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I have caught this show on PBS sometimes, but I've recently turned into a regular watcher.
For those of you that don't know, in this show they have a bunch of antique experts/appraisers. People line up for hours and bring their crap to get appraised... sometimes its old people how have had things in their family forever, sometimes its kids or younger people who find something at a garage sale for next to nothing, sometimes it people who search for valuable stuff at estate sales.
Anyway, its funny as shit to see someone who has something they paid like $100 for at an estate sale that is really worthless and the appraiser shuts them down hard saying that if only it was real it would be worth thousands!
Last night the grand finale was this lady who's family contracted a Frank Lloyd Wright home.. they had a stack of original drawings of the home done by FLW. They had letters back and forth describing the design with him. All said and done it was worth 125K+!
Funny thing was that she sealed one of the nicest drawings in plastic, the dude said this REDUCES the value because its difficult to extract the paper drawings from sealed plastic. He said thank god you didn't laminate it.
For those of you that don't know, in this show they have a bunch of antique experts/appraisers. People line up for hours and bring their crap to get appraised... sometimes its old people how have had things in their family forever, sometimes its kids or younger people who find something at a garage sale for next to nothing, sometimes it people who search for valuable stuff at estate sales.
Anyway, its funny as shit to see someone who has something they paid like $100 for at an estate sale that is really worthless and the appraiser shuts them down hard saying that if only it was real it would be worth thousands!
Last night the grand finale was this lady who's family contracted a Frank Lloyd Wright home.. they had a stack of original drawings of the home done by FLW. They had letters back and forth describing the design with him. All said and done it was worth 125K+!
Funny thing was that she sealed one of the nicest drawings in plastic, the dude said this REDUCES the value because its difficult to extract the paper drawings from sealed plastic. He said thank god you didn't laminate it.
