Appraisal: Late 19th-C. Fish Scale-decorated Anchor & Dome
Clip: Season 27 Episode 23 | 1m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Late 19th C. Fish Scale-decorated Anchor
Watch Jason Preston's appraisal of a late 19th-century fish scale-decorated anchor in Did Grandma Lie?
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Appraisal: Late 19th-C. Fish Scale-decorated Anchor & Dome
Clip: Season 27 Episode 23 | 1m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Watch Jason Preston's appraisal of a late 19th-century fish scale-decorated anchor in Did Grandma Lie?
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: I brought this glass dome, and it has an anchor in it.
It's from my nana and my grandpa, and then it was my mother's, and now it's mine.
I was told it was made of fish scales, but I don't know if that's right or not, so so that's why I brought it.
APPRAISER: Well, what you've brought us today I think is a truly amazing and very fun example of this Victorian trend of creating these elaborate curiosities.
You're correct, it is fish scale.
GUEST: Is it?
Okay.
APPRAISER: And some of them are so delicately carved, and you can see through them, but then they've carved these veins of leaves in them, it's so finely done.
It's just amazing workmanship.
They took a real anchor GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: and crushed fish scale and applied it to it.
GUEST: Oh my goodness!
APPRAISER: Because there's one place I can see through to the metal of the anchor.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: And that's why it's so heavy.
And it's in this great Victorian glass dust dome.
GUEST: Uh-huh.
APPRAISER: And the pearls are synthetic.
At auction, I would expect this to have an estimate of around $1,500 to $2,000.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: And my advice to you would be to insure it for $3,000.
GUEST: Okay.
Well, I've wondered for so long, so now I know for sure.
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 44s | Appraisal: 1873 California Gold Quartz Presentation Cane (44s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 20s | Appraisal: 1900 Mark Twain Letter (1m 20s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 17s | Appraisal: 1903 Colt Single Action Army Revolver (2m 17s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 21s | Appraisal: Benjamin Greenleaf Oil Portraits, ca. 1810 (3m 21s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 30s | Appraisal: Concord, Massachusetts Federal Card Table, ca. 1800 (2m 30s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 2s | Appraisal: Dalzell Findlay Onyx Muffineer, ca. 1889 (1m 2s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 40s | Appraisal: Dedham Pottery Vase, ca. 1900 (40s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 42s | Appraisal: French Campaign Clock, ca. 1790 (42s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 56s | Appraisal: French Porcelain Vases, ca. 1860 (2m 56s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 16s | Appraisal: Hiratsuka Filigree & Cloisonné Teapot, ca. 1895 (1m 16s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 1m 57s | Appraisal: Hopi Kachina Figure, ca. 1910 (1m 57s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 57s | Appraisal: Matched-pair Diamond Ring, ca. 1910 (2m 57s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 31s | Appraisal: Oglala Sioux Winter Count (3m 31s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 44s | Appraisal: Oil Painting Attributed to Franciabigio, ca. 1520 (2m 44s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 14s | Appraisal: Old Hickory Rocking Chair, ca. 1910 (3m 14s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 47s | Appraisal: Ottoman Zarf, ca. 1875 (3m 47s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 39s | Appraisal: Renaissance-revival Poison Ring, ca. 1875, in Green Bay Hour 2. (3m 39s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 26s | Appraisal: Ruby & Diamond Bracelet, ca. 1895 (2m 26s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 39s | Appraisal: Child's Windsor Chair & Passport, ca. 1815 (2m 39s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 2m 57s | Appraisal: Diamond & Emerald Conversion Ring, ca. 1920 (2m 57s)
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Clip: S27 Ep23 | 3m 36s | Appraisal: Ruth & Wagner Signed Ball, ca. 1933, from Charleston, Hour 1. (3m 36s)
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