Well have you?
And if you have, did the item(s) you bring have any value (besides sentimental)?
Just curious…
MtM
My parents have. Does that count?
I want to bring my 94-year-old silent-movie star friend Anita Page to Antiques Roadshow and see how much she’s worth as “movie memorabilia.”
She must have been a teenage star if the silent era ended when I think it did!
Is she in her original packaging? 
Well, we went to one at the Las Vegas Convention Center, but we weren’t selected to appear on the show.
I brought a litte viewfinder, in its original box, with photos from the Chicago World’s Fair (forget what year…1930something) that my father had received by mail from my grandparents. It was valued at about $30.00.
My SO brought two gold plated wall sconces from Germany and they were valued at $300 each.
She was born in 1910, and got an MGM contract in 1927, when she was 17.
Unfortunately, she’s been refinished, which will cut down on her resale value.
I’ve been in the background on one of them. It was a Kansas City, Missouri, episode, and I was standing behind a guy who was getting filmed with a “dry sink” thing, which was like a big cabinet.
If you have it on tape or something, I am skinny, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a blue and green shirt.
{In a fruity Oxbridge accent} Yes, well this would originally been part of a pair, and of course if you still had both of them it would enhance the value considerably at auction. Now having said that, this is still a beautiful item and I’m just dying to know, is there any family history behind it?
Heh! You should hear the treatment Antiques Roadshow used to be given on People and Arts, the BBC cable channel that broadcasts to Spain and Latin America. The Roadshow used to be dubbed into Spanish, and it was quite something to hear the Spanish dubbers following the speech patterns of the English participants.
“buuueeeenooo, creeeeeeo que fue de… uuuuur… mi abuuuueloooo…”
“¡Oh! ¡Nunca me imaginaba!” (looking shifty and trying not to show disappointment that it wasn’t worth more).
I am told they’re subtitling it these days.
My parents were valued at… “No! You’re joking! Those old things! They’ve been in the garage for years and no one ever took much notice of them.”
Actually, they took a baby’s rattle that had belonged to my grandfather, and had already been in the family for some time. It is in good condition and a thing of considerably beauty: tortoiseshell and gold filigree, they entrusted babies with some strange stuff in the 19th century, it seems. It was valued at 2,500 pounds. 
Thats right, without the patina the value gets cut in half. What do you have to establish the provenance?
I have plenty of provenance; and it’s not so much her patina has been stripped as she’s been repainted way too many times. And I believe one hip is not original.
I seem to remember the Keno boys checking the drawers to see if its a fake. Have you checked her drawers?
I went with a friend several years ago and was the only one of several thousand people who thought to bring a book to read while standing in line (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, if you care). I took with me a Greentown Glass dolphin (mine is actually in the rarer amber, with teeth). It would have been valued at approximately $1000 had my clod of an ex-boyfriend not broken the lid. With broken lid (or missing the lid) it was valued at about $300. Not bad for something my parents put in the “garbage from Grandma’s room that we’re throwing out” pile. I have the lid pieces and should I ever have two nickels to rub together I want to have it repaired.
I also took with me an odd metal butterfly and a truly bizarre little metal figurine of some sort of animal (might be a rat, might be an aardvark, lord only knows) both salvaged from my other dead grandmother’s apartment. I didn’t think they were worth anything but I wanted to know where they came from. I stumped the metals expert. The butterfly he thought might be from Japan, the aardrat he suggested Germany. I mentioned that I had always based on the look of its eyes thought it might be Middle Eastern in origin and he said that could be too. So, you know, Germany, the Middle East, same difference right? He valued them each at $25 but that was IMHO a generic “I don’t know what it is so I’ll say $25” appraisal.
I didn’t get picked for the show. I think if my dolphin lid had been intact I might have been because the appraiser was very interested by it.
To be more specific, you have to pull out her drawers and check her secondary wood. :eek:
Eve, please don’t tell Miss Page of this thread. All this talk of rummaging through her drawers and checking her packaging would undoubtedly lead her to go out into her garden and practice rolling over in her grave.
I have been to 2 different filmings. One in Columbus, where we stood in line for about 6 hours. That was their old way of doing it. Was actually kind of fun, talking to the people around us and seeing what everybody brought. The second time was in Chicago last year. Much faster getting through with the new scheduling method.
Didn’t get on TV either time, but had fun.
I got a chuckle out of watching the UK version of Roadshow.
Typical American Roadshow bit: “At auction, it should bring somewhere between 12 and 20 thousand dollars.” “Wahoo!!! I can’t believe it!!! Wait until my mrother hears about this!!!”
Typical UK Roadshow bit: “At auction, it should bring somewhere between 8 and 15 thousand pounds.” “Oh, jolly good.”
“Veneer!” glug glug glug