Antiques Roadshow

INTERVIEWER

Rob thanks for coming to ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in New York City. When we see furniture on ROADSHOW typically it's all condition, condition, condition but I can see this headboard has seen a little wear. Tell me about your piece here.

GUEST

I was in Los Angeles in the 1980s and Francis Coppola's studio went bankrupt and they had an auction. And my boss at the time asked me to bid on some video equipment and I didn't get that but I saw, you know, this tag which just says breakaway headboard and I knew most of Coppola's movies and I was hoping it was from The Godfather but I wasn't sure. And I was the only person who bid on it and I paid $25 for it.

INTERVIEWER

How did you have this displayed at your home, I assume it was there?

GUEST

It's at my home, it's displayed in my wife's art room. I have two of them actually because when they shot the scene they did it once this way and then once this way. And so there were bullets going this way and that way so there's two of them and the other one is in much worse shape then this.

INTERVIEWER

Are you an Al Pacino fan as well?

GUEST

Yeah I am. I had dinner with Al Pacino once so yeah, it was kind of exciting and I expected him to be Michael Corleone but really he's just an actor. I don't know if you knew that or not.

INTERVIEWER

What did you learn about the piece?

GUEST

What did I?

INTERVIEWER

What did you learn, yeah.

GUEST

Oh well I learned that it's worth more than $25, which was nice and that I learned that, I didn't realize that Godfather II had twice as many Academy Awards as Godfather I. And I didn't realize that what you told me at the time, people didn't have collectibles like this and film studios just threw this stuff away and that I was really lucky to get it. And I'm gonna give it to my son, he could inherit this horrible piece of furniture.