Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: These are pieces of the Alaskan pipeline that were cut out and made into art by the pipeline welders' union that were making these pieces for fun out of scrap pieces of the pipeline.

My father and my grandfather ended up with a piece each.

APPRAISER: And so they both worked on the pipeline?

GUEST: They both worked on the pipeline.

APPRAISER: Well, and they're curved, like the pipeline.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: They're curved.

The pipeline was 1975 to 1977, when it was being built.

So these date from that time period.

And, actually, quite a few of them have come up, so they must have made a lot of them.

They tend to sell in the $400 to $600 range.

GUEST: Ooh!

APPRAISER: Each.

GUEST: Each-- nice!

(laughing): APPRAISER: Yeah, each, yeah.

This is probably more like the $600 one and that's probably more like the $400 one.

GUEST: Okay.

I'll pass it on to my boys and see.

(chuckles) (laughs) Maybe they'll be able to enjoy these.

APPRAISER: Definitely a thing to hold on to, uh, if you can hold them that long.

(laughing): GUEST: If you can hold on to them this long, they are heavy.

(both laughing)