Special: Simply the Best (2010)

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW rounds up some of the best objects our appraisers have ever seen on the series in the special edition Simply the Best.

VIDEO: Interview with the Owner

Watch what Jinx, the owner of a collection of Chinese jade and celadon pieces from the Qianlong Period, had to say about her million-dollar moment in Raleigh!
(Raleigh, Hour 1)

ARTICLE: The Tafoyas: Legends of Pueblo Pottery

More on this well-known family of potters.
(St. Paul, Hour 1)

SLIDESHOW: Frank Sinatra Signed Letter

Read Sinatra’s tough-guy letter to columnist Mike Royko — only online!
(Madison, Hour 1)

Simply the Best

Doulton Pitcher & Bowl, ca. 1900
David Lackey

$1,500-$2,500
Simply the Best

Tang Dynasty Marble Lion
Lark Mason

$150,000-$250,000
Simply the Best

Maria Martinez Pots, ca. 1930
Bruce Shackelford

$45,000-$55,000
Simply the Best

Early 19th-Century Welcome Mathewson Rifle & Powderhorn
William Guthman

$100,000-$120,000
Simply the Best

William Fiske Federal Side Chairs, ca. 1795
J. Michael Flanigan

$30,000-$50,000
Simply the Best

Fairbanks Whyte Laydie No. 7 Banjo, ca. 1908
Frederick Oster

$8,000-$10,000
Simply the Best

Plains & Prairie Indian Art
Douglas Deihl

$130,000-$200,000
Simply the Best

Memphis Novelty Works Spur, ca. 1861
Rafael Eledge

$3,500-$4,500
Simply the Best

Folk Art Carved Canes by Robert H. Craig
Allan Katz

$20,600-$25,800
Simply the Best

Newcomb College Vase, ca. 1908
Suzanne Perrault

$30,000-$40,000
Simply the Best

Ellis-Stickley Music Cabinet, ca. 1903
John Sollo

$80,000-$100,000
Simply the Best

Evelyn Rumsey Cary "Woman Suffrage" Poster, ca. 1905
Nicholas Lowry

$10,000-$15,000
Simply the Best

18th-Century Qianlong Jade Collection from Qing Dynasty
James Callahan

$710,000-$1,070,000
Simply the Best

1976 Frank Sinatra Signed Letter to Mike Royko
Simeon Lipman

$15,000
Simply the Best

French Silk and Bone Fan, ca. 1800
Daniel Buck Soules

$3,000-$4,000
Simply the Best

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