Antiques Roadshow Question

[diggummup]

De la Nuez painting is my vote too, but I'd sure like to know more about that textile. I'd bring it too just to see if it grabs any appraisers attentions while in line, if it wasn't too big that is.

 

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[cheech]

De la Nuez painting is my vote too, but I'd sure like to know more about that textile. I'd bring it too just to see if it grabs any appraisers attentions while in line, if it wasn't too big that is.

The textile is not that big it’s only 22 x 16 frame and myself would like to know how old that is but that fireman badge is always bugged me

 

[kali_is_my_copilot]

Omg now I need to know how much you paid for those candlesticks!

 

[ARC]

Welp... todays the day.

 

[JimDon]

Had a great time. it went super fast and we were out of there by 930. While walking in I did get a chance to speak with Andrew Brunk for a while. They also filmed me and Cheech on our way in so maybe will be on part of the show which will be aired in January 2019. Nick Dawes appraised my candlesticks. He didn’t look at them very well and didn’t really look at the hallmarks then said they were Eastern European probably Polish and commented how light they were and were in style right now but did say they’re worth $500. The hallmarks clearly indicate it’s Austro-Hungarian so so much for an expert opinion. My painting was reviewed by a nice lady don’t know who she was but she said it was worth about $1000 to $1500 and then I asked about the frame and she said if the frame was repaired it would probably be worth $2500. Since we got out so early me and Cheech decided to hit some of the thrift stores around the area. I picked up a few things but he showed me how it’s done as I’m sure he’ll be posting shortly!

 

[cheech]

Yes I had a great time myself and enjoyed meeting Jim unfortunately my appraisers didn’t go as well as his with the badge there was absolutely no help with that no more information out of what we discussed on here and Says only worth $30-$40 I believe it’s worth more already had an offer of 250 as for my painting already have all the information she gave me and she valued it at a couple hundred to a few hundred dollars because she couldn’t find any auction prices for it and that’s why I think she valued it at that so I’ll stick with the email on the value on the painting and see what happens and as Jim said we decided to go around and do some searching well the first couple stores I couldn’t find anything I would like to buy but he was finding some things the second to last stores I finally found a bag of jewelry that looked interesting so I decided to purchase that with a little help ( Thanks Jim ) Long story so when we got done with the last store we decided to sit in the car and open up the bag and as I was going through the bag I said I don’t think will find anything good in here because they look like they were pretty thorough going through there stuff then Jim asked to see the cufflinks I just got done looking at and he says you don’t think you’ll find anything in here and I replied no and when I got done he said here take a look at this with the magnifying glass lo and behold 10 karat gold cufflinks and sterling Cufflinks so I was proven wrong and that goes to show you no matter how thorough they are they will still miss stuff

 

[diggummup]

That sucks Cheech. Sounds like many of us could be better appraisers than the "experts" on many items. Seems their knowledge is "in general" and anything specific they need to research, the same way we do. I'm glad you found some gold while you were over there. I love hitting out of town thrift stores.

 

[FC-Treasure]

Alright, so just geeking out a little on those huge cufflinks, so I did some calculations (math may be wrong, especially the 24K -> 10K conversion)

In 1966 1 troy ounce of 24K gold was $35.5, or $1.14 a gram. 10K = .4167 24K, so 10K = .48 cents per gram. 18.8 grams * .48 = $8.93 for the gold in 1966


$1 in 1966 is equivalent to $7.45 today, so those cufflinks represented $8.93 x $7.45 = $66.52 in buying power in 1967. That must have been an expensive life insurance policy!


But, the value in gold today is around $324 which greatly outpaced the inflation rate from 1966 - 2016

 

[JimDon]

By the way here is what I brought to the roadshow.

 

[ARC]

By the way here is what I brought to the roadshow. View attachment 1581315

And results ?

 

[ARC]

Hmmmm. That good huh.

 

[JimDon]

Hmmmm. That good huh.

835 Silver candlesticks $500. Enrich Tarenghi watercolor in gilt frame $1000-$1500 but with minor frame restoration and rematting $2000-$3000.

 

[ARC]

I wanted to ask... how was your overall experience ?

 

[JimDon]

I wanted to ask... how was your overall experience ?

It was good. Quick. It was hard to see everything. You got directed to your areas them you had to leave. 1 hr in an out.