Appraisal: Adirondack Folk Art Table, ca. 1890
Clip: Season 30 Episode 8 | 2m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Adirondack Folk Art Table, ca. 1890
In Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Hour 2, Ken Farmer appraises an Adirondack folk art table from 1890.
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Appraisal: Adirondack Folk Art Table, ca. 1890
Clip: Season 30 Episode 8 | 2m 30sVideo has Closed Captions
In Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Hour 2, Ken Farmer appraises an Adirondack folk art table from 1890.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: I found it in a barn in Winthrop, Maine, in 1988.
It was my great-aunt's barn.
I'd never seen anything like it, and I just fell in love with it.
I've been using it every day ever since.
It's kind of like a jigsaw puzzle.
I just think it's a really special piece.
APPRAISER: People refer to it as Adirondack furniture, made throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic, in the mountainous regions.
There became a big market for it when people from urban areas started getting their lodges.
So they would want rustic furniture in their lodges.
And there just came this local craft boom, which was part of a movement in the United States in the late 19th century.
You've probably heard of Arts and Crafts style, but there was also a big revival in home crafts.
And the template for these was making something decorative out of what was available.
And some people refer to it as twig furniture.
This is probably laurel or something like it that's had the bark taken off of it.
And then these other pieces are little half-pieces that they cut in it, like you say, almost in a jigsaw puzzle.
This is some kind of willow or some kind of larger vine that grows.
And you can tell by looking at the nails that it was done after 1880.
This kind of furniture was really popular in the late 1800s up through, really, the 1920s.
I've seen lots of pieces of twig furniture or Adirondack style.
And normally, it's just brown, but this one is so cool, because it's very graphic.
Did you have a picture?
GUEST: I do.
The picture was taken in Danvers, Massachusetts, in the home of my great-aunt's great-aunts.
And it shows the table in their living room, and on the back, it has the location and the date.
Putnamville, um... APPRAISER: Putnamville.
GUEST: Yeah, which is a section of... APPRAISER: 1899.
GUEST: Mm-hmm, yeah.
APPRAISER: Well, that fits, that fits right in with where I think it might have been made.
I think a retail price for a folk art show would probably be around $6,500.
GUEST: Wow.
(laughs): That's great for a barn find.
APPRAISER: Love to see, you got anything else from the barn?
GUEST: (laughing): Bunch of chicken coops.
NewAppraisal: 1823 Schoolgirl United States Map
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 20s | Appraisal: 1823 Schoolgirl United States Map (2m 20s)
NewAppraisal: 1920 James Joyce-signed Book
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 3m 20s | Appraisal: 1920 James Joyce-signed Book (3m 20s)
NewAppraisal: 1932 Jessie Teed Hooked Zodiac Rug
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 55s | Appraisal: 1932 Jessie Teed Hooked Zodiac Rug (2m 55s)
NewAppraisal: 1940 Sheldon Parsons Oil Landscape
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 11s | Appraisal: 1940 Sheldon Parsons Oil Landscape (2m 11s)
NewAppraisal: 1943 Signed Universal Studio Cafe Menu
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 1m 46s | Appraisal: 1943 Signed Universal Studio Cafe Menu (1m 46s)
NewAppraisal: 1976 Inez Nathaniel-Walker Drawing
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 46s | Appraisal: 1976 Inez Nathaniel-Walker Drawing (2m 46s)
NewAppraisal: Diamond & Natural Pearl Pin, ca. 1920
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 46s | Appraisal: Diamond & Natural Pearl Pin, ca. 1920 (2m 46s)
NewAppraisal: Dolphins Griese, Marino & Csonka Signed Football
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 24s | Appraisal: Dolphins Griese, Marino & Csonka Signed Football (2m 24s)
NewAppraisal: Dome Diamond Cluster Ring, ca. 1980
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 1m 6s | Appraisal: Dome Diamond Cluster Ring, ca. 1980 (1m 6s)
NewAppraisal: Eanger Irving Couse Oil Portrait, ca. 1900
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 1m 44s | Appraisal: Eanger Irving Couse Oil Portrait, ca. 1900 (1m 44s)
NewAppraisal: Marguerite Wildenhain Pond Farm Vessel, ca. 1955
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 1m 4s | Appraisal: Marguerite Wildenhain Pond Farm Vessel, ca. 1955 (1m 4s)
NewAppraisal: McCobb Desk & Eames Chair, ca. 1955
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 6s | Appraisal: McCobb Desk & Eames Chair, ca. 1955 (2m 6s)
NewAppraisal: Ming Dynasty Bronze Guanyin, ca. 1620
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 3m 13s | Appraisal: Ming Dynasty Bronze Guanyin, ca. 1620 (3m 13s)
NewAppraisal: Pattern 1777 Short Land Musket Group, ca. 1785
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 44s | Appraisal: Pattern 1777 Short Land Musket Group, ca. 1785 (2m 44s)
NewAppraisal: PEZ Dispenser Collection with Store Display, ca. 1975
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 1m 7s | Appraisal: PEZ Dispenser Collection with Store Display, ca. 1975 (1m 7s)
NewAppraisal: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Archive, ca. 1984
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 3m 3s | Appraisal: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" Archive, ca. 1984 (3m 3s)
NewAppraisal: Tiffany Reactive Paperweight Glass Vase, ca. 1911
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 34s | Appraisal: Tiffany Reactive Paperweight Glass Vase, ca. 1911 (2m 34s)
Appraisal: Uncle Sam Cast-iron Doorstop, ca. 1915
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Clip: S30 Ep8 | 2m 58s | Appraisal: Uncle Sam Cast-iron Doorstop, ca. 1915 (2m 58s)
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