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Antiques Roadshow US - Season 30 Episode 15 - Grant's Farm, Hour 2
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00:04Not to brag, but Antiques Roadshow is prouder than this guy to be showing off treasures at
00:09Grant's Farm. You're telling me you bought this painting for $40. I loved her braids and her
00:14glasses and her bangs. I can see the resemblance.
00:37Grant's Farm is a special blend of wildlife park mixed with the history of St. Louis beer
00:42making. August Anheuser-Busch Sr., former president and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association,
00:51bought this property in 1903 from the family of President Ulysses S. Grant. Grant's Farm
00:58opened to the public in 1954 and today entertains hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
01:07What treasures are pouring into Roadshow at Grant's Farm?
01:10Wow, what you got here?
01:12I don't know.
01:13That's why she says she doesn't know.
01:16It was in my grandma's basement during Prohibition. Anheuser-Busch sold other products besides beer
01:22and this one in particular was used for egg products. So they sold egg whites during Prohibition.
01:33It's my grandfather's train. He used to run it around under the Christmas tree every year. So
01:40I know that at one point it worked and it's been in the family for probably a hundred years. So
01:45this
01:45is a German made train. Actually if we turn it over and look on the underside right at the top
01:49here,
01:49it's marked made in Germany. Now normally there would also be the company logo which is an M and a
01:55C
01:55company from Marklin. Marklin is the maker of the train circa about 1906-1907. Marklin was a producer of
02:03children's toys at the turn of last century and they really made the top, top quality toys. Trains was
02:09sort of the rise to the top. They're actually still a company today. England, France and the United States
02:14were the three markets for exporting their trains and they designed the trains specifically for those
02:20export markets. So in this instance it's an American beer car, Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous.
02:26Schlitz started around the mid-1800s. In fact it's actually still a brewery today owned by Pabst Blue
02:32Ribbon. There's three different variations of the beer cars that Marklin made. There's a Pabst Blue Ribbon
02:37and there's also a Budweiser. They're all very desirable. The Schlitz car in this size which is a gauge
02:42one train car size. In the past 20 years there's only been a dozen or so that have come up.
02:48So quite
02:49a rare piece. What's also very interesting about these toys they're tin plate and they're all hand
02:54painted with an enamel paint which does hold up really well and that's why it's still so well
02:57preserved here for being over 100 years old. It has opening doors on the sides with a little hinge
03:05and you can even open the hinge roof to get access to the interior load. This would be a refrigerator
03:11car. So this one would be refrigerating Schlitz beer. As is often the case for all of these toys,
03:18condition is king. This is in a really nice condition. Oh good. It is. It's very sharp.
03:24Colors are great. All the way around there somewhere your grandfather obviously did play with it but
03:29the paint is really well kept. It can actually be cleaned up a little bit to really brighten up the
03:34color even more. Now in valuing the train car it's a select market. This is an American focused
03:41marketplace. Do you have any idea what the value is on a train like this? No. You might want to
03:47pour
03:47a nice cold glass of beer after I tell you this but this train car should easily fetch ten to
03:52twenty
03:53thousand dollars. Dollars? Wow. That's amazing. That's wonderful. Now with that said there have been
04:04examples of this car that have sold for thirty or even forty thousand dollars. Okay. I'm almost speechless and
04:12you know if you know me that's...
04:22I got this at a thrift store about a month ago. I paid seventy bucks for it and I want
04:27to know more
04:27about it. I know it's a Windsor. It's creaky but that's how I know it's old.
04:37This is a 1970s Bell and Howell radio. My grandpa worked for Bell and Howell for about 35-40 years
04:45so
04:45I think this was probably like a gift that they gave at Christmas or something. I rescued it from
04:50the garage like five years ago and got it cleaned up and now it outlives in my office. And it
04:55also has a
04:56cassette tape player in the back that you can take off. It gets really really loud. I have a couple
05:01Grateful Dead cassette tapes that I still play. Much to her chagrin in there.
05:12I brought a bracelet, a pin and a pair of earrings that I first saw 50 years ago after my
05:22grandmother
05:22died. All of the jewelry that was hers was laid out on a large meeting room table at the trust
05:31company and
05:32my sister and I were agog at all the wonderful things, the diamonds, everything. But it was up to
05:41my father to choose and he chose these. At 20 years old I was really disappointed.
05:50I wanted the diamonds but these are so beautiful. What you have here are micromosaics, some of the
05:58most beautiful examples that I've ever seen actually in my career. And it's not just one piece, it's three
06:04pieces that go together. A brooch, earrings and a bracelet which together form what you might call
06:08a perure. So we started to look at it more carefully and realized that not only was it a great
06:14example of
06:15micromosaic work, it had hallmarks on it that indicated that it was from Rome. It had the
06:20papal state marks with the St. Peter's cross keys which place it around 1840, 1850. What you have in
06:29that era is a confluence of a number of things going on. This was before Italy was consolidated. Rome was
06:35an independent state. It was the era of the grand tour when Europeans and English and Americans would make
06:41the big tour of Europe. Italy was already known for great micromosaics but there was a great output
06:47in that era in order to feed the souvenir market. They came in all levels of quality but these are
06:53among the best pieces of jewelry of that type that I have seen. Micromosaics are made of tiny little
07:00pieces of glass. There's a lot of very detailed handiwork involved in creating these. You've got
07:04really beautiful floral designs here. You've got two doves mounted in 18 karat gold. We had a lively
07:12discussion among the appraisers because everyone was impressed by these pieces. We're thinking that
07:17a retail price for these could be $28,000, $32,000 in that range. Holy cow. Wow. Increase my insurance.
07:30Yes.
07:31That's wonderful. Maybe I'll wear them now.
07:40The Bush family's mansion, affectionately called The Big House, has a one-of-a-kind,
07:46seven-paneled Tiffany stained glass window. Tiffany exhibited at the World's Fair in 1904 here in St.
07:53Louis and that's when my grandfather met him and commissioned Louis Comfort Tiffany to manufacture
07:59his pieces just for his house. And the stained glass window is reminiscent of a stag in the black
08:06forest of Germany so it reminded the grandfather of his homeland.
08:14I brought my American Girl Molly doll. I actually got her from the warehouse sale at the Pleasant Company
08:22in Middleton, Wisconsin probably 25, 30 years ago. So you don't remember the exact date when you got her?
08:29I don't. I just know I was in elementary school. I know that she was made by the Pleasant Company
08:34before the Mattel buyout. Me and my mom and my best friend and her mom went together for a fun
08:40girls
08:41weekend. It was kind of a crazy event. Lots of people in line rushing for dolls and I just had
08:47to have
08:47Molly. I loved her braids and her glasses and her bangs. I can see the resemblance.
08:54Do you know what you paid for her? $50. Molly was produced by Pleasant Rowland. Pleasant was a child's
09:05textbook author so she was very aware of history. In 1984 she went to Williamsburg, Virginia and she
09:12loved the historical aspect and then at Christmas time she was shopping for some nieces and there was
09:17only Cabbage Patch and Barbies. And she thought about Colonial Williamsburg and about creating a doll
09:24line to bring historical events to young girls, 8 to 14 or so, that she felt were very underserved in
09:33textbooks, in history. So she came up with these three girls, Samantha, Felicity and Molly. She made them
09:41historically significant. She got girls reading six book series teaching girls about whatever went on during
09:48that period. Molly's dad went off to war in World War II. So it was all about the things they
09:53were going
09:53through and rationing and what it was like to miss your dad. And Samantha becomes an orphan and kids
09:59related to that because they were orphans. So bravo to her for creating this and seeing and filling that need
10:06because it was needed. Pleasant had the dolls made in Germany by Gotts and Gotts produced them for about 1986
10:15to about 1990-ish. At that point Pleasant sold the company to Mattel and Mattel changed the name into
10:23American Girl Dolls. So this particular Molly is one of the first Mollies and we know that because she has
10:30a white body. We're going to be modest here. We're going to try and protect her modesty. You know,
10:34she is from the 40s. So on her back here is a green sticker and an X. That says to
10:40me that she came from
10:42one of your factory sales. Later on they changed these bodies to be more flesh colored matching
10:47whatever skin tone that doll had. She has her original clothing on and on here we have made in West
10:54Germany which again indicates the Gotts. Her glasses have real glass in them and a real knitted sweater.
11:00Those were all made in Germany. So yours being an early 1986 one of the first ones coming from Germany
11:06makes her a little more significant. We took great care of her. Yeah, I never took out her braids.
11:12Which is great because so many kids they come in with crazy hair and they played with them and that
11:16kind of stuff. I would estimate her value at about $1,200 to $1,500. Oh my gosh, that's amazing.
11:24I'm so glad that I never took her hair out and played with her. And thanks mom for taking me
11:31to
11:32the warehouse sale. Absolutely. Thanks mom. Yeah, for sure.
11:40It's always been in our house. It was our mother's in the 1950s. She went to a used store. She
11:46saw this
11:47and asked the lady you know how much and she said well five or ten dollars. It is groovy and
11:53a beautiful
11:53example. Groovy is almost always green 95 percent of the time but almost always only green. So to have
12:00a second color is very good. This is also larger than most pieces of groovy. Well marked this dates
12:07about 1904 1905. When I see this kind of a mark you see that little green thing when that's on
12:13the bottom
12:13of a piece of groovy it's meant to be a lamp base. The fittings themselves it looks like it's Tiffany
12:18to me and groovy worked with Tiffany on a bad day at auction it's between six to nine thousand dollars
12:25and it could bring ten thousand dollars or more. Wow, what a treasure for us. Yeah, it's a really,
12:28it's a really good one. Makes me cry.
12:36In 2019 I was in San Antonio and there was an auction house I used to go to. I love
12:41rugs,
12:42I have several rugs at home. This one came up for sale and I really enjoyed the motion in it.
12:47It
12:47was wool and I believe goat hair so I just really liked the colors. I think I paid about a
12:53hundred
12:53dollars. Wonderful. Do you have any idea what type of rug it was or where it came from? No,
12:58and I do have a gentleman here in St. Louis that I do take rugs to and he had no
13:04idea of its history
13:06or background. This rug was woven by the Qashqai tribe in the Zagros Mountains in southern Persia.
13:13So technically it's a tribal rug. It's referred to as a gabe and gabe in Persian translates to raw,
13:23uncut and natural. It's raw because they're using natural wool for the majority of the wool. It's not
13:30heavily dyed. Uncut would refer to the pile. It kind of has a shaggy long pile to it. And that's
13:38also related to the weave quality. It's rather coarse. This rug is maybe about 50 knots per square
13:45inch or less. So it would make it one of the coarser Persian rugs that are woven. As this rug
13:52is a
13:52tribal rug, they didn't have a large supply of wool when they were weaving it. So they used different
13:58dilats of wool. And as you can see, there's a line over here of demarcation where the brown color is
14:04slightly lighter and slightly darker. This is a term that's referred to as abrache. It's natural,
14:10especially in nomadic pieces. You tend to see that occurring. The value of these rugs really is in
14:16their pattern. These abstract geometric designs are very bold and graphic and they're very popular.
14:22They always have been. This one was woven around 1940. And with the resurgence of contemporary
14:29design, they became very popular in the late 90s up until the current day. Most of these were small
14:35in size. Naturally, there was a demand to get this aesthetic in room-sized pieces. So they started making
14:42modern reproductions of them in Iran, India, and Pakistan. So this really is what set the whole wheel
14:49rolling in the first place. Do you have any idea what this rug is worth?
14:54A hundred dollars. No, I have no idea. Okay. It's really in fine condition. And this rug would retail
15:04for between $3,500 and $4,500. So it's really wonderful. Thank you so much.
15:17They're my father-in-law's comics. Uh, I didn't quite get where he acquired them,
15:22but he's had them in his basement for quite a while now. Yep. And, uh, he's got, he's,
15:28oh no, not quite the best condition, but he's got some notable ones.
15:36I bought it from a lady. I was redoing her kitchen. I hope she's not listening,
15:41but I think I paid $30 for it. But I've had it for 50 years maybe. I've been told that
15:47this is a
15:48commercial butter churn from England. I guess you could use it, do your laundry in too,
15:53but you might want to clean it first. I don't think I've ever seen another one.
16:01My father was very interested in Charles Lindbergh. So we have this dollar bill that Charles Lindbergh
16:08carried on the Spirit St. Louis from New York to Paris in 1927. He heard that this bill was going
16:17to be sold at an auction in Kirkwood, Missouri. So he went to the auction and ended up buying it
16:23in a fierce battle, I understand for $225. And what year was that? 1972.
16:30There's some writing on it. On the top here, it says to Harry H. Knight from Charles Lindbergh,
16:36June 17th, 1927. Now, Harry H. Knight and his brother were both part of the nine investors that
16:43backed the transatlantic flight. And Harry is credited as being the one who got everyone else interested.
16:50And June 17th is the day the Spirit of St. Louis arrived back in St. Louis after that transatlantic
16:56flight. We know that he carried this on the plane. He actually written on here, it says,
17:01this bill was carried on entire flight Charles A. Lindbergh. He signed it again. We can't find any
17:06other examples of Lindbergh signing and scribing dollar bills to anyone. So it is both unique and
17:13it's this fantastic, I think of these things as a witness to history. And on the right side here,
17:18he's listed all the cities that the Spirit of St. Louis flew to. Silver certificates were,
17:24at the time, this one dates in 1923, you could exchange it for a silver dollar. They are a little
17:31bit larger than a normal bit of American currency. The flight was on May 20th when it left New York,
17:36arrived in Paris late the following night on the 21st. And sometime the beginning of June,
17:42both the plane and Charles Lindbergh came back to the States. What he did was amazing. No one had
17:49done this. He did it on his own. He flew straight. He had no bathroom breaks, no going to the
17:54back of
17:54the plane, no sleeping. I think for you and I, Charles Lindbergh was Jimmy Stewart in the spirit
17:59of St. Louis. I remember watching that film at school on a projector in the gym and that's who
18:03I thought he was. He was a hero. In 2025, people look at him a little differently. They talk about
18:09during World War II and before the war, his sympathies with the German government at the
18:14time, the Nazi party. He was against the U.S. going into the war. He had a secret family in
18:20Germany. Is there anything else? Do you remember what your father thought about it? Clearly he fought
18:24for it. Oh, he did fight for it and he treasured it. I mean, this is something that he was
18:30very proud
18:31of. He didn't get to the age where all the things about Lindbergh became clear. So for him, Lindbergh was
18:38a
18:38hero and because he was an amateur pilot, he really looked at this as something that drew them
18:45together. Right. Would you be surprised if I told you that at auction, we would estimate that at 20
18:50to $30,000? Very much so. Yes, I would, but I wouldn't want to sell it. No, nor would I.
19:00Without the
19:01writing, without the inscription, that silver certificate's worth about $20.
19:08Really cool what you brought in at the jewelry table. It's not gold, but I find it very interesting.
19:13I know. Where'd you get them? Presky's, Dive Storm. I think this one came from Woolworks.
19:18And back in the day when you were a kid? 1964.
19:21Uh-huh. And that's when these were made. The Beatles had a ton of promotional stuff being licensed
19:27out. Did you ever wear this? Oh, yeah. Yeah. On a chain? Oh, yeah.
19:31So it's amazing that it survived. I know. And then it's a little book, but when you open it,
19:37oh, there they are. Yeah. A lot of these are around, but a lot of them don't survive in this
19:42condition.
19:43So, believe it or not, these bring about $100 today. Oh, wow. I probably paid five. Five.
19:49Is that much? Yeah. Now, you have another one there. This one, while it has the same theme outside,
19:55with the fonts and everything, probably not as much money. Probably around $75.
19:59It's more than I thought. I appreciate it. Thank you.
20:07It's one of the best paintings I've seen of Harold Newton,
20:10the leader of the group of Hyriemen painters. They were in Fort Pierce area. And I grew up in
20:15the Indy Atlantic across the river. And they would drive up to the family business and walk and knock
20:20on the door and say, come on out and see today's paintings. And you can buy them for 25 bucks.
20:25When did you get this painting and how? I got it about 13 years ago.
20:3013 years ago. And an estate sale in St. Louis. And being in St. Louis, there's not many people that
20:36knew
20:36about the Hyriemen painters. And so when I got down to the basements of this house, I saw some sort
20:41of wetland painting. And I said, that could be Florida. And then when I saw the frame, I said,
20:47that's a Hyriemen painting. It's that distinct. So I wanted to go closer. And my heart beating.
20:52And I looked at the signature. And I said, this is the best one. And I'm going to get it
20:57for $40.
20:58So wait a second. You're telling me you bought this painting for $40 13 years ago?
21:04Unbelievable. That's an incredible, incredible story.
21:07Harold Newton was a founding member of the Florida Hyriemen. A bunch of African-American
21:11artists who out of necessity in their mid-50s established the group. During a time of segregation
21:17and discrimination, they had difficulties showing their work, getting training. All the opportunities
21:23that were available to other artists were not available to them. And so they formed this group as a
21:28way to support one another and develop their skills. And as you pointed out, they were selling the works
21:33by knocking on people's doors, selling it out of the trunks of their cars next to the highway.
21:38That's where the Hyriemen name came from. Banks, gas stations, restaurants. Yes.
21:42They would just go in wherever they could. Exactly. And so this particular painting though,
21:46it's just a striking image. It demonstrates his skill as an artist. Shortly after this was painted,
21:52he'd probably sell this for maybe 50 or 60 bucks. Typically range like 25 to maybe 50.
21:58It's an oil on fiberboard. He was born in 1934 and he died in 1994. So it'd be like a
22:05circa 1970s,
22:07I would say. That's a guess because the painting is not dated, but it is signed H. Newton. It's in
22:11very good shape. The painting looks great. I think if it were to come up to auction,
22:15I would put an estimate of between 10 and $15,000. Wow. That's nice. Yes. Thank you very much.
22:30There's quite an assortment of animals at Grant's Farms Deer Park. Deer from Europe,
22:35Asia and North America, as well as alpacas and llamas and this big horned bovine.
22:44Watusi cattle are from Africa and they are distinctive for their very large horn. It's about
22:49that big around and it kind of curls up. We currently have nine, but we do have a successful breeding
22:54program with Watusi. So hopefully this season will be even more beneficial than last season,
22:58which was very successful. My father was a World War II veteran and also an amateur photographer. So he
23:08took his camera to Europe and took pictures all along on their march. These pictures here are from
23:15Buchenwald in Germany. He was there when the concentration camp was liberated. And what relation
23:22does this doll have? The pictures that he took, he couldn't just develop and send back. So he bought
23:29this doll in France and opened the head on the back and stuffed in film canisters, which had these
23:36pictures on them. I shipped it back to my aunt, who was one year old then, and left the note
23:43saying,
23:44please do not let Darlene play with the doll. And my aunt never played with the doll. And do we
23:51know
23:51what unit he served in? He was in Patton's third army. Your dad was involved in two fairly significant
23:59liberations. He was at Ordruf, and that's April 4th of 1945. And then a week later at Buchenwald.
24:08Ordruf was a satellite camp of Buchenwald. And Eisenhower came in to visit that camp. And when he
24:15saw that, that really redirected the focus and opened the eyes about what was going on inside the camps.
24:25The stark reality of it was just jaw dropping. Yeah. Yes. And when you brought these photos in,
24:34even to open those envelopes and look and see the images, they have a profound effect on you as a
24:41human
24:41being. You had a number of pictures of the atrocity. We're not going to display those out of respect to
24:49those that lost their lives. But these photographs out front here face down represent that. They are
24:56shocking and disturbing on a deep level. These places existed within a mere kilometer or two of
25:04occupied towns. There were plenty of people who knew. There were plenty of people who thought that they
25:08were doing the right thing. That's the scary thing. Once you start seeing other people as something
25:14other than human beings, that's when truly terrible things can happen. One of the first things that
25:21happened was General Eisenhower ordered that the local German civilians be brought in to see what had
25:26been happening. Here we see them digging graves for executed prisoners. And then your dad has some
25:36annotations on the back that explain what the ones on the far side here indicate. You've got a woman
25:41coming out just in complete tears because she's either in disbelief or shock or horror or whatever.
25:47She's had that real reaction that any true human being will have. And the woman to her right is
25:52laughing and making fun of her according to your father's notation, which she hasn't gone through yet.
25:59The other woman's coming out. You hope for her soul that she had a change of heart once she was
26:04in there.
26:04These are other photographs of the German civilians being forced to witness these atrocities.
26:10Your dad was so compelled that he felt the need to actually break all the rules and smuggle those
26:17images home to make sure that they were seen. One of the most disturbing things about the history of
26:25the Holocaust is that there were non-believers at the time. And one of the truly most disturbing things is
26:32that there are non-believers today. Historians' best estimates at this point are that over six
26:38million Jews perished in the Holocaust and another six million or so others died as well. They enslaved
26:45the entirety of the continent. They shot Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, petty criminals.
26:54It's hard to put a value on something like this because we're talking about cultural value and historical
26:59value. But let's say, for example, you wanted to have this insured. We are comfortable with an
27:05insurance value on this set at $10,000. Oh my God. It's amazing. It breaks our heart.
27:14I know it broke my heart looking at these images. They're powerful.
27:21I brought this piece of art. I don't really know much about it. About a year ago in our office,
27:25they were demoing out all of our cubes. This was hanging on the cube wall in our office.
27:30They ended up putting it in the dumpster. And then at that time, I had a new office with like
27:35nothing on the walls. So I decided to grab it out of the dumpster and hang it on the wall
27:39because I
27:40like the color of it. And then about, you know, a year later, here we are today. This is a
27:44Victor
27:45Vasarelli three-dimensional limited edition bas-relief sculpture. The piece is from 1972. He was a painter
27:55and printmaker, less this kind of three-dimensional stuff, but he did some of these kinds of things.
28:01Op art was his specialty. It's basically made of a plastic on a metal base. And the frame is part
28:07of
28:07the whole piece. It's not like it was then framed. Okay. It has an odd title. It is CTA 102
28:13POS Gold.
28:14It's in a very small edition. It's an edition of four. He's in major museums. He also was sold in
28:21commercial galleries and malls in the seventies and eighties. So he was very popular for many years.
28:26It's a signed piece. He did paintings. He did a lot of silk screens and lithographs. The prints are mostly
28:33in the four or $500 range into the real low thousands. There's lots of that kind of thing.
28:39I saw the square prints like on a painted for like a thousand or two thousand. I couldn't find this
28:45when I looked online. It'd be hard with an addition to four. Do you want to guess on a number?
28:50Maybe
28:50like 5,000? 6,000? You're getting there. Okay. It's the most recent auction price was right around
28:5610,000. 10,000. So I would say an eight to $10,000 auction estimate on it. A retail price,
29:04maybe even
29:04more. But I mean, it actually brought in that eight to $10,000 range within the last few years. Okay.
29:10Then recently, that's awesome. I appreciate you pulling it out of the dumpster because it was going
29:15to be an edition of three if you hadn't done that. I believe we have a burlesque poster. My best
29:23friend
29:24gave it to me about six years ago. She's had it for 30 years. It was given to her when
29:30she lived in LA
29:31and she had it framed then and it hung in her house for years and it's been hanging in my
29:36house.
29:37When do you think it's from? I think by her outfit, probably 1920s. I don't know.
29:42You're close. I would say it's early 1930s, circa 1931. And it's not exactly cabaret. It's more like
29:51French musical. She was a performer and an elegant performer. You can see by her feathers and especially
29:56the jewelry on her arm is so elegant. It's great. And I can see why a performer would like it.
30:02I
30:02can see why a jewelry person would like it. You're just smiling because you just like it. She's pretty.
30:09At auction, I would expect this to sell for between $600 and $900. Okay. All right. Good to know.
30:14Thank you. I was flying over in Thailand, flying out of Bangkok, actually North Park. And I went to
30:25the BX with a couple of my friends and they wanted the GMT and that's what I wanted. But my
30:31friend
30:31bought the last one. So when this one came out, the lady said, well, you might like this one better.
30:37And actually I did. So I was just real happy. 1969. You're a pilot? Yes. We were developing drone
30:43technology. I was flying with the UNIVAC Corporation under contract to the Air Force. And our drone would
30:50fly orbits over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. We would fly the aircraft either remotely controlled
30:57or with a pilot in it. We had to complete, just like flying in the airplane, like a simulator.
31:03I could actually control the aircraft. And so I wanted the watch to help in my job. Did it help
31:09in
31:09your job? It did. The engine quit one day on a mission and I pushed the button for the sweep
31:15second hand to tell me how fast the ground speed was. I was steering the aircraft. I had to tell
31:20the helicopter where I was going to crash the airplane and tell the pilot when to jump out of
31:25the airplane so we could bring the helicopter rescue squad in to pick up the pilot without much
31:30time on the ground wasted. And this was in enemy territory? Yes, over in Laos. The enemy was all
31:36in the jungle and he didn't want to be on the ground very long. I had to blow the wings
31:41off the airplane
31:42because it had to be destroyed. It was all top secret. I said, you have to jump within 10 seconds.
31:46And I'm counting now, 10, 9. And so at 10 seconds, I blew the wings off. And I hoped he
31:53was out, which he was.
31:56The helicopter was able to retrieve them? They were right there at him. And within five minutes,
32:00he was in the helicopter heading back to our base. So the watch actually saved somebody's life? It did.
32:05The major that was flying it was very grateful for that. Wow, that's amazing. It was.
32:11I see on the warranty papers, it says 1966. It was first purchased by a Navy pilot in Saigon in
32:201966.
32:21And the story I got from the Navy exchange was that he was either killed in action or was captured.
32:28And they sent the watch to Bangkok to the Navy exchange there. So they let me buy it in 1969.
32:35I paid $500 for it. Did you wear the watch after the war?
32:40I've worn it every day since 1969. Wow. Until I had it serviced in 2012. I took it off. I've
32:48not worn it
32:49since. The watch is a Rolex 6238. It's what's dubbed the pre-Daytona. It was a transition between the
32:56earlier chronographs and the 6239, which was the later model of the new versions of the Daytonas.
33:03It has a plain bezel and it's just a very elegant watch. It's function. It's all stainless steel
33:09and it has a registry. So it's a push button chronograph in which you can do one minute,
33:1530 minutes, up to 12 hours. The dial on yours happens to be, considering the age, an incredibly
33:22fine shape. Out of a 1 to 10, it's probably a 9. So the dial is really, really nice. Production
33:29year
33:29of your watch is very late 1964, very early 1965. The total production in the five or six year run
33:37is
33:37probably somewhere, they estimate between 2,500 and 3,000 units. Okay.
33:42Notoriously, other than a pilot or a race car driver, these were not particularly popular watches.
33:47A lot of them ended up overseas because they didn't sell particularly well in the stores.
33:52It was perfect for what I needed though. Perfect. Right. So you've managed to keep all these years,
33:57the original box that came with it, and here you've got the original warranty paper. So it's pretty
34:04complete. The only thing that's missing are a couple hand tags. Okay. Yeah, they would have come with it.
34:09I might have those. I'll have to look. I think I might have them.
34:12Okay. Everybody's looking for one owner, complete pieces, and you've got the whole
34:16ball of wax here. Today, to a collector in the retail market, this watch would probably trade in
34:22around the $45,000 price range. Oh, 40? Oh my. I had no idea.
34:30And what's interesting is if you would have gotten the GMT, which would have been the model 1675,
34:35the Pepsi, that watch would probably be worth today probably in the $17,000 to $20,000 range.
34:41So by having your two friends in front of you get the 1675 GMTs, you came out well all these
34:50years
34:50later. And if you were insuring it, we would probably easily put an insurance appraisal of
34:55$55,000 on the watch. Wow. Oh my.
35:04I found it in a coffee can that I bought at an auction. 10 bucks, something like that. It wasn't
35:10very much. I opened it up when I got home, and this was inside. It's a land grant signed by
35:18President Buchanan.
35:24This is a Robert Indiana print from his series Decade Auto prints. I found it in a local auction.
35:32I think it was only about 300 plus shipping. I love it. It's above the fireplace.
35:43I brought some silk boxer shorts that John F. Kennedy left in our house. My father was a prominent
35:50politician in Indiana. He got very involved in JFK's presidential campaign. In October of 59,
35:58Kennedy came through our hometown in southern Indiana, and my dad created a big fundraiser for him.
36:04Kennedy needed a place to stay for the day, and so he stayed in our house. He was battling a
36:10very
36:10sore back, apparently. So he bathed in our upstairs bathroom. After the whole event was finished and he
36:17left town, my mom found these boxer shorts on the bathroom floor. Apparently, he forgot them.
36:23In 1959, Kennedy was the junior senator out of Massachusetts, and he wouldn't declare his
36:30official candidacy for the presidency, even though it was expected, until January of 1960. But as you
36:36said, in the fall, he would have been traveling around America, continuing to lay the groundwork
36:42for his candidacy, getting ready for the primaries and meeting important democratic supporters and
36:47fundraisers of which your father was one. Right.
36:50I had a chance to take a look, and on October 4, 1959, in your hometown of Huntingburg, Indiana,
36:57it was a hot fall day. It made it to 88 degrees. I did not know that. He had events
37:02to go to,
37:03a lot of standing. He then retired to your family's home. Your father was sort of his host,
37:08and where he could cool off. And who hasn't left things behind as a guest? Right. This is a pair
37:14of
37:14silk or synthetic under shorts. There is a store label from Lewis and Thomas Salts and Company from
37:20D.C., and they were a very prominent haberdashery menswear in Washington, D.C., serving all the
37:26politicians and businessmen. On the inside front of the waistband is also some block letters in a
37:34permanent ink that say K-E-N-N. I imagine that's from the junior senator having his clothes sent out
37:40to her laundry. And you've also bought a photo of Kennedy in your family home. It is our family home.
37:45He's standing on the stairwell, and he signed it to my parents. The best kind of provenance is when
37:51the individual who's a historic person has given it to a trusted confidant or if it's from the family
37:58of the historic person. And we don't have that. We don't have, we don't have a picture of JFK
38:04giving these to your mom. What we do have is a meticulously documented history. And also it's
38:11documented in two books. One book was written about my father. In it, the story is described
38:15just as I told you. Then there's another book, the history of Huntingberg itself. And the same story is
38:22described there. So apparently in that book, it's said that my father wrote him a humorous letter
38:28saying, well, if you're accustomed to leaving your boxer shorts around the country, maybe you need
38:32another pair. So he sent him a new pair. That is utterly charming. And that's my dad's sense of humor.
38:37Kennedy's special. Yes, he is. The idealism, the charisma, and the social impact of the president
38:45and his family. For auction purposes, we put an estimate of $3,000 to $5,000. Yeah, that's nice.
38:52This is probably about $500 itself, but it is helping to verify the story. And so these kind
38:59of need to be kept together. For insurance value, I would have $10,000 on these, the collection.
39:10This carriage behind me is one of our oldest in our collection. It was built in 1878 in Concord,
39:16New Hampshire. It's a 12 passenger coach that has leather strap suspension, which gives it a
39:21very soft ride. It was restored back in 1976 and 77 in New Hampshire as well. All of the
39:28carriages in the Bush family collection have been used by the Bush family over the years,
39:32including the one behind me. I brought a store display of the original Star Wars characters that
39:40came out of my father's toy store. I just happened to keep this instead of collecting any of the toys
39:45themselves. I didn't want the characters, but I liked the sign. Star Wars, right? Little to no
39:50introduction needed for the film. Came out May 25th, 1977. Became an overnight international
39:57sensation. What you've brought today is a 1978 Kenner Star Wars store display. This is referred
40:03to as the bell hanger style. They use the styles over multiple iterations of the Star Wars toy line,
40:08but this is not just any. It's the absolute first. What it depicts here are the 12 original figures that
40:15were first made available as part of the Star Wars toy line. And when it comes to display pieces like
40:20this condition is so critical, crucial to the value. Overall, I say it's rather phenomenal
40:26compared to the ones you mostly see out there. There's some edge wear, minor staining here,
40:31a little surface stain, but the big part is there's no surface tears. There's no actual losses to the
40:36cardboard. There's no major creasing. There's no wrinkles. Overall, it presents exceptionally well.
40:41If I were to give it a numerical grade in toy speaking terms to be conservative,
40:46I would say it's about a 75 plus to maybe an 80. As far as displays go, this is a
40:51pretty prime example
40:52that collectors watching this are going to be drooling over. At auction today, if this were in
40:56a well-advertised toy and pop culture sale, I would place a pre-auction estimate of $5,000 to $8
41:02,000
41:03for the display. Really? Wow. That's shocking. Perfect premium examples that receive 85 plus grades
41:11have sold upwards of $20,000 on the market. Wow. This is A-plus material when it comes to Star
41:17Wars.
41:22This was our grandfathers who had a business downtown in St. Louis called Lambert's Furniture,
41:27and he was on a board called Downtown St. Louis when they were building the arch,
41:31and this was presented to him. It's a maquette of an arch, of the arch.
41:41I think it's a hood ornament. I don't know who made it. I found it in my aunt's house.
41:46But if we turn it around, you can see it actually is signed. It's hard to see in the glare.
41:52Okay, okay. But it says Sabino, France. What you have here is a Sabino Art Deco car
41:58hood ornament from the 1920s. Then you have this wonderful frosted glass, and it is a St. Christopher,
42:05the patron saint of travelers. Right. So that makes a lot of sense to have on the car. It makes
42:10a lot of
42:10sense. Conservatively at auction, I would say between $400 and $600. Oh, okay. Well, that's really neat.
42:18Thanks for pointing that signature out. I just wasn't looking in the right place. Yes.
42:23My wife and her mother and father, before she was my wife in 1963, went to Gallup, New Mexico,
42:31to the Indian International Tribal Council show, and bought that first picture from Jerome Tiger,
42:38this way, directly from him at the show. It actually won first prize in the show that year.
42:43The second picture over here, my wife's aunt bought it at the Philbrook in 1963. The history
42:49of Jerome Tiger's life and his career is meteoric. He died in 67 in a gunshot situation in Eufaula.
42:57Yeah, 26 years old. 26 years old, and a tremendous loss. His impact in the art world was fairly
43:05significant. The title of that picture next to you is called The Defeated Ones. He really brought that
43:11depth of feeling about what happened to Native Americans really to the forefront. Jerome Tiger
43:17was born in 1941 in Tahlequah. And I expect the reason he was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, is that's
43:24where the big Indian hospital is. But he's Muscogee Creek in Tahlequah's Cherokee capital. Both of these
43:30paintings Jerome painted in 1963, which was very early in his career. This is a family that suffered a lot
43:38of pain. They've had a lot of tragedy. And the way Jerome got through this, as have his relatives
43:46and descendants like his daughter, is by creating great beauty. And the beauty depicts the pain of
43:53their history as well. President Andrew Jackson, after a war with the Creek Tribe, which involved
43:59Sam Houston and David Crockett, where the Creeks were brutally put down, signed the Indian Removal Act
44:07of 1830, to clear out the Southeast. The first tribe was the Muscogee Creeks, the Seminole, Chickasaw,
44:15Choctaw, and then his supposed allies in the Creek War, the Cherokee, that Sam Houston was married into.
44:23They would ride into one of the towns and say, we're moving you this week, pack your things,
44:28we're done. The worst of it was in the middle of winter, and everyone suffered. About three to five
44:35thousand Muscogee people died on the Trail of Tears, going to Eastern Oklahoma, which at that time
44:41was Indian Territory. That's what these depict. I've never seen one this big with this many figures in
44:47it. These are military officers on horseback that are part of the Removal Team. More people dead in the
44:54snow. This did not just set the standard for Native American politics in the 1830s. It set the tone for
45:05Native American politics with the United States government till today. It just changed their world
45:12permanently. And it was a very painful change. They're painted on matte board, and they're painted
45:20with temper paint and watercolors. He changed the approach to Native American painting in my thinking.
45:27He didn't do just outline color blocks, which was very popular at that time and before. You see more
45:34things in diagonal as opposed to profile. You see things like this man laying face down in the snow.
45:41Do you know what these paintings cost? We have the receipt for the one next to you for $65. On
45:48the back of
45:48this one on the tag from the Philbrook, it's $85. These never come on the market. He was such an
45:55agent of
45:55change in the short time he was alive. These paintings in a retail situation would sell each
46:04$20,000 to $25,000. So $40,000 to $50,000 for the pair. Wow. They're wonderful paintings,
46:13and they certainly depict a huge tragedy in American history. I don't know much about it. I bought it
46:22for five bucks at Goodwill. My sister and I like to go there a lot. My brother-in-law likes
46:27bright colored
46:27stuff. It's on my niece's bedroom. So we thought it was cool and took it home.
46:37I brought an original sculpture from the late artist Bob Cassily. He's world renowned, built the
46:44city museum here in St. Louis. This is a hippo prototype for cement land, which was a shuttered
46:51play scape up in North City. I brought a portfolio of prints by Ansel Adams. A good friend of mine
47:02knew that I was a backcountry hiker. My wife and I would go to national parks. I'd bring him pictures
47:07to show of the trips, and he said one day he had something to show me, and this was in
47:11his possession.
47:13And later in his life, he called me back to see it again, and he said he wanted me to
47:17have this.
47:18Wow. That's incredible. I mean, even today, pulling them out to look at them and seeing
47:23them here like this, these gave me goosebumps. It's awe-inspiring. Yeah. So this is portfolio
47:28number three, the third portfolio that Ansel Adams published. It was published in 1960 by the Sierra
47:35Club, and the images inside were made starting in either circa 1926, which is how this image is dated in
47:43the portfolio colophon. Sometimes it's dated 1927, very early, all the way up to 1959. But they were
47:51printed in 1960 for the set, for the portfolio, and they're each signed by Ansel Adams. They really
47:58represent the qualities that people love about Ansel Adams. He's one of the most collected, one of the
48:04most well-known photographers still in the world. That precise focus, the clarity of vision, the contrast,
48:13the detail. And of course, as we've already discussed, the emotion that is conveyed through
48:19the images is really powerful. This picture is called Monolith Face of Half Dome. It's one of his
48:24most famous pictures. He had a sense of being able to see the finished print in his mind and then
48:32use
48:32what he knew about the camera to create the right conditions in order to be able to make that print.
48:38So the dark sky, the sky, of course, was not dark when he made this image. He used a red
48:44filter in his
48:45camera to create the visual effect. His legacy is also as a teacher of these skills. The photograph
48:52closer to you is called Winter Storm. And that image is really what Ansel Adams is most well-known
48:59for, which is these sort of sublime landscapes that capture the big vision of the place. There's a sense
49:07of drama. There's a sense of beauty, majesty, the contrast between the light in the clouds, the snow in
49:17the landscape, and even captures the details of all the trees so perfectly. This really represents
49:24Adams at his most skilled. There were originally 16 photographs in this portfolio, and there are three
49:30that are no longer part of the set. Do you know what happened to those prints? I really don't. We
49:35think
49:36they were given away as gifts to other people. So as is, at auction, my estimate for the set would
49:42be
49:42$40,000 to $60,000. That's a lot of money. If it was complete, an estimate might be $50,000
49:52to $75,000.
49:53So the good news is that the prints that are missing from your set you own are not among the
50:00most
50:00desirable or the most valuable in the group. The two that I've pulled out here are the two most valuable
50:06and desirable because they're the most well-known. At auction, individually, this print would be
50:13estimated between $7,000 and $10,000. The winter storm would be estimated between $8,000 and $12,000.
50:22Wow. That's my favorite one.
50:24Good. You mentioned that you have taken your own photographs in Yosemite.
50:29Yes. How do you think they... Would you call yourself a photographer?
50:32No. I own a camera. Okay.
50:36And now it's time for the Roadshow Feedback Booth.
50:40The last time we were here at Grant's Farm was for his senior prom in 2010. And we're back here
50:46today.
50:47I found out this black print I have, which I purchased for $2, is worth $500. So today is a
50:55lot
50:55better than prom was. No offense, babe. The family lore said that my great uncle brought this doll back from
51:02Paris in the 1940s after the war. And what actually happened is she's from the 1960s from America.
51:09And she's not worth a lot. But we had a great time. We had this painting that we found inside
51:15the walls
51:15of my brother's house when we were finishing his basement. And it was really creepy. And found out that
51:22it's not worth anything because it's fake. And so we're probably going to burn it.
51:26This lovely Bristol glass vase was purchased by my father and given to me. My mom was with him
51:34when he bought it. And she thought he was crazy for the amount he paid. Turns out, mom was right.
51:41And I have my grandfather's watch. It was supposed to be gold, but it's made out of brass.
51:47I brought this statue from 1858. It's not going to keep me from going to work tomorrow, but it's worth
51:53about $200. This replica Civil War reconnaissance map barely made the cut of the things that came
52:00with me today to Antiques Roadshow. But I'm sure glad I brought it because it's real from 1862,
52:07and it's worth $1,000. Thanks AR. By the time this show airs, this will be sold and we'll be
52:13living in
52:14Bora Bora, baby. He's lying.
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