If Antiques Roadshow was coming to your town, what would you be interested in taking in for an appraisal?

A copy of the show itself.

I can’t beleive tha’s still running.

My mother has had a Cheokee carved wood doll that she received from my grandmother. My grandmother was full Cherokee and I never asked her if she made the doll. It’s many years old and I am sure it has a past history. It was willed to me.

Oh I wish I do have something! Time to dig into that dungeon we call the basement! Lol.

@john65pennington You should try and get state casino money!

I have a Disneyland map, which appears to have been a handout from the first year of the park.
I suspect it could be pretty rare, considering its condition.

Recently we found a group of very old powder horns in an old secretary. I would take those.

@marinelife What were you doing looking around inside an old secretary?

I have a wonderful Abernathy Mission Oak Library Table very much like this one which I would like to have an appraisal.

I have a ton of antiques. I know the value of a few of them and I’m curious as to what the roadshow folks would appraise them at.

First edition of Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands (I paid $40, it’s worth around $1200)

Mauser C96 Broomhandle Pistol (I paid $600. Worth between 700 and 900 depending on the buyer)

William McKinley/Theodore Roosevelt campaign pin (paid $80. worth about the same)

Death mask from Zaire (given as a gift. Worth around $250)

I have a bunch of stuff that I don’t know the value too as well, but I don’t have any pics of them online.

I have a huge roll top desk made from one cherry tree by my great grandfather the 1800’s. It has little compartments inside the roll top. It also has a secret compartment in the rear side and a large cabinet with glass doors sitting on top of the desk. Great grandfather ran out of wood when it came to the drawers and two of them are made of orange crate wood on the inside. I’d love to know what it’s worth. But I have no idea how I’d transport it to the show. It weighs a ton.

@Pied_Pfeffer I’ll go with you! I have spoons from the Chicago World Expo in 1893. :D LOL I have too many things, I wouldn’t know which one to bring. Probably my grandfather’s steins from WWII.

My daughter said she’ll bring her grandpa… he’s old enough to be valuable!

Grandma Baker?

@XOIIO LOL! You might be surprised that it still on; I’m not. As long as people continue to get family heirlooms, not to mention the many people who collect stuff because it catches their attention, that show will probably continue.

@john65pennington The wooden doll sounds like a great item to have checked out. It will also be a wonderful treasure to pass on to one of your grandchildren.

@mazingerz88 I think I made this offer before. I’d be happy to come over and tackle the basement for you. It sounds like it could be a treasure trove.

@filmfann I bet there are a few Disney fanatic collectors out there that would drool to get their hands on your map. Have you ever looked around on eBay?

@marinelife The powder horns sound wickedly cool! Definitely an interesting item to take in.

@YARNLADY The link didn’t work for me, but thanks for trying. Is the table something you inherited, or was it a find along the way?

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard I knew I could count on you to come up with a few items. Bonus points for the photos.

@Sunny2 That sounds like one impressive piece of furniture, including its origin. There are a handful of people that haul in large pieces to these shows.

@linguaphile Thanks for volunteering to come along! Bring your daughter and Grandpa as well. I’ll see if Mom will let me borrow her beer stein collection. There are five that came from Dad’s side of the family. I don’t know if they were part of the family brewery or handed down from some family member that came over from Germany. Or…they might have been a trade for beer. They had one poor guy board on the site, and he bartered his paintings to cover his beer tab. The painter later became semi famous, and the two paintings left in the family are worth $60–75K.

@ucme If Grandma Baker is a blood relative of yours, she’d be worth checking out just for the entertainment factor.

@Pied_Pfeffer I’m going to take that as a compliment, intended or not :¬)

@ucme It is, indeed, a compliment. I appreciate your wit, and can only imagine how it might show up in an older female relative of yours. I’d pay to take her around the show by the arm and have her describe some of the stuff that shows up at these shows.

Gawd bless ya m’dear!

@filmfann Har, har, har!

@Pied_Pfeffer The table came to me through my family. My Uncle was principal of the school when it was torn down, and he got it. I also got one of the bricks, but it got lost along the way.

I have a 1950’s storkline high chair, elephant bells that my great uncle, who was in Merril’s Mauraders, brought back from the Burmese jungle, a 1940’s coke bottle that was brought up from the ocean floor off the coast of Kwajelien, my other great uncle’s gavel that he used in the Nuremburg Trials (he was the judge of the Dachau detachment). I have my great great grandma’s wedding band. I have a 1900’s copy of Peck’s Bad Boy. I have a lot of stuff that means something to me, but probably not worth anything.