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Good evening, thanks so much for joining us for the eighth annual "Carolina Collectibles."

I'm Amy Burkett, and we are here at our PBS Charlotte studio with dozens of our friends from throughout the region who have found their treasures and brought them here for our friends at Leland Little Auction to tell them what they're worth.

Everybody always wants to know what the treasures at your home are worth, and sometimes I think the history is worth more than the money.

But we've got some treasures you won't wanna miss on tonight's show.

(upbeat bouncy music) - Thank you, Janet, for coming into PBS today.

- You're welcome.

- So you brought us some interesting objects.

Could you tell us some more about these?

- Yes.

These came from a house on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.

It was a hunting lodge built in the mid to late 1900s.

My husband's family owned it several decades in the 20th century, and the house has a long history of hunting globally and whaling industry.

- That's great.

- And so these both came from that house.

- Okay, fantastic.

So we'll start with the lamp here.

This is the newer of the two pieces.

This is what we call an arts and crafts piece.

So it's an early 20th-century piece, probably 1910 to 1920.

From the research that we're finding, there's not a particular maker for this, and they're attributing it to being made in Austria.

The frog is all cast bronze.

It patinated here.

The shade is a white metal that's been hand hammered, and then they applied a bronze-toned finish to it.

It's decorated with these glass cabochons that are meant to replicate a moonstone.

There's no mark on here, but at an auction you're gonna be looking at somewhere in the 2 to $3,000 range for that piece.

Then you also brought an interesting piece here.

This is a scrimshaw, so it's a whale tooth, and there was a very popular art form in the 19th century along the East Coast there to take these pieces as they're found on whaling ships and carve them.

So this one is decorated on both sides here.

We've got all hand-carved pin work, and then it's dyed, and you can still see some of the colors in here.

You've got the red and blue American flag on there, the blue of the waves, and it's a clipper ship.

We luckily have the title here, Champion.

And this is donating the Champion of the Seas, which was a ship in service from the 1850s to the 1870s.

And what made the ship famous was it set a world record for the fastest ship in a 24-hour time span.

So this tooth is likely commemorating that time when the ship set that record.

So we would date it to around the 1850 time period.

At auction, you're probably looking at the 1 to $2,000 range.

They're both fantastic pieces, we're glad you brought 'em in.

- Yes, thank you.

My family would be excited to have this information.

- Thank you so much.

- These are some items from my uncle's collections.

These are Chinese gambling tokens.

Have since been wrapped with 14-karat gold.

We're not exactly sure what type of games or gambling they were doing with these, but very interesting.

Not as valuable as we maybe thought.

But we did learn a lot, and we're excited to be here with PBS.

I believe she said 4 to $600 for the set.

I think we have four of them.

- Well, I brought this stool, it's from West Africa.

It's of sentimental value, so that means it's a lot of intrinsic value to it.

But the financial value was around $200, which is more than I thought anyway.

Well, the best part has been to look at other things that have come through and realizing that a lot of things that we value are just that, what we value, and that it's not important how much they cost or how much they're worth.

It's important how much they're worth to me.

So, to me, this is invaluable.

- I found this vase at a garage sale, and I was told it was a local artist, Meredith Steele.

Maybe her younger years.

We're really not sure where she is now or what she's doing.

And they estimated about $100.

- All right, Wendy, so tell me how you acquired this album, and I'd like to hear more about the provenance.

- Sure.

A friend of mine, got this from her right before she passed away.

Unfortunately.

And then this was an album that her sister, as a teenager, took with her to a Beatles concert.

It was the Beatles tour in 1964.

And they went to the Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

And her sister was a young teenager.

Her mother took her and a friend.

And the Beatles were staying right across the street at the then Holiday Inn.

And after the concert, her mother, who was apparently quite aggressive, was able to go right over, march into the suite where the Beatles were staying, and young Kathy watched her mother get all four Beatles to sign this album.

So, later in life, she gave to the album to her sister, and then I got it from her sister.

- Okay.

Well, I mean, that's an amazing story.

- Yeah.

- I see Ringo, John, George, and Paul all signed on the front here, - It's a little worse for wear, but it's still got the.

- It's still all here.

The album's still included in there, so that's great.

- [Wendy] Yeah.

- You can see on the back it's got all the details of the second album from them.

"Roll Over Beethoven," "Thank You Girl," "You Really Got a Hold on Me" and many others on Side 1 and the Side 2.

- As I understand it, this was released in April, and the concert was in September.

So it was the most recent album to take to the concert.

- Nice.

Well, what an amazing story.

At auction, we're seeing values, recent values anywhere between 1 and 4,000.

So it's a pretty wide range.

- Nice.

- I'd say narrow it down to somewhere in the 2 to 3,000 range.

But one thing I would recommend doing is just having an authentication service look at the signatures before you would bring that to market so that you'd have that clarity.

Going into the auction market.

- We'll probably keep it in the collection, but it would be nice to have it authenticated and know what it costs.

- Yeah, given the story you've given me, I have no doubts of its authenticity.

So thank you for bringing it in.

- Great, thank you.

Yeah, that's good information, thank you.

- Can you tell me a little bit about what you brought for us to take a look at?

- Oh, well, thank you, Lauren.

This is one of my favorite pictures.

I was captivated by it when I first saw it.

- [Lauren] Yeah.

- I was down in Charleston visiting my niece, me and one of my cousins also.

We kinda like went shopping and stuff for some items.

And I said, "Well, let's go check out "some antique shops or some habitat stores."

And we wandered into a habitat store in Charleston, South Carolina probably about five, six years ago.

And this particular painting just caught my eye, and I'm like, "Yes, I'm gonna take this one home with me, "but I can't let my wife see it."

(Lauren laughs) - Well, and y'all have had it ever since?

- Yes, we have, uh-huh.

- Well, it's great looking, and I think you did a really good find here.

What it is it's an engraving that was done in the 19th century, specifically 1884.

And it was done after an original painting by the artist, Marcus Stone who was an English artist.

So this engraving would've been made after the painting.

So there's other copies of this floating around.

So it's fun to look online and see where other printings of other versions of this print, other impressions of it live.

It looks like there's one in the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

So it's fun that that you also have a version of it.

This is called "Watt Discovering the Condensation of Steam."

So it's a fun image here, and there's a lot going on.

The original painting would've been done earlier, but this one's 1884.

And it was engraved by James Scott.

So he was the engraver who took this and did the printed version after the original painting.

I suggest you keep it, it sounds like you have a great spot for it in your home and you're not looking to sell it, right?

- Oh no.

Unless I have to put my grandkids through college.

(Lauren laughs) - Well, if you were looking to offer it at auction, I mean, it's a nice original print.

I would say it would sell for between about 3 to $500.

It's in a nice old frame here.

Probably not of the exact same time period, but it's still got some nice age to it.

So you picked up a really good find in Charleston.

- Thank you, thank you.

- Yeah, thank you for bringing it to us today.

- Think we gotta hold on to a little bit longer.

(upbeat bouncy music) - My husband played for New England Patriots back in 1976, and this is a ball that he had everybody sign, from Sam the Man Cunningham, to Steve Grogan.

And Darryl Stingley also signed it.

So it's been in our house for a long time, and I'm just glad to bring it.

And I found out it's worth about $300.

- Well, it's a clock I inherited from my uncle.

He was a master clock person, and so was my grandfather.

And it's a mini New Haven banjo clock.

And on the front here we have Mount Vernon, and we've got a value of about 150 to $200.

So it was inherited to me, so good profit.

It's not going anywhere.

I'll be keeping it, and hopefully getting it repaired and putting it up on the wall.

- I brought vases that have been in my family.

They were given to my father by a very wealthy, well-known man in Chicago, whose son was renowned as the man in the iron lung.

He caught polio in China in 1936.

And there have been books written about him.

And anyways.

So when he was ill in China for 14 months in hospital in an iron lung, his father apparently shopped around.

And one of the things, many things that he brought back were a pair of these vases.

I have another one.

So we were curious all this time how much these vases might be worth.

We found out that the marking on the bottom, which at first was very exciting, is a mark of a 17th-century pottery.

But there was a revival of it in the late 19th century.

And because the marking is red rather than blue, the expert assessed that it was probably from the late 19th century.

So the pair are worth probably around $1,000, 800 to 1200.

- So why don't you tell us what you brought in today?

- Okay, I have two Japanese clocks.

My parents were clock collectors, and back in 1959 they bought these from a collector in Toledo.

They were from Detroit area.

Actually, until they passed away, I had never really seen them.

There was a letter in a box with them that was from the original collector.

And he explained a little bit about how the timekeeping is different in Japan.

I really don't know a whole lot more.

I'm hoping to get them so that they're up and running.

- Good.

And how much did they pay for them?

- I believe the letter said it was $59.38.

- All right, sounds good.

So what we have here is a pair of Japanese bracket clocks.

They were made in the mid to late 19th century, somewhere between 1850 and 1900.

They are engraved with foliate designs on the front.

And I actually find it really lovely that they engraved the reverse side as well.

And they are engraved with Japanese characters around the dial.

And what's somewhat unusual about this is the numbering system, which is different than what we're used to.

And also that the dial is what moves here as opposed to the hands of the clock.

For the pair, I think that they're very rare.

I could only find one other comp at auction in the past couple of years.

And I think that the two together could be worth about $2,000.

- Wow, that's really great, that's neat.

Yeah, as I say, I've never really seen them out, so maybe we need to stick 'em out.

- Yeah, you should.

- Perfect.

- Well, thanks for bringing those in.

- Yeah, thanks, Erin.

- Do you wanna show me you brought in today?

- Yep.

Okay, what do you got?

- I got this.

- All right, and tell me where you got it.

- I got it from the beach.

I was collecting shark teeth, and a beach was near a fort.

And while I was collecting shark's teeth, I found this big L-shaped iron.

It was like black.

So then like I collect iron, and like I smashed it open, and then I attracted it with my magnet.

And then get all the pixel things.

So then I took it to my house, and then like smashed it open and I found that inside of the iron.

- All right.

And was it a piece of iron like this one?

- It was like bigger than that.

Like this fat and like this long.

- Oh wow.

Did you find anything else in that piece?

- Nope.

- Just a bunch of iron?

- [Crawford] Yeah.

- All right, well, you found this cross pendant would go on a necklace, and likely someone dropped it a long time ago.

It's hard to tell how old it is because it was kind of in the ground for a little while, but I think it's probably from the early to mid 20th century.

It's not made of gold or silver, but it has a good story to it.

And I think if you wanted to sell it, you could probably get about $20 bucks for it.

- Neil, you've brought some interesting baseball memorabilia that you've acquired.

Would you like to tell us how you acquired it and where from and what time period?

- There was an estate sale where I lived growing up in Crewe, Virginia.

And they were selling everything.

And of course I loved baseball, and that's where I acquired all of this and this as well.

- Okay.

So what year was that approximately?

- I think it was '71 or '72.

- Okay.

And what do you know about the players that you have here?

So you have Mel Ott.

- [Neil] Dizzy Dean and Paul Dean.

- Okay.

You have a Ty Cobb photograph here too.

- [Neil] Yeah, the Ty Cobb is not on the baseballs, but it is kind of a neat picture.

- I'm sure you were wishing that Ty Cobb was on that baseball.

- Absolutely, and I looked.

(Brian laughs) - But I do have probably 12, 14 more pictures of people that had autographed this just like this.

- And out of the names you've mentioned, Mel Ott being a popular player in the '20's through the '40's for the Giants, and seeing that you have his signature on the ball here as well as Whitey Whitehead, Dizzy Dean, like you mentioned.

Any idea of the value on, no?

- No idea, none.

- So signatures range in value.

One of the things that's important, I think, for most collectors is to get them authenticated by a authentication service so that it can bring some comfortability with the bidding audience.

And at auction, I would expect, just the Mel Ott signature alone can bring in the 3 to $500 range on a baseball.

If we know more about the other signatures on there, that could be a lot more, if we knew an approximate date that they were signed, an event that this happened at, a particular game.

All those things play into value on a baseball.

And I love that you have the photo that goes with the baseball too that's signed.

Given that you have many more signatures on these balls that we haven't identified yet, I think opens it up to being possibly a very valuable ball.

Conservatively at auction, knowing that there's more signatures on there, 800, maybe more for the pair.

So thank you for bringing it in.

- Thank you.

(upbeat bouncy music) - I have a galleon.

I thought it was the Mayflower, but I was corrected, it's a galleon.

It was in my grandfather's house for many, many years.

He had a cockatiel, and Johnny would sit on top of this ship, and it's a very fond memory.

It's from the '40's, and it's worth between 40 and $80, which surprised me.

I'm very pleased.

- I brought a print by Ernie Barnes.

It's entitled "Follow the Leader."

And what I learned about it is that it's worth some money, but if it's signed underneath, it's worth quite a bit more.

That's what I learned today.

Unsigned, probably about 1,000, and unsigned, who knows?

If it's signed.

- Well, I brought Robert the Robot, the Mechanical Man.

Drive me and steer me wherever you can.

And my Hopalong Cassidy radio.

For some reason, I was a big Hopalong Cassidy fan.

I had a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle with the gun holsters there.

I had the black outfit, the hat, the guns.

And I had this Hopalong Cassidy radio that I played.

I was kind of a pack rat, and my mom was too.

So I kept all this stuff.

And when I went off to college, they moved, she took all this stuff and put it in a box and stuff and put it in the attic.

And then when they moved to Greenville, she came down and said, "I got these boxes for you."

So I brought 'em back to Charlotte, put 'em in my attic, and didn't mess with 'em until I retired a few years ago.

And then I started unpacking this stuff, and I found Robert the Robot and the Hopalong Cassidy radio, baseball cards, all kind of stuff that I hadn't played with in years and stuff.

I think this was like maybe 25 or $50, and this was about the same range.

Of course, I had 'em all these years.

I wouldn't get rid of 'em for anything, you know?

- Hi, Diana.

How are you?

- Good, thanks.

- What did you bring in today?

I brought in some jewelry from my great-grandfather's jewelry store in Decatur, Illinois.

And when I was going through family memorabilia, I found this.

This is a full-page ad from 1891 of my great-grandfather's jewelry store that was in the newspaper in Decatur, Illinois.

And it was called Otto Curtis and Brother.

Otto and my great-grandfather, Frank, were in the jewelry store together for a lot of years.

And then when Otto died, my great-grandfather renamed it to the Frank Curtis Company, and the jewelry is from there.

And these have the name of the jewelry store in it, Frank Curtis and Company.

And that one.

This belonged to his wife, my great-grandmother.

And it's got engraving inside, that was her wedding ring.

And this is my great-grandfather Frank when he owned the jewelry store.

And that's my grandmother Jane.

And this ring's special to me because he made it for his daughter Jane when she was young woman, right before she got married, about 1920, I believe.

And it's one of a kind, he was real proud that he made one of a kind for his daughter, and it has ruby and pearl, and it's just unique looking.

So, anyway, this is all special because it's family jewelry store.

- Yeah, it's a really cool story.

And I love these two rings, and I love that they have the family boxes in them.

And that ring over there that he made for his daughter is sterling silver and ruby.

It's a beautiful ring.

I think the sentimental value far outweighs any other value, but if you were to sell it at auction, I think it would bring between 1,000 and 1,500.

- Okay, thanks.

(upbeat bouncy music) - Mr. and Mrs. Garrett, it's lovely to have you here.

If you could tell me about what you've brought in today.

- Well, we purchased this Japanese bronze about 30 years ago in Minneapolis from a dealer.

We were actually living in the Quad Cities just north of Davenport and Bettendorf where we found it.

And we've had people from Korea, Japan, and China read it for us.

It's marked on the bottom, but nobody could read it.

So we brought it in here hoping you could tell us something about it.

- Well, I'm glad you did because it is quite something.

So what first appealed to you when you saw this?

- Well, we love and collect Japanese porcelains, bronzes, that type thing.

But the detail and the workmanship in it was what impressed me the most.

And, originally, I thought it was a bronze, but I thought the patina had been taken off by somebody cleaning it.

And I'd like for you to explain that to me, how I could put the patina back on if I need to.

- Well, it's actually, this is what we'd call a gilt bronze.

So they would've covered it.

And that's why it has this shine.

It's not like a dark bronze.

It does have, you can see, a greenish patina inside.

But what is so wonderful about this, other than the size, which is a very large size, we do get Japanese bronzes in quite a bit, but the detail of this one is so fantastic.

Not only is it etched and cast, but it also has this raised cast.

On this side, you have the two, we call them shishi lions, they're called foo lions in Chinese, and these large peony blossoms.

This is very symbolic of an auspicious occasion, of good fortune.

On the other side, you have these beautiful, very animated dragon with the three claws, which is what you find in Japan.

In China, you see more four or five claws.

In Japan and Korea, it's three or four, and mostly three in Japan.

And the dragon's got this huge mouth opening, the whiskers, he's in the water.

It's wonderful.

You have a lotus petal blossom border at the top, and then again repeated above the foot.

And this key fret pattern, which is very characteristic of bronzes in China and Japan, but especially at this time period in Japan.

I would date this to end of the Edo period, beginning of the Meiji period, which is about 1860.

But what the most extraordinary part is that this is signed.

Bronzes in Japan are signed during the Meiji period, but often you don't find this in the Edo period.

When you do, it's because the maker's exceptionally proud of what they've done.

And not only is it signed, it has a six-character signature.

And the signature's actually in seal script, which makes it a little bit difficult for anyone to read unless they have a book.

So it's not just reading Japanese characters, it's actually they're made into a seal character type, which is a whole different alphabet to read.

- So that's why my Japanese buddies couldn't read.

- Exactly, yes, sir.

- We had to bring it to an expert.

- So it's something that I have to take some time with my book to read for you.

But I will, and I'm excited about this piece, and so thankful you brought it in.

- Oh, we appreciate the knowledge, Actually, we've had it for 30 years.

Nobody could tell us anything about it.

So it's well worth coming down here and bringing it, so thank you very much.

- Thank you, both.

- Well, we've determined this is a guitar zither from Germany.

- Okay.

- And I'd like to hear the story.

- I'd like to be able to tell you my family brought it over from Germany, but they didn't.

I bought it at a local thrift store here in Charlotte.

I'm in them all the time.

And it caught my eye.

I just picked it up.

I thought it was neat, and we took it to our guitar teacher, and none of us knew what it was.

- Okay, well, a German guitar zither from about the beginning of World War I.

And a good decorative piece.

- Great, yeah, it's got a lot of cracks in it.

- And value of this, we just recently discovered, is about $200.

- Okay, awesome, awesome.

It's a neat piece.

- Yes, ma'am.

Thank you for bringing it in.

- Thank you.

(upbeat bouncy music) - Well, I've got a Mickey Mantle autograph that I got when I was 13, 12 or 13 years old.

They told me that it's a nice one.

Salisbury, North Carolina's where I'm from, and they have a Broadcaster and Sportswriters Hall of Fame there.

And he came into town at Catawba College for that weekend induction of the Sportswriters Hall of Fame and did an autograph signing.

So that was close to my home, and I dug this card up and went and waited in line and got it autographed.

So it was fun.

- It's priceless to us, but they said it'd auction about $1,000.

- Yeah.

- Not too shabby.

- We brought this astronaut GI Joe.

We can't retire on him because he's only worth about $30.

But we had fun.

He's cute.

Never been opened and, just, we like him.

We found him in my sister's basement in New York, and he's been sitting there for years.

So we just said, "Hey, we are gonna take it and bring it "and see if we can retire."

It's not happening.

(Sharon laughs) - Keep looking, let's keep looking.

- Yeah, I guess we have to go to work on Monday.

(Sharon laughs) - So I've got a family water pitcher.

This goes back six generations in my family, and we actually were able to trace that on a family tree.

We use it every once in a while for when the family gets together and we need a water pitcher, but it's a little more to it than that.

I found out it is crystal.

It is from Western Pennsylvania is where the family is from, and actually the manufacturer is in that area.

Dates from about 1870s to 1890s.

And had a family member back that generation who owned a hotel, the Doncaster Hotel.

And the article lists him as owner-proprietor, and he is in my family tree.

So this has been passed down generation to generation.

Here I am now holding it, so I better keep both hands on it.

There weren't many of 'em available, so it ranged somewhere from about 100 or so to $950.

So I'll split the difference and be happy.

- Hey, Beth, thank you so much for bringing this painting in today.

We were all really excited when we saw it walk through the door.

Can you tell me a little bit about how you got this?

- Yes, so my dad loaned it to me.

He originally bought it up in Baltimore back in the early, I guess, 1990s, late 1980s.

What the art dealer said was that it came from the Dutch Embassy in D.C. when they did some remodeling.

But that's all he really knew about it.

- Oh, well, it was definitely an old painting when he bought it.

One thing I wanted to look at was the back of the painting, which we can tell a lot about a painting from the back in addition to the front.

And one thing that jumps out is we have this red wax seal that is from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

And the name referenced on the seal was used post-1807.

So I think that this is early 19th century.

So looking back at the front, we've gone over the painting, we don't see a signature, which is not unusual.

A lot of these were unsigned.

This is a copy of a 16th-century Italian painting that was originally attributed to Raphael and is in the collection of the Borghese Gallery.

One thing that I find interesting is that, over time, these paintings have had various attributions.

So it started out as being attributed to Raphael.

Over the years, they switched it to attributed to Caravaggio.

And now it has been identified as just a Roman School painting.

- Okay.

- So what you have here is an early 19th-century copy of a 16th-century painting.

- Oh wow.

- So it's got an old frame here.

The frame has a later gold paint, but it's still a nice antique frame.

Overall, it's a depiction of the entombment of Christ.

So a really nice, tight composition of figures.

And I really like, oh, instead of kind of a triangular composition which you see with a lot of Italian paintings of this time, it's kind of the circular composition, which I think is really interesting.

You have Mary Magdalene here who is identifiable with the jar of ointment that she's holding.

And then of course the Virgin Mary here who is being supported by other women.

And you have various different apostles and saints that are in the whole scene.

At auction, a painting like this is likely to sell in the 2 to $4,000 range.

And it's a real treat to see because it's not something that you see every day.

So we're really thankful that you brought it in.

- Thank you.

- Do you wanna tell us about where you got this piece?

- I was working in Winston-Salem.

The company I worked for closed some offices, and they sold artwork that was in those offices.

And I bought that at a sale.

I paid $20 for it.

- Okay, that's good, that's good.

Well, you have a piece by an artist called Muir Stewart, and it's dated 1985.

This is a living artist.

He was born in Scotland and he went to the Edinburgh College of Art there.

He traveled all over the world, and he has many paintings from Italy and other parts of Europe.

And now he resides in the United States, and his studio is near Auburn University.

This is an original watercolor by him.

And I do think that it is a Scottish landscape, which was what you thought originally, that it was a painting of Scotland.

And I agree with that.

I think it's a Scottish coastal scene with the cliffs in the background and the church visible as well as the buildings.

I think that this piece would be worth around 2 to $300.

But though the artist is living, there isn't too many second auction results, and there could be more that come forward throughout the years.

- Cathy, thanks for coming in today.

- Thanks.

- So what'd you bring us?

- I brought you a Peter Max jacket that I bought when I was in high school, I believe.

I loved it.

And in 2012, I had Peter Max sign it.

- Wow, that is awesome.

So about what year was that when you got the jacket?

- Probably mid to late '80's, if I'm not mistaken.

- Yeah, it looks very '80's.

It's a beautiful jacket.

And we looked at the label in here.

So this is a Peter Max design jacket with decorations to both sides.

But what makes it unique and special is definitely the signature.

A lot of times it's hard for anybody selling autographs and signatures to authenticate them, but in your case, you're the one that got it signed, and you have a photo to prove it.

So that's wonderful.

And so you get to meet him at an art gallery?

- Yes.

- That's so cool.

And he dated it too here.

And Peter Max is still living, still with us, and some artwork is still being produced, but it's slowed up in the market.

We're seeing strength still in modernism, and this certainly fits that aspect, and it's great because it's so many different things.

It's almost sculptural because it's a jacket, it's artwork because it's decorated, and it's signed here by Peter Max, who's one of the great 20th-century pop artists, decorating for covers of albums, artwork.

You just see 'em all over the place.

And in the market here at auction, I think we'd be looking at the 500 to $1,000 range if it were to sell.

- Thank you so much.

- Yeah, wonderful.

Thank you for bringing it in.

- Thank you.

- So, Jane, you brought in some jewelry today.

- I did.

My grandfather, Max Bardach, was a diamond cutter in Austria.

He came to this country at the turn of the century, actually in 1900.

And he became a jeweler and a very successful jeweler in Indianapolis.

He is perhaps best known with his sons for creating the Indianapolis 500 ring that is still given out today.

These pieces were ones that he made for his wife, he made for his daughter, my mother.

And this was a stick pin that he wore himself that I had turned into pearl so I could actually use it.

- So it's really beautiful and such an interesting story.

You have a jade ring here, and that's a cabochon of jade.

And you said this was made for an engagement ring for his daughter, right?

- Yes.

She did not want a big diamond.

She was a small woman, and she said, "I always wanted a pearl."

So he made her this pearl ring with diamonds around it.

- It's really, really pretty.

I think at auction everything here would probably sell in the range between 1,200 and $1,800.

- And they won't ever be for sale.

- No, they will not.

They're beautiful pieces.

Thank you for bringing them in.

- So happy to do so.

(upbeat bouncy music) - Hey, Dick, nice to see you.

I'm Rob Golan.

I'm from Leland Little Auctions in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and I am very interested in discussing this guitar with you.

- Well, thanks, Rob.

I'm really interested about this guitar.

A little bit of the history on it.

I'm originally from Anderson, South Carolina.

And during the '30's, my dad worked in a textile mill in Anderson.

And on the weekends they played the guitar, and they were pretty good, so they were on the radio on the weekends.

And he did that up until he went into the service in the 1940s.

And he was a MP, and when he came back out he was a policeman in Anderson, and for some reason didn't pick the guitar up.

Our family was musical.

My sister played the clarinet and the piano, and I played the saxophone, but nobody played the guitar.

And it just sat there all these years.

- Well, I'm glad to see it's come out.

Dick has a really fine guitar here.

This is a Gibson archtop that has 14 frets.

It was probably made after 1934 and into the late '30's at some point, which goes right along with what I've heard here.

This guitar has plastic pick guard, F-holes.

Excellent low action and tuners that work.

I'm not going to play it 'cause it's out of tune, but this is a wonderful guitar.

And I think, Dick, that you have a $2,500 guitar here.

- Whoa.

- So that's what it would bring, fair market value at auction.

- If I held it a little longer, it could still go up?

- It might, so hang with it.

- That is fantastic.

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