20th-Century Country-Western Autographed Jacket

Appraised on: June 24, 2006

Appraised in: Salt Lake City, Utah

Appraised by: Mike Gutierrez

Category: Collectibles

Episode Info: Salt Lake City, Hour 3 (#1115)

Originally Aired: April 30, 2007

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Appraisal Video: (1:40)

APPRAISER: We have a whole bunch of country-western signatures on this jacket.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: Can you tell me how they got on there?

GUEST: It's my mom's coat. She got it when she was young and went to a concert and had somebody sign it, and it just started from there.

APPRAISER: Okay.

GUEST: She took it to everyone and had them all sign it.

APPRAISER: Do you know some of the signatures that are on this jacket?

GUEST: Oh, yeah, she has, um, Faron Young and T. Texas Tyler. Tex Ritter. Also Ferlin Husky, Slim Whitman.

APPRAISER: Right underneath here we see, kind of hidden here, Eddy Arnold, Happy Trails, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry. Then on the reverse here...

GUEST: That's where there's a lot of good stuff there.

APPRAISER: Turn it over. Hidden underneath the fringe here, we see the best name that's on the coat here... Patsy Cline.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: Along with Johnny Cash. You've got Rex Allen and then you've got--it appears that she got some signatures...Marty Robbins…

GUEST: Yeah, recently.

APPRAISER: ...even as of late, right? Garth Brooks and Emmylou Harris. Marty Robbins. An amazing amount of signatures on here– Patsy Cline easily the most difficult to obtain.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: A story on this jacket is she died in a plane crash in the early 1960s. This is just amazing. I've never seen a country-western signed piece like this with this many signatures.

GUEST: I know, it's beautiful.

APPRAISER: I think that this coat would probably bring in the area of $2,500 to $3,000.

GUEST: That's good.