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I have been going to the Jazz Fest for 50 years and I've never seen anything like it.

So just curious what it's about.

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Well, I'm a Jazz Fest fan.

I have been going to the Jazz Fest for 50 years and I began collecting Jazz Fest posters in 1976.

I paid $10 for that poster in 1976.

I have a room in my house lined with Jazz Fest posters, and it brings me happiness every day.

Jazz Fest is this extraordinary event.

To call it a festival is an understatement.

12 different stages.

Music from all over the world.

Great food, arts and crafts, everything going on.

And the festival began in 1970.

And what you have are three of the official posters from Jazz Fest.

You have 1976 of 1979 and you have 1999.

So, Fred, how much would you pay for the two posters on either side?

If memory serves me correctly, I believe I paid $50 for the 1979 poster, and I believe I paid $100 for the 1999 one.

I'm a Professor Longhair fan.

I don't care what it costs.

I was going to get that poster.

These were issued as commemorative items.

You love Jazz Fest.

You brought them home.

You weren't the only one.

But in the early years and we'll start with the earliest one we have here in the center.

A thousand of them were printed, signed and numbered, 1000 were printed unsigned, and they were sold at different prices.

You have one that is signed by the artist Maria Laredo, and numbered 483.

But then as the festival became more popular, these posters were printed in much larger numbers.

1979, 1000 signed numbered copies were printed.

And you have this copy signed by the artist John Martinez numbered 494.

But for the first time, the unsigned edition ran to 10,000.

That 10,000 of them.

And then closest to you, we have the 1999 version featuring the unparalleled Professor Longhair, Henry Roeland Byrd, one of the great zydeco pianists out there, just a remarkable performer and the artist by New Orleans favorite artist, George Valentine Durrow.

Yes.

And he has signed it and he is numbered it.

The numbers here are even bigger, 3000.

So the earliest one we have here in the center, it's a marshal of the parades whose name was Fats Houston.

He actually was so famous, he featured in two movies, The Cincinnati Kid and the James Bond movie Live and Let Die.

I've seen both those movies and you've seen him perform and he's been on the wall of your special Jazz Fest room the whole time I've been.

Any thoughts as to the value of these pieces?

Well, my one in the middle.

I'm hoping $1,000 for that.

We'll start closest to you.

We have the George Darrow, Professor Longhair, of which 3000 were printed.

Signed.

So when these come up for auction, they tend to sell for between 400 and $600.

I believe I paid $100 for it.

So I'm.

So then we come to the John Martinez poster, which was the first year that the Fair Festival organizers realized they may have had a new moneymaking strategy, which was by printing more posters while not depicting any recognizable celebrity, really captures the joy of some of the performers and some of the entertainers and the marchers who were involved in the entire music scene in New Orleans.

This poster, when it comes up to auction, signed a number like this, I think conservatively you could expect it to sell for 700 to $1000.

But then we come to the one in the middle.

When you look for this poster, you see some vast differential in prices.

If this were to appear in an auction, I would estimate it between 4000 and $6,000.

And when you look online, the high watermark for this is $7,000 at an auction in New Orleans or New Orleans is the place to sell something like this.

$10.

This will go to my daughter and probably to her daughter as well.

This is family.

The chair was purchased, I believe, somewhere in New Orleans.

It was my mother in law's back in the fifties.

I got them and I'm always wondering about them.

Are they comfortable to sit on?

No.

This was a part of my great grandmother's collection.

She loved elephants and she had gotten this, we believe, from China.

We're not sure.

Any idea how old that is raising?

I'd say older than me.

And the sword has been a part of my family as long as I can remember the stories that I was told.

It was for my great great grandfather, Jerome, who was a part of the Civil War, and he was in the 96.

He was born in New Orleans and then migrated to Mobile in Alabama and became a part of the the Army there.

I think I've got it.

Maybe the last ten years it's been sentimental to us because it was part of Grandpa Jerome.

What was his last name?

Nicholas Jerome.

Nicholas.

Do you know any more about his history?

So the only thing that I know was I saw a census from, I think, the 80, 1870 census, and it showed that he was 30 years old.

So that's about the furthest back that I have, the information that I know of.

Jerome Nicholas was a member of the U.S. United States Colored Troops, the 96 U.S. was a union unit and they were an engineer unit.

He enlisted in 1864 September as a private.

By November, he was promoted to corporal.

Wow.

And soon after that, he was promoted to first sergeant.

So he moved up through the ranks pretty quickly.

The 96 U.S. asked that your ancestor was and was formed from a lot of enslaved men who then, once they were freed, once the army had come through, joined the Union Army, they were commanded by white officers.

But your relative rose up from private to Corporal to first sergeant pretty quickly.

So he had the skills to be an officer.

Do you know what he did before the war?

He was a barber by profession.

Really?

Yes.

So he was a free man.

He was a free man.

He mustered out of service in New Orleans in 1866.

He was discharged from the service.

And what you have here is what most collectors would call a Confederate poem.

Okay.

Now, it has some standard features, some a little bit different than others.

You've got this false edge on the blade right here.

And you have this half tang, which is kind of uncommon.

It's a one piece grip as opposed to a two piece grip.

It got the simple little counter guards, these great rivets.

And the blade is fairly heavy, but at the same time, it's really nicely balanced, but it's fairly crude.

And you also have this ten iron scabbard, which is phenomenal that that's still survives.

It's got a little bit of black paint or Japan still left on it.

The belt loop is on it.

What makes this a Confederate Bowie knife?

That's basically what collectors call them.

It's a Southern thing.

The way that they're made fairly crudely, but they're big and bulky and look really mean.

Okay.

Now, how did he get it?

There's quite a possibility that he picked it up while he was in service.

Then he carried it and used it.

Okay.

And probably brought it home as a trophy.

Yes.

It's one of those things that for us kind of makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.

And for you to come out, tell his story is important.

And we get more out there, more information on it.

Conservatively, we would put an auction estimate of about 3 to $5000.

It could go up a little bit more than that with the story now that we have with it.

Okay.

For insurance, you might want to think about a 6000, $8,000 insurance policy on it.

Okay.

Interesting.

Thanks for bringing it in.

thank you.

Thank you for the information.

They have been on the mantle in the house.

And I live here now for 73 years.

I inherited my home from my cousin, and these guys were there as a child.

A little child.

I always was curious and would ask my cousin, What are those?

And he said, they're ashtrays.

I didn't make up the story about the two tribes that aided each other because the one with the short arms and the long legs couldn't reach the fish and the one with the long arms and the short legs.

And he succeeded.

One couldn't reach the fish, but together, when they joined forces, they could reach the fish.

So they fled the village.

So you don't know whether a family member bought them or they might have?

Right.

Well, my cousin did serve in Japan, in Guadalcanal, and he was in the Marines, so they could have come from there.

But I really don't know.

You're in the right part of the universe.

can you guess?

Are Japanese.

Okay.

And they're actually figures of supernatural beings called Yokai in Japanese.

This is a group of figures which are monster powers and special beings and have special powers.

And they're really folk figures and they're sculptures.

They really had no practical purpose.

They were perhaps made as a form of entertainment to the viewer.

They have great character.

The one with long legs is called Ashi Naga.

I should now go right, because Ashi means legs and Naga means long.

okay.

And this one over near you is called Tae Naga, which means actually long hands.

But it's really long arms.

And these are supernatural beings who did work together to fish.

So actually, Naga with God, right?

Right.

Would walk into the sea with Tae Naga on his shoulders.

And so they could go way into the sea.

And then Tae Naga would grab the fish and put them in Asian basket.

So these are made of colored gesso over wood, and they do have glass eyes inlaid and they have very ferocious expression.

Wouldn't let them clean the dust out of the face.

This could be abalone shells, not ashtrays, abalone shells.

They have been restored here and in various places throughout.

When my cat knocked him off the fireplace years ago, I see they're probably made around 1880, 1890, and they're 1900.

Okay.

What do you think they're worth?

I have no idea.

To me, they're worth everything because they're a part of my life.

My couple hundred dollars, I have no clue.

Well, I would say other than a couple hundred dollars.

More like a couple thousand dollars.

I would say at auction for the pair, about 2500 to $4000.

2500 to $4000.

Now, if, in fact, they were in a little better condition, probably they would carry a pre-sale estimate of 5 to $7000.

Wow.

They're not going to auction.

They're going back to their spot.

So.

The final resting places are for members of the bird and family are here at the cemetery.

Although the plot mostly contains abandoned grave markers that were once part of older cemeteries that had been discontinued or flooded.

One such stone memorial is this obelisk, which originally marked the graves of two brothers.

Henry and Albert O'Neil were murdered on August 3rd, 1895, reportedly over a disagreement about a love interest.

But a year and a half ago, I was driving in the morning, left to get a cup of coffee, and I saw a sign for a garage sale.

It was about 730 in the morning of a lady was still unpacking some of the boxes.

She was taken out this tall piece and I directly was attracted to it.

The form and the color.

I knew it was something special.

And I asked her how much she wants for it, and she said, $50.

And she told me, I have two other pieces if you're interested.

And she pulled out those other two pieces.

Now, I didn't have enough cash with me, and she reserved them for me.

I went to the bank, grabbed $150, gave her the money and took them with me home.

Do you think that they're made by the same companies, the iridescence, the shapes and the forms look like they are from the same era.

I was unable to find any information about them.

There was no signature that I can find a lot of them, but I couldn't see anything.

I looked online to look for iridescent glass, but not much information because there's so much out there.

So if you look really closely, this piece has a signature on the bottom.

But it's but it's very, very faint.

It says Elsie Tea, which stands for Louis Comfort Tiffany.

And it also has a little number on it with a prefix in front of it.

M Prefix, which indicates that it was made between 1898 and 1900.

Wow.

That old.

The man who founded the jewelry store had a son, and the son's name was Louis Comfort Tiffany.

And Louis is the one whose company made this type of thing at that time.

Between 1898 and 1900, the name of the company was Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company.

And shortly after that it became Tiffany Studios.

This was actually called an Egyptian onion vase.

So if you look at it really closely, the bottom really looks like an onion.

And then you see the leaves that would be coming up from the onion.

And I thought it looks like a tulip, actually.

Some people have called that type of a tool advice, but it was actually an Egyptian onion.

Tiffany was very fascinated by ancient forms of glass.

And so many of the early pieces, particularly in the 1890s, resembled something that was a form of what he thought was ancient glass.

So this is one of them.

Now, the other two pieces were actually made by another company called Lodes, which was an Austrian company.

These are a little bit later, maybe five, ten years at the most, probably made between 1905 and 1910.

But they are very similar.

And a lot of times people mistake lodes for Tiffany.

Neither of these pieces are signed, which is usually an indication that these were meant to be sold domestically and not exported to the United States because when they were exported, they usually signed the bottoms lodes.

But I recognize that type of decoration.

And so it was easy to identify.

Okay, this one in particular I really love because it has these wonderful lap it say almost look like lily pads.

And sometimes I think they're tadpoles.

So the jury's out on exactly what they were meant to be.

But they're very it's a very nouveau in feeling.

This particular piece, which is decorated in blue with these lovely oil splotches and the pinched form, the decoration is consistent all the way around this one in a retail venue would sell for between 1502 thousand.

Okay.

This one also has a pinched form with consistent decoration.

This one would sell in a retail venue for 3 to 5000.

Wow.

There are a number of great things about this Tiffany piece.

First of all, the form, the color, and the fact that it's in remarkably good condition.

A lot of times people would put water into them and would leave the water and it would leave calcium deposits.

This thing is pristine.

It's absolutely perfect.

And in a retail venue, this would sell between six and 8000.

Wow.

Wow.

I'm shocked.

The total for the three vases in a retail venue would be 10500 to $15000.

Wow.

I can't believe it.

I just can't believe it.

$150 investment.

It's remarkable.

Why?

They're really good at finding good bar.

Probably.

I need to start looking more often.

Yes.

Well, thank you.

Thank you very much.

I found in documentation from my grandmother, who is a midwife.

She documented the babies being born and the family, the siblings.

And it was part of the records that she had to provide for the birth certificates.

So when did your grandmother live?

She was born in 1875, and she passed away in 1973.

She worked for the Palace Parish Health Unit and Marksville, Louisiana.

And it's this wonderful little archive, this little slice of history of what it meant to be a midwife in Marksville in the early 20th century.

This is a note for a family.

The father's name is Percy Dupuy, and the mother is Beulah Bonnet.

They already had a baby.

They had a Joseph Dupuy, and it looks like they also had twins on August 25th, 1935, which they haven't named yet.

The family farms and the parents are lawfully married and they have only three children, two girls and one boy.

This is a mimeograph from the Bureau of Vital Statistics, which is the department that collects data on birth rate in Louisiana.

And this is a memo sent from the from the bureaucrats to the midwives, basically talking down to them and telling them what to do.

Starting off by saying you should make sure you indicate the sex of the baby.

Right.

It's causes a lot of confusion.

If you don't put the name and you don't put the sex of the baby, and then they tell them you should not put the name of the father on the certificate if the couple is not married unless he signs an affidavit to that effect.

We can learn a lot about what it meant to be a midwife and how the state felt about them right there, providing this vital service to the community.

And yet the people in the state office are like, You're not a doctor.

Don't pretend to be a doctor when these are the people.

We actually know that midwives had a better survival rate for births at the in that particular time period.

This metal strong box includes a lot of personal information.

There are letters from children and grandchildren.

There are insurance policies, there are other notations.

So it's this wonderful snapshot of what life was like in the early 20th century in Marksville, Louisiana, for your grandmother.

It touches my heart because I'm a nurse, I'm a registered nurse, and I always knew the history of my grandmother being a midwife.

And when I received this box, I was in nursing school.

So it was amazing to look through it and it was almost like an encouragement for me to continue my education through LSU, go to nursing degree.

So it's this is like a treasure to me.

I would put an auction value on it of 1500 to 20 $500, and I would catalog the heck out of it and see what happens.

that's amazing.

That's actually amazing.

I brought a marilyn diamond necklace that has been passed down for five generations.

This is my fifth great grandmother.

Funny enough, I used to play with this necklace as a kid.

One day I saw this picture with it, and it was crazy because she was wearing the necklace in it, and it gave me a spark to get into, like, family genealogy and stuff.

So this is a thanks to that.

Well, and so who was she?

Her name was Madeline.

Emma Tuttle.

She had a plantation in the 1870s that she ran.

What I love about this picture and what what you mention calling her Martin Tuttle, which I thought was was great.

She's wearing the necklace in the photograph, which is fabulous.

The necklace is made of 14 karat gold, diamonds and emeralds.

The piece is not signed by a maker, but it is stamped 14 karat, which generally means it was probably made in America.

All of this chain here is handwork.

The piece is really kind of drippy on it feels good to hold and to wear.

It represents the high craftsmanship.

You have a total of five emeralds.

The center emerald here is about half a carrot, and it's likely they're very vibrant green.

They're the kind of green that in the trade we normally associate with being from Colombia, that strong, verdant green surrounding all of the the emeralds are old mine cut diamonds.

So that firmly dates the piece to the end of the 19th century, probably around about 1870, 1880.

But what I think is so fabulous and what fits in with the beautiful, rich story of your family is that these links in between the emeralds are fleur de lis.

Yeah.

Which obviously is the insignia of Louisiana.

So I think that when your great, great, great, great, great grandmother wore this in her portrait as an early Louisiana settler, it was probably a choice because she was proudly saying, I'm from Louisiana.

So I also venture to think that the piece might have even been made in Louisiana.

I would say in a retail market today, it might be worth as much as $10,000.

Okay.

Pretty good.

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This is a doll house that my grandfather built for my mother when she was four years old, so that would have been about 1942.

I think when I was really little, I could get the living room.

It's a traveling salesman model of a windmill, and it was early 1900s and my father lived on a farm in Lapa, Canada, Ohio, and the traveling salesman came and ended up staying at the farm for a while but couldn't pay for it.

And so he left us as collateral and was going to come back with the payment.

And he never came back.

My father, being the youngest of ten, he and his older brother kind of tucked it away and put it up in the hayloft and my dad ended up with it.

He would disassemble it, put it in in a closet and keep it safe.

And every once in a while bring it out.

And his eyes would light up because it brought him that memory or whatever, and it was a real joy.

So he's been gone.

But it's a reminder of that moment when ever he would get it out and play with it.

Sure.

And I've never seen anything anyone like it, so I've just curious about finding out what it's about.

What is a beautiful piece?

What what year would you say?

He was born in 1909.

So the teens I would say it was a traveling salesman's sample of what would be a full size wooden mill that a prospective farmer could buy to add to the property this side is painted on to show that it was made by the Monitor Manufacturing Company in Auburn, Indiana.

And on this side of the Blade, it shows that it is the improved monitor.

This company began sometime around 1880.

A lot of your paperwork here is documented from 1890.

The windmill really began in mass production in Indiana around 1865.

So the monitor company out of Auburn, Indiana, came a little bit later, but came with some good advancements that really helped catapult them to the top of the windmill production.

And as a rotates, it spins around this piston goes up and down, would pump water from 200 feet in the ground or so.

And it could be used in farming, of course, for irrigation, for water pumps, for water retention ponds, etc.. What's fascinating is not only do you have the salesman sample, but you have all the ephemera that he would have with him.

You have the quite well used and worn and written in the pocket catalog price guide, and the salesman would assist the customer from using the price guide to fill out the order.

In addition, you have several copies of a simple advertisement flier advertising.

The disc Harrow Farm implement that the company had manufactured as well, which he could of course leave behind with the customer and attempt to get a future sale.

In addition, you have a fully illustrated Manufacturers catalog which documents all the products or many of the products that the company had made.

It also describes how the different products work.

We do see salesman samples quite often, and a salesman sample could be for a traveling salesman, which is when we see the case or could have been used just in the factory as a demonstration.

Given that you have the case and that you have the paperwork, that's the ephemera is what really gets me excited.

I would place an auction estimation on this piece with everything that comes with it from 8000 to $12000.

And given how beautiful it all is, I could see it bringing more than that.

Wow, that's great.

Do you know, was there a windmill on the farm?

I was the youngest of all the cousins.

I don't remember if there was this guy.

Arguably the most controversial artifact in the museum is this bronze statue by Hans Schuller of an elder black man in rumpled clothing, pausing to lift his hat commissioned by a white man, Jackson Lee Bryan.

The statue was first placed in Natchitoches in 1927 with a racist inscription on the plaque.

Critics had long seen the figure as a vestige of servitude and inequality.

The man tipping his hat in compulsory and performative respect to the people who wanted to keep him subservient after protest.

The statue was removed in 1968, donated to the Rural Life Museum in 1972.

The sculpture is kept on display to learn about and from the past.

My husband and I inherited it from his father.

In 2014 2015, my father in law received it as a graduation gift from his grandmother in 59 when he graduated from you and see his grandmother or my husband's great grandmother vacationed where the original artist lived, and apparently she saw it in his home and purchased it from him.

So this is a painting by Joseph Henry Sharpe, who's an American painter.

He was born in 1859 in in Ohio and moved to the Cincinnati area as a teenager, ended up passing away in Pasadena, California, in 1953 and visited Taos for the first time in 1883, was one of the founders of the Taos Art Colony along with a number of other are they call them the Taos ten.

Joseph Henry Sharp was classically trained.

He went to art school.

He did go to Europe, where he met a couple of the other painters who ended up coming back to Taos and being part of that original group of artists that were the Taos founders.

And throughout his career, he was a painter of people.

On the back of this painting.

There's some writing that indicates that this is Chief Little Wolf, who was the chief of the northern Cheyenne tribe.

He fought against General Custer and was a great chief of renown.

Sharp did several portraits of Little Wolf that are in a number of museums.

And on the back it says Chief Little Wolf, about 1898 to 9, Cheyenne and with two Mons commanded all Cheyenne and Custer Battle a great tactician.

The Two Feathers denote he had killed his enemies in honorary battle.

And he did begin painting in that area around 1898.

So this might have been one of the earlier portraits.

Chief Little Wolf died in 1904.

It signed J.H.

Sharp, which is how he signed his name.

Can you tell us a little bit about this note that you have here?

Whenever my father in law's grandmother was purchasing it for him, she had become friends with the artist and she bought this from his home.

So apparently he wrote a goodbye note to this piece of art that hung in his home.

So you can tell it was probably very dear to him.

So the note says Goodbye, little wolf in your new house.

May they love you, as I have during your life.

And then your portrayal, noble and Serene, that I have seen every day through all these years.

Yes, that's a great story.

Yeah.

He did do a number of these portraits for a while.

He camped basically on the Custer Battle ground.

And Sharp did a number of portraits.

I did not.

There.

Do you know how much he paid for it?

Well, it is rumored between 500 to $5000 because she was very private about how she spent her money, whether it was 500 or 5000.

That was a lot of money.

Have you ever had the painting appraised?

My husband had it appraised.

In 2014.

They estimated 45,000, but I think that might be close to the up the top limit of it.

It's an oil on canvas.

It Looks like it's in very good shape.

I know you mentioned that you had it cleaned, but the colors are bright.

It's a very good example of this period.

I would say the the auction estimate for a piece like this would probably be 50000 to $70000.

Okay.

And if it were to be in a retail environment, it would be priced at about $85,000.

Wow.

That was more than I thought.

Wow.

This one I've really wanted to know, is it how old is it?

I thought maybe seventies, But is it newer than that?

It's nine karat gold.

I am 33.

Three.

Yeah.

This is nine karat gold.

It's probably right about the seventies.

Okay.

Could be 80.

Does the bug in it make it more or less valuable?

More if it's natural, which it looks like it could be If this was coming up for auction after an estimate of 2 to $3000 at auction.

Are you kidding?

I paid, like, 40 bucks for this.

my gosh.

Thank you so much.

That, you know, this furniture is a Frank Lloyd Wright handwritten heritage collection that my parents bought back in the fifties.

Do you remember what year in the fifties they bought it?

I think it was around 1955.

I think I agree with that.

I think you're absolutely right.

Matter of fact, I'll bet it was slightly after August 1955.

Well, they were married in September, so it would have to be after that.

The reason I know that is because under this big piece of slate, which I'm not going to attempt to take off, there is the date.

855 okay.

August 1955, which is just perfect.

Good.

This was a short lived range of furniture, mainly was produced in 1955 and Frank Lloyd Wright did indeed design this.

This is probably one of the most well known, very famous designed furniture lines of the fifties.

So Frank Lloyd Wright was part of the preeminent American of the 20th century.

He started off his career in an arts and crafts style, and as time moved along, Frank Lloyd Wright was great because he could kind of change with the times, his architecture, his furniture.

By 1955, he's an older man.

He had embraced modernism, and I think to a large extent this line of furniture definitely embraces modernism.

I wonder what your parents saw on it today like, because it was sort of a cultural, odd, avant garde kind of interesting thing.

You had to live kind of dangerously to buy this furniture in 1955 when they bought it, the company that they bought it from kept calling them saying, We need it back.

And my dad was like, Well, we are.

We want to keep it.

And they called about three or four different times.

And finally he said, We're not selling it back to you or returning it, and so please stop calling.

So they kept it.

It was produced on a more kind of commercial level than most of Frank Lloyd Wright's furniture.

When we think of Frank Lloyd Wright furniture, we think of of furniture that was made specifically for a house or a building that he had designed, and that that material tends to be worth a little bit more money.

But this, again, is fun and it's interesting.

It certainly, I think, reflects the architectural feelings of the mid 1950s.

The other interesting thing about this furniture is that it definitely has sort of a loved look to it.

Mid-century modern furniture, which this is definitely right there.

Mid-century can be, I think, loved on and repaired and kind of brought back to life if we were finished this, I don't think it would do anything but improve the value of it.

And did you tell me that that underneath that that wonderful blue the original fabric is there that lovely.

Yes, the original green fabric is under there.

Great.

So most of the furniture can be told that that it's a Frank Lloyd Wright for handwritten bye bye, these great kind of motifs on the outside, a classic Frank Lloyd Wright design that he incorporated on all of the handwritten furniture.

So you could when you walked up with it this morning, I said Frank Lloyd Wright, handwritten furniture.

There it is right there, says, Do you have any idea about the value?

When I inherited it, a couple of years ago, I kind of got online and looked and I saw just the coffee table was estimated around 8000.

This is certainly the most valuable of the three pieces, and it's also in really good condition as well.

I think the three pieces at auction would bring somewhere between 15 and $20,000.

that's great.

Yeah That's great.

Yeah, it's it's great furniture.

And again, I think it really helps tells the tale of mid-century design.

Well, we all three kids hit our chin on that slate table, so it's not going anywhere.

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This church is a representation of how religious faith was a cornerstone of rural life.

Starting in 1870 and continuing for decades.

This was a place of worship for many black Christian congregants.

The benches and pulpit are original to the building, as are the windows painted to resemble stained glass.

The country Gothic style structure was donated to the Rural Life Museum in 1973.

This book was gifted to my father and he gifted it to me.

It was a traveling book of laws used by Don.

One fell through the Louisiana territory.

So the original law book for the Territory, this was published in 1803, the same that Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from the French.

You can see how many miles it looks like it's been traveled.

This book, obviously, it's an extraordinary fragile condition.

If you would help me, sir, we try to turn this as gently as we can, sir.

Well, to open it just to give the folks a look at the title page, the Digest of the Civil War.

It was published in New Orleans in 1803.

The book is bilingual.

It's printing the newly minted laws of territory here in English on the Verse House and in French on the RECTO.

Don Juan's real name was Jean-Baptiste Feel.

Don Juan was a nickname of sorts.

He's the author of our book.

What Do We Know about Don Juan?

He was responsible for spreading the laws through the territory, and he also established Fort Morrow, that is now Monroe, who was a very big landowner.

He was apparently very, very successful early explorer Frenchmen in the early 1800s.

It was quite common in this country for white people in power to have enslaved people.

Don Juan Phil also was a plantation owner and a slave holder.

It's an ugly part of our country's history, but it's one that we need to acknowledge.

You say your father gifted it to you, but who gifted it to him?

My father is an attorney in Monroe, and he handled estates and successions for families.

And this family is one of the estates that he handled.

And when the last living Theo passed away, her son gave this to my dad an appreciation for handling her estate.

This was the copy, clearly, he wrote, used to bring the laws to the new territory, to the new citizens.

I can't imagine how that turned out for him, how he was greeted with that.

But yes, sir, it's absolutely fascinating.

So despite its condition, this book and my opinion needs a professional conservator, it could be stabilized and restored to a certain extent and preserved This book is printed on cotton rag paper.

The wood pulp paper that we're so familiar with today didn't come into use until the 1870s.

See this little hole?

It's a bookworm.

The bookworm.

Even in this condition, I would put a value at retail of between 2 to $3000.

Right.

Okay.

For insurance purposes, I would value it.

$5,000.

Okay.

Okay.

Because the adage is, you know, find another, right?

Sure.

Yeah.

I think that's going to be hard to do.

That's great to know.

We appreciate it.

Thank you.

So what do we think Santa Claus are selling the world?

We saw.

We saw it for $80.

And I told my husband I don't want it.

And then about a year later, we got it for 40.

So this is a piece that my husband and I bought at an auction in Mobile, Alabama.

And 1997.

But we were curious about it just because of the signature that it's a roden, which is the thing.

It's all I know.

What did you have to pay for it?

The auction, $500.

My husband is a hand therapist, so we bought it for because we liked the hands.

Really, more so than anything.

This is the model of right course.

It's a case of Rodin's The Cloth Cathedral and it's really lovely.

These are casts that are made from casts that are made from casts.

So they start to lose detail right over the years, and that's what we have here.

So basically the whole form is wonderful because you get to the larger idea of the other forms of the hands.

But when you start to look at the details like these fingernails, you see how very crude and rough they are in terms of the value.

It is bronze.

It's probably worth 800, maybe $1,000.

Yeah, Yeah.

Know, I brought in a wooden figure that belonged to my mother in law, and she and her husband, she was from Kentucky, and they went back to Kentucky one summer and she said they went through the woods and the hills and the hollers looking for this particular artist who did wood carvings.

So they found them.

They purchased this, brought it back, and that was the end of the story.

That's all I knew about it.

And you inherit and I inherited it after she passed away and it's been sitting on my shelf.

Well, we know the carver.

we do.

Okay.

Although not signed, his work is so distinguishable that when you see it, you know exactly who the artist is.

Okay?

It's by a gentleman by the name of Edgar Tolson.

okay.

And he was born in Kentucky.

He passed away in Kentucky.

He was born the early part of the 20th century and passed away in 1984.

Okay, that makes sense.

Yeah.

So it was probably 40 years ago, at least when they purchased this.

Now, Tolson lived in Appalachia in the mountains of Kentucky, and he was a coal miner.

He was a farmer.

He made chairs and he was a Baptist minister.

Okay.

And that's the Segway into this carving theory because he left being a preacher because he said he could not live up to God's standards.

But yet all of his carvings, his large body of work, is all with biblical figure.

Some of the symbolism.

Gotcha.

And when we see the snake, we know who this guy is.

This is Adam in the Garden of Eden.

I'll be darned.

As we turn it, we see this completely reductive carving.

Yeah.

He didn't feel there was a need to embellish it, put a lot of detail onto it, and it's just very simple, very plain.

But also, in a way, it makes it more powerful and more elegant, very highly collected.

People became aware of his work in the 1960s, and what was going on in the sixties in Appalachia is were artists guilds.

There was these craft guilds in order to support local artisans.

There were co-ops where artists would bring their work, and Tolson brought his work there.

He got noticed and he kind of rose to the top of the class, eventually did demonstrations at the Smithsonian.

Wow.

And had a full interesting life of talking about his carvings.

And creating a large body of work is a small little pinhole right at the mouth of the snake.

And there would have been a little piece of metal that came out for the snake stance.

The little basin on is a piece of pine.

The wood itself that he carved out of is typically bass wood.

What do you think it's worth?

gosh, maybe $250.

Okay, That's a gas.

Yeah.

Today's market, 2 to 3000.

You are kidding me.

Keith.

And it's a very sophisticated market for his material.

Seriously and intuitively.

You knew to bring it today.

Well, it was.

You know, it was like, what is it?

I have no idea.

Well, let's just take it.

That kind of thing.

Yeah.

And I said, it's broken.

They're going to say it's not worth anything.

It's broken.

You brought us an AFL, NFL football treasure trove today.

We've got a 1962 Houston Texans AFL ring, a 1966 Kansas City Chiefs AFL ring and this great game used Jersey with Stover on the back who I'm guessing is Smokey Stover.

How do you know Smokey Stover and how did you bring this stuff in to us today at the Roadshow?

Smokey Stover is my father.

We had been wanting to figure out what we had and decided to come to the roadshow.

He went to northeast Louisiana.

He was a full back there and excelled.

When he left.

He wanted to continue playing football and walked on for the Dallas Texans.

So he played for the Texans.

Now, the next year, Lamar Hunt, who was one of the founders of the AFL in 19, moved the team to Kansas City.

So how did your father feel about that?

They were excited.

Lamar had laid out a plan for him on how they were going to move up in the world and they all bought bought in, but went to Kansas City and said, Let's have a go at it.

And they had go at it.

Well, they certainly did.

They rose in the rankings and in 1966 they had a great year in the AFL and ended up playing in the Super Bowl.

The AFL founded in 1960 and they were an upstart near the first.

The NFL didn't think too much of it because they had already had challenges from other rival leagues.

But what made the AFL different is that they started going after players that would have normally gone to the NFL.

Yes.

Like your father?

Yes.

So now you forward to 1966.

They decided they were going to sign a merger.

They had battled each other too long and they were putting each other out of business.

So instead they were going to merge after the 69 season.

But in the meantime, they were going to have a game between the AFL and the NFL and once they signed this deal in 66, in June, they decided have the first AFL NFL championship game January 15th, 1967 in Los Angeles.

Your father got to go there that year.

They played this championship game, but after that, none other than Lamar Hunt coined the phrase that we all know today, the Super Bowl.

Absolutely.

The game is played and your father wore this jersey and that is a worn jersey.

We've grown up with all the stories, all the the players used to come by the house and sit and talk.

And just being a little guy and hearing all of these stories was pretty amazing we had a really good life.

Let's just talk about this Dallas Texans ring.

This is a championship game.

Ring is very important because it marks part of the passage, the development of the history of the Texans moving into the Chiefs and moving from the AFL to the NFL.

We're going to talk insurance today because that's what really what you're looking for.

Yes, I would not insure that for any less than probably $30,000.

Okay.

Okay.

Now we're talking about a ring from the AFL championship.

Again, we're looking at, believe it or not, same thing, about $30,000 insurance.

Okay.

Now, the game used jersey is just fabulous.

Is this in the Super Bowl?

Tell me about it is.

no.

They must have gone down and made the tackle on the punt.

What are these?

These are the undershirts.

We're actually in the locker room.

Wear this shirt underneath this before you go into the phil that's actually his undershirt and the game jersey that's his from Dallas Texans still with the bloodstains I would place an insurance estimate having this underneath 40,000 $40,000 That is wonderful so if we total it all up I think we're looking at $100,000 in shirt shirts.

That's what we needed to know.

And I appreciate it.

Most everybody wants to see the rings and he does wear them when he goes out to dinner.

He's led so well.

People put them on, try it on.

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It was such an amazing day there back last spring.

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The weather was to die for that day.

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We're from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

We certainly have had a really good day.

And the is the Sugar Bowl and then my grandmother's watch and then the turkey caller.

It wasn't worth that much, 50 bucks, but it's fun.

It was done.

My grandfather back in 1888, I thought I had a one of a kind book by Kipling, but it turned out it was one of 200,000.

I had a Blast and this is my Picasso chicken that I got for six, nine, nine at Goodwill.

And come to find out it's worth 100 to $150.

So winner, winner, chicken dinner.

And this is a fish we bought 12 years ago from ours named Ram Bushman, and he's an ice sculptor.

And one day after the show, he was selling his products.

We bought this for $50 and the appraiser praised for 900.

And I tell you what this is this is the fourth time we've been to Antique Roadshow.

This is the best one.

Today.

I brought this Peter Max piece.

I was wondering if it was real or not.

And Travis said, it's real and it's 1000 to $2000.

So I'm super jazzed up.

Victoria made me bring in Margaret, who is ornate and beautiful, but unfortunately, there's too many of them.

So three loved her, only worth 40 bucks.

We had a lot of interesting people and bucket list.

Mark had a ton.

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This is a really nice looking strat, especially nice guys.

It's refinished, but it still is quite a desirable instrument at one tone.

Policy place Pickups are neck date October 64 back to the neck also refinished l serial number which 64 to 66 is very.

This guitar would probably retail for 15 grand, maybe 17 five.

And if you hadn't refinish it because you didn't know you didn't know any better digit No one did back then.

I don't want to Stratocaster.

It would be 25 to 35, but it's still it's still more than you paid for.

It could be.

How much did you pay?

I think 200 to 52, 35 to 40.

Back.

My grandmother gave this to us for our wedding present, and that's been released 53 years ago.

And She was in German male Quebec and we know it's Abba solo or whatever, and that's all we really know about it.

And so why does he have to carry it and not you?

Because I'm a special.

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