Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

The pendant is actually an Olympic medal that I got from my grandfather, who won a silver medal, as this is, in the 200 meters in 1912 in Stockholm. And this is a chewing tobacco card representing him in some facsimile. He was a bronze medalist in the 100, and he set the world record in the 100.

APPRAISER

So your grandfather sets the record in a heat of the 100, but then he wins the bronze. Now he runs the 200...

GUEST

Yep.

APPRAISER

And he ends up winning the silver, this medal...

GUEST

Yeah.

APPRAISER

...in the 200. And he loses them both to Ralph Craig. He was taken from UPenn as a freshman.

GUEST

Yeah, 18-year-old.

APPRAISER

He finished Penn. Now, it's a shame that your grandfather wasn't able to participate at the height of his powers in 1916, because of the onset of World War I.

GUEST

Definitely.

APPRAISER

Well, let's talk about the medal. You see that it has a bail here. Now, I believe it was probably added after the fact. The other thing I noticed with this is that there's some wear there.

GUEST

Yeah.

APPRAISER

And I think that's because he wore it.

GUEST

The wear might have been, he wore it like a pocket chain watch...

APPRAISER

Oh!

GUEST

...and he rubbed it for good luck. I don't know how much it brought,

but... (chuckling)

Wore this down a little bit.

APPRAISER

What's great about this is that you have, also have the original box of this, and you also have the participation medal.

GUEST

Yeah.

APPRAISER

Which is good, but the main part is that you have the provenance.

GUEST

Oh, yeah, yeah.

APPRAISER

You know where it came from, it's your grandfather, and that means a lot in terms of value.

GUEST

Yeah, yeah.

APPRAISER

If I were going to place an auction estimate on this, it would be $10,000 to $12,000.

GUEST

Oh, great. Phenomenal.