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Antiques Road Show

ajwajw Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭
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Do you guys watch this? I just watched last week's episode from St. Paul. A guy walked in with a Minneapolis Miller's uniform from 1950. He figured out on his own that it was a Willie Mays minor league jersey...he found a photo of Mays wearing it and some repair stiches match up. He paid...fifty bucks for it! The appraiser put a value of $60,000-$80,000 on it.

What a great show...even where there aren't sports items.

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  • KnucklesKnuckles Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭
    Wow, what a killer find.

    I watch it now and then and find it interesting. I've learned to watch for certain items other than cards at garage sales etc.. by watching that show.
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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    yep that episode was on a couple of months ago.

    he was able to prove it by a repair on the shoulder or somthing.

    I agree great show.

    sd
    Good for you.
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    It's an interesting show, with the stories the appraisers come up with.

    But I have heard rumors that they sometimes plant people in there with items to spice up the show a bit more.
  • bowdowntomebowdowntome Posts: 398
    There use to be a firearms expert on the show a few years ago who not only planted people, but alot of the items were from his own personal collection. You gotta take alot of what they say with a grain of salt, but it's fun none the less.

    I love the ones where they build the persons item up only to let them down by telling them it's a fake or something.

    Another fun show is called history detectives, where they take a persons item that may have been owned by a famous person of the past or something, and then set out all over the country trying to prove, true or false, the provenance of the item. I haven't seen any sports related episodes yet, but I haven't seen them all either.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I also liked the Incurable collector which covered the different collections of people around the country.

    Also, I showed this link before - nothing spectacular but kind of interesting - a short segment on different types of collectors.

    On the big time collector front, another amazing array of stuff will be coming up for auction - Bert Padell who was a bat boy for the Yanks in 1950, who later became a lawyer has a ton of great stuff for auction that is similar to the Halper collection.

    He actually was Joe DiMaggio's business manager for 11 yrs. He was also in a big firm which had clients like DeNiro, Madonna, Britney Spears etc.

    Key item - a 1918 Boston Red Sox agreement with Babe Ruth and signed by him and owner Harry Frazee which called for bonues if Ruth were to win a specified number of games.

    Also the "handwritten" original lyrics to Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Jack Norworth.

    Lou Gehrig's Yankee stadium locker!

    This is dreamland stuff guys
    mike

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  • Mac53Mac53 Posts: 805 ✭
    Is Bert Padell the guy who was representing DiMaggio when he died? I read a biography of DiMaggio that had some pretty unkind things to say about how DiMaggio's lawyer conducted himself when Joe died, but I can't remember the guy's name.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,410 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is Bert Padell the guy who was representing DiMaggio when he died? I read a biography of DiMaggio that had some pretty unkind things to say about how DiMaggio's lawyer conducted himself when Joe died, but I can't remember the guy's name. >>


    I don't think so Mac

    He said he was the manager in the late 70s/early 80's.

    Funny story - he was with Joe on a train and a guy came running up to him: "Mr Coffee, Mr Coffee...can you sign this?" Joe was indignant that the guy didn't know his name. So Bert told him to go ahead and sign it Mr Coffee - which he did - "thanks so much [Mr Coffee]" - funny thing - I told my wife the story last nite and she asks: "is that auto worth more?" Very astute question...and if authenticated to be real - I would say, yes! How many Mr Coffee autos of Joe D. out there? One?

    mike
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  • iamthegreatcornholioiamthegreatcornholio Posts: 3,366
    funny story mike!

    have you ever seen the movie 61*? in the movie, some guy asked maris to sign his "x" so roger jokingly signed an "x" with intentions of signing his name as well, but the guy walked away with just the "x" when he noticed it the press go hold of that and made roger seem like an jackass - i always wondered if that really happened and if so, what ever happened to that ball?

    brian
  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭
    I was reading a thread either on this site or another one regarding the antiques roadshow. I believe someone brought in sets of the original StarWars trading cards from 1976 in mint condition and was being told that the item was worth 10 times what the actual items could be had on ebay. I have heard that the items that prices are quoted for are no where near the value given to them, but the stuff they have on there is interesting nevertheless
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  • Carew29Carew29 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭

    The Mays uniform had a small 2 inch patch sown in on the right sleeve. The gentleman later found a photo of Mays posing for cameras and the patch was clearly visible that you didn't even need a 10X magnifier to see it. They quoted him $60-80,000 on the value. I thought that was a little high, but what do i know.
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