1 00:00:01,535 --> 00:00:03,737 HOST: COMING UP ON CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES ... 2 00:00:03,871 --> 00:00:06,006 GUEST: ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE WERE STAYING WITH 3 00:00:06,139 --> 00:00:08,475 TOLD US ABOUT THIS OLD SHIPWRECK, 4 00:00:08,609 --> 00:00:10,777 COINS WERE WASHING UP ON THE BEACH. 5 00:00:10,911 --> 00:00:14,314 APPRAISER: CATS AND TIFFANY DON'T ALWAYS MIX. 6 00:00:14,448 --> 00:00:16,817 APPRAISER: ROBERT E LEE, A LOT OF PEOPLE WANTED HIS AUTOGRAPH, 7 00:00:16,950 --> 00:00:19,920 BOTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. 8 00:00:20,053 --> 00:00:22,189 APPRAISER: VERY, VERY RARE PIECE. 9 00:00:22,322 --> 00:00:23,724 THIS WAS BASICALLY WHAT STARTED LIONEL 10 00:00:23,857 --> 00:00:25,459 INTO THE TRAIN MANUFACTURING BUSINESS. 11 00:00:25,592 --> 00:00:26,727 GUEST: REALLY? 12 00:00:27,194 --> 00:00:30,964 [ TROLLEY BELL RINGS ] 13 00:00:31,098 --> 00:00:36,270 [ HORSE HOOVES CLOPPING ] 14 00:00:36,403 --> 00:00:37,571 [ TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS ] 15 00:00:39,239 --> 00:00:40,173 [ STEAM RISES ] 16 00:00:56,490 --> 00:00:58,859 ANNOUNCER: CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY 17 00:00:58,992 --> 00:01:01,194 THE MPT NEW INITIATIVES FUND 18 00:01:01,328 --> 00:01:04,898 FOUNDED BY IRENE AND EDWARD H. KAPLAN. 19 00:01:07,334 --> 00:01:09,403 MAJOR FUNDING IS ALSO PROVIDED BY AARP. 20 00:01:10,704 --> 00:01:13,574 JEFF GORDON: FOR SOME, THIS LINE IS A CONVENIENCE. 21 00:01:13,707 --> 00:01:17,444 BUT FOR OTHERS, IT'S ALL THEY CAN AFFORD. 22 00:01:17,578 --> 00:01:18,178 CLERK: ANYTHING ELSE? 23 00:01:18,312 --> 00:01:18,946 WOMAN: NO. 24 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:20,547 JOIN THE DRIVE TO END HUNGER 25 00:01:20,681 --> 00:01:23,717 BY VISITING DRIVETOENDHUNGER.ORG. 26 00:01:24,618 --> 00:01:27,454 ANNOUNCER: AND BY CENTER FOR VEIN RESTORATION. 27 00:01:27,588 --> 00:01:30,257 OVER 30 MILLION AMERICANS 28 00:01:30,390 --> 00:01:33,060 SUFFER FROM PAINFUL, UNSIGHTLY VARICOSE VEINS. 29 00:01:33,193 --> 00:01:36,229 WE USE MODERN OUTPATIENT METHODS TO HELP BRING RELIEF. 30 00:01:36,363 --> 00:01:39,032 LOOK BETTER. FEEL BETTER. LIVE BETTER. 31 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,637 HI, I'M RHEA FEIKIN, AND THIS IS OUR FIRST EVER 32 00:01:43,770 --> 00:01:46,907 ON THE ROAD EDITION OF CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES 33 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,175 AND WE'RE IN EASTON, MARYLAND. 34 00:01:48,308 --> 00:01:51,445 IN FACT, WE'RE AT THE HISTORIC AVALON THEATRE. 35 00:01:51,578 --> 00:01:52,846 YOU KNOW SOMETHING? 36 00:01:52,980 --> 00:01:56,683 YOU CANNOT GET MORE CHESAPEAKE THAN BEING IN EASTON, MARYLAND. 37 00:01:56,817 --> 00:01:59,386 IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1710, 38 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:01,788 SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT THERE ARE SOME 39 00:02:01,922 --> 00:02:04,625 REALLY WONDERFUL RELICS IN THE ATTICS HERE, 40 00:02:04,758 --> 00:02:08,128 AND WE'RE GONNA TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THEM RIGHT NOW! 41 00:02:09,696 --> 00:02:10,697 APPRAISER: I WANT TO THANK YOU 42 00:02:10,831 --> 00:02:12,366 FOR COMING OUT TO CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES . 43 00:02:12,499 --> 00:02:14,534 AND WE HAVE REALLY WHAT I THINK 44 00:02:14,668 --> 00:02:18,572 IS ONE OF THE ICONIC IMAGES OF 20TH CENTURY DESIGN, 45 00:02:18,705 --> 00:02:21,808 CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU BROUGHT OUT TODAY? 46 00:02:21,942 --> 00:02:24,311 GUEST: I BROUGHT OUT MY GRANDMOTHER'S 47 00:02:24,444 --> 00:02:25,979 TIFFANY THREE LILY LIGHT. 48 00:02:26,113 --> 00:02:27,848 APPRAISER: YOU HAVE INDEED. 49 00:02:27,981 --> 00:02:31,051 TIFFANY AND COMPANY, ONE OF THE GREAT DESIGNERS AND PRODUCERS 50 00:02:31,184 --> 00:02:35,022 OF NOT MERELY LIGHTING, BUT A LOT OF DECORATIVE ARTS. 51 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:36,423 AND THIS WAS A FAMILY PIECE? 52 00:02:36,556 --> 00:02:38,325 GUEST: YES, THIS WAS IN MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, 53 00:02:38,458 --> 00:02:40,060 IT WAS HER DESK LAMP. 54 00:02:40,193 --> 00:02:41,895 APPRAISER: AND SO SHE USED IT ON A REGULAR BASIS? 55 00:02:42,029 --> 00:02:43,697 GUEST: SHE USED IT ON A REGULAR BASIS. 56 00:02:43,830 --> 00:02:46,199 APPRAISER: DO YOU GET TO USE IT ON A REGULAR BASIS IN YOUR HOME? 57 00:02:46,333 --> 00:02:49,670 GUEST: NO, I HAVE CATS RIGHT NOW. 58 00:02:49,803 --> 00:02:50,771 BUT I HAVE AT OTHER TIMES. 59 00:02:50,904 --> 00:02:53,974 APPRAISER: CATS AND TIFFANY DON'T ALWAYS MIX. 60 00:02:54,107 --> 00:02:57,511 BUT YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, AND IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT, 61 00:02:57,644 --> 00:02:59,312 AND I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES. 62 00:02:59,446 --> 00:03:02,683 THIS HAS A VERY HIGH GOLDEN FINISH TO IT 63 00:03:02,816 --> 00:03:05,152 CALLED "GOLD DORE." 64 00:03:05,285 --> 00:03:09,256 AND FREQUENTLY YOU WOULD SEE THIS USED IN TIFFANY'S DESK SETS 65 00:03:09,389 --> 00:03:11,224 AND OTHER DECORATIVE ARTS OBJECTS. 66 00:03:11,358 --> 00:03:14,094 BUT THEY DID DO IT ON A HANDFUL OF LAMPS. 67 00:03:14,227 --> 00:03:17,464 AND WE ALSO HAVE WITH IT THE SHADES 68 00:03:17,597 --> 00:03:20,300 THAT WERE ORIGINAL TO LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY, 69 00:03:20,434 --> 00:03:23,270 WE HAVE A GLASS DESIGN CALLED "FAVRILE." 70 00:03:23,403 --> 00:03:26,807 THE SHADES ALONE, WHEN THEY COME UP AT AUCTION, 71 00:03:26,940 --> 00:03:30,010 CAN SELL ANYWHERE FROM $1,500 TO $2,000. 72 00:03:30,143 --> 00:03:31,578 ALONG WITH THE LAMP ITSELF, 73 00:03:31,712 --> 00:03:33,980 I WOULD VIEW THIS COMING UP AT AUCTION 74 00:03:34,114 --> 00:03:37,884 SOMEWHERE $12K TO $15,000. 75 00:03:38,018 --> 00:03:39,453 GUEST: MERCY! 76 00:03:39,586 --> 00:03:41,788 [ LAUGHTER ] 77 00:03:41,922 --> 00:03:44,057 MY STARS! THAT'S A WHOLE LOT! 78 00:03:44,191 --> 00:03:45,092 APPRAISER: AND THEN, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY IN A SHOP, 79 00:03:45,225 --> 00:03:47,294 IT WOULD BE OFFERED AT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 80 00:03:47,427 --> 00:03:50,263 PROBABLY $20K AND $28,000 IN A SHOP. 81 00:03:50,397 --> 00:03:52,032 AND IF YOU WERE INSURING IT, 82 00:03:52,165 --> 00:03:54,901 I THINK THAT'S THE KIND OF NUMBER THAT YOU NEED TO LOOK AT. 83 00:03:55,035 --> 00:03:55,969 GUEST: $20K TO $28,000. 84 00:03:56,103 --> 00:03:56,770 APPRAISER: RIGHT. 85 00:03:56,903 --> 00:03:59,072 THEY ARE DIFFICULT TO REPLACE. 86 00:03:59,206 --> 00:04:01,174 GUEST: I WILL HAVE TO BE EVEN MORE CAREFUL WITH IT. 87 00:04:01,308 --> 00:04:03,210 APPRAISER: DON'T LET THE CATS NEAR IT! 88 00:04:03,343 --> 00:04:04,978 GUEST: I WON'T! 89 00:04:05,112 --> 00:04:05,946 THANK YOU. 90 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:07,214 APPRAISER: THANK YOU. 91 00:04:08,148 --> 00:04:09,649 APPRAISER: WHAT ALL DO YOU HAVE HERE? 92 00:04:09,783 --> 00:04:12,586 GUEST: WELL, I HAVE A MENU WITH A THANK YOU NOTE 93 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:14,321 FROM AMELIA EARHART. 94 00:04:14,454 --> 00:04:16,757 I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH OF HER, 95 00:04:16,890 --> 00:04:18,825 AND I HAVE A PICTURE OF HER AND HER HUSBAND 96 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:22,596 ON A PARIS VERANDA OR BALCONY. 97 00:04:22,729 --> 00:04:25,065 APPRAISER: EVERYBODY'S FAMILIAR WITH AMELIA EARHART, 98 00:04:25,198 --> 00:04:27,701 A PIONEER AVIATRIX. 99 00:04:27,834 --> 00:04:33,540 SHE DISAPPEARED ON HER WORLD FLIGHT ON JULY 2, 1937. 100 00:04:33,673 --> 00:04:34,841 GUEST: YES. 101 00:04:34,975 --> 00:04:36,777 APPRAISER: DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY WERE HAVING THIS DINNER? 102 00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:38,979 GUEST: MY GREAT UNCLE WAS THE PRESIDENT 103 00:04:39,112 --> 00:04:42,849 OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASSOCIATION OF THE USA, 104 00:04:42,983 --> 00:04:45,118 THE PARIS CHAPTER, 105 00:04:45,252 --> 00:04:49,089 AND THEY INVITED HER TO A BANQUET LESS THAN TWO WEEKS 106 00:04:49,222 --> 00:04:52,025 AFTER HER HISTORIC FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. 107 00:04:52,159 --> 00:04:54,961 APPRAISER: THIS IS A PRETTY ELABORATELY PRODUCED MENU, 108 00:04:55,095 --> 00:04:58,565 SO I SUSPECT THAT THEY THOUGHT HER FLIGHT WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL. 109 00:04:58,698 --> 00:04:59,766 ON THE FLIPSIDE, 110 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:02,836 SHE HAD SIGNED IN PENCIL FOR YOUR RELATIVE. 111 00:05:02,969 --> 00:05:05,472 AND THEN YOU HAVE ATTACHED HERE THIS INTERESTING NOTE 112 00:05:05,605 --> 00:05:08,275 WHERE HE HAD SENT HER FLOWERS 113 00:05:08,408 --> 00:05:10,811 AND SHE WAS THANKING HIM FOR THE FLOWERS. 114 00:05:10,944 --> 00:05:13,180 THE PHOTOGRAPH, VERY NICE PHOTOGRAPH. 115 00:05:13,313 --> 00:05:14,781 PARTICULARLY AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPHS 116 00:05:14,915 --> 00:05:17,317 THAT HAVE NOT BEEN ENDORSED TO ANYBODY, 117 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:20,620 SOMETIMES THEY'RE ACTUALLY EVEN MORE DESIRABLE FOR COLLECTORS. 118 00:05:20,754 --> 00:05:23,456 AND THE PHOTOGRAPH OF HER WITH HER HUSBAND, 119 00:05:23,590 --> 00:05:26,493 I THINK IS PROBABLY A FAIRLY SCARCE PHOTOGRAPH, 120 00:05:26,626 --> 00:05:29,162 AND PARTICULARLY THE FACT THAT SHE HAS AUTOGRAPHED IT, 121 00:05:29,296 --> 00:05:31,765 ALONG WITH GEORGE PUTNAM. 122 00:05:31,898 --> 00:05:37,604 WELL, AMELIA EARHART CONTINUES TO CAPTURE 123 00:05:37,737 --> 00:05:39,739 THE FASCINATION OF MANY AMERICANS. 124 00:05:39,873 --> 00:05:41,208 THE PHOTOGRAPHS THEMSELVES 125 00:05:41,341 --> 00:05:44,878 PROBABLY WOULD BE $2,500 TO $3,500 APIECE. 126 00:05:45,011 --> 00:05:47,214 THE MENU ITSELF, THE WAY SHE SIGNED IT, 127 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:51,084 WOULD PROBABLY BE ABOUT $1,500 TO $2,500. 128 00:05:51,218 --> 00:05:54,888 THE NOTE PROBABLY WOULD BE ABOUT $1,500 TO $2,500. 129 00:05:55,021 --> 00:05:56,923 REALLY, AS A COLLECTION -- 130 00:05:57,057 --> 00:05:59,226 THE POWER IS IN THE COLLECTION 131 00:05:59,359 --> 00:06:01,828 COMMEMORATING THE VERY IMPORTANT EVENT. 132 00:06:01,962 --> 00:06:04,331 THERE WILL NEVER, EVER BE ANOTHER WOMAN 133 00:06:04,464 --> 00:06:08,034 WHO WILL HAVE THAT FIRST TO FLY SOLO THE ATLANTIC. 134 00:06:08,168 --> 00:06:09,970 I WOULD SAY THAT THIS COLLECTION ITSELF 135 00:06:10,103 --> 00:06:15,041 WOULD BE WORTH IN A RANGE OF $8K TO $10,000, OR MORE. 136 00:06:15,175 --> 00:06:17,744 IT WAS VERY EXCITING FOR YOU TO BRING THIS IN. 137 00:06:17,878 --> 00:06:18,678 GUEST: MY PLEASURE. 138 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,182 APPRAISER: YOU BROUGHT IN A LIONEL TRAIN, 139 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:23,383 A REAL EARLY LIONEL TRAIN. 140 00:06:23,516 --> 00:06:26,019 CAN YOU TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT IT. HOW YOU GOT IT? 141 00:06:26,152 --> 00:06:28,688 GUEST: WELL, I INHERITED IT FROM MY GRANDFATHER. 142 00:06:28,822 --> 00:06:30,523 APPRAISER: LET ME GIVE YOU THE HISTORY ABOUT LIONEL. 143 00:06:30,657 --> 00:06:33,159 LIONEL COHEN STARTED A COMPANY IN 1900 144 00:06:33,293 --> 00:06:35,929 CALLED LIONEL MANUFACTURING, AFTER HIS MIDDLE NAME, 145 00:06:36,062 --> 00:06:38,498 HIS FULL NAME WAS JOSHUA LIONEL COHEN. 146 00:06:38,632 --> 00:06:41,468 HE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO MANUFACTURE IN 1900, 147 00:06:41,601 --> 00:06:44,938 SO HE STARTED MAKING FANS, A LITTLE MOTOR TO MAKE FANS, 148 00:06:45,071 --> 00:06:47,607 BECAUSE ELECTRICITY HAD JUST STARTED COMING OUT, 149 00:06:47,741 --> 00:06:49,776 AND THE FANS DIDN'T DO TOO WELL. 150 00:06:49,910 --> 00:06:52,212 HE WALKING DOWN THE STREET ONE DAY, 151 00:06:52,345 --> 00:06:55,448 HE WENT IN FRONT OF A TOY STORE AND SAW THIS LITTLE PULL TRAIN. 152 00:06:55,582 --> 00:06:57,984 AND HE SAID, MAYBE I COULD MAKE A MOTOR 153 00:06:58,118 --> 00:07:00,587 AND I COULD PUT IT INTO SOMETHING, 154 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,589 AND PUT IT ON SOME TRACK, 155 00:07:02,722 --> 00:07:05,959 AND HAVE PEOPLE PUT THINGS IN IT TO DISPLAY THEM BETTER. 156 00:07:06,092 --> 00:07:07,394 IT WOULD RUN AROUND ON A TRACK, 157 00:07:07,527 --> 00:07:11,498 AND I'D PUT FLOWERS, OR JEWELRY, OR SOMETHING, IN THE BOX 158 00:07:11,631 --> 00:07:13,433 AND LET IT TRAVEL AROUND IN THE WINDOW... 159 00:07:13,566 --> 00:07:14,334 GUEST: WOW! 160 00:07:14,467 --> 00:07:15,702 APPRAISER: ...TO ATTRACT ATTENTION. 161 00:07:15,835 --> 00:07:18,171 SO HE WENT BACK TO HIS FACTORY AND THEY CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA, 162 00:07:18,305 --> 00:07:20,240 AND HE SOLD IT TO THIS ROBERT INGERSOLL, 163 00:07:20,373 --> 00:07:23,677 WHO OWNED THIS LITTLE DEPARTMENT STORE, FOR $4. 164 00:07:24,444 --> 00:07:25,779 GUEST: WOW! 165 00:07:25,912 --> 00:07:28,014 APPRAISER: WELL, THE PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT WHAT WAS IN IT, 166 00:07:28,148 --> 00:07:29,482 THEY WANTED THE DISPLAY. 167 00:07:29,616 --> 00:07:31,618 SO A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER, 168 00:07:31,751 --> 00:07:33,386 ROBERT INGERSOLL CAME BACK TO LIONEL AND SAID, 169 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,021 "I NEED SIX MORE OF THOSE." 170 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:36,556 THIS IS BASICALLY WHAT STARTED LIONEL 171 00:07:36,690 --> 00:07:38,825 INTO THE TRAIN MANUFACTURING BUSINESS. 172 00:07:38,959 --> 00:07:42,295 SO YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING VERSION OF A TRANSITION PIECE 173 00:07:42,429 --> 00:07:45,198 BETWEEN 1901 AND 1902. 174 00:07:45,332 --> 00:07:48,902 THE LENGTH IS 1901. 175 00:07:49,035 --> 00:07:52,639 THE BRASS REINFORCEMENTS AND THE STAIRS ARE 1902. 176 00:07:52,772 --> 00:07:54,941 GUEST: INTERESTING. 177 00:07:55,075 --> 00:07:57,544 APPRAISER: VERY, VERY, VERY RARE PIECE. 178 00:07:57,677 --> 00:07:58,878 WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S WORTH? 179 00:07:59,012 --> 00:08:00,313 GUEST: I HAVE NO IDEA. 180 00:08:00,447 --> 00:08:01,715 APPRAISER: YOU HAVE NO IDEA? 181 00:08:01,848 --> 00:08:04,918 THIS PIECE WOULD PROBABLY GO BETWEEN $25,000 AND $30,000. 182 00:08:05,051 --> 00:08:07,220 GUEST: WOW! 183 00:08:07,354 --> 00:08:09,589 THAT'S A LOT! 184 00:08:09,723 --> 00:08:11,925 APPRAISER: IT IS LIKE THE HOLY GRAIL OF LIONEL COLLECTING. 185 00:08:12,058 --> 00:08:14,694 PEOPLE LIKE TO FIND THESE, AND THEY ARE VERY HARD TO FIND. 186 00:08:14,828 --> 00:08:16,730 THANK YOU FOR COMING TO CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES. 187 00:08:16,863 --> 00:08:18,131 GUEST: THANK YOU. 188 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:19,833 APPRAISER: I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE PRESIDENT 189 00:08:19,966 --> 00:08:21,735 OF THE LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY? 190 00:08:21,868 --> 00:08:24,070 GUEST: YES, THE QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 191 00:08:24,204 --> 00:08:27,007 THE SOCIETY OWNS THIS. WE ARE VERY PROUD OF IT. 192 00:08:27,140 --> 00:08:30,877 THIS SAMPLER WAS MADE BY MARY HOPPER. 193 00:08:31,011 --> 00:08:33,580 HER PARENTS OWNED CHESTERFIELD PLANTATION. 194 00:08:33,713 --> 00:08:35,582 HER FATHER WAS COLONEL WILLIAM HOPPER. 195 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:38,618 HER SISTER INHERITED THAT PLANTATION, 196 00:08:38,752 --> 00:08:42,389 AND IN 1792 SHE SOLD A PART OF IT 197 00:08:42,522 --> 00:08:44,824 FOR THE COUNTY SEAT TO BE LAID OUT. 198 00:08:44,958 --> 00:08:47,127 AND IS NOW THE TOWN OF CENTERVILLE. 199 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:48,862 APPRAISER: VERY DEEP MARYLAND HISTORY. 200 00:08:48,995 --> 00:08:49,963 GUEST: YES. 201 00:08:50,096 --> 00:08:52,065 APPRAISER: NOW, IT'S DATED 1772 202 00:08:52,198 --> 00:08:54,100 AND YOU MENTIONED THAT SHE WAS AN ADULT WHEN SHE... 203 00:08:54,234 --> 00:08:57,470 GUEST: YES, SHE WAS 38-YEARS-OLD WHEN SHE DID IT, 204 00:08:57,604 --> 00:09:00,240 AND SHE DID IT TO TEACH HER DAUGHTERS HOW TO EMBROIDER. 205 00:09:00,373 --> 00:09:04,477 APPRAISER: MOST SAMPLERS ARE MADE BY GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN. 206 00:09:04,611 --> 00:09:06,112 GUEST: THAT'S CORRECT. 207 00:09:06,246 --> 00:09:08,748 APPRAISER: AND WE CAN SORT OF TELL THAT IT'S MADE 208 00:09:08,882 --> 00:09:11,451 BY A MORE MATURE PERSON BECAUSE IT'S MORE CONSISTENT. 209 00:09:11,584 --> 00:09:12,619 IT'S SYMMETRICAL. 210 00:09:12,752 --> 00:09:13,820 IT'S QUITE BEAUTIFUL. 211 00:09:13,953 --> 00:09:15,155 GUEST: IT'S ALMOST PERFECT. 212 00:09:15,288 --> 00:09:16,289 APPRAISER: IT'S ALMOST PERFECT. 213 00:09:16,423 --> 00:09:20,226 IT HAS A FLORAL BORDER, AND IT HAS THE ALPHABET, 214 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:21,561 AND IT'S DATED. 215 00:09:21,694 --> 00:09:24,264 THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A PROVENANCE OF MARYLAND, 216 00:09:24,397 --> 00:09:29,269 DEEPLY, STRONGLY MARYLAND, WITH COLONELS AND LANDOWNERS, 217 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:32,939 THAT IN ITSELF MAKES THIS WORTH MORE THAN A NORMAL SAMPLER. 218 00:09:33,073 --> 00:09:34,974 IN PROBABLY A RETAIL SETTING, 219 00:09:35,108 --> 00:09:37,977 AT A HIGH-END MUNICIPAL SHOW LIKE PHILADELPHIA, 220 00:09:38,111 --> 00:09:39,546 I WOULD EXPECT IT TO BE PRICED 221 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,116 IN PROBABLY THE $2K TO $3,000 RANGE. 222 00:09:43,249 --> 00:09:44,751 GUEST: OH MY GOSH! 223 00:09:44,884 --> 00:09:46,086 OH MY GOSH! 224 00:09:46,219 --> 00:09:47,087 APPRAISER: THAT'S QUITE NICE. 225 00:09:47,220 --> 00:09:48,121 GUEST: WOW! THAT'S WONDERFUL! 226 00:09:48,254 --> 00:09:50,190 APPRAISER: THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT IN. 227 00:09:50,323 --> 00:09:51,357 GUEST: YOU'RE VERY WELCOME. 228 00:09:51,491 --> 00:09:52,559 I'M DELIGHTED. 229 00:09:52,692 --> 00:09:53,860 APPRAISER: YOU'RE WELCOME. 230 00:09:53,993 --> 00:09:55,728 APPRAISER: WELCOME TO CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES EASTON. 231 00:09:55,862 --> 00:09:57,964 WHAT DID YOU BRING IN FOR US HERE TODAY? 232 00:09:58,098 --> 00:10:01,201 GUEST: THIS IS A SIGNATURE FROM ROBERT E LEE, 233 00:10:01,334 --> 00:10:03,403 AND THEN A LETTER ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES 234 00:10:03,536 --> 00:10:05,238 UNDER WHICH IT WAS COLLECTED. 235 00:10:05,371 --> 00:10:06,773 APPRAISER: EVERYBODY KNOWS ROBERT E. LEE, 236 00:10:06,906 --> 00:10:07,874 VERY FAMOUS AMERICAN, 237 00:10:08,007 --> 00:10:10,143 BELOVED BY THE TROOPS THAT SERVED UNDER HIM 238 00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:11,845 DURING THE CIVIL WAR 239 00:10:11,978 --> 00:10:13,580 AS COMMANDER OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, 240 00:10:13,713 --> 00:10:16,916 AND A MAN VERY RESPECTED BY HIS ADVERSARIES. 241 00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:19,953 AUTOGRAPH COLLECTING, BEING AS HOT AS IT IS TODAY, 242 00:10:20,086 --> 00:10:22,222 HAS ACTUALLY BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME. 243 00:10:22,355 --> 00:10:23,223 ROBERT E. LEE, 244 00:10:23,356 --> 00:10:25,225 A LOT OF PEOPLE WANTED HIS AUTOGRAPH, 245 00:10:25,358 --> 00:10:27,961 BOTH DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. 246 00:10:28,094 --> 00:10:31,831 AMONGST HIS AUTOGRAPHS THAT ARE USUALLY THE MOST DESIRABLE 247 00:10:31,965 --> 00:10:33,933 ARE THE ONES WHERE HE SIGNED A PHOTOGRAPH. 248 00:10:34,067 --> 00:10:36,836 SLIPS OF PAPER LIKE THIS, VERY INTERESTING AS WELL. 249 00:10:36,970 --> 00:10:39,706 DATED IT APRIL 10, 1866, 250 00:10:39,839 --> 00:10:41,407 ACTUALLY A DAY AND A YEAR LATER 251 00:10:41,541 --> 00:10:44,277 AFTER THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX THERE AT LEXINGTON. 252 00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:48,348 WHAT PARTICULARLY KNOCKED ME OUT ABOUT THIS WAS IN THE LETTER, 253 00:10:48,481 --> 00:10:50,650 IT'S A VERY EXTENSIVE LETTER FOR YOUR FAMILY. 254 00:10:50,783 --> 00:10:53,086 THE WRITER MENTIONS THAT HE HAD MET HERE 255 00:10:53,219 --> 00:10:56,956 WITH THIS DISTINGUISHED REBEL, HE UNDERLINED REBEL, 256 00:10:57,090 --> 00:10:58,758 GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, 257 00:10:58,892 --> 00:11:00,727 AND GOT HIM TO SIGN THIS PIECE OF PAPER. 258 00:11:00,860 --> 00:11:03,897 AND THEN HE EMPHASIZES THAT HE KNEW IT WAS GENUINE 259 00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:06,499 BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN IN LEE'S HOUSE WHEN HE SIGNED IT, 260 00:11:06,633 --> 00:11:09,269 ALONG WITH LEE'S WIFE AND LEE'S DAUGHTER. 261 00:11:09,402 --> 00:11:12,305 AND TO ADD THAT KIND OF PROVENANCE WITH THE ITEM 262 00:11:12,438 --> 00:11:14,107 IS VERY UNUSUAL. 263 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:15,975 HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN A VALUE PLACED ON IT? 264 00:11:16,109 --> 00:11:17,177 GUEST: NO. 265 00:11:17,310 --> 00:11:18,978 APPRAISER: WELL, I WOULD SAY, AT AUCTION, 266 00:11:19,112 --> 00:11:21,381 WITH THE PROVENANCE ADDING TO THIS, 267 00:11:21,514 --> 00:11:25,285 THAT THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE A $1,500 TO $2,500 ITEM, 268 00:11:25,418 --> 00:11:26,986 OR POSSIBLY A LITTLE BIT MORE. 269 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,521 YOU JUST DON'T SEE THEM LIKE THIS, 270 00:11:28,655 --> 00:11:30,023 WITH THIS KIND OF PROVENANCE. 271 00:11:30,156 --> 00:11:31,524 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING IT IN FOR US TODAY. 272 00:11:31,658 --> 00:11:33,193 GUEST: WELL, THANK YOU. 273 00:11:33,793 --> 00:11:35,128 APPRAISER: THANK YOU SO MUCH 274 00:11:35,261 --> 00:11:37,330 FOR COMING FROM ROCK HALL, MARYLAND TODAY 275 00:11:37,463 --> 00:11:39,566 WITH THIS TREASURE OF A PAINTING. 276 00:11:39,699 --> 00:11:41,601 HOW DID YOU GET THIS PAINTING? 277 00:11:41,734 --> 00:11:42,936 WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT IT? 278 00:11:43,069 --> 00:11:47,640 GUEST: WELL, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, SHE HAD A SHOP, 279 00:11:47,774 --> 00:11:50,743 AND SOME PEOPLE BROUGHT IT INTO HER SHOP. 280 00:11:50,877 --> 00:11:53,346 AND THEN MY HUSBAND, HE LIKED THE PAINTING, 281 00:11:53,479 --> 00:11:56,349 AND WE PAID $25 FOR THE PAINTING. 282 00:11:56,482 --> 00:11:59,319 APPRAISER: OKAY. AND HE BOUGHT THE PAINTING THEN? 283 00:11:59,452 --> 00:12:03,089 WELL, THREE MISCHIEVOUS BOYS PLAYING COWBOYS AND INDIANS 284 00:12:03,223 --> 00:12:06,226 WI PROBABLY TWO OF THE CUTEST DOGS I'VE SEEN. 285 00:12:06,359 --> 00:12:08,027 SORT OF A GREAT EXAMPLE 286 00:12:08,161 --> 00:12:10,964 OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION. 287 00:12:11,097 --> 00:12:15,235 AND THIS DATES SOMEWHERE BETWEEN MID-1920s, 1930s. 288 00:12:15,368 --> 00:12:18,805 THE ARTIST SIGNED HIS NAME EUGENE IVERD, 289 00:12:18,938 --> 00:12:21,441 HIS REAL NAME IS GEORGE ERICKSON. 290 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:23,309 HE TAUGHT FOR A WHILE, 291 00:12:23,443 --> 00:12:25,712 AND TO SUPPLEMENT HIS TEACHING SALARY, 292 00:12:25,845 --> 00:12:28,014 HE BEGAN DOING ILLUSTRATIONS 293 00:12:28,147 --> 00:12:29,716 AND HE WANTED TO SUBMIT AN ILLUSTRATION 294 00:12:29,849 --> 00:12:32,118 TO THE SATURDAY EVENING POST , 295 00:12:32,252 --> 00:12:34,887 BUT HAD HEARD IF THEY REJECT YOU ONCE, 296 00:12:35,021 --> 00:12:37,156 THEY WON'T OPEN THE MAIL AGAIN. 297 00:12:37,290 --> 00:12:40,260 SO HE TOOK HIS BROTHER'S MIDDLE NAME, IVERD, 298 00:12:40,393 --> 00:12:42,362 AND THE BOY ACROSS THE STREET, EUGENE, 299 00:12:42,495 --> 00:12:44,998 AND PUT THEM TOGETHER AND SUBMITTED HIS FIRST ENTRY 300 00:12:45,131 --> 00:12:47,333 TO THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AS EUGENE IVERD, 301 00:12:47,467 --> 00:12:49,202 AND HE WAS ACCEPTED. 302 00:12:49,335 --> 00:12:53,573 AND HE WENT ON TO DO 29 DIFFERENT COVERS 303 00:12:53,706 --> 00:12:55,508 FOR THE SATURDAY EVENING POST , 304 00:12:55,642 --> 00:12:58,444 BUT HE ALSO DID A LOT OF ADVERTISING ILLUSTRATIONS. 305 00:12:58,578 --> 00:13:02,148 HE WAS WELL REGARDED BY THE SATURDAY EVENING POST . 306 00:13:02,282 --> 00:13:05,485 HE RECEIVED THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR HIS ILLUSTRATIONS 307 00:13:05,618 --> 00:13:07,854 AS DID NORMAN ROCKWELL AT THE TIME. 308 00:13:07,987 --> 00:13:11,024 I WOULD RECOMMEND IN THE FUTURE 309 00:13:11,157 --> 00:13:13,526 THAT YOUR FAMILY TAKE THE PAINTINGS OUT OF THE ROOMS 310 00:13:13,660 --> 00:13:18,097 BEFORE YOU ROLL THE PAINT BECAUSE WE HAVE OVERSPRAY HERE. 311 00:13:18,231 --> 00:13:20,900 THAT CAN BE TAKEN OFF BY A PROFESSIONAL. 312 00:13:21,034 --> 00:13:23,703 BUT THE VALUE OF THIS TYPE OF PIECE, 313 00:13:23,836 --> 00:13:26,806 EVEN IN THIS CONDITION BECAUSE IT COULD ALL BE CORRECTED, 314 00:13:26,939 --> 00:13:31,277 AUCTION VALUE MAY BE AROUND $10K TO $15,000. 315 00:13:31,411 --> 00:13:35,615 BUT I WOULD INSURE THIS PIECE FOR ABOUT $25,000. 316 00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:36,883 GUEST: VERY NICE. 317 00:13:37,016 --> 00:13:40,019 APPRAISER: THANK YOU YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING IN TO SHOW US. 318 00:13:41,688 --> 00:13:44,590 RHEA: EASTON IS FULL OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS, ANTIQUE SHOPS, 319 00:13:44,724 --> 00:13:46,359 AND GOURMET RESTAURANTS. 320 00:13:46,492 --> 00:13:48,795 BUT, THERE'S A LOT MORE TO DO AND SEE 321 00:13:48,928 --> 00:13:50,797 IN THE REST OF TALBOT COUNTY. 322 00:13:50,930 --> 00:13:52,165 HERE'S SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS. 323 00:13:54,367 --> 00:13:55,702 THE AVALON THEATRE, 324 00:13:55,835 --> 00:13:57,537 WHERE WE'RE FILMING THIS SPECIAL EDITION 325 00:13:57,670 --> 00:13:59,238 OF CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES , 326 00:13:59,372 --> 00:14:01,040 WAS BUILT IN 1921, 327 00:14:01,174 --> 00:14:03,776 AND THEN IT WAS RENOVATED IN THIS ART DECO STYLE. 328 00:14:03,910 --> 00:14:07,580 IT'S OFTEN CALLED THE "SHOWPLACE OF THE EASTERN SHORE." 329 00:14:07,714 --> 00:14:08,948 ANOTHER SHORE LANDMARK 330 00:14:09,082 --> 00:14:12,251 IS JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE AVALON. 331 00:14:13,353 --> 00:14:17,123 THE HISTORIC TIDEWATER INN IS AN ELEGANT AND MODERN HOTEL 332 00:14:17,256 --> 00:14:21,294 WITH THE ROOTS TRACING BACK TO THE EARLY 1700s. 333 00:14:23,229 --> 00:14:25,298 AMONG EASTON'S GOURMET RESTAURANTS, 334 00:14:25,431 --> 00:14:29,268 MASON'S IS KNOWN FOR ITS LUSCIOUS HOMEMADE CHOCOLATES. 335 00:14:31,204 --> 00:14:36,042 NEARBY, THE HISTORIC ACADEMY ART MUSEUM IS A CULTURAL HUB. 336 00:14:37,643 --> 00:14:40,246 TALBOT COUNTY CELEBRATES ITS PROUD HISTORY 337 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:43,116 AS THE BIRTHPLACE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 338 00:14:43,249 --> 00:14:46,419 MEMORIALIZED AT THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE. 339 00:14:47,987 --> 00:14:49,122 NOT FAR FROM EASTON, 340 00:14:49,255 --> 00:14:52,859 ST. MICHAELS IS KNOWN FOR ITS TRENDY SHOPS AND SEAFOOD. 341 00:14:54,227 --> 00:14:56,062 EXPLORE THE BAY'S MARITIME TRADITIONS 342 00:14:56,195 --> 00:14:58,398 AT THE CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM, 343 00:14:58,531 --> 00:15:01,834 SHOWCASING THE WATERMAN'S LIFE, 344 00:15:01,968 --> 00:15:04,103 AND THE RESTORED HOOPER STREET LIGHTHOUSE. 345 00:15:07,206 --> 00:15:08,841 APPRAISER: CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 346 00:15:08,975 --> 00:15:12,779 WHAT YOU BROUGHT TODAY, AND WHERE YOU GOT IT FROM? 347 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:15,214 GUEST: ABOUT 30 MEDALLIONS, 348 00:15:15,348 --> 00:15:17,083 AND I PICKED THEM UP AT THE FLEA MARKET. 349 00:15:17,216 --> 00:15:18,251 APPRAISER: AT THE FLEA MARKET? 350 00:15:18,384 --> 00:15:19,051 GUEST: YES. 351 00:15:19,185 --> 00:15:20,153 APPRAISER: GOOD FLEA MARKET! 352 00:15:20,286 --> 00:15:21,354 GUEST: OH YES. 353 00:15:21,487 --> 00:15:23,356 APPRAISER: IN EACH INSTANCE WHAT THEY WERE, 354 00:15:23,489 --> 00:15:27,660 WERE PIECES USED TO COMMEMORATE VERY SPECIFIC EVENTS, 355 00:15:27,794 --> 00:15:30,129 OR LOCATIONS, OR INSTITUTIONS. 356 00:15:30,263 --> 00:15:32,965 WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE A COUPLE OF IMAGES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 357 00:15:33,099 --> 00:15:35,101 JAMES MADISON AND DOLLY MADISON. 358 00:15:35,234 --> 00:15:38,337 BUT YOU DO HAVE A COUPLE OF REALLY INTERESTING PIECES HERE. 359 00:15:38,471 --> 00:15:40,907 ONE, THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF COCA-COLA. 360 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,909 IT'S A WELL-MADE PIECE. 361 00:15:43,042 --> 00:15:48,047 IT WAS ALSO MADE BY ONE OF THE MAIN METAL MANUFACTURERS, 362 00:15:48,181 --> 00:15:50,650 WHICH IS THE MEDALLIC ART COMPANY. 363 00:15:50,783 --> 00:15:53,786 BUT THE ONE THAT PROBABLY HAS THE GREATEST VALUE 364 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,924 IS THIS ONE HERE ISSUED TO CAPTAIN JAMES BIDDLE 365 00:15:58,057 --> 00:16:00,359 BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES 366 00:16:00,493 --> 00:16:05,898 FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE BRITISH SHIP PENGUIN . 367 00:16:06,032 --> 00:16:08,067 MILITARY SERVICE MEDALLIONS 368 00:16:08,201 --> 00:16:10,436 HAVE GREATER VALUE IN MANY INSTANCES. 369 00:16:10,570 --> 00:16:13,539 HOW MUCH DID YOU SPEND TO ACQUIRE ALL OF THIS? 370 00:16:13,673 --> 00:16:17,944 GUEST: ABOUT $32 OR SO. 371 00:16:18,077 --> 00:16:19,645 APPRAISER: SO ABOUT A DOLLAR A PIECE? 372 00:16:19,779 --> 00:16:20,613 GUEST: ABOUT A DOLLAR A PIECE. 373 00:16:20,746 --> 00:16:22,014 APPRAISER: WELL, IN MANY INSTANCES, 374 00:16:22,148 --> 00:16:27,286 THESE ARE PROBABLY NO MORE THAN $5 TO $15 EACH, 375 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:32,291 HOWEVER, THE COCA-COLA PROBABLY WOULD RUN $25 TO $40. 376 00:16:32,425 --> 00:16:35,027 THIS PIECE, WITH THE HISTORY, 377 00:16:35,161 --> 00:16:38,764 COULD EASILY RUN $100 TO $150 FOR JUST ITSELF. 378 00:16:38,898 --> 00:16:40,733 GUEST: GREAT! 379 00:16:40,867 --> 00:16:43,336 APPRAISER: SO, IN THE COLLECTION THAT WE HAVE HERE, 380 00:16:43,469 --> 00:16:45,671 THERE'S PROBABLY A VALUE BETWEEN $500 AND $700. 381 00:16:45,805 --> 00:16:47,273 GUEST: OH, THANK YOU. 382 00:16:47,406 --> 00:16:50,343 APPRAISER: SO YOUR $32 HAS GONE A LONG WAY TO THE GOOD! 383 00:16:50,476 --> 00:16:51,644 GUEST: YES, YES IT HAS. 384 00:16:51,777 --> 00:16:53,212 VERY INFORMATIVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 385 00:16:53,346 --> 00:16:55,281 APPRAISER: THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT THIS AFTERNOON. 386 00:16:55,414 --> 00:16:58,518 APPRAISER: WHAT DID YOU BRING ALONG FOR US TO TAKE A LOOK AT? 387 00:16:58,651 --> 00:17:00,052 GUEST: WELL, I BROUGHT YOU A LETTER 388 00:17:00,186 --> 00:17:05,358 THAT F. SCOTT FITZGERALD WROTE TO MY AUNT IN BALTIMORE IN 1932, 389 00:17:05,491 --> 00:17:07,293 AND IT WAS IN RESPONSE TO SOMETHING 390 00:17:07,426 --> 00:17:08,561 THAT SHE HAD WRITTEN TO HIM. 391 00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:10,863 APPRAISER: VERY NICE THAT YOU STILL HAD THE ENVELOPE 392 00:17:10,997 --> 00:17:12,532 WITH HER ADDRESS DOWN ON ST. PAUL STREET. 393 00:17:12,665 --> 00:17:14,433 WHAT IS THE PHOTOGRAPH? 394 00:17:14,567 --> 00:17:16,335 GUEST: THIS IS MY AUNT. 395 00:17:16,469 --> 00:17:19,138 NOW, THIS IS HER WEDDING PICTURE, WHICH WAS IN '38. 396 00:17:19,272 --> 00:17:22,608 SHE WAS STILL A SINGLE LADY IN BALTIMORE IN '32 397 00:17:22,742 --> 00:17:23,976 WHEN THIS LETTER WAS WRITTEN. 398 00:17:24,110 --> 00:17:27,546 APPRAISER: MOST PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR WITH F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, 399 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:29,215 THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELIST 400 00:17:29,348 --> 00:17:31,784 WHO WROTE THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL THE GREAT GATSBY . 401 00:17:31,918 --> 00:17:34,887 IN THE LETTER HE WAS INVITED TO GO PLAY TENNIS, 402 00:17:35,021 --> 00:17:36,856 AND HE HAD JUST GOTTEN BACK FROM NEW YORK, 403 00:17:36,989 --> 00:17:38,991 POSSIBLY TALKING TO HIS PUBLISHERS. 404 00:17:39,125 --> 00:17:41,093 THEY WERE GOING TO TAKE THE BOAT DOWN TO VIRGINIA BEACH 405 00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:44,096 SO HE COULD GET HIS LAST SWIM OF THE YEAR. 406 00:17:44,230 --> 00:17:46,465 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT INTERESTED ME, IN PARTICULAR, 407 00:17:46,599 --> 00:17:48,901 THIS IS SEPTEMBER 1932, 408 00:17:49,035 --> 00:17:53,506 AND THE STOCK MARKET HAD CRASHED IN OCTOBER OF 1929. 409 00:17:53,639 --> 00:17:56,475 ALMOST ONE OUT OF FOUR AMERICANS WAS UNEMPLOYED, 410 00:17:56,609 --> 00:17:58,844 YET THE FITZGERALDS ARE KIND OF LIVING THE LIFE 411 00:17:58,978 --> 00:18:01,247 OF THE GREAT GATSBYS. 412 00:18:01,380 --> 00:18:05,217 HAVE YOU EVER HAD ANYBODY PUT A VALUE ON YOUR LETTERS? 413 00:18:05,351 --> 00:18:06,319 GUEST: NO, NOT AT ALL. 414 00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:08,187 APPRAISER: A LETTER FROM F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 415 00:18:08,321 --> 00:18:11,657 SHOULD BRING BETWEEN $3K TO $5,000. 416 00:18:11,791 --> 00:18:13,893 AND FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES, 417 00:18:14,026 --> 00:18:17,263 I WOULD INSURE THIS LETTER FOR $8,000. 418 00:18:17,396 --> 00:18:18,965 GUEST: WOW! 419 00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:20,967 AND TO THINK WE'VE HAD THAT TUCKED AWAY 420 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:22,868 IN A LITTLE SANDWICH BAG 421 00:18:23,002 --> 00:18:26,105 AMONG OTHER MEMORABILIA FOR FIVE OR SIX YEARS. 422 00:18:26,238 --> 00:18:27,607 APPRAISER: AN IMPORTANT PIECE 423 00:18:27,740 --> 00:18:29,942 RELATING TO A VERY SIGNIFICANT FIGURE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. 424 00:18:30,076 --> 00:18:31,444 GUEST: THAT'S AN AMAZING NUMBER 425 00:18:31,577 --> 00:18:34,780 FOR SOMETHING THAT WE WERE TREATING ALMOST CASUALLY. 426 00:18:35,815 --> 00:18:37,550 APPRAISER: YOU'VE BROUGHT US 427 00:18:37,683 --> 00:18:39,418 SOME GREAT EXAMPLES OF ARTWORK LITHOGRAPHS 428 00:18:39,552 --> 00:18:42,188 FROM THE LOCAL EASTON ARTIST RUTH STARR ROSE. 429 00:18:42,321 --> 00:18:43,556 GUEST: YES. 430 00:18:43,689 --> 00:18:48,094 MY WIFE'S GREAT AUNT, BACK IN THE '30s AND '40s, 431 00:18:48,227 --> 00:18:51,564 WAS A NURSE, A GRADUATE OF EASTON HOSPITAL, 432 00:18:51,697 --> 00:18:55,434 AND SHE WORKED FOR A DOCTOR, WHO'S DR. ZERBY, 433 00:18:55,568 --> 00:18:58,838 AND EVIDENTLY, DR. ZERBY AND RUTH STARR ROSE WERE FRIENDS 434 00:18:58,971 --> 00:19:00,873 BECAUSE SHE HAS AN INSCRIPTION HERE, 435 00:19:01,007 --> 00:19:02,908 "TO MY GOOD FRIEND THE ZERB." 436 00:19:03,042 --> 00:19:05,645 AND SHE'S RE-SIGNED IT IN 1935. 437 00:19:05,778 --> 00:19:06,846 APPRAISER: WELL, RUTH STARR ROSE 438 00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:11,117 WAS A WOMAN HERE IN EASTON OF SOME PRIVILEGE. 439 00:19:11,250 --> 00:19:15,554 SHE WAS A WHITE WOMAN WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE METHODIST CHURCH 440 00:19:15,688 --> 00:19:19,025 AND LOOKED AROUND HER AND FELT THAT THE TRIBULATIONS 441 00:19:19,158 --> 00:19:20,259 OF SOME OF THE BLACK PEOPLE IN THE AREA, 442 00:19:20,393 --> 00:19:23,729 THAT THEIR SPIRITUALITY HELPED GET THEM THROUGH IT. 443 00:19:23,863 --> 00:19:26,766 AND SHE USED HER GREAT ARTISTIC TALENT 444 00:19:26,899 --> 00:19:30,069 TO SHOW, IN A VERY RESPECTFUL, DIGNIFIED MANNER, 445 00:19:30,202 --> 00:19:35,341 A LOT OF THE LOCAL EASTON BLACK HOME LIFE. 446 00:19:35,474 --> 00:19:39,912 A LOT OF THE PIECES ARE TITLED WITH SPIRITUAL SONG NAMES, 447 00:19:40,046 --> 00:19:41,947 LIKE "JOSHUA FIT THE BATTLE" AND SUCH. 448 00:19:42,081 --> 00:19:45,284 BUT THESE BOTH HAVE PERSONALIZED INSCRIPTIONS. 449 00:19:45,418 --> 00:19:47,019 THEY'RE DONE IN THE '30s. 450 00:19:47,153 --> 00:19:49,055 THESE ARE VERY REPRESENTATIVE OF WHAT SHE DID, 451 00:19:49,188 --> 00:19:51,691 OTHER THAN THIS IS VERY LARGE. 452 00:19:51,824 --> 00:19:55,628 THE PIECES TEND TO RETAIL ONLINE IN THIS SIZE 453 00:19:55,761 --> 00:19:57,363 BETWEEN $700 AND $1,000. 454 00:19:57,496 --> 00:19:59,932 THIS ONE, BEING LARGE, I WOULD PUT IT AT AN INSURANCE VALUE 455 00:20:00,066 --> 00:20:03,069 OF ABOUT $1,800 ON IT. 456 00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:04,804 BUT IT MAY HISTORICALLY GO UP. 457 00:20:04,937 --> 00:20:07,073 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THIS IN. 458 00:20:07,206 --> 00:20:08,607 GUEST: THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 459 00:20:08,741 --> 00:20:10,576 APPRAISER: WHAT DID YOU BRING WITH YOU? 460 00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:13,012 GUEST: IT'S A COLLECTION OF FAMILY SILVER PIECES: 461 00:20:13,145 --> 00:20:15,347 A PITCHER, AND SOME SPOONS, AND SALT SPOONS. 462 00:20:15,481 --> 00:20:17,650 THE PITCHER IS MADE BY ANDREW ELLICOTT 463 00:20:17,783 --> 00:20:19,151 WHO WAS A BALTIMORE SILVERSMITH. 464 00:20:19,285 --> 00:20:21,754 AND THEN THE SPOONS WERE MADE BY A LOCAL SILVERSMITH 465 00:20:21,887 --> 00:20:23,055 HERE IN EASTON. 466 00:20:23,189 --> 00:20:24,590 APPRAISER: THE SPOONS, IN PARTICULAR, 467 00:20:24,724 --> 00:20:27,760 ARE AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF COLONIAL TABLEWARE. 468 00:20:27,893 --> 00:20:29,862 MOST FAMILIES WOULD HAVE A KNIFE, 469 00:20:29,995 --> 00:20:32,631 BUT TO ACTUALLY HAVE A SPOON 470 00:20:32,765 --> 00:20:37,403 MEANT THAT YOUR FAMILY WAS ASPIRING AND UPWARDLY MOBILE. 471 00:20:37,536 --> 00:20:39,338 SO TO ACQUIRE ONE, 472 00:20:39,472 --> 00:20:42,041 FREQUENTLY COINS WOULD HAVE TO BE MELTED DOWN, 473 00:20:42,174 --> 00:20:44,543 AND HENCE THE TERM "COIN SILVER." 474 00:20:44,677 --> 00:20:47,179 THESE ARE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BY COLLECTORS, 475 00:20:47,313 --> 00:20:51,884 AND IN THE MARKETPLACE TODAY, THE SPOONS OF THIS SIZE, 476 00:20:52,017 --> 00:20:57,256 WOULD BE SELLING BETWEEN $85 AND $150 EACH. 477 00:20:57,389 --> 00:21:01,460 THE CREAMER ON ITS OWN WOULD BRING YOU SOMEWHERE BETWEEN, 478 00:21:01,594 --> 00:21:04,563 LET'S SAY $800 AND $1,200. 479 00:21:04,697 --> 00:21:06,031 IT'S A VERY NICE COLLECTION. 480 00:21:06,165 --> 00:21:07,533 THANK YOU FOR COMING TO CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES . 481 00:21:07,666 --> 00:21:08,734 GUEST: THANK YOU. 482 00:21:09,802 --> 00:21:12,238 APPRAISER: I SEE YOU BROUGHT IN A FEW SOLDIERS 483 00:21:12,371 --> 00:21:14,774 FOR US TO LOOK AT TODAY FROM ELASTOLIN AND LIONEL. 484 00:21:14,907 --> 00:21:16,242 CAN YOU GIVE US A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT THEM? 485 00:21:16,375 --> 00:21:18,544 GUEST: I WOULD SAY ALMOST ALL OF THEM 486 00:21:18,677 --> 00:21:21,847 CAME FROM A DEPARTMENT STORE IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. 487 00:21:21,981 --> 00:21:24,383 I WAS THE FIRST GRANDCHILD IN THE GROUP. 488 00:21:24,517 --> 00:21:28,187 MY AUNTS, THEY WERE NOT MARRIED, SO THEY ADOPTED ME A LITTLE BIT. 489 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,889 APPRAISER: HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU RECEIVED THESE? 490 00:21:30,022 --> 00:21:32,057 GUEST: ABOUT FIVE WHEN I STARTED. 491 00:21:32,191 --> 00:21:34,293 APPRAISER: SOMEWHERE AROUND 1929, 1930? 492 00:21:34,426 --> 00:21:35,327 GUEST: RIGHT. 493 00:21:35,461 --> 00:21:36,428 APPRAISER: THAT'S THE ERA OF THESE FIGURES. 494 00:21:36,562 --> 00:21:37,696 DID YOU PLAY WITH THEM? 495 00:21:37,830 --> 00:21:38,631 GUEST: VERY CAREFULLY. 496 00:21:38,764 --> 00:21:40,366 I WAS TAUGHT TO HANDLE THEM GENTLY. 497 00:21:40,499 --> 00:21:43,269 THIS WAS DURING THE DEPRESSION AND THINGS WERE PRETTY LEAN. 498 00:21:43,402 --> 00:21:45,471 APPRAISER: THESE FIGURES WERE MADE IN GERMANY 499 00:21:45,604 --> 00:21:47,406 BY TWO DIFFERENT COMPANIES. 500 00:21:47,540 --> 00:21:48,808 THEY TOOK A MOLD 501 00:21:48,941 --> 00:21:51,544 AND THEY MIXED LIKE A CEREAL MIXTURE AND ANIMAL GLUE, 502 00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:52,878 THEN HEATED THEM. 503 00:21:53,012 --> 00:21:53,879 THEN ONCE THEY WERE FINISHED, 504 00:21:54,013 --> 00:21:55,181 THEY PULLED THEM BACK OUT OF THE MOLD 505 00:21:55,314 --> 00:21:57,249 AND EITHER THEY WENT TO THE FACTORY TO BE HAND-PAINTED, 506 00:21:57,383 --> 00:22:00,586 OR THEY WENT TO WHAT THEY CALLED "KITCHEN LABOR" AROUND TOWN 507 00:22:00,719 --> 00:22:02,421 FOR THE LADIES TO PAINT. 508 00:22:02,555 --> 00:22:04,156 YOU HAVE THE RED CROSS FIGURES, 509 00:22:04,290 --> 00:22:05,925 YOU HAVE THE WOUNDED SOLDIER FIGURES, 510 00:22:06,058 --> 00:22:08,427 A MOUNTED TROOP, AND A SAILOR GROUP. 511 00:22:08,561 --> 00:22:10,830 OVERALL, IT'S A GREAT COLLECTION. 512 00:22:10,963 --> 00:22:12,231 YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THEY MIGHT BE WORTH? 513 00:22:12,364 --> 00:22:14,466 GUEST: I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE A DOLLAR APIECE? 514 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,302 SOMETHING LIKE THAT, TWO DOLLARS APIECE? 515 00:22:16,435 --> 00:22:18,204 APPRAISER: THE RED CROSS WAGON THERE, 516 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:20,873 SELLS PRIMARILY FROM $150 TO $200. 517 00:22:21,006 --> 00:22:22,208 GUEST: HOLY SMOKES! 518 00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:23,542 APPRAISER: THE LITTLE CART OVER THERE WITH THE TWO HORSES, 519 00:22:23,676 --> 00:22:24,643 PROBABLY AROUND $100. 520 00:22:24,777 --> 00:22:25,878 GUEST: MY, MY! 521 00:22:26,011 --> 00:22:27,346 APPRAISER: I WOULD ESTIMATE THIS AT AUCTION 522 00:22:27,479 --> 00:22:29,682 SOMEWHERE AROUND $200 TO $250. 523 00:22:29,815 --> 00:22:31,650 YOUR LARGER FIGURES, WHICH ARE MORE COLLECTIBLE, 524 00:22:31,784 --> 00:22:33,652 THEY RUN $15 TO $20 APIECE. 525 00:22:33,786 --> 00:22:36,622 SO OVERALL YOU'VE GOT CLOSE TO $500, $600 HERE. 526 00:22:36,755 --> 00:22:38,190 GUEST: GLAD I TOOK CARE OF THEM. 527 00:22:38,324 --> 00:22:39,558 APPRAISER: I'M GLAD YOU TOOK CARE OF THEM TOO. 528 00:22:39,692 --> 00:22:40,526 IT'S A GREAT COLLECTION. 529 00:22:40,659 --> 00:22:41,427 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 530 00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:44,797 APPRAISER: WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT, THESE COINS? 531 00:22:44,930 --> 00:22:48,634 GUEST: WELL, ABOUT 40 SOME YEARS AGO, 532 00:22:48,767 --> 00:22:52,805 MY HUSBAND AND I WERE ON VACATION IN REHOBOTH BEACH. 533 00:22:52,938 --> 00:22:54,740 ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE WERE STAYING WITH 534 00:22:54,874 --> 00:22:58,310 TOLD US ABOUT THIS OLD IRISH SHIPWRECK 535 00:22:58,444 --> 00:23:02,281 AND SOME OF THE COINS WERE WASHING UP ON THE BEACH. 536 00:23:02,414 --> 00:23:07,419 SO WE DECIDED TO DRIVE DOWN TO AN AREA CALLED "COIN BEACH." 537 00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:09,989 MY HUSBAND DID A LITTLE SURF CASTING 538 00:23:10,122 --> 00:23:14,860 WHILE I WOULD LOOK FOR COINS, OR SHELLS, WHATEVER, 539 00:23:14,994 --> 00:23:19,798 NEVER DREAMING THAT I WOULD FIND COINS, BUT I DID. 540 00:23:19,932 --> 00:23:25,271 I FOUND SIX AND THEY ARE DATED TO THE LATE 1700s. 541 00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:26,605 APPRAISER: YOU KNOW, I THINK EVERYBODY 542 00:23:26,739 --> 00:23:28,641 WHO'S EVER WALKED ALONG THE BEACH 543 00:23:28,774 --> 00:23:33,112 HAS DREAMS OF FINDING PIECES OF EIGHT AND DOUBLOONS. 544 00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:39,051 THE FAITHFUL STEWARD THAT HAD SUNK IN 1785 545 00:23:39,184 --> 00:23:41,320 WAS COMING OVER FROM IRELAND, AS YOU SAID, 546 00:23:41,453 --> 00:23:42,721 AND WAS COMING TO PHILADELPHIA. 547 00:23:42,855 --> 00:23:44,556 GUEST: LONDONDERRY ISLAND. 548 00:23:44,690 --> 00:23:47,693 APPRAISER: YES INDEED, 549 00:23:47,826 --> 00:23:48,894 AND GOT CAUGHT, MUST HAVE BEEN A NORTHEASTER. 550 00:23:49,028 --> 00:23:53,332 ALMOST 250 PEOPLE ON BOARD, AND ONLY 68 SURVIVED. 551 00:23:53,465 --> 00:23:56,535 IT WAS BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS 400 BARRELS 552 00:23:56,669 --> 00:24:00,205 OF HALF PENNY COPPER COINS, 553 00:24:00,339 --> 00:24:04,310 AND OLD GEORGE III AS KING OF ENGLAND, HIS FACE ON THERE. 554 00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:08,480 WELL, THE MONETARY VALUE IS ACTUALLY FAIRLY MODEST, 555 00:24:08,614 --> 00:24:13,585 PROBABLY $25 APIECE, OVERALL $150. 556 00:24:13,719 --> 00:24:15,120 BUT THE THING IS, 557 00:24:15,254 --> 00:24:18,958 THE EXPERIENCE THAT YOU HAD GOING ALONG THE BEACH 558 00:24:19,091 --> 00:24:21,794 FINDING THOSE COINS IS PRICELESS. 559 00:24:21,927 --> 00:24:23,796 GUEST: IT WAS. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. 560 00:24:23,929 --> 00:24:25,664 APPRAISER: I ENVY YOU WITH YOUR SUCCESS. 561 00:24:25,798 --> 00:24:27,399 GUEST: I'D BE GLAD TO GO BACK. 562 00:24:27,533 --> 00:24:29,401 APPRAISER: AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH 563 00:24:29,535 --> 00:24:31,203 FOR BRINGING THOSE IN FOR US TODAY. 564 00:24:31,337 --> 00:24:32,371 GUEST: YOU'RE QUITE WELCOME. 565 00:24:33,105 --> 00:24:34,340 RHEA: I HOPE YOU'VE ENJOYED 566 00:24:34,473 --> 00:24:37,409 THIS SPECIAL EASTON EPISODE OF CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES . 567 00:24:37,543 --> 00:24:40,245 NEXT TIME WE'LL BE BACK AT OUR MPT STUDIOS 568 00:24:40,379 --> 00:24:42,881 FOR SOME AMAZING ANTIQUES. 569 00:24:43,015 --> 00:24:45,417 APPRAISER: LETTERS THAT ARE MANUSCRIPTS 570 00:24:45,551 --> 00:24:48,420 ARE VERY, VERY RARE FOR THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 571 00:24:48,554 --> 00:24:50,422 >> APPRAISER: YOU HAVE PAUL REVERE IN THE UNITED STATES. 572 00:24:50,556 --> 00:24:52,157 IN THE ENGLISH, WE HAVE PAUL STORR. 573 00:24:52,291 --> 00:24:55,160 SO HE'S THE TOP DOG AS FAR AS SILVERSMITHS IN BRITAIN. 574 00:24:55,294 --> 00:24:56,595 >> APPRAISER: IT'S NOT ON THE INTERNET. 575 00:24:56,729 --> 00:24:57,963 I CAN'T LOOK IN A REFERENCE BOOK 576 00:24:58,097 --> 00:25:01,767 BECAUSE THIS IS THAT UNUSUAL A PIECE OF CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY 577 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:03,035 THAT WAS OVERLOOKED. 578 00:25:03,168 --> 00:25:05,504 SEE YOU NEXT TIME FOR CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES . 579 00:25:05,637 --> 00:25:06,905 I'M RHEA FEIKIN. 580 00:25:08,907 --> 00:25:11,744 ANNOUNCER: CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY 581 00:25:11,877 --> 00:25:14,079 THE MPT NEW INITIATIVES FUND 582 00:25:14,213 --> 00:25:17,683 FOUNDED BY IRENE AND EDWARD H. KAPLAN. 583 00:25:18,884 --> 00:25:21,153 MAJOR FUNDING IS ALSO PROVIDED BY... 584 00:25:21,286 --> 00:25:23,288 CENTER FOR VEIN RESTORATION. 585 00:25:23,422 --> 00:25:25,057 OVER 30 MILLION AMERICANS 586 00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:28,260 SUFFER FROM PAINFUL, UNSIGHTLY VARICOSE VEINS. 587 00:25:28,394 --> 00:25:31,530 WE USE MODERN OUTPATIENT METHODS TO HELP BRING RELIEF. 588 00:25:31,663 --> 00:25:34,400 LOOK BETTER. FEEL BETTER. LIVE BETTER. 589 00:25:34,933 --> 00:25:36,702 AND BY AARP. 590 00:25:38,070 --> 00:25:40,939 JEFF GORDON: FOR SOME, THIS LINE IS A CONVENIENCE. 591 00:25:41,073 --> 00:25:44,810 BUT FOR OTHERS, IT'S ALL THEY CAN AFFORD. 592 00:25:44,943 --> 00:25:45,744 CLERK: ANYTHING ELSE? 593 00:25:45,878 --> 00:25:46,512 WOMAN: NO. 594 00:25:46,645 --> 00:25:48,013 JOIN THE DRIVE TO END HUNGER 595 00:25:48,147 --> 00:25:52,147 BY VISITING DRIVETOENDHUNGER.ORG.