Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: Well, I was told that this was Roseville... APPRAISER: Uh-huh.

GUEST: ...but it's nothing like Roseville that I've seen.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: And I've looked in several books.

APPRAISER: What about this one?

GUEST: Um, got that on a vacation in South Dakota.

(laughs) APPRAISER: And, uh, I don't think it's moss.

And I'm not sure exactly what you would classify it as, but I think that is Roseville.

Well, the funny thing is, they are both Roseville, and they're both really unusual production-era pieces.

Roseville started making production ware, like imitation majolica, but then started making artware around 1900.

And by about 1910, they phased out the artware because labor became too expensive.

They moved into what is known as commercial or production ware-- that's what you got.

What made Roseville famous was not so much that they made production ware, but they made great production ware.

These are both a case in point.

This is called Ferella, a really nice mottled glaze, reticulated work, mass-produced, but really hard to find this line, one of their best production lines.

And then this is another production line, about 1920.

So it is a molded piece.

The decoration's just painted on.

This piece here, on today's market, the prices have dropped on most production ware, but still about $300 to $400, and this one here, between $450 and $650.

GUEST: Oh!

APPRAISER: Nice ones.

GUEST: Okay... APPRAISER: That's what they would be worth as auction estimates.

And could bring a little more than that.

GUEST: Okay.