Antiques Roadshow

my mom gave it to me she actually got to say an auction about 10 15 years ago she paid about a hundred dollars for it you know who it's by you know who the maker is i think it was dirk van er derf van er well he's really very interesting uh craftsman he uh emigrated to the united states from holland in 1886 and he started working san francisco at the uh naval shipyard and he started making things out of brass shell casings he would give him away to friends and he started selling them and then he set up a shop in oakland and eventually moved to san francisco in 1908 and he had a shop where he produced copper works he had his two children work with him and he had a number of other craftsmen and they made vases they made bookends death sets and they made lamps which they're very famous for the piece we you have though is not from this arts and crafts period i feel that this piece is actually from the 1930s but really all the emphasis on collecting his works is in the earlier period and these later pieces are not of interest to collectors of arts and crafts these are more collected by people interested in the modernist 30s and 40s made out of a very heavy gauge copper and it's very clearly marked and it's been detached from the base and if we look in the on the bottom here we can see his mark and it's a windmill in honor of his home country and it says dirk van er so it has some condition problems the fact that it's attached doesn't mean that much it can be repaired really it's a piece that now a collector interested in this would probably at auction pay something in the range of six thousand to eight thousand dollars that's something else isn't that cool that is cool you