(upbeat music) - [Announcer] A production of PBS Charlotte.

- Okay, it's a big day here in the studio at PBS Charlotte.

It's the eighth annual, "Carolina Collectibles".

A day where the public comes to visit their public television station and they bring their treasures.

And our friends at Leland Little Auction help them understand what those treasures are worth and learn about their history.

It's gonna be a good one.

I bet you're gonna be surprised.

(upbeat music) Welcome to PBS Charlotte's, "Carolina Collectibles".

It's the eighth annual and we are so excited that you tuned in.

Guess what?

We've got some hum dingers coming your way.

We're gonna kick things off with some Norman Rockwell.

My new friend, John from Lake Norman.

You found these in the attic?

- Amy, we found these in an envelope in our attic closet, and we realized they were Norman Rockwell originals.

But the value we found out here at the show is amazing.

- Okay, well we're not gonna give it away yet, so the answer's coming up.

You don't wanna miss it.

"Carolina Collectibles" starts right now.

(upbeat music) - Hey, Ed.

- Hey, how are you?

- Thanks for coming into, "Carolina Collectibles".

- Thank you, I'm glad to be here.

- Okay.

- My first time.

- Well, that's great.

- Yeah.

- So you brought some interesting modern ceramics, American pottery.

- Yes.

- So explain a little bit about what you have.

- All right, this first piece here, this big platter, is by Peter Voulkos.

And I purchased it from the Helen Drutt Gallery in Philadelphia, New York.

Pete was famous in America for a lot of different reasons.

He bridged the gap between utilitarian pottery and fine art.

And this particular piece, when you look at it carefully, you can see he actually introduced fiberglass into the clay, which enabled him to get real distorted pieces that would hold up in the fire.

I lived out on Long Island at the time and went to the gallery, saw that Ms. Drutt had a beautiful show and was able to take out a loan and buy this piece of pottery.

- Yeah, that's great, so 1971 you said?

- 1972.

- [Luke] '72.

- Yes.

- [Luke] So how much would a piece like that cost at a gallery then?

- $700- - [Luke] Wow.

- Is what I paid for it.

- Okay, that's a good buy.

- I had to sell more pieces of my pottery to take the money and to buy that.

- I hear ya, I hear ya.

- But I've enjoyed it over the years.

- Yeah, that's great, and what about this piece here?

- This piece is made by Mutsuo Yanagihara.

And Mutsuo is 90 years old now, and he is professor emeritus at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan.

And Mutsuo has shown his work all over the world.

And I was in graduate school at the time in Alfred, New York at Alfred University.

And Mutsuo came to do a year and a half of shopping classes, and I was more or less his apprentice.

I mixed his clay, I mixed his glazes.

- [Luke] That's great.

- And then he made and designed these pots.

And he gave me this pot for helping him.

- [Luke] Yeah.

- And so over the years, I have also enjoyed it.

It's a nice contrast between this one and this one.

- It is.

- They're very, very contrasting in design, but... - Yeah, absolutely.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, so I mean, I love that you're very well versed.

You enjoy what you have.

You've researched it, you're familiar with the artist, working with the artist.

I mean that's great, very true collector there.

The Mutsuo piece here, the lidded jar has got beautiful gold glazing there, detail on the bottom and the rim.

At auction, you see his sculpture works selling for several thousand.

You know, this being a more utilitarian piece, we would expect to see 500 to a thousand dollars is what you would see at auction.

The Voulkos here, to me is the showstopper piece because in his career around 1951, when he comes to Black Mountain, that's when he really starts showing his expressionism in pottery and clay.

- [Ed] Yes, yeah.

- You know, puncturing it, having this beautiful movement to it and as you said here, working with the fiberglass, which allows it to be strengthened so he could do that.

So this is really his mature style.

It's what's collected, it's what's desired by modern collectors today.

At auction, this piece we would expect to see anywhere from the 4,000, 8,000 range.

- Wow.

- [Luke] I think it's a great example of his work.

- Wow.

- [Luke] Yeah.

- All right.

- [Luke] Thank you for bringing those in.

Thank you, I'm pleased, yes sir, thank you.

- I brought a gold coin that was minted in Charlotte in 1843 and it's been passed down in the family forever.

So we were very curious as to what it might be worth.

And it ended up, it's worth about $3,500.

And we almost didn't find it whenever we were going through my mama's stuff.

We were like, "Where is that gold coin?"

And it was hidden in a table that has a sliding top to it.

And so, fortunately we slid it back to fold the table over and we were like, "Oh, there's the gold coin."

- I brought an Elvis 45 record on the sun label signed for me by Elvis Presley.

And it signed, "Love ya, Elvis Presley."

A girlfriend and I, back in 1956, we were juniors, I guess it was between our junior and senior, maybe junior year, we had tickets to go to the Gator Bowl to see Elvis that night.

And we were at a record store buying one of his records when the owner of the record store said, "You like Elvis Presley?"

It was way back at the, early, early in his career when he was pretty rockabilly.

And we said, "Oh, we'd love Elvis."

And they said that, "Well, would you like to see him?

He's coming here to the record store."

He pulled up in his pink Cadillac with all the instruments on top of the car, and the whole band spilled out of the car and came in.

And he must have taken to me because he signed it, "Love ya, Elvis Presley."

And it's a good song too, it's, "Baby Let's Play House."

And on the other side is, "I'm left, you're right, she's gone."

It was somewhere between 400 and a thousand.

But I pointed out that it's on the sun label and I think anything on the sun label has value regardless of the signature.

So to me it's probably worth a million dollars.

- Well, I bought two things.

This is a Faberge like egg, and I found out that it's worth between 60 and $120.

But it's priceless in my heart.

I received it as a gift from a coworker 24 years ago, actually.

- This was a piece I got from my grandparents and I believe they acquired it in the '50s or '60s.

And then I've had it for a while now and I'm trying to figure out how old it is and- - [Luke] Sure.

- You know, information about it.

- Yeah, I'm glad you brought it in.

So the form itself isn't very unusual, but what's great about this piece is all the decoration.

So the form, we're looking at something that's coming out of the mission time period, of the late 19th century, turn of the 20th into Art Nouveau.

So around 1910, 1920 time period is what we're looking at here.

But all this low relief decoration, it's carved and burned into it is known as tramp art.

And it's something that you often see in small boxes, picture frames, tabletop accessories, but not so much a whole piece of furniture.

So that's what's unusual about this.

And the decoration is not just on the front, it goes all the way around the sides.

This beautiful foliate and leaf decoration with the acanthus leaves, and it's all highly stylized.

So that's really typical of the art Novo time period.

And then the face on here is reminiscent of the Gibson girls.

So that would've been like a late 19th century thing, but still very much an early 20th century design.

And then you noted down here that there's a possible signature at the bottom of her bust there.

And it could be, I can't make it out, but again, this is something that wasn't produced by a big manufacturer.

These are more in-home made things.

So most of the time you can't identify the maker of these pieces.

The chip carving is what you call this on the edge here.

That's an attractive detail.

You'll get people that collect just tramp art.

You know, they'll have a whole wall of chip carve frames.

It's a beautiful presentation.

But to have this piece, which is a fall front desk, so you've got the key for it here, but it's got a simple interior.

You know, this chain is all new and it's got new hinges, which that's a common thing, but it would've had its support similar to this originally, but it was probably a lady's desk.

And that's why you see the lady here.

But just a nice usable, small piece of furniture.

In today's market, it's gotten a little softer for this type of thing, but it's still unusual and collectible.

I would think you're gonna be somewhere in that 600, $900 range at auction.

And if you get the right people, it could go for higher.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- Yeah, thank you for bringing it in.

- Yeah, thanks for the information.

- Yeah, you're welcome.

- So Dondhi, where did you get this piece?

- I bought it in New York City between '84 and '86, I wanna say.

It was a gentleman sitting on the street, he sold me this and a bag of cloth napkins for $12.

- Well, I think that you made a good smart purchase.

- Okay.

- So what we have here is, it's really interesting, it's by an artist named Nicholas Mordvinoff who was originally from Russia and eventually immigrated to Tahiti, and was living in Tahiti in the '30s and early '40s.

And so what he did while he was there is he sold original paintings to the tourists that were coming onto the island.

And so, what we've got in this piece is a map of Tahiti, which Mordvinoff has drawn on with these classic art deco caricatures of different figures.

You have some missionaries, you have a soldier, you have some people that were native to Tahiti, and kind of these very comical little mermaids, and sharks, and everything.

But it's a really fun example of art deco work.

And we saw that one of the ways he was paid is sometimes in pearls.

People would pay him with pearls for these pieces that they bought from him in Tahiti.

And it's really just a great original painting and I'm so glad you brought it in today.

And I would say at auction it would probably sell for about 500 to $1,000.

- Wow, that's not bad for $12.

- No it's not.

(upbeat music) - Well this is my helmet signed by a lot of the NASCAR greats.

On here we have Richard Petty, Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, Kelly Yarborough, we've also got Junior Johnson and many, many more.

The Wood Brothers, Bill Elliot, and a lot of the newer fellas too, Denny Hamlin and such.

A lot of the owners are on here, Richard Childress and Jack Roush.

And it's something that we've done over, about 20 years of collecting in the garage and enjoying NASCAR.

We have a son that works in racing and we've always had great access to meet drivers and that kind of thing.

The folks at NASCAR have always been great to us.

Behind every signature, there's a story.

Some of these I got outside the Hall of Fame the nights these guys were inducted, and it's just kind of a family treasure that we have and we're just lucky to have it.

They figure it's worth somewhere in the low thousands, depending on the day and the venue.

- I brought in a rocking chair and I purchased it back in the '90s in Bath, Ohio at an antique store.

It turns out it was most likely from the 1840s Americana and valued at 200 to $400.

So I was really excited about that.

- So this icon was bequeathed to me by a very close family friend.

My husband went to the Naval Academy and they were all assigned sponsor families and the sponsor family became our family.

And the story is, Eleanor's family during post World War II, her father was working on implementing the Marshall Plan abroad, and her mother purchased this in Turkey.

And so, they had it hanging in their living room forever.

And when she passed away during COVID, it was given to me.

- Wow, that's a good family connection and provenance that you have there for this piece.

Did they tell you anything about it in terms of age at that time?

How old they thought it was?

- They thought it was from the ninth century.

- Hmm, okay.

You know, it's possible that it's that old.

It does appear to us to be a Greek icon.

This would've been made anytime in the Byzantine period through, you know, they were still making these in 19th century, and until today still.

So it is painted on wood, it does look like it is painted in egg tempera, which is a traditional media they would've used on top of a primed layer.

So it could be as old as ninth century.

There are a few elements here stylistically that could point to maybe later time periods too.

We look at the whole image, we see Theotokos, so the mother of God, holding the Christ child.

The Christ child is holding globe of the world with a cross on top, that is a traditional pose of the child known as Salvator Mundi.

And we see that Da Vinci's representation.

He has one of the Christ child, right?

So we see it in a Renaissance period.

So there's some other elements that might help tell the story of how old this is.

We see two archangels likely up top, I'm guessing that's who these figures are, possibly Michael and Gabriel.

And we see two saints that are venerated down below, possibly Saint Nicholas here.

Some identification could be done here with further research to see who this saint is.

To my eye, it could possibly be Saint Nicholas.

I'm not sure on this other saint over here, who that could be.

And then here, this script here could also be telling some more of the story, perhaps where this icon was originally placed.

It could be most likely as a part of a church, it would've been a commissioned piece done by an artist for that church.

So if perhaps some of these elements could be translated.

And there are individuals who do that, you might get to find out more about where this came from, right?

Which church it came from.

And then, if there are other similar pieces in that church that still is perhaps surviving today.

That'll help you put the clues together to see perhaps how old this is.

To my eye, it's at least 18th century or earlier, right?

There are some elements here in the chair's construction and the style that looks to be sort of more baroque or renaissance in style.

The winged pouty heads on the top here and these scale designs.

I don't often see those in really early examples from the ninth century.

But you know, those are my thoughts.

It does have a metal element here that is put on that's most likely silver.

It looks like another element would've been over, around or on top of this hand as well as the crown.

And perhaps some holes around too where the chair is, where the chair rails are.

So this would've been more decorated in silver most likely as well.

It's a wonderful piece, I'm so glad you brought it in.

You know, being this large, this is a large piece for an icon.

I would say anywhere between two, 3,000 perhaps at auction.

Thank you guys so much for bringing it in.

It's an exciting piece that you have in your collection.

- Oh, thank you for your information.

- Well, first I wanna ask you guys where you acquired this piece and what you know about it.

- Well, my dad was, he very fond of antiques.

My mom and dad raised eight children.

And dad, little did mom know, had purchased this back in 1969 and it was in a crate for many years.

And when we moved to Charlotte, dad brought it with him.

It was one of his prize collectibles.

And little did I know, when I saw the paperwork, he really wanted to know the value and he had a lot of research on asking about the value.

I saw letters, and he kept everything, but he gifted it to my son who is into film.

And Nick is now in California and we are holding it for him as he gets out into the world.

He wants it back and wants to know the value as do we.

But most importantly, my dad who has since passed.

But he really wanted to know the value.

So it's nice to see it all opened up here.

Maybe my son will make it come to life and investigate further, but we thought we'd start with the value.

- Sure, and it's so interesting to hear that your dad collected this piece and it was about film and your son is now in film, which is such a, maybe not a coincidence at all.

- It really, and the fact that when I looked at the paperwork, he actually got this from a antique place in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1969.

- [Erin] Wow.

- So I thought, wow, full circle.

Here it is, the machine actually came back to Charlotte and we are just fascinated by it and would love to see it working.

And if anybody can do it, maybe Nick will do it.

So it's such a great inspiration for him.

- Certainly.

So what we have here is a magic lantern and on the box it refers to it as Lantern a' Magica.

This piece is from the late 19th century and it's silver plate, and it was made in Germany.

And my understanding of how it works is that you light a kerosene lantern and it creates light, and then these slides would be inserted into this little slot right here and projected onto the wall using the light from the kerosene lamp.

And what is so interesting about this piece is that it comes with such a vibrant collection of different types of slides, including hand painted ones that you move by hand.

- [Donna] Amazing.

- And also kaleidoscope- - [Donna] So intricate.

- That you would want.

I love that, so neat.

And then these paper ones are all hand drawn as well.

- [Donna] Gorgeous.

- They looked, originally, I thought that they were prints, but they're hand drawn pieces.

They're writing their own film scenes as they're making these.

I assume you could probably buy the little paper slots and then write your own scenes as you needed to- - Beautiful.

- Create your own films.

It also comes with the original case, which is this wood case and it has the original advertisement, and that is a hand colored engraving from the period 1880s.

It's just quite beautiful that you still have the original box that it came in, which I think, the Lantern Magica.

- Yes.

- Lantern Magica.

So it's wonderful, and I think I would estimate a value of 500 to a thousand for this lot.

(upbeat music) - This is a spice cabinet from like 1860 to 1880.

It was made in the Mid-Atlantic area and it's got the nails are all square nails.

Here's all the little cabinets.

They say different things.

Some of them say like, one of them says chicory.

Some of them say just like very random things.

I acquired actually from the side of the road in Belmont, North Carolina.

Somebody was just throwing it away.

And it is between six and $800.

- I brought two books that I inherited from my father.

It's, you know, parents and inherited cool stuff.

The first one, this is a 1789 copy of, "Barnaby's Travels through the Colonies" and it's really cool.

It's got some old maps in it and it's just a neat book to look through his comments about the colonies, what he thought of people in Philadelphia who thought they were just money grubbing, boring people except for the women.

And it goes all the way through.

So has some beautiful plates, some maps and everything in it.

And just cool to pick up an old book and feel history in my hands, and I'm just reading it.

And the S's are in F's, you know?

So you have to look through that.

And it's got some beautiful maps and some crazy pullouts in the back.

So yeah, this is a cool book.

And another one was a first American first state edition of, "The Hobbit."

And most people think that the first edition is green, but it's not, it's this, and this is from 1938.

This is worth about 1,000.

This is worth about two to 3,000.

- So tell us about this piece and why you brought it here today.

- Okay, so my mother's aunt was a nurse in the US Navy and she served in China during the '30s.

She brought back several items, this she always described as an emperor's cuff.

It appears to be a cuff from a ceremonial gown.

And we had it framed and enjoy looking at it.

- Wonderful.

Yep, this is probably from the late 19th or early 20th century.

And it is an embroidery from a sleeve, like you've said, from a ceremonial robe that would've been worn.

And the motifs are embroidered in silk.

And what we see is butterfly decoration, which was common as well as as it was foliate.

And more uniquely, these vases and even the (indistinct) at the bottom with the fruits inside or the lotus flowers are quite lovely.

The flowers here, which have a gradient kind of pink to orange dye, they're embroidered in what's called a pecking knot or a forbidden stitch, which was a style of Chinese embroidery where they do a specific type of knot that makes it raised like that.

And it's just quite tasteful.

And sometimes the entire thing will be embroidered in that forbidden stitch.

But most notably, we see it here in the flowers, which stand out amongst the rest of the decoration.

So it's a style of embroidery that they used in China.

It's a type of knot that was very popular and you try to hide the stitch.

So it's called a pecking knot.

And it creates a raised motif.

You can make gradation in the color with it.

And this piece makes the flowers stand out amongst the rest of the decoration, which is quite lovely.

And it is on a silk ground, which would've been the robe fabric.

It's lovely and it's probably worth about three to $400 at auction.

- We brought a pocket watch that belonged to our great uncle Gus, who was a lawyer in Alexander County.

I brought two red stone rings that I inherited from my Aunt Julia, because I was born in July.

And then we brought her wedding ring, which her uncle had this certificate to go with it.

- Okay, what can you tell me about the pocket watch and your great uncle?

- He was a lawyer in Alexander County, Gus Beckham, he was pretty well known in that area.

And we just always wondered if this thing was real gold or what the story was, what kind of a watch it was, how much it might be worth.

- Okay, well so I've taken a look at the watch and it is not solid gold, but it is gold filled.

And so you see that from the markings on the inside and the markings say 20 years.

So that's warranted 20 years gold filled.

And it is marked for the Illinois watch company.

It's also the Bun special, so that was the model of the watch.

And it has another mark on the inside for the Keystone Watch case company.

And it has 23 jewels and you can actually see those little jewels right there.

So it is an early 20th century pocket watch.

It's the Bun special, which was the model for the Illinois watch company.

And the case as marked was made by the Keystone Watch Case company.

At auction, you could expect it to sell probably somewhere between 400 to $800.

But it's just a cool piece and a cool piece of family history as well.

(upbeat music) - Well we brought this parlor kerosene lamp that's been in the family.

We really had no idea what it was or where it came from, actually.

So it's just been at my grandma's house from when I was super young and turns out it's around a circa 18 to 80 new Juno model kerosene lamp.

- Oh, it'll stay in the family.

It's worth between a hundred, $300.

Not a big market for this right now.

- Yeah, apparently the Victorian market has gone a little bit soft, but we had no intention of selling it anyway.

We really were just curious what it is that we had and that I've been lugging around for 20 years in a box, trying not to break.

You know, I think it's always nice to have little connections to the past and just reminds me a little bit of some memories of my family and growing up at my grandma's house.

And I think it's really cool.

- So this is an antique music box.

It was my great aunt and uncle's.

They lived in Hagerstown, Maryland in a pre-Civil war farmhouse.

And they were antiques collectors.

This music box was one of their items that was left to my mom after they passed away.

And it's Rosewood and then Kingwood inlay with some silver and brass inlay.

And the inside, this is Ebony, and it plays about 12 songs.

It's just beautiful.

And I think the value he said at auction is like one to $3,000.

- All right, so why don't you guys tell me a little bit about what you brought here today?

- Well, my mother, I inherited the suite from my mother who purchased it in the '70s.

And pretty much had it in a box under her bed all this time.

- So what you have here is a series of prints by Romaine Duterte, who went by the coined name Erte.

And you said that you knew a little bit how he got that name.

- Well, his father was an admiral in the Russian fleet and wanted him to follow in the naval career.

Like most sons, he decided to do exactly the opposite.

Moved to Paris to pursue a career in art.

And the Russian name in France was a little bit difficult.

So he took his first initial R, his second final initial T and turned that into (indistinct), which is the French pronunciation of (indistinct).

- Wonderful, so this suite has, it's a full set of the alphabet from A to Z.

It was printed in the '70s, so between '76 and '77.

Each letter is a serigraph, mixed medias serigraph and lithograph, which is a screen print and lithography.

And it's printed on Arches paper, which we see the watermark for in the top left corner there.

What you have here is the series that was printed in the US which was an addition of 350.

And we can see it numbered at the bottom.

And I'll just show this page which explains more about the alphabet set, which has all 26 letters of the alphabet from A to Z, again printed in this 1976 and 1977.

So here we have some of the letters to show.

This is the E, which shows two angels kneeling in the form of an E, which is quite lovely.

And a lot of these have some gilding, screen printed gilding to kind of embellish the work.

And then we'll flip.

And this is the Z, which is Patty's favorite letter in this set.

- Yeah.

- Which shows a woman kneeling and she has a lovely veil over her body, and it's just quite beautifully done.

And these are in the art deco style, which Erte was known for.

He started his career in 1915.

And even though these were done in the late '70s, he uses that consistency of the art deco stylized forms in all of his works throughout his career.

- [Patty] Right.

- So thank you very much for bringing these in today.

I really enjoyed looking at the suite.

And approximate auction value for these would be between six and 8,000 for the full suite.

- That's wonderful.

- [Erin] Yeah, thank you.

- Great, thank you, Erin.

(upbeat music) - This is one of the pieces that hung in my grandmother's home.

When I was a child, I remember seeing it and when we dispersed her belongings, I was lucky enough to get it.

She was from Germany and we were told by Brian that it's Germanic descent, and that it's on walnut, and it's copper that's been pulled from the mold.

So it needs a little bit more handy work than just the regular mold.

What else?

- Like he said, it was hand wrought and it depicts the stations of the cross.

- He said it was like a hundred or $200.

So not very valuable in the market, but extremely valuable in my heart.

- Sentimentally, yes.

I was surprised with the workmanship that went into it because he says it wasn't like, they just didn't pour it into a mold and pluck it out.

It was wasn't mass produced, he was even very impressed.

It's a beautiful piece.

- I brought a lamp that, or it's a chandelier I guess, that hung over my mom's dining table in Norway when she was a child.

And she was born in '37 and this then came with her to the United States.

She inherited it, and we had it over a pool table for years and years.

And so, it looks a lot better than this when it's actually hanging and lit.

So my dad had done some ace hardware specialty wiring to it.

It could be Norwegian, it could be Swedish, could be Austrian, but it's a copper lamp that's got kind of a patina over it to keep it from tarnishing.

It's a pretty intricate thing the way it's made with a hammer.

And it should be somewhere between in the 500 ish range.

- John, I was really excited to see what you brought for us today.

Can you tell us a little bit about what we have here?

- Yeah, Claire, we have some material from Norman Rockwell.

The background is, my father, who was in the advertising business in the '50s, worked with Norman Rockwell on a variety of advertising campaigns, one of which was for Pan-American Airways.

And this art here is from Norman Rockwell's sketches as part of developing an advertising campaign for Pan-American around the globe.

And so you see a variety of pictures that came from the illustrations that Norman Rockwell did on a trip around the world in the mid '50s for Pan-American.

- Oh, well thank you.

Thank you so much for bringing them in.

And what we have here is an assemblage of original drawings that Norman Rockwell did.

They're watercolor with a little gouache on paper.

And we can see how they were presented in the original ad that was published in about 1956.

I liked how you were telling us, it shows to American tourists that you know?

It's safe to travel, it's adventuresome and they have nothing to fear.

And I think that Rockwell did a really good job of capturing this.

And if I remember correctly, the gentleman with the red hair is your dad, right?

- This is my father right here, who went on the trip with Norman Rockwell around the world in mid '50s, yeah.

- Oh, that's fabulous.

- Yeah.

And the other piece, Claire, we have, which is also from Rockwell, which is this piece right here.

And from the group of my age cohort, you may recognize the Ford Motor Company punt, pass, and kick contests.

It was ran every fall, and Norman Rockwell did the illustrations for the advertising for that campaign.

And as you said, this isn't an original, this is a print of a piece of work he did for the Ford Motor Company and its dealer association.

And here's the artwork in the ad.

And these ran in the late '50s and early '60s.

And if you're my age and you played football, you were very interested in this.

- Well, I can certainly see why.

And then we also have another original Norman Rockwell oil painting.

It's painted on thin linen that's been mounted to this board.

And the backing of the frame has the inscription, "Pan Am trip with Norman Rockwell, 1954.

Sketch at Whitehall London by Norman using Mary Helen and Wally Elton as models, for later development to a painting."

It says London was his first stop on round the world trip.

The Eltons accompanied him to Rome, but he continued to use Mary, Helen and Wally as models in later sketches, which you see in this published advertisement.

And then we have one other painting that you brought in, which looks like it could be a Martha's Vineyard, maybe a Rockport, somewhere up in New England Harbor scene that's painted by Stevan- - [John] Dohanos.

- Dohanos, yes.

And, who was another illustrator that ran in the same circle as Norman and was employed by the advertising agency that your dad worked for.

- Right.

- So it's really a nice grouping of advertising artists from the '50s, including Norman Rockwell, who is the illustrator of the 20th century.

So value wise, we'll start with the print.

So this is a print, it's got a printed signature and it's a great image, but value is relatively nominal.

So probably about a hundred to $200 at auction.

This nice sketch for an oil painting, I would say at auction would probably carry an estimate of about 40 to $60,000.

- Really?

Wow.

- And then this collection of illustrations for a print advertisement that ran, even in the condition with some of this loss that you have, it's still just iconic imagery and I can see it bringing 80,000 to $120,000 at auction.

And then the painting there on the end.

It's a great example of '50s art, and I would say at auction probably in the 400 to $800 range.

- Wow.

- But yeah, this is a really phenomenal collection and I love the family story that goes with it.

- Well thank you Clair.

- Oh, you're so welcome.

- Thank you very much.

- Yeah.

- We're amazed.

- Great.

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