Heirloom Treasure Revealed! Antique & Vintage Appraisal Fair

We're getting ready for this weekend's Seattle appraisal fair with a look back at the last one we did when we were in Florida. One of the really interesting things to me about doing appraisal fairs, some of these things are in collections that have just not come out in years and some of them will go into collections and not be seen. Well I know if you're filming me. Yeah I am. You look great. This is a really beautiful piece from your grandmother. Yes. Yeah that's nice. Do you know if the clock works? I don't think it does. I've never tried it to be honest with you. Yeah I don't hear it ticking. I think the clock would need repair. Again European porcelain. Look at the beautiful painting and the eyes and the great detail. I would say possibly check because again I think this is being related to amphora and I would say that the date is going to be right about looking at the clock face with the beveling and everything. Since it doesn't give us other clues we have to look at those sorts of clues. I would say this is right around 1900 1910 once again. Okay. And she's just really lovely. These clocks can be hard to repair but it does wind. It doesn't sound like anything is broken so it might be worth your while. She might actually be worth a little more honestly if she was running maybe 175 195 110 somewhere with not in working order. Okay so tell me how you got this piece. I bought it at the auction house where I work. Oh where do you work? I work for Antique Marketplace at Bay Area Auctions. Oh yes. And I bought that and I'm a dealer but I don't know much about Asian at all. Right. They had said it was an Amari charger. Yes well it definitely is. It's definitely Amari Japan. It's all hand painted. It's not transferred which is nice. The first thing that I would like to do were you hanging this on a wall? No that's the way it came. Okay the first thing I would like to do is encourage you to take this off. Could we do that now? Sure. These things are the worst thing to hang anything on. I understand why people do this and this was done a long time ago. They actually fashioned their own and they were smart to at least pad it because the padding keeps it a little bit from chipping the edges but just the tension of these metal things are enough to sometimes damage it. So this is one of the things about old labels on the back of stuff sometimes. Sometimes they're accurate and sometimes they're not. I took it off. It is a really neat piece and it is earlier Amari where Amari typically we see this red and this blue but I do believe it's Meiji period which I believe starts in 1868 so it does have considerable age. Part of the way we can tell that is we look at the back and the way that it's finished and we see a lot of little spots in the back. They tried to be very careful about the front not having those but a lot of things were wood fired back then and wood embers would sometimes pop and get into the glaze and that's one way to tell a 19th century piece from a 20th century piece. Now indeed there is a little bit of a divot where they had that stand. It did do a little bit of damage but it is very very minor so I think it's good we took that off. This is such a big showy piece. Do you mind me asking what you paid for it at auction? $28. Well I'd say you did just fine. Strictly as a decorative object if it was 20th century I would think it might be $100 or $150 because it has good size. Because it's really an old piece I think your value is probably more in the maybe the $300 to $350 range now. So you got a very good deal for $28. Well it's a balanced scale. Places for all the weights and all the pieces are there and that's the important part is that all the weights be there because these little weights would get lost and gone. This is a fairly small one so this would have been likely for measuring medicines for example that sort of thing and each piece on it is going to have a mark that tells the weight and then you of course balance on one side and then you put your object in the other side and that's how you know if it's in balance you know your weight. Right let's take a look at that and see if we can we get a little bit of an idea from the way the turnings are made and I'm going to look at the marks on here. Okay it's in grams which is what I expected so we know it was not from the United States because this is metric. Then with brass we like to look at the way it's finished. A later 20th century piece will typically have file marks or some evidence of being a little bit rough. I believe this is earlier 20th century. There is a space where a mark could have been applied to the bottom. It does have wear. It's finished nicely. From the way the turnings are done my sense is that it is either English or that it was made in India for the English market. I would say that it's likely to be sometime maybe before the second world war but probably not before the turn of the 20th century. There was a period of time where there was a lot of interest like in the 1920s in scientific development and so people would have them just because it was an interesting thing to have in your den or your office. My sense for a value on this is probably in the oh I would say maybe 100 to 125 dollars would be a retail value on this piece. With your permission may I take it out because I'll tell you the reason I have to is and I'm going to use my cotton gloves for this. I know some appraisers use cotton gloves all the time even when they the Goodwill. I am not quite as fussy as that. I look at the object and figure what makes sense and especially when they're not being handled often but in this case I'll use the gloves because this is there's a lot of good information on this and it is okay here we go and it says that it is Hiroshige was the probably most famous early artist in ukiyo-e which is this style of Japanese art and this does indeed look like an early piece it's rather thin yes they are very fragile we're going to go ahead and take this out very carefully. When Japan opened to the west ukiyo-e had been a form of art that was late 18th early 19th century and when westerners first came they thought of it as being sort of cartoonish and and they didn't really take it very seriously but it was taken very seriously in Japan. What's happened recently is that because of anime and because of our exposure to that sort of drawing there is now a different idea about these pieces and it's actually very collectible and sought after now. If we could tell that it was absolutely from his hand and was period back then this could be worth thousands and thousands of dollars. My sense looking at it is that it is done in his style probably not done by him but probably done sometime in the late 19th century and I'm going to go ahead and very gently roll it back up. Oh I think it's this artist I just think this artist was so famous and popular in Japan that they continued to do his work after he passed. He died in 1858 but the work was so popular that it's still being produced today. Well I still think it's very good and I still think that since you're doing this as a fundraiser I would actually take it to an auction house here probably a late 19th century piece even at that it could still be worth potentially three to five hundred dollars. Yeah. And so I think that's the place to sell it and have them look and because they're going to have an expert on staff who may be even more knowledgeable about it and be able to tell you more. We came last year you were bringing more things. Yes I remember it was fun. This has been in my family since before I was born. This is neat you know I we see a lot of trays there's a lot of interest and use for them starting in the 20s really because that's when you start to have coffee tables and cocktail sets and all that kind of thing. Of course we're not supposed to say it was in the 20s because that was prohibition but that's we all know what was really happening. Yeah. But this one is 19 late 40s early 50s and it's interesting because it's the lifetime handmade picture tray and the reason they called it lifetime is that it's on and it's just printed but it's like a almost like a lacquer finish with the idea that you could wash it off and it wouldn't mess it up unless you did it over and over. It says the illustration under the glass and it's funny they refer to it as glass because it really isn't glass it's a glass like finish. Yeah yeah it's a glass like finish. A perfect reproduction of an original oil by W.J. Willarding and he was a pretty famous wildlife artist and actually was contemporary at the time about 1950. Yeah. And it's just really cool we don't see many of these because people would damage them they'd leave the stuff on them too long it would eventually you know alcohol would mess up the finish if you spilled it on it so they were lifetime but not a lifetime guarantee. I think it's really cool I usually would sell something like this probably in the 40 dollar range. I've got a few hundred records here from Disney. Oh this is the turntable. Right and last time I plugged it in the turntable still turned but it's the belt is loose I mean it doesn't I put a record on and it doesn't fall. The belts can be replaced and if you were to want to play this or if you were to sell it or something you would probably want to do that. Yeah. This is great because this is the they did a lot of Mickey Mouse record players in the 1960s and they're all plastic this is the very very very first one when the Mickey Mouse Club was brand new on television which I think was 1955. I was like three years old the mom got it for me. The belt notwithstanding it's in pretty remarkably good condition it seems like it's still got its needle the plug is good the fact that it turns you know again belts can be replaced the other stuff is the hard stuff it's in wonderful condition and we don't see this model much at all we see the plastic ones and the plastic ones actually are selling for 75 and 85 dollars. Now this one if you and this is the right place to sell it if I had this it's the antique show at Mount Dora for example where we get a lot of Disney collectors I might price this as high as 150 dollars. Yeah. Because they're just that hard to find especially because it was cardboard they were made for kids they get wet you kept it in really good shape it's not really particularly scuffed up or torn. I used it every day when I was little till I was 10 12 something like that. And then you have the rest of the collection certain ones Rocket to the Moon is a really particularly hard one to find yeah now a lot of these sell for two and three dollars a piece or four and five but you're absolutely right because you have so many of the early ones and you have some good titles in here some of them can go really high. This is a good one Blue Tail Fly. Yeah. Because you have a black memorabilia interest with that one and I think this one might be a 50 record potentially. Most people look at these old kids records and just figure oh they're really not worth very much because a lot of them aren't but that's true of vinyl in general. Oh yeah. Most records are worth two or three dollars except for the ones that are worth two and three hundred. When you start getting into western scenes so you've got Wild Bill Hickok this one's going to be worth more. And then Roy Rogers. You've got Roy Rogers in here that's a good one. It's a pretty fun and interesting collection. You would have to go through piece by piece. This is a little different thing this is Vogue Picture Disc. Tom Saffaty in Detroit came up with this idea right after the war. You sandwich the thing in and then the picture is a lot of the attraction. Around thirty five dollars is a pretty typical selling price for these now. It's a great collection. I mean conservatively without going through and evaluating everyone it looks like you probably have maybe two to three hundred records. A couple thousand dollars for the collection. Yeah I think by the time you added it all at fifteen hundred to two thousand just off the top of my head with what I've seen as a sample would be a possibility and they're just great. Hi there. Hi how are you? Good how are you? I'm still kicking. Good. Oh isn't this nice? I got it from my mother and she was a collector. Well this is a very nice piece that she had. This is an interesting shade because you notice it's almost like a black. This is mulberry ware and this is going to be it's like a purpley black and this is transfer ware and this is from Staffordshire England and this is a pretty early Staffordshire piece. Yes the pattern is Korean on the back it says and it's interesting the spelling C-O-R-E-A-N and the company is F-W-N-P. It is one of the Staffordshire companies that was active in the mid 1800s and went out of business before the turn of the 20th century. So this piece is somewhere in the 1840s to 1860s era in terms of age. Older than all of us are. Yes yes this is a true antique and then some and these pieces it's got a lot of crackling but that actually is not unusual and the overall condition is very good because it doesn't have any chips or cracks but back then they were still learning how to make this stuff and so the the vitrified top glaze that they would put the clear glaze over the transfer pattern would actually sometimes cool down at a different rate and over time you get the crackling between the two. It does not affect the value it's just something that was part of the process back then. It almost flows a little bit like flow blue because the heat from the overglaze would sometimes melt the decal a little and that's why design is not more clear but that's actually probably why it ended up in the United States because in England they would have considered this a factory second and so what they did is they sent all of it to the U.S. and American collectors really like that about it because that's what we're used to because that's what we got and the English have no use for it. They never liked it because they didn't consider it to be perfect. Younger collectors are starting to like Victorian wear again and so we're just starting to see more interest in this. I believe the value on this piece right now is probably in the $125 range. There was a time it might have sold for as much as $175 to $195. I wouldn't be surprised should we all live long enough if it doesn't get back to those levels because there are people interested in this and the important thing is that the condition is good. Oh I like this too and was this from her collection or your collection? Oh from her collection. It's in great shape and it's a really good color. As enamelware goes this is a pretty early piece and this was you know it's metal with an enamel coating and that was so that it wouldn't rust out and so that they could make it. They were fairly inexpensive at the time but this one is it's got a few nice features. The spout here has the sieve in it so that you don't get particles in. The top has a nice little crimping around the top and it's a tin lid. You can tell that it is old because the inside has lots of silver sort of looking till still because it didn't get as much air and the outside is oxidized with age and I like the handle attachment too because it's got this little place for your thumb and part of the reason for this is a lot of times they would put them over a fire or a stove for example to heat them and when you took it off the stove it would be very hot and you could burn your hand but this would actually give it a little bit of insulation so that you wouldn't burn your thumb when you were pouring and you also notice the handle is finished differently and that's because it's a little thicker so that it doesn't transmit the heat as much so so they were very thoughtful about the way they made these and what's remarkable about this one we always think of these as being very heavy this one's actually fairly light the early ones were it's got a little bit of design the color is the cobalt this is a desirable color that's hard to find and the condition is just really really immaculate so date on this is somewhere around 1890. I would expect in the right place this might sell for again 135 to 150. Come on up good how are you doing? I'm great thank you. How did you get this and have you ever been told anything about it? It was my mother's. Interestingly enough my mother had yeah from the decoration and the way it's made it is handmade and it's uh i would expect that this was actually from southeast asia she just kind of hung it around so that if anybody she woke up and somebody was attacking she could i don't know my mom would point at ours every time we were bad and say you know i know how to use that thing she didn't really it's an interesting looking piece it's a cool looking piece and it has some value but this piece was actually intended to be decorative right from the start this was not something that somebody actually would have used in battle and there's a few reasons we can say that first of all when you look at this edge it's not sharp at all so and it doesn't feel as if it ever was sharpened to the point where it would have been able to actually cut something there was a period of time and it seems to have been first starting maybe in the early 1900s and then again in the 1950s my mother's was 1950s i think yours is older they look very old because they're all handmade but the parts of the world where they were doing these sorts of things things were handmade really up until the middle of the 20th century if you look at the handle it doesn't have any wear at all the end is not worn there's nothing that indicates that this was ever held or used in any way because if you were using this even if you were just using it as a machete which they do carry machetes in a lot of cultures because that's something they take to work you would expect that there would be a little bit of wear where this was held and used and swung and it wouldn't be a uniform perfect color on everything so it's a neat looking piece but i believe that it is a decorative piece from the early 1900s probably sold to tourists and so for that reason it has value because it's a neat looking thing i still think it might be worth a hundred dollars to the right person now the other piece you have is interesting to me and we're going to be careful because i know the cover is loose so this is the holy bible the pronouncing parallel bible these were very popular it's got the old and new versions in parallel columns so what they're saying is here's one version of the bible and then next to it we're printing a more modern version of the bible partly because it makes it easier to read but also because for scholars of the bible it tells you how things you know we talk for example there's the king james version of the bible well why do they call it that because king james had the bible rewritten into english and when he had the bible rewritten into english he added a few things because he wanted to have a little bit of social control because king james was coming into the monarchy shortly after there had been the cromwell revolution where they overthrew the monarchy for a period of time so that's part of the reason for the parallel bible is so that you can study the differences and interpret what the original intent of the bible was you could have it rebound there was a time that i would have told you well it's neat it's a nice old bible it's not worth doing that that time was 25 years ago now there's a lot of interest in these bibles and they do have value was this a family piece it was an aunt an aunt's okay i'm going to be very delicate with it there's wonderful engravings and great illustrations throughout so this was a very very fancy one and if you notice again because it's the parallel version history of the books of the holy bible so they're not just talking it's not just the bible they're actually talking about well zachariah was the 11th in the order of the 12 minor prophets and of his personal history we know very little and then they go to great lengths to talk about the people who wrote the bible so it was really very scholarly these are pretty typically from the 19th century then in the middle you have color plates so this was meant for somebody who is a serious bible scholar the value of this in this condition is probably around a hundred and a quarter if you have it professionally restored which may take some money but i think if you're interested in keeping it as a family piece it would be worthwhile it could be as worth as much as 200 to 250 because there really is a lot of interest in these now super investment in it right it just was found in a house and you know that happens so often i'm amazed how many people say oh i just was there and here they had these things let's start with this because this is the audubon folio and what's nice about this is that it actually has reproductions of all the audubon pieces this would have been done probably around the 1950s but they're very faithful like here is our wonderful flamingo i just love this guy yes and of course we're in florida so we've got to sell the show the pelican as well i just love this stuff it looks like they have all 30 of the pieces they did make a lot of these because it was very popular in the early 60s the way it's done yes audubon in the atomic age so definitely of the 60s because it's not the original prints it's not going to have the high value of the originals where they might be worth 100 or 200 a piece but they're in beautiful condition and they'd be frameable and so there's this issue of is it worth more dead than alive i would like to see it stay together because and i'm glad you do too i agree but some people would take them and frame them and sell them individually and if you think of it in that context conservatively 150 would be the value on that lionel barrymore of course was very famous for other reasons and he got really interested in doing artwork and etchings and engravings when he was older and they started to print them and then they turned them as they're so you have a few of the you have a few engravings in here and then these are turned into these to use on your table they're really fun they were fairly common interestingly enough vincent price of all people was hired to be the spokesman for sears where they sold these things and there's a lot of them out there they're just fun i mean they sell for about 15 dollars for something like that so have something that looks like it's from the gibson girl era here this is a charles gibson out of a magazine at the time it might not be worth your while to frame but for somebody to buy these and frame these these are out of colliers and various things and they're really neat and they show the fashions of the era and people just like that this one is neat because they're playing cards with the parents and the dad looks very disapproving and the quarters are very distracted fun collection and you know it's just great i love seeing people rescue things if this was sitting in a house that it was in a trash bag wow that's awesome how did you get this piece that was my father's oh how nice and oh yes he uh he had lots of um paintings he did himself as well as collected antiques oh and i know it's damaged there's a little it does have one little tear uh but it's really very soulful and uh did he ever tell you anything about how he got it he just um okay and you did notice there's the that the artist's signature is on the back rather than the front i did notice that but yes i wasn't sure if that was the um the place um like a museum or i i never saw a stamp like that uh yes well let's take a look at it with the loop really quickly it's henderson yeah it is yes i could not read that yeah it's it's henderson it's dated 1856 i cannot say that i know this artist as a listed artist portrait artists would often go to an area and they were itinerant they would go to a certain town they would go to the wealthy people in the town they would go to the merchant class they would go to the government class and they would say i'm in town and i'm painting portraits and some of them were very very very talented and some are listed and known and have value for their name they would be there for a certain period of time they would paint everybody in town who had the money to have a painting done and then they would move on to the next town so it could take days for each person or absolutely the person would probably have to sit every day for a number of days have their portrait painted and because this is 1856 this is right before photography ambrotypes and daguerreotypes and things are just starting to develop but they're smaller format and not everybody had access to them and they're not large like this and so portraiture was still a big deal the next thing we do is we look at the way she's dressed to see if there are any clues as to what her position in life was and i would say that she was probably married to someone of some note in the town if they're holding a book they're generally an educator of some sort or at least it indicates that they had education and were literate lace work on the edges indicates that she had some money because lace was an expensive thing to have done for you at the time when i look at the eyes the eyes seem to be painted well it's very painterly uh it's also very dark and if you don't mind i'm going to step into the sunlight for just a moment with it when i take it into the sunlight one thing that is hard to see in this shadow is that she's sitting on a red divan it's a maroon color that goes around here and you can't really see it it's coming to life now more interesting the more you look at portraits a lot of homes were heated with coal and coal would darken things um just age and oxidation will sometimes darken things if it turned out to be valuable enough which i'm not sure it will but you could have a conservator take it and they would lighten it up a little it has a lot of crackle lure yes just because of age and just the way the paint takes also because homes didn't have climate control there's been some restoration to the inner frame and then it was put in another frame at another time okay so this part is the original frame and then it was set in another frame at a later time i imagine you're keeping it because it sounds like it's a family thing not necessarily okay it's not a family member or someone that's personal to you yes i would say that in the current market if you're just going to sell it and we don't know anything more and the artist is not important um which is probably likely 300 to 400 dollar ranges the retail price oh yes mikimoto pearls very nice and they're matched rather than graduated how did you get this set this was my mother's and she cherished oh yes in the caribbean i believe when she went on a cruise we're talking many many years ago we're gonna take a look at the earrings and see if they are related or not i doubt it too they're nice but i don't think they're the same i know it might seem strange i'm putting it to my cheek but variations in temperature are a way everybody wants to rub pearls on their teeth your hands get callous so it's hard to tell that way put this up to your cheek and feel that and then do the same with the earring and tell me which one feels cold to you the pearls are colder as you hold them there your skin temperature will tell you and the reason for that is that these are real earrings are probably worth somewhere in the 25 to 30 dollar range now the pearls on the other hand they are not as valuable as they used to be but mikimoto is the name you want the mikimoto pearls they were very good in the 1950s when pearls became really popular marketing themselves and talking about the quality of the pearl and they actually were a little better than the other pearls that came from japan the parasite will kill the oyster unless it forms the pearl around it and so the longer they let it go the larger the pearl gets but also the denser the layers and a lot of the pearl companies particularly in japan that were copying mikimoto would be in a big hurry because they just wanted it to look right and so you'd get them home and pretty soon they would peel and the layers would come off mikimoto was better quality because they took more time because of the name and that they have the original box these days i would say the value is probably in the 150 dollar range for insurance the market is not great right now retail on this is probably about half of that the clasp has a pearl in it too and women's hair was shorter than you can date pearls oftentimes by whether the clasp has decoration in the back or if it's just plain in the 1970s when hair was long they didn't bother decorating the back because you didn't see it my friend darlene oh well hello darlene and thank you and thanks for bringing this what a wonderful piece this is so how did you get this it was my mother's and i think she it's very sweet we have the lute player in his garb material looks bronzish but it's actually spelter which is a way to make things look like bronze that are made out of a lighter or an alloy metal generally a combination of tin possibly lead other metals like that but the reason for that was because it was easy to mold and they could do a stamping in it a metal stamping and get these very elaborate bases the base looks sort of asian doesn't it and the reason for that is because it was very popular in the 1920s to take asian vases and put them on bases like this and turn them into lamps they would drill the bottom they actually ruined a lot of period vases back then not knowing better then when figural lamps like this became very popular in the 1920s and 30s a lot of times they would keep that same sort of asian looking motif on the bottom even though it doesn't really match the rest of the lamp this is going to date to sometime around 1930 and you can tell that also by the art deco style of the amber shade all of this is original to this piece there has been great interest in art deco lamps for probably the last 30 years in collecting and they're starting to be more interested in art deco design in general now there's a new generation because in the 1980s art deco became popular to collect a lot of 1980s designs had an art deco feel and now we have 30 and 40 year olds who were children then who remember those designs and then they're finding out that it harkens back to the 1920s and 30s so now they're interested in this too so the timing to have a piece like this is very good i would say the value of this in a retail store like this one would probably be in the 350 dollar range today so it's a very nice substantial piece and i think it's quite handsome and she got a nice thing and i'm glad it stayed with you it's not going to tell you on the internet when you try to look for it oh no of course not no this is something real because this is carter hall trophy race this is from ames motor speedway okay which is now talladega right which was alabama international speedway at the time this is the winner circle flag for the uh rebel corvette which sold on barrett jackson for 2.86 million dollars i got it from the family so i know it's authentic as you can see oh i don't have to tell you no it's clearly authentic there's no this was the first the first uh race that they allowed for corvette to actually run in oh really and um they took first place values on these are should be really high and the thing is is the the person who bought the car is probably the person who should have this exactly the person i got it from was a uh a nephew of the mechanic that built the car this came out of the the mechanic's house directly from the family which i have pictures with you know to back all this stuff oh yeah stuff with me and i mean this is jackson didn't want to give me the information of who bought the car and that so i i wanted this flag to be with the own with the car correct and i believe it should be i believe it should be too and the hall of fame has begged me for it but i just uh well i give it up to him like that you're right it is a little hard to put a value on because it's not you know it is unique um there is one this is it uh i have no doubt about the authenticity of it not just because of what you're saying but also you can look at the way it's made uh you can look at the way that it's it's got age in the right places it's clearly not a reproduction in any way the only way to really value something like this when there's only one of them is to try to find something that is as comparable to a story like that in the racing world you actually knew more than i thought you well i i know what i know and i know what i don't know and of course what i don't know is exactly where we would find a good cop for this but conservatively because of the story fair market value i would think we might be looking at lo-fi figures like 10 000 12 000 so if anyone is out there who happens to know the classic car market on a high and please reach out with a comment and we will try to link this back to the place that it should go i see why you didn't want to bring this up oh this is the pewter you told me about yes okay my husband was a commissioner and they periodically wore it for a couple years and i think they granted to him oh very nice okay let's see well there looks like a bunch of different pieces i noticed this one has the wilton mark on the bottom oh wow very extensive collection yes and this one says wilton columbia that's 1971 date on there this one has hallmarks around the top that are usa as well yeah and look at this one you see commission lunar maker serial key water 1977 1980 oh that's nice okay this one is a shaker yeah you have a lot that's the wilton armatale and that makes sense because of the era this was done so pewter originally really first started in england and these were some of the first things that people had when they stopped using wood for dishes pewter was one of the first things that was made instead because it lasted longer and you didn't have to carve a piece of wood to be able to have your food and so in the 1780s and 90s it was very widespread use and then around 1910 when there was interest in the colonial era people started making and collecting pewter again and so a lot of those old pieces went into collections and then in the 70s there started to be interest in pewter a third time and that's when most of your pieces are from i don't see anything that looks like it's really really old it all looks it's probably about 50 years old i think there's just starting to be interest in it again and there's your maker mark on there i think that your basic pieces you're probably looking at around 10 or 15 dollars per piece and i would say you might have probably in the 200 to 300 dollar range for the collection i i wish i could tell you it was worth more but it's not the really old stuff that some of the stuff from the 1700s might be worth that much per item unfortunately and i'll show you how you can tell so that you don't have this happen again it looks old it's got the art deco they definitely did some art deco that looked like that it's a little not super crisp but here's the thing actually that's the telltale is these screws that are holding it together and they didn't make that kind i mean it sort of looks like a phillips but that screw pattern they they weren't doing that back when a bench like this would have been made so what it is is a cool probably 1980s revival piece and then somebody just sat it outside and had it on their porch so it looks really old and really decayed like it would be the era that you would think would be as old as what it looks like but it's just because they didn't take good care of it you are like the antique god oh well that's awfully nice you know it's funny we know what we know and then a guy just brought something that's one of a kind that we have no idea how to evaluate so you know we just we all learn together it's great fun i just love it you know i love this community i've been doing this since 1989 off and on me too he's cute he's i love him yeah and uh my grandmother had him for years but to be honest i don't know anything about him okay well let's take a look i think on the bottom he's got glass eyes it's a good ceramic it's and i don't think i can tell you exactly who made it but it's good quality it appears to be a porcelain and i would say from the way that the number is done leaning towards czechoslovakian or middle of europe that's what my sister said really i think it's czech i think so too and i was like what makes you think that and she said because of the finish the finish something about the finish the finish the quality it's it it almost has the look of amphora where amphora was very popular around 1900 i mean i think this piece is a little later but it is a nice quality porcelain often these colors are typical of their wear and the designs tend to be very crisp and very detailed like this so i feel like it might be related to one of these fact one of those factories the fact that has the dot after the number is something i've noticed that is typical of central european countries and that may be as much as i can tell you though but it's got glass eyes and it's just really nice i think it's 20th century rather than 19th it surprises me in a way that it doesn't have a mark i don't think it's royal ducks but it definitely feels like that quality and i do feel i do feel it's that part of the world owls are popular now this is good quality i mean a hundred dollars retail it's a maluca lamp and they were made in italy and i think the design came out in around gosh the price that you said oh there we go yeah you brought it up again i'm just curious to see well that has to be an opening auction price or something because okay very good because yeah that would there's that's that's an we would buy them by the gross at that price if we could find them 9 50 that seems to be about where they're going i think these days and they're just fantastic it's such a great design and the fact that you can really focus the light where you want i mean it was really it's it's something that was made where the form really does follow the function that's exactly where i am it's it's just really neat the way that it folds down to nothing yeah this is a sonneman lamp and of course he was way ahead of his time too i'm used to seeing his chrome lamps more than anything i'm going to go ahead and carefully hold this at the bottom so we can see yep it's got the robert sonneman for george kovacs this one is one of my favorites and this one actually is i found it i've called the what's called the feather it's called the yeah yeah the feather tack lamp yep kind of favorite it's been on my desk and this one with the led bulb i put in is it because you could put led in these well and also this came out in the 80s a little bit after this one and so there was a little more experience with oh we need more light but we like this look and the funny thing about these is that once in a while especially here in florida you will sometimes see these for a song at estate sales because they just think it's something somebody got at ikea they just think it's they don't realize if they don't pick up the bottom and see the tag and they haven't actually seen these before they don't realize how good these really are i think the first one we looked at is a little more valuable on the market currently but i i'm seeing 650 and 750 on these when i'm seeing them and i think that's a selling price that's fair i'm not looking to make a fortune on it the biggest thing is they get passed on to someone who appreciates them exactly and who understands that just because this has plastic switch buttons and is from the 80s that it doesn't mean that it isn't something because these really are something and there's something very very good and the people who are in the know know that now this morning you had a price on this i had 89 and you had 89 and i looked at it and thought right now in the market the way it is again i think your price is just right and the reason is that this is green depression glass and they are hot hot hot for green depression glass because it glows under a black light and this is an unusual piece because it was a kitchen piece it's it's not exactly a store display it would be something you would have taken home but this was a rather large size for that and so uh and this is 1930s and i like that it's diamond tea of brooklyn new york and you've got the original label and the labels are usually missing so it makes it more appealing in a whole lot of ways and so it's just the right piece at the right time and honestly again i think your price is exactly right if i had it i would price it between 85 and 95 okay thank you so much i just wanted to be sure well let's start with the ring how did you get this piece that wasn't mine your mother's okay did she ever talk about it no no i don't know all right well we'll take a look first of all to see if there's any hallmarks and there is it appears to be a yellow topaz and it says that it is it's marked 14 karat i don't have a gold tester to test that but you know it is i am looking at the stone i would say this piece is probably about 45 or 50 years old looking at the setting it's prong set it does have a little bit of wear to the stone topaz will wear with use especially with the big emerald cut where there's a flat surface so that seems consistent and because it's 14 karat a lot of the value is in the setting a retail price might be in the 325 350 range and an insurance value might be closer to 500 dollars on a piece like that my great uncle gave this to me from world war two when he fought it was yep and it's in pretty good shape and that the paper inside so he was a medic during the war and this is the first aid box that is really neat yeah and it's in great shape it's not rusted a lot of these sold at army surplus and people just used them until they were gone and then threw them away and yes it's got all the information here they were made by this company out of massachusetts you see in here and they originally would have had all these things tourniquets and safety pins and all that every so often people will find one with all this stuff in it so at some point the army redesignated it so that tells us this is towards the end of the war like 1944 45 these have some value i usually see prices around 50 on these without this stuff in them yeah more if it has it but it's a great story this is really fun and interesting to me i really like this these were framed up in probably the 1970s when they were finding things and it was 200 years old then so that's impressive how did you get it a friend of mine had it it's father oh it was from a friend of yours okay yes uh well they're watch cocks to protect the innards of the watch and they're they're brass and they would have to make all of this by hand so they're all different of course watches from this era can be thousands of dollars now so even parts from them are of some value and i would say you could probably tell your friend maybe 100 to 125 dollars for this piece would be my estimate well this is interesting and this is a rosenthal piece that is neat i mean i think of rosenthal as china but they make all sorts of things now and they have a modernist studio line that's very popular i really like it uh there it's a good quality company do you mind me asking was this part of an auction lot or did you do you what you paid for it i think it was a garage sale actually wow yeah i think it's a good piece and because of who made it and the fact that they have the original sculptor's name on it i would and it's a horse and people like horses i would probably put a hundred and a quarter or 135 somewhere in there well we sure had a lot of fun and we got to see a lot of really fun things interesting things and some one-of-a-kind stuff that we will never see again so i hope you enjoy getting to see this cool stuff like i did and 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