The $1.99 Thrift Store Find Worth 30 Times More

Oh my gosh, I am so glad you saved this from that fate because this is a good piece of blast. I'm packing a bag and heading to Centralia for Antique Fest. It is Saturday and Sunday. And I will be doing appraisal fairs right in the middle of downtown Centralia. Look at that. It's pink, it's big, it's beautiful, it's got controlled bubbles and how did you get it? Estate sale over in Olympia. Very nice. And do you remember what you gave for it? Oh, I paid $80. I do remember. Hey, okay. $80 is not bad for the size of this. And it's interesting because you said you thought, well, maybe not Murano after watching some of my videos. I guess I didn't realize there was a Canadian glass company. I know there was a guy that was from Murano that started a glass company. That worked with them for a long time, exactly. And a lot of their designs, and yes, that does tend to have this blobbyness, however, they never did controlled bubble and they never did this color. So this is Murano. Yes, it absolutely is Murano. It just happens to share this look in common with Chalet glass because Chalet glass was made by people who were trained to do this style in Italy and then brought it to Canada. So no, it is definitely a Murano piece. I like the inclusion of the gold. Which company? I'm not entirely sure. It may have a signature. I'll take a minute with my lube to see. I looked many times, but I did not have a lube. I just looked at eyeglasses. They're often unmarked and they can be really obscure when they are. Okay, well, we studied it pretty thoroughly. We don't see a signature. This could also maybe be a Fratelli Tosso or one of those companies. I don't think it really matters in terms of the value. It's a big piece. It's a showy piece and, you know, you paid $80 at an estate sale. Well, I think I was with Jocelyn from Crazy Lamp Lady and we saw a Laticino piece this big that was priced at $135 and said, ooh, that seems like a good deal. And she said, oh yeah, and I think she sold it for $275. And I'm thinking this piece could go potentially that high because it's so big and such a great color. I would think at least $200. It's nice. They're really nicely done. The detail's really good. They're spelter. Spelter is, yes, basically around 1900. They were wanting to form things that looked like bronze without having to spend the money on bronze. And bronze was hard to cast and it was hard to get good detail. So they came up with spelter, which is basically white metal. It's a mixture of, sometimes it's lead and tin and zinc and it's all that sort of thing mixed together. And then they would be able to create these figures and they'd have a nice dark veneer to them. And sometimes they'd even like to see on the stomach here a little bit. They would sometimes put a little bit of faux bronzing on it to give it that look. That's where George gave her a rub. Yeah. Unless they're stupid. They probably is true. And they're really nicely done. And one thing, they're based on French sculpture. I don't know which sculptor it is. The one, the bottom comes up. I left it that way because I caught that myself. Well, it's actually interesting to show this underneath the felt. They have these holes in the bottom and that was so that it's a marble base that they wanted to make sure that it didn't weigh too much, but it had to be weighted down enough to hold the figure. Okay. Because it's a lighter metal and so they didn't want it to be pot heavy. They're well done. The thing I always look for with these in particular are feet and hands. If the feet and hands are good, it's a good sculpture. The feet are really well detailed. Here, because that tended to be the part where it's sort of the end and you're not looking at the detail so much. So if they were going to cut corners, that's where they did it. So these are really nicely cast. I would say that, uh, made again right about 1900 and it's possible somebody could fashion a new Trident. If it was complete, I would say that the pair are probably worth about $350 to $400. Oh, with the missing keys, probably this one is worth about $100 and a half to $175. And this one might be worth about $75 without. Did they tell you anything about this where we got it? The color is really good and it does look to me like it's jade as opposed to bowenite or some other material. It's correct because it's got enough variation in color. It's not completely uniform. It don't see a lot of wear on any of it. And I mean, not wear for puce, not wear from having sat. And so it makes me think that it's, it probably isn't wildly old, but that doesn't mean that it's not a value. I still think a piece like this that's well carved and well form jade's really popular now. I still might expect to see something in the $500 range potentially for this. But if it was dynastic era, we might be saying $5,000 instead of $500. Okay, well I'll try not to look at your slips and fill after I've actually done my own, my own conjugation, but it is Chinese. I, again, I would say this is Qing and probably looking at 18th or 19th century because by that time you're seeing yellows, imperial yellows being put into things that regular people can have. If this was Ming dynasty, this color of yellow was forbidden for anyone except the royalty and you would be executed if you were found to have made a piece or owned a piece that and you were not royalty. So that tells us right there that, okay, yeah, this is a little later than that. I think you could call it related to Family Rose in terms of the color and style of the painting. It does have a period mark on the back that seems consistent with that dynasty as well. As well as the mark next to it would have been a manufacturer's part. I, they, you know, pieces like this, they're, they're more basic, but they're very pretty and I think that there's interest in them. And you know, it used to be these sold for about $50 to $75 when I got started and you would see them occasionally because people who didn't know better just thought, oh, that's just some old dish and it's not very well painted. Well, it actually is for its time. It's just, they were thinking it was something of our time and it's something that's, you know, 250 years old. It does have one little chip here, but a chip is better than a crap because a chip won't grow in a crap pan. So I think you're probably looking in maybe $125 rate nowadays. Now I'm curious to see what you have found. Minyao Qing Dynasty, yep. Leviathan rim and $99. Yeah, I think $99 would have been the price maybe 15, 20 years ago before we started seeing all the interest of these things, but I think it's a little better than that now. This is curious. And the, the irony is the back of the, to the front, that back is more interesting in a way. The design. Yes. Yeah, gorgeous. Yeah. These colors are really nice. Colors. Definitely. They're all the Amari colors we like. And it has more age than I would see. The double rim is interesting. It's got the right amount of weight. Even if they were treated very lovingly that you would see a little bit of dark, so even just oxidation or something. So this is very nice and very steady. And I would expect a value around $125. I don't know if I'll be able to tell you the artist or not, but we'll see if we can find it. This is 2004. It's fused glass and, or slunk glass, you'd hear it called sometimes, but what I really like about this piece that's a little different is not only did they do all of the different pieces and they fused them together, they actually managed to do, it's depth layer. It's got the, cause you can see the depth through it. So you've got a layer that they fused over another layer. So it's like they took two and fused them together. And that's really difficult to do. I knew someone, we used to have a store here in town called the Northwest Factory Outlet or the Outlet Center, and they sold crepic band. He had originally been from Hawaii and ended up here and did it because it turned out that in Hawaii it was too humid for the process to work well. And he would talk about how difficult it was at the beginning saying like a single layer was, was it. So to do something this geometric and be able to keep this precise, which is really impressive. Now the question is, can you find GTG yet? I'm not sure we can. Let's go through it quickly. I keep getting stuff from like Joaquin Flores Garcia, but that's a, like a Peter Dabbled in glass in like the early 19, but right. And doesn't add it to that yet. And that happens a lot. I'm assuming it's double. It is very clean. And one way to look here at these for age is if we opened it up, aha, there's a baby inside. Hey, this is why we shop the bags in the thrift store. That's amazing. Okay. So, uh, part of what we look for, for age is oxidation. So the color on outside is not really a lot darker than the color off inside. So you're right. And there is a little bit of oxidation because you look in here and this is frying light and then this is a little darker. So my guess, and especially because they're really colorful is these might use maybe 1980s for people going out to the reservation because these are La Carte and you might call, yeah, like Nia Bay area. And this one has the whales. People really do like the miniatures a lot. And so the value may be about the same on both pieces. Condition has a lot to do with the value. People do like the color. They like a lot of design. And so by this time they kind of figured out that, oh, this is what, this is what tourists like and they're making for that market. $45 range on the small one and maybe as much as $65 to $75 for the larger one. Yeah. So you did very, very well. You have a penchant for Western themes. These are great and they are, they're, they're cast metal. There's some sort of the spelter. They had a coppery bronzy put on them, which kind of fades with time. And I thought it, but I couldn't tell if it was dust and dirt or if it's a little bit of a fade. It's also just oxidation with cage. They would have molded things like this probably about 1930. And I'm seeing again, you shop at one of my stores that it's just great. I mean, you're finding really good deals because you know what you're looking for and you're looking for interesting things. And I just, I'm very pleased for you because I would say these with a little bit of cleaning up, even if you can't do a whole lot to it, Jim, I had them in my store here where I sell a lot of Native American and Western looking things. I would probably raise them about $45. When they're taking a print and they're redoing it, you can look at the lettering and say, well, it's a little blurry. It's not quite crisp. And so we know it's a reprint and this is a little not so crisp. But when you look at under edit with the loop, you see that there's like a second color bleeding out because of the way they would have done it. You know, there's four color separation process. And so this still might be genuine. Have you taken it out of the frame? It opened up the frame once. I didn't take the, I didn't take the whole right piece out. I was just looking to see if there was any kind of clue on the obvious thing. Yeah. The other things I think we'll look at is this because, yeah, if it's damaged to the actual poster, then it means that it could be genuine. It could be that they reprinted and it was copied damaged. So let's look at that. Yeah. So it's a sterling top and it's got a nice face. It would have been used by somebody about that era of this guy. And it's probably American. It could be English. It doesn't necessarily matter. They're just cool. And, you know, I see a lot of people who are cane collectors and that sort of thing using these or selling these. And yeah, I would think probably a store price might be closer to 85 or 95. Okay. So I think you did well. Awesome. So they did sign these and a lot of people can use these with John Barry. So John Barry is easily a resin figure, usually sea life or birds. And this is all carved out of wood. And there is the RS signature up there. So if you see one of these without the tag, then there it is. And what's nice is the wood carvers of this era, they were really good to us because they really wanted part of what was the appeal is look at all the exotic woods I'm using. So they actually defined everything that went into making this bird is on this tag. You've got ebony and you know, it's a, well, that's what it's the myrtle wood. That's sort of like, yeah, you know, it's, it's interesting. Myrtlewood is, if you're not from Oregon, the chance of you knowing what myrtlewood is, is almost zero, but it's a beautiful wood and it's great for carving probably in the $70 range for a price today. This one's a great piece right here. How'd you get this? You know, I bought it. It's a t-book. That is fantastic. Yeah. Well, this is an Erie griddle and Erie is involved with all of the Griswold company and all that. And it's got the mark in the middle there. And I think this mark is 1890s, if I remember right. So this is a pretty early piece. It's a number 10. It's got the mold number here. There's certain things about the way the base is made and how they rolled metal that make this different than later ones. And that's part of why they're pretty collectible. And I had a friend who unfortunately is not with us anymore, who is a specialist in cast iron. He would have priced this probably in the $600 range. And you've got a little bit more on that, but you know, the diamond logo and this particular piece, they're hard enough to find that, you know, you could leave your price on unless somebody make a reasonable offer. But I don't think you're, I don't think you're really out of line with what a real serious blacker would be. I believe you would refer to this as a ferner. A ferner, you would make a chloral arrangement usually with a lot of furs as the basis for it. And that's why it's sort of an oblong is because they would drape over the sides. It's a very pretty piece of blast and it's interesting because it's cased blast. So it's got a clear layer over what appears to be a peach blow. And peach blow being where that goes from this almost white to this reddish color on the edge. And that had to do with various chemicals. The company that did this first, I believe it was Mount Washington blast in the 1870s. And this particular piece should date to about 18, between 1880 and 1900. Was this in your family also? No. I found that. Berry, almond clop, berry and flower dead at Bridesdae. And I gave 50 cents for it. It's so fortunate. You must not have had it out there too long because the metalwork isn't rotten or rusted or... Right. Oh my gosh. I am so glad you saved this from that fate because this is a good piece of blast. I am inclined to think that it's probably American made. It might even be by Mount Washington. I'm used to not seeing them with a cased layer though. And so it's possible that it's from England. Which I know doesn't narrow it down a whole lot. But it's definitely 1880s approximately. It's man blown. You can see the pontil and the way they polished it. You can tell it was meant to be a fancy thing in the middle of the table because there's a decoration on the back as well as the front. And that way, no matter which way you were sitting, it wasn't just a plain side. And that was a hallmark of quality too. Value on this is probably somewhere in the $225 range. So thank you for paying 50 cents and getting it out of the flower. Ah yes. It's funny. I could tell what it was going to be just by the shape because of the mound in the middle of the thing. I thought this was going to be a lobster handled porcelain dish and it sure is. Until the late 70s, early 80s, if you didn't live near the seacoast, you weren't getting oysters or lobsters or other sea shellfish because they would go bad before you could get them inland. And then all of a sudden, they had refrigerated box parks. And so suddenly you could get fresh seafood way inside the interior of the country. And so, and that was true in Europe as well. So then they had to make oyster plates and lobster dishes and things that were fancy to serve those things in because that was a premium product that you wanted to show off. So that's what this is. It has a nupper on the back. It doesn't have a mark. It was likely made in Austria. There were a few companies that made these and probably about 1880. It has one repair. It's been cracked and rebuilt here a long time ago. That does affect the value some. Because they made a lot of these, the values are not extremely high, even though they're old and interesting. Probably in this condition, around $50. They're called teddy bears because of Teddy Roosevelt. There's a famous story where I think he shot a bear on a hunt and there was a cub and they rescued it or something. But that's where teddy bear came from. They were made of mohair. And it's funny because I think of mohair as being really scratchy, but there was a time that it was the thing they made toys of and I think it was because it was durable. And it had to be because kids loved these. Your dad obviously carried this guy around a lot. And it's the little threadbare and worn. And to be honest with you, a lot of the co-hikers like it this way because they are, you know, they want something that looks its age. It's got bendable legs, which is a little unusual for one this size. He was born in 1900, okay, so maybe 1900 to 1910. Consists of when they first came out. And it's just really cute for all those reasons and has some value. They were really popular about 30 years ago. And then they started reproducing again and that kind of hurt the market. But they are still desirable. I would think one in this condition probably $50 to $75 these days. Oh, that's really neat. He wore it as an eagle scout, I was gonna say, because it is for a bolo or for a neckerchief. And it's such an interesting design. And it's so great that you know the history of it like that because, you know, when somebody handmade things, it's, you know, they put an initial on. We wouldn't know who that was if it wasn't for, if it wasn't for you knowing the story, we wouldn't know who this person was. I have a handwritten note from my mother-in-law's grave there, so. So neat. Oh, I'm glad. Yes, keep the note with it because then everybody will know. With folk art, when it's hand done, it's always a question of how do you price something that's one of a kind? And we try to use other similar things that have sold and because there isn't another one like this by this person. But it's really interesting. It's well done. It has a good story. And because you know who it is, that makes it even a little more interesting. And we know it dates to probably 1920s, it sounds like. I'm guessing. Yeah, it looks like he set a little piece of wood in for the eyes and painted them. So they're actually added to the piece. It's just really well done. And for somebody to just do for fun and then give to somebody, it's such a great story. I would expect that with the story in the right place, if it were to go for sale, it might sell for as much as maybe $95 or $100. If you were to insure it, because you can't really replace it, insurance value might be $125. Now, we have something of no monetary value that we're hoping you get any information about it. Okay, let's see. So these belong to my great-great-grandfather, who was one of the founding members of the Seannison. I see violins all the time. And not many people think of the bows separately of the violin. But they are. It's a completely different discipline. I have a friend who's a bow maker. And that's all she does. She doesn't do violins. She does bows. And that's all she does. And that's all she's done her entire career. And it is a very specialized thing. And they pay a lot of money for a good bow. Because he was involved with the Seattle Symphony, I would say this probably dates between maybe 1900 and 1920, because that seems about consistent with what his age would be. That seems pretty old. This was... Oh, this is the third season, 1909, at the Moore Theater. Wow. That's great. Yeah, this one, again, no signature or anything, but these tend to typically be made by hand. It'd have to be re-haired and all of that. But that doesn't mean a great deal. The main thing is, is the bow itself intact. And they both are. There's no breaks. Nothing is missing. So there is the potential that these could be rather good and somewhat valuable. I mean, some bows can be thousands of dollars. I would, at this point, though, I have to punt, because I don't know enough to be able to tell you, without any sort of a mark or designation, how I would tell you what level of quality this is and what the value would be. But let me look up a thing or two to give you maybe at least an idea or two for hope's sake. And then I'll see if I can't possibly find a source you could go to to find out more. The most likely wood is something called Pirambuco, which is made in Brazil. And then there's a couple of other exotic woods that they use, too. But they're all exotic wood from other parts of the world. Well, it's interesting. You mentioned he emigrated from Germany, because Knopf, K-N-O-P-F, in Germany, is one of the premier bowmangers in that time. And if it's one of theirs, it could be worth, like, exponentially, you know, five figures. They're probably good, neither were in France. And maybe not the top, top of the line, but still a very good bow, potentially. You know, you still might be able to get thousands of dollars, potentially, off these. And it's hard for me to know, because there's also ones that look very similar to this, that are 50 bucks. You got it at a thrift store for three bucks. Wow. That is neat. Well, since you're wearing a hat, I guess I have to model, right? That's the reason for the little lutes inside, is so you could attach it. And when you see a lot of this, too, with the lute, see? If you think about, like, 1960s era hairstyles with big bouffants and stuff, you needed something that would hold it in, and that would be what would do it. And I think 1960s is the likely date on this piece for a couple of reasons. First of all, it's metal all the way around, and it's actually a pretty good gauge metal, whereas the more recent ones, they're lighter weight, which means they bend more easily, which is a real problem. This one's also more deluxe, because a lot of tiaras are a simple band with some rhinestones arching and banding around, but not a big, like this, not all this extra detail. And tiaras are hats. And tiaras are half, exactly, whereas this is technically a crown. Yes. Exactly. So, and it's funny, I always wanted to call them all tiaras. It's a crown if it goes all the way around, you're right. I think it's a really neat piece. I buy these when I see them. I don't see crowns practically ever. You said you paid a couple dollars? Three dollars. That's great. Well, you got a good deal. He would probably price this maybe between $50 and $75, would be my thought. And I think that's probably about what the higher end of retail would be. And a lot of the selling, honestly, is to people who are having troms and events and weddings and that sort of thing. New Year's, occasionally a beauty pageant. I got two pictures from my grandmother. She loved them because she said, reminded her of the gypsies, his Russian, a fresh egg for... Oh, how interesting. Yeah. Now, how did she get these? Did she ever talk about that? She brought them with her. She came from the Ukraine. Wilhelm Meyerheim is a list of Aries, and a friend of Germany. Oh. Well, since these already, one is already out of the frame, I'll go ahead and hold it up like this. They are a brim, rather than an oil painting, but they're a special type of brim called a heliobrevier. And what that means is that they took an engraving plate, they took his original work, and then they were able to do it on a textured paper so that it has the look of a real oil painting. And it actually is better quality. It's not just like a standard, oh, well, you know, we printed a million of these. This was something that was, it was special. So they do have some value for that. The Seitz typically are going to sell somewhere in the range of between $60 and $100 each. So they have some value. They are worth preserving. The question is, what would you do? I mean, you could have them fully restored where they get rid of the crinkles and they take out these little marks here. It's gonna cost a little bit of money to do that. She wasn't happy with them after the earthquake, but you obviously are. They're meaningful to you. You saw them hang on her wall all those years. They are nicely done. I would say that you could either leave them the way they are and enjoy them and not put money into them, or you might be able to hire somebody who has the skill to just retouch a little bit. And I wouldn't do anything extreme to them. And I wouldn't spend a lot of money having it done, but I think you could have somebody who was a good artist come in, and maybe just these places where I suspect when they fell that they got scratched a little bit. You might even contact someone at the college here in the art department and say, do you have anybody who has talent? You could do a minor restoration on a print. His originals sell for hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. So Charles M. Russell, of course, is one of the most famous Western artists in American history. And up there with Frederick Remington and a lot of those. And this is a neat piece, and I love that it has, he always did the steer head as part of his logo. Oh, I'll snap. Yes. And I've almost never seen one that didn't have that. And it says, Compliments of C.M. Russell to Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Trigg, 1906. And that's when the original would have been done. Now this is some sort of a photogravure print, meaning that it's better than a basic print in that it gives it a saturation of color that makes it look like a real painting. But when you look at it up really close, then you can see the little dot patterns a little bit, but not really like newsprint, like a regular print. So it's a little better than just a run-of-the-mill print from the time. And because of that, I would say that, you know, we're also in the right place. This is where this sort of thing is hocked to our deer in Montana and places where the rural rest, west and horses and all of that sort of thing, you know. And so I would say if I saw this in a store here in town, I probably expect it to be priced more like $45 to $60. That's what I was kind of thinking. Yeah, I think you're right in the ballpark. And this is another C.M. Russell. You notice again his face, but there's the steer head. And this one says Copyright Montana Historica Society, so this was one that they gave permission to be reprinted. And they were doing that in the 60s and 70s. Now this one is not as high quality of print because if you went in with the jeweler's sleeve like I just did, you immediately see the dot patterning from the printing. So this is a more basic with the graphic process. It's a great looking scene though. And I would say that the value on this, probably more like $35, $40 range. How did you get it? Thrifting. Thrifting, very good. Yes, I know you're quite thrifter. It's straight. And I know you know what it's for. It is. Okay. Ah, very good. Well, it's going to sound very strange. If you think of an era where people entertained at Homepore and perhaps the lady of the house had people over for bridge or cards or luncheons in the middle of the day or just sort of an afternoon tea, well, you always needed teaspoons on the table because you're probably just serving coffee. So you don't want to get the whole rigmarole out. So just have the teaspoons. And most sets of blatware back in the day had extra teaspoons for exactly this purpose. So you would stack them in something like this and then you just carry this to the table and set it down and everybody's got a spoon. So that's what it's for. And that's why it's such an odd shape. A $1.99. Oh, that's great. Well, it's a nice silver plate piece. And it looks to me like we've got a bargain here. So let's see who made it. Oh, yes. MB company, Meriden. Oh, it is Meriden. Okay. I was thinking it was Meriden, but this is the Canadian branch of Meriden silver plate. It's a silver plate piece. It was probably made sometime in, I would say probably this one in the 1920s or 30s. And value on this, you know, it's kind of a fancy thing that a lot of people don't use anymore and they don't recognize them easily. So I don't see as high prices on them because I think people don't know what they are. But I still think that for the person who knows, you're probably looking at something in the vicinity of maybe $30. This is very cute. And how did you get this? And a Grotz. I taped the lid on because it's very loose. They can get very loose, but it does look like it has the stem. Okay, it's part China. That doesn't mean that it's new. China's been making these for a long, long time. It just means it had to have the country of origin on it when it was made. It is the carved relief flask. And it's a nice sort of clear blue color. I would say the date on this one is probably sometime around 1940. Unfortunately, it does have a big crack. That's what I did. Snupp bottle, 1940s. If it was in perfect shape, it'd probably be worth $75 to $100. In this condition, being compromised, it might be worth $20 or $30 because it does make a difference. It's about a collector who liked it would just set it on the shelf like this anyway. Not many people are using the Snupp anymore. I believe that the hilt has been removed, the handle has been removed, and there is a document on the inside. Right, and there's always some sort of a piece under here too that sometimes will tell us something about it. The suba... Oh yes, there it is on that side as well. The suba, or the guard, is rather plain, actually, although it has a little more design on that side. They, in and of themselves, can be worth some money too. This one's fairly straightforward. Interestingly... OK, it does have an edge, so it was at least intended to be able to be used as a fighting tool. It's certainly not just decorative or ornamental. These can really run the gamut in price, and a lot of it has to do with age, especially when you're talking family sorts. Some of the ones that came out were, even though it was the Second World War, some of the ones that people had access to were actually hundreds of years old at that time that they brought with them. And so they were World War II confiscation, but you see some that date back to the 1600s and that sort of thing. They kind of went in and out of style, right, with the ruling flag? Yes, they went in and out. Some of the ruling class didn't want you to have this, and then some of them did. I think we can tell a few things about this one, though, just looking at the way it's done and even the way the scabbard is done, which seems to be contemporary to the piece. Now, do they have a general purpose scabbard on this for war duty, or for gotcha? A lot of them had wood scabbards. A lot of them had wood scabbards, but I think it had more to do with the age of the piece. I'm not going to claim to have expert knowledge in this category, but my impression, not just from the scabbard, but from the suba and also from the way the blade is set, also from the materials used in the handle, is that this one, in all honesty, probably was 20th century. I don't think it's something that was dynasty-era antique that came out. I think this was one that was relatively close to contemporary at the time. So I think we're looking at something that probably dates to early nationalist Japan, maybe sometime around 19-teens, 20s, as far as the original issue date. It just doesn't seem to have the characteristics. The suba, the guard here, is not terribly ornate. The way it's wrapped and the materials used, and just the level of wear even, and this mount here, all of this looks more like machine-era. So it's a nice piece. It has value, but I don't think that it's something that we're going to have to research to figure out, okay, is this from an earlier dynasty or that sort of thing. I don't think it has that level of value. $400-$650 value. I could get it insured for the state. I would say insure it for $800 would be about right for insurance purposes, $800-$1,000. Because I think this one is replaceable. If we were looking at something, and there were a lot that were confiscated at the end of the war that was dynastic era, then you might be looking at something that could be worth between $3,000 and $6,000, potentially, for one of those. But I just don't see any of the characteristics of those with this one. So I think we know what we have. You got this at Goodwill? Yeah, for us. About seven months ago. Wow, that's wonderful. Do you remember what you paid for it? $20. Well, that was a very good price. It does have marks on the bottom. I suspect I know what they are, too. I'm thinking it's going to be Capodimonte. OK, so yes, it does have the crown mark for Capodimonte. This one is Italian, and I would say from the mark as well as the colors, the colors are a little on the bright side. And so that tells us that this is most likely, along with the fittings and the way the lamp is made, most likely going to date sometime 1950s, 1960s. The little spinner here is appropriate. The kind of cord is about right for that era. And the nice thing is that we know that it's not new because the cord actually is Leviton USA approved. Probably about 50 years old. There are customers for these. They're starting to sell again. This era of Capodimonte really was popular in the 60s and 70s as a decorative item. There tend to be a lot of applied flowers. They broke pretty easily. This one seems to be in really good shape. I had a Capodimonte lamp that I sold at Tower Avenue Antiques, oh, I think last year. And it seems to me that it went for around $165, and I would say that that would probably be a retail value on this. They're not a fast seller, but when they sell, they would sell in that range. So your mom actually talked to him while he was still around and able to tell all about what it was and what they were doing. That is so smart, by the way, and I highly recommend any time a family has some sort of a story with a brush with greatness that, you know, these things be put down before it becomes a memory of a memory and fades and we're not sure exactly what parts will and what part isn't. Well, because it's a singular thing, to really know the value, you'd have to send it to auction and let it sell. But if I was to say a pre-auction estimate on this, there's two things to it. I think it's probably worth between $500 and $1,000, and that's kind of a broad range. I don't usually give such a broad range. But it is a little bit specific and circumstantial. The situation with that valuation range is that it would actually sell more with a Certificate of Authenticity, which seems like the dumbest thing because you know the story. You know it's your grandfather. It's all there. It's obvious what it is. But autograph collectors love a Certificate of Authenticity that says all this happened. So you would have to send your story in to Beckett or one of the grading services and send the piece and have them do a document. It would probably cost $300 or $400. So I guess I would say $500 to $600. Without that, maybe $1,000 or even a little more with it. But the story and the connection to your family is the important thing. And the truth is, it sounds like something you probably wouldn't get rid of. For the right price, I'm... For the right price. Yes, exactly. I'll leave it for my children. For the future. Yes. Well, and like I say, I think that's a range for the right price. It could even go for a little bit more, but if you did decide to sell, then you probably do have to send it in and have that done. If you decided to just keep it, I would put an insurance value around $1,200 on it. Well, Holly, you did an amazing job. We had a ton of people and they had a great time and I hope you were really busy too. Oh, we were. It was great. I'm so glad. Thank you very, very much. I can't wait till next year. Me too. Well, the appraisal fair at Antique Fest was one of the busiest ones that we've had in years. Thank you to everybody who came. I got to meet a lot of new viewers. I didn't get to film very much of the show, but it was a good one. I watched truckloads of furniture moving out and a whole lot of other cool stuff, so you'll just have to come see it yourself. If you enjoyed this video, check out this one. Also, click thumbs up to like this video and check the description for information about our Patreon, our memberships. 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