Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: It's, um, an F1 poster, Monaco.

My husband and I bought it for our anniversary maybe five years ago.

APPRAISER: Have you ever been to a race before?

GUEST: (chuckling): We have, in Miami.

It was really hot.

APPRAISER: (chuckles) GUEST: (chuckling): Really hot in Miami.

APPRAISER: And where did you get this?

GUEST: I think it was Aspen.

APPRAISER: How much did you pay for it?

GUEST: I think it was $1,200, yeah.

APPRAISER: You have to be like a really big Formula One fan.

GUEST: Yes, to pay that much.

But we love it, and so we were willing to spend it.

APPRAISER: The Monaco Grand Prix is the Grand Prix of Grand Prix.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: Began in 1929.

Every year that the race was run, there was a, a poster advertising the race.

And beginning in 1964 to 1970, Michael Turner designed those posters for the race.

Michael Turner is a very accomplished and very famous automobile artist.

He's actually done posters for a number of different racing events.

He designed something for the Sebring race, uh, for the Deutscher Grand Preis, the German Grand Prix, and also for the United States Grand Prix, which was run in Watkins Glen up in New York State.

But perhaps his most endearing series were the posters that he did for the Monaco Grand Prix.

GUEST: Oh, nice.

APPRAISER: They depicted the beautiful Monaco scenery.

So this is the Prince's Palace up there in the port of Monaco.

And it should be said for those people who don't know about F1 racing-- and I'm one of those people, so I had to do a little research GUEST: (chuckling) APPRAISER: to figure out some of that F1 racing.

It's not like the Indy 500, where the cars go around a round track.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: This goes through downtown Monaco, through the streets.

Super exciting, a little bit dangerous.

What's interesting about the 1966 race from a race history point of view-- the race was won by Jackie Stewart...

GUEST: Uh-huh.

APPRAISER: ...and they actually filmed footage from the race, uh, to make the movie "Grand Prix."

GUEST: Oh, right.

APPRAISER: So there's some footage there.

They were so popular, a lot of them were reproduced.

And a lot of the reproductions are on the market...

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: ...and they're available quite inexpensively.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: It's very hard to tell which are the reproductions and which are the originals.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: This one...

GUEST: Is a reproduction.

(chuckles) APPRAISER: This one is original.

GUEST: Really?

APPRAISER: And I-I believe it's original because when you look at the text on the bottom where it says "Monaco 24th Grand Prix," when you look at that on the reproduction, it actually looks a little fuzzy.

It looks a little pixelated.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And the rest of the image is also a little fuzzier.

So this one is really clear, and so I would consider it the real McCoy.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: If this were to come up for auction now, I'd estimate it between $2,500 and $3,500.

GUEST: Oh, okay.

Wow.

(laughs) Nice.

Nice.

Wow.

And I said I wouldn't say "wow", (laughing): like everyone else...

I wouldn't say "wow".

Fantastic.

Thank you so much.

It's really-- wow.

Amazing.

(soft chuckle)