Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: This is an ice box that I found at an antique store in Lynden, Washington.

$25.

It looks like a jack in the box, and like a child's toy, which immediately I was attracted to.

(laughs) I love color.

I love the shapes of this.

It made no sense to me, and it, uh, now sits in my kitchen in a place of honor.

(laughs) APPRAISER: Ok. What you brought today is this really fantastic Memphis-style ice bucket by Georges Briard.

He was an American designer active in the 20th century.

And the Memphis style, while it sounds like...

GUEST: Hm.

APPRAISER: ...it might have been from Tennessee, actually originated in Italy.

GUEST: Oh.

APPRAISER: And was popular in the 1980s but is experiencing a resurgence today.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Memphis style, uh, while not super-well-known, has, uh, actually benefited from social media.

And in the early 1980s, there was kind of a look back at Art Deco.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: So some of the elements of Memphis style come from looking back to the Art Deco movement in the earlier part of the 20th century.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And it is marked on the underside.

It says "designed and signed by Georges Briard."

And then it was made, uh, for him, uh, at a, from a company in Japan.

So it says "made in Japan."

GUEST: Oh, okay, it, made, yeah.

APPRAISER: I would insure this for $500.

GUEST: (laughs) No!

That's amazing.

That, wow.

It's just plastic.

APPRAISER: It's just plastic, but it's fabulous plastic.

GUEST: (chuckles) APPRAISER: So you made a really great find.

GUEST: Oh, wonderful.