Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

This is a dog that was on my grandmother's mantel. I remember it being there all my life. And my grandmother passed away. My mother moved into her house and it stayed on the mantel, minus the pillow. And when my mom passed away, we cleared the house out and that dog just stayed on the mantel. Nobody took it, so I was cleaning the house, ready for the realtor, and took the little dog. Looked for the pillow. I finally found the pillow in my mom's desk. So I reunited it, and it's been on my mantel. I don't know anything, other than I know it's by Roseville, because it's got a label.

APPRAISER

It has a label, and I'll show you the label right here. It's underneath, and it's a 1930s label. It's nice to see this little dog again. I've met it once before.

GUEST

Okay.

APPRAISER

This is part of Roseville's "Ivory" line. And we see many different lines of Roseville here at the Roadshow-- usually, 1940s "Floral" lines.

GUEST

Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER

So it's nice to see anything that is done before that. And it is extremely rare that we see any figurines at all. A few years back, we held an auction of only Roseville pieces, and one of the very last lots had this dog. And it brought $1,500.

GUEST

Hm.

APPRAISER

It's pretty stunning, as most of the Roseville items are now in the low hundreds.

GUEST

Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER

And something that is from the '30s that doesn't look like so much would be worth so much and would be such a collectible-- probably because it's a dog, also because it's Roseville. So it has this cross-action of different types of collectors here. So I'm so glad you brought it.

GUEST

Well, thank you.

APPRAISER

Should you wish to insure it, you may want to do this in the $1,500 to $2,000 range.