of the value here is in the ring. it's the first championship that the browns won after they came into the nfl, and they won it in an extremely dramatic fashion. so an insurance value on it, it would be at least $45,000. wow, okay. exactly. so you have a total value of around $60,000. okay, wonderful. woman: i purchased this at a flea market that my sister and i were selling at, and my sister was selling it for $20. okay. and i purchased it there in brooklyn. and how long ago? um, maybe two years. it's a chinese duan stone screen, and it dates from the late 19th century, so late qing dynasty. it's a volcanic rock, or a volcanic slate. now, duan is typically identified from its purple-to-green hue. one of the charming features of this plaque

is the fact that the green natural hue has been carved in a cameo design. so it highlights the mountain peak, shown at the top, the pine and tree blossoms, the highly reliefed, carved pine tree issuing from the rock work at the base. so what they've done is incorporate the natural features of the stone, or slate, to show a cameo effect. it's been mounted with iron painting hooks. however, it was never meant to be hung on a wall. it would have been on a reticulated bracket base, and stood 24 inches tall or so. the reason this is quite an unusual example is the fact that it's a large piece of carved slate. most duan examples are small inkstones. the carving's very, very highly worked, so it's a good quarter-inch off the base of the stone. ten years ago, this would have been worth

between $800 and $1,000 at auction. all right. however, china's just become the second largest economy after america. the chinese are investing huge sums of money in decorative art, chinese works of art. it's difficult to find large pieces of duan stone carved in this cameo effect. for those reasons, in today's economy, at auction, this would be worth between $7,000 and $10,000. wow! well, i acquired this set of pens from my grandfather, who worked for president johnson as a white house aide for congressional relations, and he was an integral part for getting a lot of these acts passed, and he was given these pens by president johnson. to me, the coolest one is right here, and this is the one that says "public broadcasting act of 19..."

sixty-seven. sixty-seven. and if that pen was not used by president johnson, you and i may not be chatting here today. very true. because that's what really got public broadcasting on its feet and going. there's other really important bills that were signed here too throughout the whole thing. as far as an insurance value, anything that's handled or used in any kind of act by a president has substantial value. to replace one pen like this, you would easily, easily have to pay somebody $500 for a pen, maybe more for a pen. you have 60 of them. so if i was going to insure this, and make sure that you're protected, god forbid something should happen, i would put around a $30,000 insurance value on this as a collection. couldn't have been more fitting. couldn't have been more fitting. thank you. these were a gift from my dad, who worked at the smithsonian institute in washington, d.c., and these were given to him as a retirement gift, and i'm not sure who gave them to him. he gave them to me about 15 or so years ago.

and when did he get them originally? he got them in the early '70s. okay. currier & ives were the biggest publisher of prints in basically the second half of the 19th century, and they did hand-colored lithographs. a lithograph would print the black and white image and then they were hand-colored on top of that. now, they are the most famous and popular. especially these would be; the size is called small folio, and they've been copied over and over and over again, and so the real question is, how do you know? now, do you have any idea how you can tell? someone once told me that it has to be a certain exact measurement. okay, well, that is actually one of the ways you tell, because many reproductions are the wrong size. you can also look at them through magnification, and if you see little dots-- a lot of the reproductions have little dots of color-- that's a reproduction. mm-hmm. i'm happy to tell you these are originals. good. (laughs) now, there were almost 8,000 different prints by currier & ives. a lot of them they kept issuing over and over and over again,

and they were very popular. most of their market was in the east coast. these were done in the 1870s, and you see a couple of them have the date. right down here you can see the date, 1871. but they were done in that period because that was when the great western migration was there. and of course, currier & ives were merchants who were selling any kind of print they could, so if they thought there was a market for it, they made prints. everybody's moving out west, california gold rush, they wanted to sell prints. so, they're actually... the western prints are scarcer. they didn't issue as many. they also happen to be more desirable, because people nowadays are really interested in the american west and the period of exploration, more so than the common sort of genre prints or little kitten prints. now, if you've looked online, you see a lot of the small-folio currier & ives sell for, in a retail environment, between maybe $100, $300. these are better than that. the least valuable is probably the western farmers home, up here in this corner. it's a great scene, but it's not really specific

to any one place. it's about the immigration out there. in this condition, in a retail environment, i would expect to see that one for maybe around $500. now, the hunting in the northern woods is a hunting scene, which is very popular, great color on it, a little indistinct in where it is, so it's a good print, but maybe not quite as valuable as some of the others. about $1,200 is what i expect a shop to have it in that kind of condition. now, when you get to these two, they're specific locations. there are a number of yosemites. this is probably the best of them, because it has the pioneer cabin, which is really a great currier & ives scene. so that one, in this condition again, in a retail environment, probably would be about $1,500. now, this print is even better. first of all, it's a gold rush, which is a great american subject. there were a couple times people voted on what they thought the best 50 small-folio currier & ives. this, both times, was in the top 50. i think it was number 11 once and 12 the other time. really, wow. so it's one of the most desirable of the small folio.

so in this condition, this would sell for about $2,500. wow, that's great. (laughs) woman: this violin belonged to my aunt, my father's sister. she was a roman catholic nun for 20 years when she was very young and she played the violin in the convent. family legend says that she was very good, but at some point her superiors told her that she could no longer play and that she needed to teach, so she shut the violin case at that time and put it under the bed, where it stayed for almost 50 or 60 years, i would guess, until she passed away. i tried at one point to get her to play at my wedding, but she would not, and i'd never even seen it until after she passed away. did she actually play in a convent orchestra? she played in a convent orchestra, and i hear that she played in carnegie hall, but i don't know all the details on that end of things, but i hear that she was very good. one would have to be very good to play at carnegie hall.

that's what i hear. what area was she from originally? michigan. michigan, okay. it was made by anders halvarson of meyers-halvarson. halvarson actually is... in the history of american violin makers, he's not that well known. halvarson came from sweden in 1923 and worked at one of the major chicago violin shops, which was william lewis & son, and there he worked under carl becker sr. and jr. carl becker sr. is pretty much acknowledged to be one of the greatest american makers of the 20th century, so he had excellent instruction under becker and his son. he bought first-quality wood and made instruments in the basement of this house, and he was extremely industrious. he had a very beautiful, even, orange varnish that he applied by hand, and although there are a couple of scratches in the top,

they can easily be retouched. turning the violin, we can see a beautiful flamed maple back, and this is first-quality wood that halvarson probably bought in germany during the late '30s or maybe even the early '50s. it's hard to tell, but it's a one-piece back, and it has extremely deep flames, and it's a very lightweight maple that comes from the balkan peninsula, and that's the first-quality maple for violin making. he also had a very beautiful method of carving the scrolls by hand, and these are done with a series of chisels that correspond to the different curves of the scroll, so he used a different-sized chisel to cut each of the turns of the scroll. now, if we look inside of the violin, we can see the label that says "meyers-halvarson," and it's a very understated label. and he worked in this area of nashville, michigan,

i think because the area was very well supported by the auto industry, so there was a lot of money that supported classical music. so, he turned out to be one of the major american makers of the 20th century. because of the violin's quality and because of the relative rarity of these instruments, i would place the value of this violin between $4,000 and $6,000. wow, wow. i like a lot of different quilts and, um, coverlets and things like that. i happened to see this at a thrift store here in washington, d.c., about two years ago, and the colors and the texture of the wool caught my attention, so i actually purchased it. did you pay a lot for it? no, i paid, i'm thinking, $12, but i don't remember, but it was less than $15. yeah, and do you know what it is? well, i know it's a native american blanket,

someone said maybe a chief's blanket, but i really don't know any more specific details than that. well, it's called a third phase chief's blanket, and the reason it's a third phase are these stepped triangles in the corners and at the halfway point and in the center. if it was a first phase, which we've had on the show before, it would just be the stripes. oh, okay. and it wouldn't have all the red. if it was a second phase, it would have the stripes with kind of box designs, without the triangles. it was probably done in western new mexico or eastern arizona. it's navajo. this blanket was probably woven in the 1870s. uh-huh. the blue here is indigo from the plant. right. the white is the natural color of the yarn. the brown is the same. now, the interesting yarn is this red, and all of us at the table feel like that this is probably made from cochineal.

now, cochi beetles... you know what a prickly pear cactus is? yes. well, in the southwest, it looks like a growth on it that's sort of a fuzzy white look, and you pull that off the cactus and squeeze it, and there's a little beetle in there, and it looks like that when it's smashed. it turns this deep reddish-purple color. oh... now, we can't be sure that that's what it is, but we strongly think it is. it would take some tests to determine that. this green may be another plant called rabbitbrush. oh. that grows in the southwest. now, this is in pretty rough shape. originally, it didn't have all this fringe down the edge. it was smooth, and it had a cord whipping it off, and somebody's tied these little things on with yarn and done that on both sides. it also has a little bit of damage here, and i'm going to turn it over because you can see it better.

it's been cut and sewn-- pretty big cut, pretty smooth cut-- but nevertheless it's a cut. now, value at auction in this condition, probably between $6,000 and $8,000. so, more than your $15. right. (laughs) now, fixing it. right. it's worth cleaning up, having the selvage put back on the edge, having the cut fixed, would cost some money, with the tests on the dye, probably $4,000. mm-hmm. but, the other side of that money spent is that your weaving would then be worth between $16,000 and $18,000. mm-hmm-- wow, great. man: i acquired it at an estate sale here in washington, d.c. it was the midweek, and i was going to the barber shop

to get my hair cut, and i passed and i saw a sign in front of the house that said "estate sale." i said, "well, who in the world would have an estate sale in the middle of the week?" so i drove on to the barber shop, and, uh, so when i came back, the sign was still there and i almost passed it again, but something told me to go in and take a look. so i turned the car around and went back, and that's where i found this painting. and you're a collector in general, is that right? yes, i collect african-american art. this is somewhat of a departure with what you collect, so why did you happen to acquire this painting? well, after i did my research on... just on this lady, her teacher was thomas eakins. and i said, "well, this is the closest i'll probably ever come to owning a henry o. tanner painting," because eakins was henry o. tanner's teacher. tanner was one of the most important african-american artists in the early 20th century. yes.

jessie willcox smith is sometimes called the mary cassatt of illustration, because she loved painting children, as did mary cassatt, and she was also from philadelphia, where cassatt was from. she was born in 1863 and died in 1935. and before she studied at the academy, she went to the design school for women, and then she did study with eakins, and then eventually she meets an illustrator named howard pyle, and howard pyle is one of the premier illustrators in america, and he was working in the brandywine area, where the wyeths were. pyle had started a school at the drexel institute, and there were mostly women students, because as you can imagine, at that time, women were somewhat limited in what they were painting, usually portraits or still lifes and illustration, and even in her class was the famous artist maxfield parrish, so she certainly was in great company. she was mostly known for being a book illustrator. she illustrated well-known books, like little women, heidi, little mother goose.

she was also a very well-known illustrator for magazines. she also did advertisements for ivory and procter & gamble and kodak and things like that. now, this painting that you've brought today shows a little girl, and in terms of her work, the most desirable paintings are actually paintings of little girls, rather than little boys, so we have the right subject matter here, certainly. it's actually in pretty much its original condition. it's an oil on board. it has yellowed, as you can see here. that's the varnish discoloring, so that can be cleaned. the biggest issue seems to be the sort of tear or the breakage here, and one would have to get a conservator to see how that would repair. if it were a canvas, it would be much easier to repair than a board, but it certainly can be tended to. now, how much did you pay for it? the sellers had separated the frame from the painting, and they charged $90 for the painting and $10 for the frame.

(laughs) so i paid them a total of $100. wow. that is the original frame, which is great. this artist and illustration work like this is very, very popular in today's market, and the prices do span quite a gap. in its present condition, it might be worth $75,000. in order to maximize the price, you would have to have it restored, and the cost of restoration for something like this shouldn't be more than maybe $1,000 to $1,500, but for a painting like this, if it were for sale in a new york gallery, if it were in good condition, repaired, might be asking as much as $100,000. well, in the gullah country in south carolina, there's a dance that we call, we call the rain dance. i feel like doing the rain dance here,

but i just don't have any music. so thank you very, very much. oh, you're welcome. i should teach you the rain dance also. you should, you should! thank you so much! you're welcome. thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. you're watching antiques roadshow from washington, d.c., and don't forget, you can watch roadshow anytime online at pbs.org. /in a minute, more stories from roadshow, right after this. it's not about the things we have, but the memories we make with them. liberty mutual insurance. proud sponsor of "antiques roadshow." versatility and safety drive all our vehicle designs. because however big, small, new, or old your cargo may be, it's all precious. subaru. a proud sponsor of antiques roadshow.

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(laughs) thank you, antiques roadshow. we found out that our radio was worth $100! thank you! i brought in these cufflinks at the very last minute, and they were worth $1,000, so i wanted to say, thank you so much, grandpa, wherever you are. i love them, and i will wear them proudly. these are almost like half the price they used to have in the 1960s, but i just... i just love snow and naked ladies. i brought these two items that were my grandparents' from germany. i thought this was worth a lot. it turns out not to be worth anything at all. and i thought... i didn't know what this was, and it's a silver spice container, and it's worth $800. so i had a great time. and then my lamp, which i found is bamboo, everybody loved it walking through the show. i got 100 comments or more. everyone was impressed except the appraiser. the paintings go back in the garage... the puppets go to the grandchildren...

and we're going to play with these maracas! we keep the maracas. and i brought in my carved rock pendant that i got at a flea market in hawaii for $40, but it's worth $1,000. thank you! i'm mark walberg. thanks for watching. we'll see you next time on antiques roadshow. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org my father-in-law was an air force pilot in world war ii. this was his plane. he stayed around after the war in europe, during the reconstruction, and he was driving by a scrapyard, and he stopped the jeep and said, "that's my plane!" and when he saw that, he said, "i'm not going to let this be junked." most of these were scrapped, and to have the entire section from a b-17, like the most loved plane from the second world war, is pretty rare. and you even have a photo with your father-in-law

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