The Antiques Roadshow was great fun. Getting all these people with all their stuff was a huge job, and was very well organized. It only took us about 1 1/2 hours total. We didn't see much of what others brought, but it looked like every other person there had a painting, so I was really glad we didn't take my greatgrandmother's portrait.
Anyhow, the Edison Gramophone was appraised at $700-800, with the cylinders at about $10.00 each. John was disappointed that they didn't ask him to set it up to play.
The pitcher is Nippon Porcelain Moriage (mor-ee-AH-ji), ca 19teens-1920s, worth a "couple of hundred dollars".
What I had always called a "fruit set" was promptly called a "fish set". She was somewhat puzzled by the handles, then said they were probably celluloid. Value - $50-100.
The book definitely wasn't a first edition (actually 25th edition), and that seemed to be mainly what he was looking for. Said it was worth maybe $25-50.
So nothing earth-shaking, but definitely a fun experience. We won't featured on the program, but I'll still post the air dates. It'll be sometime during the 2009 season, and the dates should be posted in the fall.
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