Antiques Roadshow

CORAL PEA: "Roadshow" is at Living History Farms, where some lucky guests are reaping the rewards of collecting.

Being a unique piece, it might fetch just a little bit more.

(chuckling): Oh, okay, tell me.

You're kidding me.

It's utterly amazing.

PEA: Living History Farms explores agriculture in Iowa from the early 18th to the early 20th centuries.

The word Iowa comes from the Ioway Native American tribe, who lived in this region until they were forced to move to Nebraska, Kansas, and, later, Oklahoma in the 1800s.

At the Ioway farm site, which is set in 1700, you'll find three examples of housing: a winter lodge, a summer lodge, and a tipi called chibothraje or chehachi, which was designed for easier assembly and disassembly during travel on hunting expeditions.

Thousands of people have traveled to "Roadshow" today to show their treasures to our experts.

Check out this fresh find.

GUEST: It was my boyfriend's when I was in high school.

He got arrested and had to go to jail.

Uh-oh.

So he brought a couple things to my house for me to keep for him.

The watch, a hunting rifle, and a jacket.

Okay.

So after he got out of jail, he came back to my house-- well, my parents' house-- to get his stuff, and I wasn't home.

So my mom let him into my bedroom to get his stuff, but he forgot about the watch.

So this last winter, when I was cleaning out some stuff, I found it in the back of my actual sock drawer-- yes, I know.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, 50 years.

It's been there at least 50 years.

Over 50 years.

It's a reference 1016 Rolex Explorer.

These were sold to anybody more into sports.

So the bracelet on here is not original.

It's very similar to what originally would be on there, which was called the Jubilee link bracelet.

But when we look at old advertising, we see that many of these were sold on a leather strap.

You can buy the watch either way.

The more popular at that time was the strap.

So, originally, the dial wasn't this color.

This is a very, very strange-looking color.

Light brown, a chocolate brown, to a dark brown, going to the original black over here on the end.

This one has faded.

What we call that now in watch collecting, it's called tropical.

The radium that's in the hands, the radium that's in the number to give it the glow-in-the-dark effect... Mm-hmm.

...sometimes it gives off that radiation, it burns it.

Perhaps somebody wore this a lot, and it was in the sun.

20 years ago, in watch collecting, a dial like that was considered, "That's no good."

So, if this went in to service to your watchmaker, to the jewelry store, they might take that dial off and toss it out, and get you a replacement dial from the factory.

Mm-hmm.

Now that's coveted.

That's a prize that's desired by collectors who want that look.

This is the most extreme of tropical dials I think I've ever seen.

Whoa.

It's in working condition.

This watch right now, retail, it'll bring $10,000.

(inhales): W...

Seriously?

All right.

A redeeming factor for him.

(laughs) What do you think of that?

I think it's awesome.

I think it's Asian.

I got it from an estate sale, and I haven't been able to find anything else out about it.

PRODUCER: How much did you have to pay for it?

Eight dollars.

(chuckling): You did well.

Yeah.

(chuckling): Either way, yeah, yeah.

So, it's a three-row grain drill invented by my three-great- grandpa, patented in 1866.

You put the grain, put your winter wheat in the little box, and then, as you're rolling, makes a little click sound, and the click shuffles the grain down the back of the plow heads and then drops it in the rows.

So this is a piece-- when it came in today, it just made me smile.

What can you tell me about it?

Between 1990 and '93, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the chair of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

He took a tour of all the governor's councils on physical fitness and sports.

I was able to write his agenda as far, what he was going to do, because I was chairman of Iowa's council.

We visited the capitol and met with Governor Branstad and part of his staff to promote fitness through the state of Iowa.

This was his card that he had on his table.

And after the meeting, we left to go to a school, and I was able to get the card, and on the way to the school, I was able to get his autograph.

We went to the school and we worked out in the gym with, with all the kids.

It was a middle school.

And then from there, we went back to the airport.

On the way to the airport, he took off his shirt in the van, and his assistant gave me the T-shirt.

So literally the shirt off his back, as it would be.

Yes, it's never been washed.

Okay.

I just went ahead and mounted it and I figured, "Okay, you know, he's got all of his..." Yeah.

If he sweat, it's on there.

Yeah.

And I just never washed it.

Was he a fairly down-to-earth guy?

Oh, yeah, Arnold was?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, nice guy, joking around.

Like you said, Mr. Schwarzenegger was appointed to the Presidential's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and he remained in that role under, um, President George Bush, Sr., until administration change in 1993.

1991 is when I could find records of his tour and flying around the country and meeting with all these, the 50 different representatives from different states.

And he really took a personal pride in seeing that the youth of America were being pushed towards better physical fitness.

At this point, Arnold is in the peak of his fame.

He just released "Total Recall" and "Kindergarten Cop," and this is right before "Terminator 2."

He was juggling a bunch of stuff, but he still found it worthwhile to make time for this.

I think it was really important to him.

Uh-huh.

And he did a great job of being an ambassador.

And then, can you tell me about who's in the photo down here, on the right?

Of course, you see Arnold right here, and you see another council member here.

And that's a picture of myself.

And you did a great job of preserving it.

The fact that you didn't wash it, I think, adds all the more to the mystique.

You're getting Arnold and everything that goes with him.

That's right.

And then another fun thing that I noticed, here, on the name tag, is whatever staffer they had writing that up, they just clearly misspelled his name here.

(chuckling): Which was an easy name to misspell.

I think today, if it came up at auction, I would place a conservative estimate on it of $1,000 to $1,500.

Oh, wow-- wow!

(chuckles) Didn't realize it would be worth that much.

Yeah.

Is that with the sweat?

(laughing) That's, that's with the sweat, and that's the unknown factor.

You might get a few guys that have to have it, and it's probably the only one that exists.

GUEST: I brought my copy of "Le Petit Prince."

I found this about 40 years ago in a thrift shop in Kansas City.

Mm-hmm.

And I have four or five copies.

And I thought, well, this would be a nice addition.

I have one in Italian, I have one in German.

(chuckles) I have several in English.

This is maybe my only one in French.

I'm a French teacher, and I lived in France for three years.

I guess I'm a Francophile at heart, I don't know.

Do you remember what you paid for it?

I did-- I paid five quarters.

I handed $1.25 over.

So, you said you'd like to show us some of your favorite illustrations.

Yeah, it's beautiful.

And tell us about this one.

This is where Little Prince is looking very princely.

So he's in his garb and describing who he is.

It's perfect.

Fantastic.

And then, in the back here...

This is the Little Prince as he is disappearing from the planet that he was visiting to go back to his planet, hopefully.

It's just a wonderful fable.

It's for children and adults, and it's one of my very, very, very favorites.

So what we have is the first edition of "The Little Prince."

I'm not going to try and pronounce it in French, because I'll do it badly.

(chuckles) And I can say Antoine de Saint-Exupry, but you can maybe say it better than me, or does that work?

No, it's perfect, very nice.

Okay, thank you-- he was a French writer.

He was also-- he delivered the mail by plane.

So he, he has a couple of other books that talk about that part of his life.

During World War II, he was living in New York, which is when this was published, in 1943.

Reynal and Hitchcock were the publishers, and they published it in English and in French.

In '43, they did 525 copies of the book, signed by him.

That was the first edition in English, which was in America.

And then they did half that amount in French, 260 copies.

Oh!

And this is copy number 51.

Right, and it's signed by him.

Usually somebody else did the numbering.

And one of the things we look for in having the book be as complete as possible is that all 260 had their number also written on the spine at the bottom.

Right.

So we've got another 51.

It needs to be in the same hand, which it appears to be.

The dust jackets rarely survive.

Yours has survived, which is fantastic.

There are, I think, approximately 140 or 150 million copies of the book... Mm.

...have been printed since then.

Wow.

He only signed the, the numbers that we talked about.

That's one of the things that is so incredibly special.

He touched it, you touched it.

That book means so much to you.

I think Saint-Exupry was a pretty cool dude... (chuckles) ...and he's never been found.

Right.

His plane went down, and he disappeared.

Would you be surprised if I told you that at auction, that would sell for between $8,000 and $12,000?

(whispering): Oh, my God.

(aloud, laughing): Yeah, I'd be very surprised.

Well, I've just told you.

Wow, that's amazing.

It's utterly amazing.

(chuckles) It's a great buy, $1.25.

Yeah.

Nice R.O.I.

So, this was given to me by my father, who got it from his father.

So, my grandpa worked at the Mare Island Shipyard during World War II.

He got it from a serviceman returning from the Pacific theater at the end of the war.

Came off the ship, said he was tired of hauling it around, and asked my grandfather if he wanted it, and he said, "Sure."

The serviceman said that he had cut it down from the wall of a Japanese officer's hut.

He had painted this on the canvas side of his tent of the Japanese fleet.

And when they took the island-- I'm not sure which one-- he just cut it down and took it with him for the rest of the, the war.

What you have here would qualify as spoils of war.

This is an original artwork painted on a piece of military equipment.

So as far as Uncle Sam was concerned, in World War II, this was completely legitimate as something that a serviceman could take and bring home.

Hm.

The dividing line that they made at that point in history was whether or not it is personal property.

You can't kick in the door and go into somebody's house and take their household goods.

But materials on the battle, on the battlefield, uh, are fair game.

Obviously, we know right off the bat that these are Japanese warships.

We've got the Japanese naval ensign, the rising sun ensign, at the stern of the vessel.

But even if you couldn't see that, you would know right away that these are Japanese naval capital ships from World War II by the pagoda masts that we see here.

They're very distinctive elements of Japanese naval architecture.

The entirety of their war strategy with the United States, after they failed to knock the Pacific Fleet out, was to draw the Americans across the Pacific, and then tangle with them in one giant, decisive naval battle.

It never really happened that way for them.

They did sortie at the end.

It played out very poorly for the Japanese fleet.

On the back, there are patches.

On the front, you can s, see where the stitching has come through.

Mm-hmm.

So, clearly, this was a damaged and repaired piece of canvas before the artist even started painting on it.

Mm-hmm.

But it is a beautiful thing.

It displays well.

I would put a retail price on this in the neighborhood of $2,000 to $2,500.

Wow.

Okay.

(chuckles): That's great.

This is a hay saw, that when farmers would put the hay up loose in the barns, then it was packed in pretty tight like a bale, and they would use this to chop off pieces so they could take it out and feed it to their animals.

We had a neighbor, his family had came from England.

It's got a little elephant on it that I think maybe has something to do with India and England.

When my dad started farming in 1945, he gave it to him.

GUEST: It is a salesman's sample.

It looks like kind of a mower or a tiller for the farm equipment.

My great-great-grandfather is Barney Greteman, who was one of the owners of the store here.

PEA: As luck would have it, this owner's family's store is here at Living History Farms.

Now part of the Walnut Hill area, a fantasy small town set in the year 1876, the Gretemans' general store was moved from Willey, Iowa, in 1979.

Generations of the Greteman family ran the store, and sometimes even lived upstairs, from 1887 to 1978.

GUEST: I brought a vase that I found at my dad's house that he was going to scrap.

He bought it at an auction for the scrap metal.

APPRAISER: What drew you to it?

The colors.

It's just stunning and beautiful.

Well, what you've brought us today is a French parcel-gilt and patinated bronze and cloisonn enamel vase by Christofle and Co. and designed by mile Reiber.

And it's, in fact, dated 1874.

In the mid-19th century, Commodore Matthew Perry had sailed into Tokyo and opened up Japan to trade with the West for the first time in over 200 years.

And that opening of trade with the West ignited this rage in Europe and the rest of the Western world for items in the Japanese taste and style.

And this was particularly popular in France in that third quarter of the 19th century.

So we're in a time period where the Industrial Revolution has led to the advances in the ability to apply gold and silver to other metals via electrolysis.

And the company Christofle was very accomplished at this.

And in fact, Christofle had purchased the patents to make themselves the sole maker of plated wares like that in France at the time.

So the company originated in 1830 as a jewelry maker, but by the point this was made, in the 1870s, they'd really expanded into all types of tablewares, decorative arts, and even furniture.

So when mile Reiber was hired on at Christofle in 1865 to be the chief of their design and composition studio, he brought with him this excitement and just fascination with Japanese and Chinese works of art.

And we see that influence in the form of this vase.

So the form is that of an ancient Chinese bronze called a hu vase, and that would have held water or wine.

We've got just the beautiful figural handles with the kind of dolphin head issuing the S-form scroll on the handles.

Do you know what he paid for the...

He paid six dollars for it.

A conservative auction estimate would be $7,000 to $10,000.

That's amazing.

He did good.

He did very good.

And you did good by saving it from the scrapyard.

Yes, I did good, too.

(chuckles) Well, it was a gift from my brother 30 years ago.

I didn't open it, I put it in a drawer, and it's been sitting in a drawer for 30 years, and we just decided to open it up, uh, when my wife's niece came, and she's, uh, from mainland China.

She looked at it and said it was Chinese and a map of all sorts of islands and countries.

My brother got it when he was in Gwangju, Korea, in the '60s.

APPRAISER: So you have had someone tell you it's Chinese.

So we're going to start out and we're going to say, definitively, it's not Chinese.

But interestingly, these are Chinese characters.

APPRAISER 1: But that's because they shared the same characters in... Mm-hmm.

...China and Korea.

Oh.

This is Korean.

Though... Really?

She wasn't wrong, because additional...

So here, tian xia tu, in Chinese... "Heaven under map."

So this is everything under the heavens.

And in Korea, it's ch'onhado, which means "everything under the heavens."

Oh, yes.

And you have, uh, Japan, China, and Korea.

Which... Because what else is there?

(laughing) Exactly.

It was the entire world-- that was it.

So now I'm going to leave the world, and we enter into... China.

With the most identifiable, the Great Wall.

APPRAISER 1: It's also designed for us to view it this way.

So we now go to this one.

This is where we are getting into Korean provinces.

This was originally not a scroll.

It was a book.

And it is dated 1760.

So these are also important, because they, they are telling boundaries.

As we keep going, what is the final?

We have now reached Japan.

Here is Japan, listing all of the various islands.

It's fantastic.

It really is.

And they, we found a complete version, which is-- they're very, very rare... Mm-hmm.

...that is in the Library of Congress.

Mm-hmm.

You've got a complete version.

13 sheets.

So would you like to know what this might sell for, if you were, put it up at auction?

Sure, sure.

I don't.

(chuckles) You don't want to know?

(all laugh) Which one gets to know?

I do.

All right.

Cover your ears.

(laughs) $8,000 to $12,000.

Mm-hmm.

Wow.

Well, it'll stay in the family, it... My brother and I were really close, and he wanted me to have it.

So, I'll have it till I'm no longer, I guess.

(chuckles) And now we've unraveled the mystery.

Thank you.

APPRAISER 2: We unrolled the mystery.

GUEST 2: Thank you so much.

GUEST 1: Yeah.

(all laugh) I had some friends, they asked me if I would come over and help with an estate sale.

And I said, "Sure."

I said, "What's in it for me?"

And they said, "Well, you've had garage sales, and we want to use your expertise on prices."

Right.

So they said it'd be about three days.

And then when they were done, I could have whatever I wanted.

Right.

That was left over.

And this was one of the things that I acquired.

There was a bunch of dishes piled on it, and nobody was looking at the table, 'cause they couldn't see it.

'Cause it was covered up.

This is a Federal American table made in New England.

And the great thing about American furniture is regionalism.

So we can tell from the characteristics of this table where it was made in America, 'cause each area had its own distinct characteristics.

Sure.

Because different immigrants came over and started working in different traditions, and they all had their own style.

So this is made, was made, I feel, north of Boston.

And it's a Federal inlaid mahogany gaming table.

This would have been a, a, a piece that would, would be very prominent in the home, you know, even though it was just used for games, so... Sure.

If you look at the skirt, it has this thin veneer of mahogany, which has been cut and, and bookmatched.

If you come down the legs, it's a double taper.

All of a sudden it goes... (makes sound effect) Yeah.

And that's very distinctive of this area in northeastern Massachusetts, southern kind of New Hampshire.

Made around 1800.

Jeez.

This table has a folding top.

Right?

Yes.

So that you could fold it out to play cards.

And originally, that leg would swing out and support the leaf, right?

Yes.

So at some point, somebody must have dropped this leaf... Oh!

Right?

W, without pulling the leg out.

Yes, oh, yeah.

You know what happens.

And this is probably in the early 19th century, maybe 1820, 1825.

When they, when they fixed it?

That they fixed it.

Oh, wow.

I think, because they said, " I don't want to, "I don't want to bring that leg out anymore.

Let's, let's come up with something else."

Yeah.

And this is what really is fascinating to me.

They said, "Let's, let's make a different kind of table."

Let's alter this table."

And if you don't mind spinning it, help me.

If you hold the base, please.

Yeah.

Thank you.

They decided to make it a pivot top... Yeah.

...rather than a swing-leg card table.

And, and that is so cool.

Yeah.

But let's look quickly inside here.

Yeah.

This is tulip poplar, and it's so green.

It's just like almost the day it was cut.

On the underside of this, you have this massive wing nut, and that's that mechanism, of course, by which the top pivots.

Yep.

Have you thought about value for this?

I have thought about value, but I don't have a value.

I had a person o, a standing offer of $100 for it.

You could put a retail value on this table of $2,500.

Wow.

That's not bad for a few days' work for your friend.

No, not at all.

I brought this dress.

Okay.

Uh, went and visited my mother-in-law yesterday, and she insisted I bring it.

What we're looking at here is a very typical day dress from the 1930s.

So the lace is done by machine.

It was likely purchased at a department store in that time.

Would have very likely been worn with a slip underneath.

You have some minor condition issues on it, the, some oxidation on the buttons, some minor yellowing.

We're looking at about $80 to $120 in a retail setting for this piece.

Thank you very much.

Absolutely.

It's a great piece, and thank you for bringing it in.

It was my grandmother's.

She collected antiques in the late '30s and early '40s.

It's a...

There's a mouse in there.

(laughs) Just kidding.

There's a matching piece that's bigger that we couldn't drag down here.

GUEST: This is my great-great-grandmother's box that was, uh, passed down to me.

It sat on my mother's dresser for a long time.

And I, I always just admired it.

I think it said "Germany" on the bottom.

Yeah.

And there were some other silver marks that I saw.

Yeah.

I couldn't figure out what they might have been.

So the box, it's, it is silver.

Yeah.

Made in Germany.

Hm.

And it's made in an area, Hanau, which is, um, not too far from Frankfurt.

Hmm.

And the marks on the box, we actually do know who, uh, made it.

His, uh, silversmith's name is George Roth.

Mm.

So there's a "GR" mark.

Interesting.

(chuckles): In this area of Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century, they didn't have those sort of guild restrictions that required them to carefully mark with their own names and dates.

Yeah.

So they did a lot of pseudo-hallmarks, where they made hallmarks that looked like hallmarks that would have been used in an earlier time... Uh-huh.

...um, and marked them.

Huh.

And it was perfectly legal to do so.

They weren't trying to, I think, deceive.

There was just a lot more demand for silver objects at that time than there were 18th-century pieces to satisfy it.

Yeah.

And Hanau was a real center for the production of, of silver.

So they're, you know, basically able to take some of the best designs from earlier pieces and make new things.

And George Roth was working as a silversmith from the late 19th century.

He started using his own mark in 1906.

This box dates to around then.

So right at the early part of the 20th century.

The interior has a nice, like, you know, gilded interior.

It may have just been for a decorative, like a table casket.

You've probably had some guesses about value.

What have you sort of been thinking?

Yeah.

I'd say, like, $100 at most.

It's not, not a crazy guess-- silver prices are pretty high.

If you were just to price out the silver in today's market, you'd probably be around $200.

Um, if you add in the workmanship, the age, we know who made it... Mm-hmm.

...the design, you're probably looking at, at auction, between $300 and $500.

Wow.

Yeah, so you've got a, got a good eye.

Man.

You have to keep on collecting.

(chuckles) Yeah, I will.

GUEST: I inherited this necklace from my grandmother.

She was born in 1900 and she lived until she was 102.

APPRAISER: Wow.

So I got it in 2002.

My grandmother grew up in Sedalia, Missouri, and then she was a woman ahead of her time.

She went to college in Chicago and then worked at Northwestern University.

Then she got married and moved to New Rochelle, New York.

So she must have gotten the necklace either in New York or Chicago.

How'd she come by it?

I don't really know, but she was a really independent woman.

In fact, one of the pieces of advice that she gave me was, a woman should always have her own money.

So she might have bought it for herself.

Very nice-- yeah, that's, that's impressive.

Especially in those times.

It s, she sure was.

All right.

It's from a famous Danish designer.

His name is George Jensen.

He's really well-known for his early career in silver design.

He started in Copenhagen, and his original motifs were basically very natural.

He would make brooches and jewelry with deer motifs and tulip motifs.

George Jensen did pass away in 1935.

The company continued on.

To this day, you can still buy George Jensen jewelry.

It is from the mid-century, the late '50s, early '60s.

It's marked on the back.

It has his classic signature the company adopted after the 1940s.

Okay.

Which is his name with this oval shape of dots surrounding it.

Got it.

It's very iconic.

Okay.

And it says "750 18K"-- which is the same thing.

The Europeans mark their gold 750 when it's 18K.

And it's model number 7104.

And we see that marked on the clasp.

Pieces similar to this are selling in the $12,000 to $14,000 range.

Wow!

(chuckles) Wow!

Yeah.

Wow.

(laughs) That's fantastic.

I think that, being a unique piece, it might fetch just a little bit more.

Oh, okay, tell me.

(laughs) (laughs) I think, in a retail situation, a necklace like this would be $15,000.

Whoa.

(chuckles) Thank you, Grandmother.

(both laugh) And if I wanted to insure it, how much would you recommend?

I would suggest somewhere in that range.

Okay.

And just the gold weight alone is worth about $4,200.

Fantastic.

Gold is so expensive right now.

It's really at an all-time high.

There's jewelry out there that's jewelry that is also art.

Uh-huh.

And that is really what gives this the value.

PEA: Animals are ready for their close-up at Living History Farms.

Chickens, hogs, and Shorthorn cattle are just some of the creatures to be found here.

Shorthorn cattle were popular with farmers because they were good for dairy and beef production, and also made good working oxen.

This guitar was purchased by my father, I believe, in the year 1962.

My dad was a Marine, and when he got out of the Marines, married my mom and moved to Minneapolis area and decided he wanted to learn how to play guitar.

So he went to the Minneapolis either "Star" or "Tribune" and looked in the, uh, ads, the...

The classified.

In the classified ads.

Right.

And he called, uh, the woman who was selling it, and she said, "Well, I bought it for my son, and he doesn't play it, and so I'm selling it."

And he asked her, "How much do you want for it?"

And she said, "Well, $300 for the amplifier, "the guitar comes with a case, and, uh, the guitar."

And he thought that was a good enough bargain back in 1962... Yeah.

...to purchase it, and, uh... That was a good deal.

This is a ES355.

The 335 came out in '58.

In '59, this was, model was introduced.

This particular one is mono.

Usually, these were stereo.

The mono's a little more desirable.

The Bigsby is factory.

The cherry in, from this era is unlike anything they ever did.

It's sort of a watermelon, it's just beautiful.

Yeah.

Yeah, oh, I love the color.

And they never really did that again, 'cause it is a stain.

This is late enough era that these pickups are patent applied for, or P.A.Fs., as they're known.

Sort of the Holy Grail of guitar pickups.

There's a certain era, late '59, part of '60, where Gibson ordered the wrong color, or somehow they got shipped the wrong color.

They're white coils, so...

I'm not going to take it apart.

We don't have the ability to do that here.

But if those are double-white P.A.Fs.... Wow.

...they're worth considerably more.

Really?

It adds a lot of value to the guitar.

As much as maybe ten, ten grand, more.

Wow.

Part of the thing that makes this package, so to speak, is the, the original case, and unusually, the original hang tag accompanies it, still.

And a lot of times, those things disappeared.

Makes it more collectible because it has all the juju that came with it.

My father taught hims, himself how to play guitar.

Right.

He played it his whole life, I've played it off and on.

My brother played it quite a bit, 'cause he lived closer.

The incredible fun it's created for us...

I'll bet.

...I, I can't tell you.

I bet.

Well, do you want to know what, probably, market value is on this at this current time?

Sure.

Is roughly around $45,000.

My father would be so incredibly pleased to find that out.

And... And that's if it has the double whites, which, I'm assuming it probably does.

Oh, my gosh.

That's, that's crazy.

My, my dad would be so proud to know that.

If these are not double-white P.A.Fs., it's going to back it down a little bit.

Somewhere between $6,000 and $10,000.

GUEST: I brought Naina.

Naina is a balsa wood doll carved by the San Blas Indigenous people.

The San Blas Islands are off the coast of Panama.

And this particular doll was presented to my mother when my mom was two years old, in 1938.

Her father was stationed in Panama at the time.

My grandfather kindly took pictures of the, the individuals that presented my mother with this doll.

And dated it for us from August 7, 1938.

Wonderful.

She's made of balsa wood, as I said, because she is not only a doll, she is a kickboard.

(chuckles) And if you hold on to her feet in the water, she floats.

And you can learn to swim, which is very important for people who live on islands.

(laughs) Then we have, also have pictures of my, my mother with Naina, if you can see, right there, at her feet.

And that's the same doll.

Same doll, with her brother and her cousins back in Iowa.

And this is dated 1942.

So it would be shortly after their return from Panama.

Wow.

So Naina's been with us, and she's absolutely treasured for all that time.

(laughs) Has your mom ever used it when swimming?

Yes, she used it as a kickboard.

Um, so did I and my siblings when we were little.

I've seen these, uh, from the Kuna Indian tribes... Mm-hmm.

...which are, which are in the, off the coast of the Atlantic, where you're talking about, in Panama.

Right.

And I've known them as nuchas, or sick-healing dolls.

These were normally charged by the shaman with spirituality to protect and heal sick people.

And that's what the tribe used them for, traditionally.

Mm-hmm.

It's the typical style-- straight wood figure with a little cap headdress and short, bent knees, hands held close to the body.

If I were to put this at an auction, I, I would say $600 to $900.

Wow.

Yeah.

And an insurance value of $1,500.

Excellent!

It, it's just because you have all this wonderful photo documentation to tie it all together.

And the story is beautiful.

You know.

Thank you so much, my mom will be so happy.

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

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

Mm-hmm.

And I've looked in several books.

What about this one?

Um, got that on a vacation in South Dakota.

(laughs) 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.

Oh!

Nice ones.

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

And could bring a little more than that.

Okay.

GUEST: They belong to my parents, who live in Louisville, Kentucky.

Okay.

And of course, Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay...

Yes.

...was born in Louisville, Kentucky.

So I do not know if maybe they were in the mosque there.

The book itself is a Quranic prayer book.

What makes this more significant is that it's signed.

We have "Muhammad Ali, 1986."

You have a second book.

You have "Muhammad Ali," and below that, "Cassius Clay, Sr." Which is his father.

His dad.

Many people know, obviously, that Muhammad Ali used to be Cassius Clay.

In 1964, he actually converted to Islam.

Yes.

And that's when he adopted the name Muhammad Ali.

Let's talk about the first one.

Okay.

Just Muhammad Ali.

Yes.

Uh, 1986, first edition, signed.

Um, these on average go around $300 to $400 apiece.

Okay.

Okay?

This is a little bit different, because it features Cassius Clay, Sr.

It's actually much rarer to see them sign a dual-signed piece like this.

For both of their signatures, I've seen auction sales, uh, near $1,000 on just this book.

Okay.

So if we're talking together, as a set, I would be comfortable putting an auction value about $1,000 to maybe $1,300...

Wonderful.

...uh, for, for both of them.

All right, well...

So, great find.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, definitely.

(laughs) I don't exactly know where it came from, but I sewed on it when I was a child.

My daughter sewed on it.

So we know it's at least 75 years old.

(laughs) We used to sew little doll clothes and make little pillows and things.

It's kind of cute, it's kind of fun.

I believe it's a Harry McCormick.

They considered him shadows and reflections, an expert-- he was born in 1942.

I purchased it at an estate sale.

I think I paid $75 for it.

(chuckling) (chuckling): So I'm hoping it's worth more than that.

It's called "Stage Set."

Peter Rabbit started with my father when he was a little boy in northeast Iowa, on a farm.

But he had an uncle who lived in Chicago, who didn't have any children, and this was his love.

And so he would send him these darling gifts from toy store in Chicago.

Peter Rabbit came to our house and our grandchildren, and they've all grown up with Peter Rabbit.

(chuckles) And you bring him out... At Easter.

Every Easter he comes out.

Every Easter.

As far as I know, he didn't play with him very much.

He was an outdoor farm boy, you know, so... Mm-hmm.

Think he was more decorative.

Did your dad have a lot of toys, or just the toys your uncle... Just the toys my, uh, his uncle sent him, because they didn't have much.

So they were treasured, and I have almost all of them.

My father as a young boy, and this is the uncle that sent him all the toys.

Aw.

And they were always close.

He may have been bought in Chicago, but he originated in Germany.

Oh!

And he's made of papier-mch.

Oh!

What's really wonderful about yours is, he has these great big tall ears and beautiful brown glass eyes-- oh, my gosh, I can't even get started on these shoes.

(laughs) Aren't they cute?

(chuckles): They are molded and painted... Aw.

...and have the little shoe buttons going up the side.

(chuckles) And he was actually made originally in the 1890s.

(gasps): Really?

Um, and they made 'em later, too.

So it may fit more with when your daddy received the doll.

He, about, uh, 1911, we think...

Okay, so... ...is when he received it.

They still are making them.

Are they still making these?

They're still making them.

He has on just a wonderful outfit of, uh, wool felt.

But I think the most fun thing about him is the fact that he is a candy container.

(gasps): He is?!

When I lift his head up, there would have been candy in there.

You're kidding!

(gasps): I never knew that.

At the back, he has a little basket... Mm-hmm.

...with a papier-mch egg, and he even has straw in the basket that, according to the other folks I've worked with, is the original straw.

It's the original.

(starts) We always kept it in there.

He has faded over time.

And if I lift his little shirt up some... (gasps): Oh, it was a brighter green.

It was very bright green.

To make green dye in the 19th century, they used two different things.

One was copper and one was arsenic.

(gasps) And of course, I kind of panicked, because I'm, like, "This is a candy container..." With arsenic in the... (laughing) But I spoke to a textile expert, and they told me that this one was done with copper.

Oh, good.

(laughs) So we're safe.

He does have some damage.

You can see it running down his nose and a tip of one ear.

I see a lot of papier-mch Easter rabbits all the time.

Really?

Okay.

But not like this one.

I mean, he is dressed to kill.

(laughs) And he's an extra-large size.

And retail for this rabbit would be somewhere between $2,500 and $3,500 in this condition.

Wow-- that's a lot of candy.

(laughs) That's amazing!

I have seen the same, similar candy container, and it was mint, in good condition, sell at auction for $10,000.

(gasps) Wow.

Well, he's priceless to us.

PEA: On site is the Flynn mansion.

Completed in 1871, it's an example of Italianate-style architecture.

Another structure nearby is the Flynns' historic two-story barn.

It's an innovative design for the time because it's a split-level.

You could drive a wagon in on the main level, where the hay and corn and oats were kept.

You could also drive a wagon in on the lower level, where the livestock were stored.

I brought two pieces that have resided with my husband's family for quite a few years.

The little bit I have learned about 'em, I assume they're from the Northwest.

That's where his grandfather was from.

So these are actually Paiute baskets.

So they're Gr, a Great Basin tribe.

So very arid desert landscape.

Oh, my gosh, really.

These are actually water jugs.

Mm-hmm.

The smaller one, a little personal canteen.

The larger would be one to haul water.

Both of these vessels would have been coated with a, a substance called pitch.

That's a derivative of pine.

The pitch would have covered the whole body.

And you can really see it, these globs of dark texture on the fibers of the handle.

And you can see it throughout the body, as well.

So what this would do is, it would waterproof it.

You do have a little bit of damage on the neck here, probably from use.

These weren't made for the trade.

They were made for personal use.

Wow, okay.

And when they wouldn't need 'em anymore, they could e, they would discard 'em, and sometimes the easiest thing to do would be to sell them.

Sure.

To make some money along the way.

These baskets would date to the fourth quarter of the 19th century... Mm-hmm.

...about 1880 to 1900.

If these were to come to auction as a pair, I would expect 'em to bring in the $500 to $700 range.

Oh, wow, okay.

They're a really fun, unique basketry item that we don't always see.

Well, I appreciate it.

GUEST: I bought it because I do a lot of construction-y stuff on my spare time.

We're remodeling an old, 100-year-old home, and I'm always out there, so it had a screw.

So I thought that would be fun to wear, 'cause I don't wear bracelets very often.

APPRAISER: Where'd you find it?

I found it at a garage sale.

How much?

Four dollars.

(chuckling) Big spender, Jim, you're lucky.

Yeah, uh, she's a big spender.

(laughs) I saw this hook with, little clasp.

It's a little soft-- and then I saw this name on the end, which made me think for sure this is a piece of costume jewelry.

GUEST 1: Right.

But for sure it's not.

Neat.

Did you see a little mark on it?

No.

"9999."

Four nines-- pure gold.

Oh!

(chuckling) 24-karat.

I did good.

Mm.

A little over seven pennyweights.

Uh-huh.

There's $700 of gold here.

Oh!

Wow.

(chuckles) Yeah, and, and that's just scrap.

(guest 1 chuckles) That's just scrap.

You have to go buy it retail, could pay $1,000 for this.

Gotta pay extra for the screw.

(all laugh) I bought it for the screw, yes.

Thank you.

It's very much capturing a moment that's '70s and '80s, but this could be anytime in the last 25 years.

Pistol Pete Maravich, one of the greatest scorers of all time.

We know him from Louisiana State University.

We know him from the Atlanta Hawks and the New Orleans Jazz, but Army?

Tell us about this uniform and how you got it.

Pete got in our movie, the movie "Dribble."

George Nissen, our owner, decided that was a good way to promote our new women's basketball, uh, professional team here in Iowa, the Iowa Cornets.

I was the assistant coach for the Iowa Cornets in sev... You were!

Yeah-- they got Pistol Pete to come in, and he was here for three or four days with the shooting of, of the game.

We filmed that part of it in Cedar Rapids.

So got to meet Pete and it was, it was a great experience.

What's the story of "Dribble"?

(chuckles) I have to tell you, I have not seen it.

Uh, it was out for about a week, so it... (both laugh) It was about a women's basketball team, and they ended up playing the Army, and the Army thought it was a men's team they were playing.

What happens to Pete at the end?

They lose the game, they steal the ball from him.

They changed the name of the film from "Dribble" to "Scoring" because they thought it might entice more of an adult crowd.

Why'd you keep this?

Because it was Pete Maravich's.

I loved to watch him play basketball.

He was a great, great, great basketball player.

The amazing thing about Maravich, you know, he played for Louisiana State University, the Tigers, from 1967 to '70.

He still has the NCAA basketball men's scoring record for Division I-- 3,667 points.

Here, to me, is what is so remarkable about his scoring record.

There was no three-point line.

No.

He also only was able to play three years.

In those days, you could not play varsity until your sophomore year.

And the other thing that is tremendous about this is that there's no shot clock.

Teams could literally hold the ball as a defense.

Pete Maravich could be considered the Caitlin Clark of his day.

(chuckles) Yeah, and she broke his record, she broke his scoring record.

For an average player, you know, what, what you look for is, obviously, a game-worn jersey in his college career or in his pro career, right?

Right, right.

But we have this from this movie.

Even though it may not have, you know, made the, the... (both chuckling) It wasn't "Gone with the Wind."

It wasn't box office gold.

No.

We have the photo match with him, which I know you took this from the television, right?

Yeah, yeah.

I would place an auction estimate on this of $10,000 to $15,000.

You're kidding me.

I thought... You know, 'cause I look at, see, you know, what, what his ones with the late, you know, when he played with the Jazz and that, I thought, those are worth a lot.

But this is "Dribble," you know?

It, it... (chuckles) So I, I didn't know but, ten... (whispers): God.

(aloud): Oh, it's amazing, thank you.

This lamp I know come from my grandparents.

And then when you light it up, it's got creepy people on the side, so I've never seen anything like it.

I have the kerosene parts that go with it, and it's got a marble base, and it sits about this tall.

Actually, I just picked it up a couple days ago.

(laughs) It's a circus I never heard of-- I looked online.

The guy it's actually named after passed away in 1900.

I just liked it, so I bought it.

$35.

(laughs) We have a very small family, and our family has collected Western art for a very long time.

This was in the attic, and I hadn't even really seen it before.

And, uh, my brother's fiance went wandering around.

She found it in the attic, brought it down, and said, "This should not be in the attic."

And it's probably been in the attic of our farm home since 1970s, maybe?

Mm-hmm.

There's quite a pile of art up there.

I'm guessing that our great-grandparents purchased it on their travels.

The artist is Elling William Gollings.

Okay.

Also known as Bill Gollings.

He was a Western artist.

His signature here says "Gollings."

Mm-hmm.

And then "'07," when it was painted, in 1907.

And then this little mark here is a, a, a pony hoof.

Oh, I wondered what that was.

This, this was his trademark.

It's, uh, it shows a scene, uh, out west of these fellas being chased by bad guys, whoever they might be out there, through the sagebrush.

It's a very vibrant, active Western scene...

Yes.

...re, recalling kind of some of that rough and tumble days of the West.

This is oil on canvas, and it's really dirty, but it, it, it will clean up really well.

It's, it's very original in its condition, and it's in a, a frame probably not of the period.

No.

Um, it's probably a little later than '07.

Mm-hmm.

Probably in the '30s or so.

He was an artist who, uh, was born out West.

Okay.

Um, he was born in Idaho, and then moved back and forth between the West and the Midwest.

He went to Michigan, took some classes in Chicago, went back out to South Dakota.

Did a lot of wrangling with cows and horses and all that.

Yeah, his...

So he's, he became a real cowboy, then went back to Chicago.

Okay.

And then settled in Sheridan, Wyoming, and became an, a, a, a painter of cowboys and...

These guys have a certain set of bona fides.

Okay.

The fact that they were out there, they were punching cattle.

Yeah.

You know, they were riding horses.

So when tourists came out, and they, who they were selling these to, they say, "Yeah, I did this.

"I'm painting it now for you.

Yeah.

This is the scenes I saw."

It's part of the, um, the vanishing American West.

Gollings is really sort of a third wave of artists.

Okay.

Um, you had people like George Catlin who came out and really experienced the West and Native Americans, and saw it for real.

Then you had people coming, another generation-- Remington, Russell... Mm-hmm.

And that was sort of the second wave.

And Gollings is sort of the third wave.

He was born in s, 1878 and lived to 1932.

So, and this is '07.

The West had pretty much been conquered.

He's a, a good artist.

He's maybe not the, the top tier, but a, a very well-collected artist.

Great scene for him.

I would say at auction, you'd probably put a conservative estimate of $50,000 to $70,000 on it.

Oh, that's wonderful.

Yeah... That's fantastic-- it's beautiful.

And no, it doesn't belong in the attic.

(chuckles) PEA: And now it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.

We came here today, we're getting married in September, so we thought something would help pay for that wedding.

But it won't, and that's okay.

(chuckles): 'Kay.

I brought my Hans Marka, uh, Makart, uh, 1894 lithograph print.

It's an academic print, and it is of Ophelia from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," and she's worth about $300 to $400.

My son quit college back in 2020.

He went salvaging at a shipwreck, found this pipe.

Sorry, Casey, it won't pay off your student debt.

But we had a great time at "Antiques Roadshow."

(chuckles) We came from Chicago, Illinois, about five hours from here, to be at the Roadshow.

We've been fans for years.

We loved it, everybody was super-nice.

The volunteer, the people who was here, the appraisers, our fellow, you know, antique- brou, bringers.

Uh, so we had a great time.

Very great time.

(chuckles) (strums) (laughing) Thanks, "Antiques Roadshow," for coming.

Got a chance to have a appraisal done of a wedding present given to my great-grandparents, my grandmother's mother here, and a picture that my mother had in our collection.

Loved it, thank you.

Delighted to be here.

We brought this in, kind of hoping it wasn't worth very much 'cause we think it's ugly, and, uh, found out that it's worth too much to just give it away, so I, I guess that's a good thing.

Had a great time-- we watch "Antiques Roadshow" all the time, so it's really fun to kind of see the process behind the scenes.

This has been awesome.

PEA: Thanks for watching.

See you next time on "Antiques Roadshow."