world, and 3) steer me in the direction of how to privately produce a book.
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Post by Jaguar on May 10, 2017 18:29:41 GMT -5
Hopefully, you have something like this Seymour Card Table, ca. 1794, to bring in for appraisal. If I remember correctly, the woman bought it a church rummage sale for like $50. The video does not work on my tablet so I am not sure it is the woman who bought the card table but the estimated auction prices seem about right when this table was featured in other AR shows. Seymour Card Table, ca. 1794 I seen that particular show with Cindy.
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Post by kittensaver on May 10, 2017 18:48:45 GMT -5
No. haven't been, but I'd love to go. I have an antique Chinese rosewood, brass and ivory box. It could be a jewellery box or a writing box....I have no idea. One dealer was so anxious to buy it from me and offered $4,000. Next Fall when they open their lottery for the 2018 Season, jump online at their website and put in for tickets. All they need is your basic information and an email address. I believe there may be an extra hoop or two for persons in Canada (I saw some special instructions but did not read them carefully because I'm not from Canada), but the awarding of tickets is by a random drawing. They give out about 3,000 tickets per location and apparently have tens of thousands of people applying at each location, so it's a real crapshoot. And they limit tickets to two per household. AND they don't mail them out until two or three weeks before the event (to reduce ticket theft, loss and scalping). Who knows what your Chinese box may be worth??
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 18:57:36 GMT -5
Hopefully, you have something like this Seymour Card Table, ca. 1794, to bring in for appraisal. If I remember correctly, the woman bought it a church rummage sale for like $50. The video does not work on my tablet so I am not sure it is the woman who bought the card table but the estimated auction prices seem about right when this table was featured in other AR shows. Seymour Card Table, ca. 1794 I seen that particular show with Cindy. The Keno brother who appraised it was breathless talking about it to the woman. I think he aporaised it at $200,000 - $250 000. A year or two later AR showed the woman and table at a high-end auction and I believe it sold for $450,000 at that time.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 19:00:38 GMT -5
Then there was the appraisal of the Chinese Rhinoceros Horn Cups, ca. 1700. I won't tell you what they were appraised for. You will have to open the link. Chinese Rhinoceros Horn Cups, ca. 1700
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Post by kittensaver on May 10, 2017 19:02:50 GMT -5
I seen that particular show with Cindy. The Keno brother who appraised it was breathless talking about it to the woman. I think he aporaised it at $200,000 - $250 000. A year or two later AR showed the woman and table at a high-end auction and I believe it sold for $450,000 at that time. Well frankly I'm not expecting anything I end up taking in to appraise for more than *maybe* the high hundreds to very low thousands. And I doubly do not expect to have an expensive enough item to become one of their featured appraisals. I pretty much just want to get some info and get "pointed in the right direction" regarding appraisal/curation/preservation of the collection, and advice about how to better document his work (with the idea that a pretty, glossy coffee table might generate some renewed interest in him; I got this idea from an art dealer when I bought back a few items several years ago. The guy loved his work and encouraged me to find ways to bring him back into the public eye and specifically mentioned an art book).
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 19:16:54 GMT -5
The Keno brother who appraised it was breathless talking about it to the woman. I think he aporaised it at $200,000 - $250 000. A year or two later AR showed the woman and table at a high-end auction and I believe it sold for $450,000 at that time. Well frankly I'm not expecting anything I end up taking in to appraise for more than *maybe* the very low thousands. And I doubly do not expect to have an expensive enough item to become one of their featured appraisals. I pretty much just want to get some info and get "pointed in the right" direction regarding appraisal/curation/preservation of the collection, and advice about how to better document his work. Learning and understanding what is yours is always a good start. Not everything appraised need be worth thousands of buck. But knowing and appreciating what you do have is most important. I have a few signed and unsigned original pieces of art. My interests in art tend to stray to works from the 1930s-ealy 40s.. I also have an unsigned drawing which the Dutch seller stated was drawn in the 16th-17th century Holland. The only way to actually prove its possible age would be to analyize the paper it was drawn on and the red chalk used to draw the portrait. It would be nice to know it was actually that old but I appreciate the portrait for simply what it is.
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Post by NoNamePerson on May 10, 2017 19:29:18 GMT -5
Keep us up to date on date it is aired. I watch often. I really get a kick out of some folks who find out their item is worth Hundreds of thousands dollars and they say "well good or that's nice. I would have to be bleeped out if I found out the picture kept under the bed was worth &200,000
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 19:52:45 GMT -5
Or they say (as if they have been insulted), "I thought it was worth more."
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Post by Jaguar on May 10, 2017 19:57:54 GMT -5
Every time something was shown on the Antiques Roadshow, my sister Cindy would argue that she had one just like that somewhere around her apartment. Then she would proceed to tear her apartment apart looking for it. Once she couldn't find it of course that meant it got stolen from her. So she would go on this tangent of being angry with everyone and everyone was a suspect then to her.
Like I said it was sad to watch.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 19:59:15 GMT -5
The only time when I got dust in both my eyes which made them tear up was when an old man brought in a large glass mug with a beer advertisement on it. The old man had probably been pinching pennies for years and his eyes welled up when he found out his mug was worth about $2,500. Probably the first time in years he had a little extra money if he sold it. Nice to see his item was worth something.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on May 10, 2017 20:00:51 GMT -5
Gotta love the Keno brothers. They are so excited about just about everything. It's fun to watch them. I was bummed their show on Fox (I think) some years ago only lasted about, what, 3-4 episodes. Used to watch them on HGTV as well.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on May 10, 2017 20:02:48 GMT -5
DH's favorite episode was a guy who had a saber, or dagger, of some sort, Civil War-era I think, and he used it for cutting watermelon. Only 2 in existence and the other one was broken. Wonder how fast he locked that sucker up?
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 20:20:55 GMT -5
DH's favorite episode was a guy who had a saber, or dagger, of some sort, Civil War-era I think, and he used it for cutting watermelon. Only 2 in existence and the other one was broken. Wonder how fast he locked that sucker up? I remember that episode and the watermelon. The sabre had some significant value to it.
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Post by Jaguar on May 10, 2017 20:23:11 GMT -5
Tennesseer, we are still finding stuff that Cindy hid in the apartment from her DH. She didn't want him to have it so she hid it, then when she couldn't remember where she hid it, she would accuse him of hiding it on her. We are finding lighters, packs of cigarettes, money, you name it. Cindy died in January, 2016.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 20:28:34 GMT -5
Tennesseer, we are still finding stuff that Cindy hid in the apartment from her DH. She didn't want him to have it so she hid it, then when she couldn't remember where she hid it, she would accuse him of hiding it on her. We are finding lighters, packs of cigarettes, money, you name it. Cindy died in January, 2016. I remember when your sister passed last year. My dad's mom was like your sister. My dad did all of his mom's banking including taking cash out of her account when she needed pocket money. She always hid it and forgot where she hid it. She would tell my dad's brother she loved my dad but he was stealing her money.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 10, 2017 20:40:15 GMT -5
Sorry, kittensaver, for diverting Antiques Roadshow to Alzheimer's disease.
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Post by weltschmerz on May 10, 2017 21:52:30 GMT -5
I have a small gold coin with a Roman Emperor's head on it.
Some idiot drilled a hole in it.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2017 22:00:53 GMT -5
Congrats!! I love that show.
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Post by toomuchreality on May 11, 2017 9:30:14 GMT -5
After several years of trying, we hit the jackpot (literally). Our household got selected in the random lottery for Antiques Roadshow tickets this summer. I'm excited because for the longest time I've wanted to take them some of my grandfather's art for appraisal.
Has anyone here ever actually been to (or know someone who has been to) one of their events? Any words of wisdom about what to expect?
AWESOME!!! I can't wait to hear about it. I hope you'll post (or PM me) when it's going to air! WOO-HOO!
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Post by Anne_in_VA on May 11, 2017 10:35:02 GMT -5
I got two tickets last year when the visited Virginia Beach. We went early and pretty much avoided the long lines we heard happen late morning or in the afternoon. Lots of waiting in lines to get your stuff appraised. There are separate lines for each station and they had at least two appraisers at each table. I met Arlie Sulka and she was really knowledgeable about my item, although she did have to look up the signature on the internet.
Nothing we had was worth more than a few hundred and one of my paintings was a fake. My grandmothers crystal plate was made by a known company, but only worth $250 to $300.
A friend who went was filmed, but his item didn't make it into any of the aired episodes.
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Post by kittensaver on May 11, 2017 13:29:47 GMT -5
I got two tickets last year when the visited Virginia Beach. We went early and pretty much avoided the long lines we heard happen late morning or in the afternoon. Lots of waiting in lines to get your stuff appraised. There are separate lines for each station and they had at least two appraisers at each table. I met Arlie Sulka and she was really knowledgeable about my item, although she did have to look up the signature on the internet. Nothing we had was worth more than a few hundred and one of my paintings was a fake. My grandmothers crystal plate was made by a known company, but only worth $250 to $300. A friend who went was filmed, but his item didn't make it into any of the aired episodes. Thanks for the info Anne_in_VA, I really appreciate it. I'm reading about tickets with a "timed entrance" (you'll be admitted any time after the hour listed on the tickets, but not before). Did your tickets have a time restriction on them? I think that would make a difference when trying to be strategic about avoiding lines. Just curious because they're not actually sending the tickets to us until three weeks before the event.
I also do not expect to be a filmed/featured appraisal. I'm pretty sure I don't have anything that's worth anywhere close to 5 or 6 figures.
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Post by kittensaver on May 11, 2017 14:04:41 GMT -5
Tennesseer , we are still finding stuff that Cindy hid in the apartment from her DH. She didn't want him to have it so she hid it, then when she couldn't remember where she hid it, she would accuse him of hiding it on her. We are finding lighters, packs of cigarettes, money, you name it. Cindy died in January, 2016. I'm sorry about your sister
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Post by Anne_in_VA on May 11, 2017 18:05:04 GMT -5
Kittensaver - IIRC our tickets had a time on them, but we got them through our local PBS station and we were allowed to go in early. I think we could go in an hour before everyone else. I noticed that the show is now starting to film and show people's items that aren't worth a lot, but seem to be interesting to their viewers. In addition, if they think your item is potentially worth filmimg, they don't tell you the value at the table, but ask if you'd wait and possibly have your appraisal done while filming. I saw them do that to a couple of people who were in line ahead od me, but I didn't see either of those items when the episodes aired.
We had a great time and got to see many of the appraisers we see on the air. The Keno brothers are starting to show their age (how many of us aren't) but they're still really cute!
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Post by NastyWoman on May 11, 2017 18:17:56 GMT -5
The only time when I got dust in both my eyes which made them tear up was when an old man brought in a large glass mug with a beer advertisement on it. The old man had probably been pinching pennies for years and his eyes welled up when he found out his mug was worth about $2,500. Probably the first time in years he had a little extra money if he sold it. Nice to see his item was worth something. I remember that one! He had had that thing out in a yardsale and had a $0.25 or $0.50 sticker on it but it hadn't sold. It was dusty here in California too when I saw that show. Must have been the result of the dust bowl glass
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Post by Tennesseer on May 11, 2017 18:22:00 GMT -5
The only time when I got dust in both my eyes which made them tear up was when an old man brought in a large glass mug with a beer advertisement on it. The old man had probably been pinching pennies for years and his eyes welled up when he found out his mug was worth about $2,500. Probably the first time in years he had a little extra money if he sold it. Nice to see his item was worth something. I remember that one! He had had that thing out in a yardsale and had a $0.25 or $0.50 sticker on it but it hadn't sold. It was dusty here in California too when I saw that show. Must have been the result of the dust bowl glass Exactly! He looked like he needed a good break in life. I was very glad it was worth something. I have plenty of dusty glass in my house by I ain't cryin' over it.
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