(upbeat music) - [Announcer] A production of PBS Charlotte.

(soft big band music) - Welcome to the 6th Annual Carolina Collectibles.

We are about to find out what the treasures are worth of our amazing viewers throughout the Charlotte region.

You can see they're waiting patiently there, and they're pretty excited because who knows what their treasures are worth?

Carolina Collectible starts right now.

(big band music continues) Welcome friends.

I am so excited that you chose this time to check out what all your friends and neighbors' collectibles are actually appraised at.

Carolina Collectibles is my favorite time of the year.

It's the time when we invite the public to visit their public television station here at PBS Charlotte, and I'm telling you, we found some amazing finds, everything from paintings to some real pre-Civil War collections.

So you're gonna enjoy this episode of Carolina Collectibles, for sure.

(big band music continues) - Welcome, Terry.

So excited that you've brought this bat in.

It's got a ton of signatures inscribed on it.

Please tell us a little bit more about this.

Excited to hear what's going on here.

- Well, Gaylord Perry sent this to my grandson, Henry.

- [Brian] Wow.

- And I was amazed that all the signatures that was on it.

It's my pride and joy and I'm sure it's gonna be his, 'cause he's only three years old now.

(appraiser laughs) - [Brian] It's one of a kind piece, you know, to have what looks like a bunch of baseball greats on here.

It is from the Cooperstown event, a Hall of Fame induction, July 21st, 2019.

You have a total of 32?

- 32.

- Hall of Fame signatures from baseball greats.

I mean, the list here is impeccable.

We have Roberto Alomar, Johnny Bench, Andre Dawson, Ken Griffey Jr., Rickey Henderson, Ozzie Smith, who happens to be one of my favorites, somersaults and flips at the shortstop position.

My eyes were doing somersaults when I saw all the signatures on here.

Tell us a little bit about a relationship with Gaylord, how you got this all signed.

- Gaylord coached my son, Tony, in Legion Ball and College Ball.

And after he graduated, they still worked together, and over the years they have worked and got a good relationship going.

He just did that for Henry.

- Wow.

That's amazing.

You know, at auction we look at many things.

Provenance being that your family has ties to Gaylord, and we have a signed box dedicating it to Henry, Gaylord's signature is on here, too.

At auction, we do look at authenticating signatures.

That would go a long way as to bringing bidder confidence when you're talking about buying at auction.

But conservatively, I think, you know, this is (bell chimes) a 10 to $20,000 baseball bat.

You know, with all these signatures, possibly more, depending on who's bidding, who's interested.

I cannot thank you enough for bringing this in, this spectacular memorabilia item here.

One of a kind.

- Well, that's amazed me that it valued is what it is.

But I love it.

- Well, thank you so much.

- Thank you.

- I brought a picture that I found in the garbage, a painting.

It's by Paco, and I looked him up and I found out he does have paintings in the museums in New York.

Yeah, somebody was throwing it away.

It was raining that day.

A friend of mine, we were riding down the road.

I said, "Wait a minute, stop.

The painting's in the garbage."

She told me, I wanted to keep it, what I would have to do to it, and she always told me that it was only worth (bell chimes) about $1,000.

And I couldn't believe that, so I'm taking it home with me.

(laughs) - This is a carving I found at a thrift store about 25 years ago in Wilmington, North Carolina.

I, at the time, was kind of collecting religious icons and it was in a pile of framed pictures and I think I paid probably about 70 bucks for it.

It is not worth the million I was hoping.

Thinking it's like early 19th century or the possibility of late 18th century, and you can see there's remnants of paint on it, and it could have been part of a panel from furniture or it could have been in the church.

(bell chimes) Between one and 100 and $400, so I made some money on it.

- I brought this piece that had been my grandmother's, and it had come to me and I found out that it's from maybe the 1880s Germany, the manufacturer Kalk, K-A-L-K, and we hadn't known that, 'cause on the bottom there were just two little crossed arrows and some numbers.

I like the colors and I like all of the little nature works and the flowers and the detail on their clothing, and their little delicate fingers.

Alas, it was about $150 at auction.

- Can you tell me a little bit about where you got this from?

- Thank you, Claire.

When I was a little girl, I mean really little girl.

My mother used to go antiquing, and we lived in New York state and I remember going with her to an antique shop and she purchased this beautiful little girl.

My mother kept her in the front window of her house on display for years and years and years on that pedestal.

- Aww.

It's one thing the cats wouldn't knock over.

(Claire laughs) I just love her, 'cause her face is translucent, and the light passes through.

- Yeah, yeah.

It's really gorgeous.

And she's carved out of alabaster, and so it really does kind of have this luminosity that's just beautiful.

And then the details in her carving, like you said in her face, she's got this sweet little expression, and the little curls, this nice detail in the drapery on her dress, her hands and all the little grape vines and grape clusters are just beautifully carved.

She's not signed.

I was hoping I would find an artist's signature, but that's not really that uncommon.

She was probably done in the late 19th century, possibly early 20th.

A lot of these were done in Florence for the tourist market.

- Oh, it's an Italian sculpture?

- It's Italian, yeah, it's very nice, Italian sculpture.

At auction, I would say a nice sweet carving like this is probably (bell chimes) in the 800 to $1,200 range, and then if you have two collectors going after her, you know she could bring 1,000 to 2000.

But she's really beautifully done, and the condition is good.

Just a few little minor chips at some of the outer points like you would expect.

She's gorgeous and I'm so glad you brought her in today.

- Hey, Joey.

- Hey.

- Thanks for coming in today.

- Thank you.

Thank you for evaluating this object.

- Yeah.

So what'd you bring us?

- I have, what I've been told is a strong box or money box that was supposedly used back in the stagecoach days.

And that's all I know about it.

I haven't seen any markings or anything of that nature, so I wanted to just bring it to the expert and see what I had.

- Sure.

Sure.

We're glad you brought it in today.

And from the looks of it here, it's pretty much untouched, which is nice.

You got the original leather binding on here.

It's all wood underneath.

And there's a little bit of hand tooling that's going on here with this two-tone leather, all hand on here with the brass nailhead trim.

You got the original key.

The inside's nicely fitted here with all marbleized paper, this would've all been done by hand, and it's nice that so much of it is still intact here, which is pretty cool.

And that can help date the piece too.

You can see it covering the locks.

It's been on there probably since it was originally made.

And I was looking up the dates here, it's a little bit later than what I thought.

It's probably Civil War period, so 1860s is what we're looking at there.

And you're absolutely right.

It's a stage coach lockbox or strong box.

So you think about the Pony Express, Wells Fargo out west, they're traveling, they need to keep everything safe.

The good thing about it, you know, being period and right and pure is great, but not having a Wells Fargo association or any kind of, you know, interesting provenance, like we were talking about there with your family, is gonna knock it back down into the collectible category.

So at auction we're looking at somewhere (bell chimes) in the two to $300 range.

So not a tremendous amount, but it's a pretty cool thing, and you know, maybe it'll pick up here in price in the next few years.

- That's pretty cool.

That's great information.

- Yeah.

- I'm just glad to know that it is what we thought it was.

- Right.

Yeah.

- And thank you for evaluating it today.

- You're welcome.

Thanks for bringing it in.

(cheerful music) - Well, I brought a sword.

Don't know nothing about it.

Purchased at a flea market.

And so I brought it today to see if I could out find anything about it.

It's not a very valuable sword, but it's about 100 years old.

I bought it for 100, (bell chimes) and it's worth about $250.

- I brought a mystery ring today.

I've been carrying it around for 20 years.

As we were cleaning out my mother's jewelry box after her death, we almost threw this out, but it just kind of nagged at me, so I've been carrying it around.

Turns out it is my grandmother's ring.

It's a little over 100 years old.

I will be giving it to my daughter so it will be her great-grandmother's ring, and so I'm just very happy to have the mystery solved.

It's a couple hundred dollars, but that's not what I wanted here.

What I wanted here was the history, and I did get that.

I didn't waste my time (laughs) carrying it around for 20 years to find out it was the dime store ring.

That's the best part.

I trusted my instincts and they turned out to be right.

- Today my husband and I brought two studies by the Kentucky artist Henry Faulkner.

The pieces, one represents scene in Italy.

One represents a scene in Lexington, Kentucky, where Henry resided when he wasn't living in Key West or in Italy.

We bought these about 2013, and the pricing's over doubled, so we're happy about that.

- Well, Alison, thank you for bringing this in.

I understand this was owned by your stepfather?

- Mm-hmm.

- And passed down to him from perhaps a grandfather or his own father.

- Mm-hmm.

- As you've pointed out to me, it's marked here John F. Stratton, maker New York.

Stratton was a maker of instruments, particularly horns.

He was an American maker up in New York, popular around Civil War time all the way through 1880s.

And what we have here is likely silver plate or nickel silver.

You know, sometimes when we see these, they have a lot of what we call bleed or rubbing to the silver.

This one doesn't appear to have much of that at all, so that part's in great condition.

We have, you know, there's a few little dents here and there, but it's really gorgeously decorated with bright cut floral and foliate motifs.

There's a nice bird here, which you know, these are common in the late 1800s, and both sterling silver and silver plate.

Those are common motifs that we see on spoons, hollowware, and even instruments such as this.

What do you know about how your stepfather may have come upon this?

Was he a collector of instruments?

- He was not.

I believe he got it from his dad who got it from his dad.

- Okay.

It's a really nice piece.

A valuation at auction, (bell chimes) I would say between three and $500.

- All right.

- So thank you for bringing this clock in today.

Can you tell me something about it, any family history or information?

- I know that it was in my father's parents' house since I'm a little girl, but he told me it was in his house since he was a little boy.

And my father has passed now, but he would've been 94, so I know it's been around a long time.

His family comes from Hungary.

I don't know if it came with them from there, because his parents also traveled a lot.

It works.

It has a beautiful chime.

My father wrote down really specific instructions with the key, how to wind him without breaking it, and yeah, yeah, I just think it's beautiful, so I have it hanging in my home, too.

- It is.

You got the pendulum here.

- Yeah.

- So it is either, it's from that area, so Hungary or Germany, that area of the world.

It's early 20th century, so probably around 1910, 1915.

- Oh.

- And some of the giveaways is the style, so on here you've got this sort of stylized whiplash design of these tulips.

You have it on the inside of the face there, that stylized swirl.

- Right.

- It's art nouveau.

And that didn't come until around 1910 in style.

- Okay.

- And then the case itself is kind of moving out of that, like, Black Forest, Victorian look.

So it's kind of a meld of two styles that are transitioning at the time.

The case is walnut veneer.

You've got pine secondary.

You've got a printed paper face there with all brass fixtures.

- I like that you can see through the glass on the side, you can see the workings when it's moving.

- Yeah.

- I like that.

- That is nice.

- As far as condition goes, you know you do have that raised box, it's missing.

It probably would've been just like this.

- Right.

- And then there would've been a little finial or carved medallion that would've gone on top here that just pegs into that cutout on top.

But at auction, (bell chimes) we're looking like 300 to $500.

- Super.

- Yeah.

- Well, it's going back on my wall, happily.

(laughs) - That's where it should go.

Thank you.

(cheerful music) - I brought my Curious George collection given to me from a very good friend, Mallon Barbara Kern.

And what I learned is that my collection is fun, a lot of fun.

As you can see, he's flying his kite.

(bucket rattles) He also has a bank, and what I learned is that it's not worth so much money, but it's about a $250 collection.

(bell chimes) It will serve someone's grandchildren.

- Our grandmother was born in 1886, and she was quite the colorful character, lived a very interesting life.

And we have a few things that are not valuable, but just a curiosity, we wanted to know a little more about them.

This we found out was a necklace.

The note said, "Made by a badly wounded French soldier."

So that dated it around World War I.

Turns out, we don't know if that's the case, but they do think it was about World War I-era.

And it did confirm it's handmade, so that's kind of fun.

They weren't on this ribbon, but there were a lot of these beads of our grandmother's, and we found out those were probably made from bone, possibly out of Alaska.

- She traveled to Alaska.

- Handcarved.

- That's a great fun.

- Great.

- Great fun.

- Lots of fun.

(laughs) - And educational.

- Yeah.

- Well, this is a little banjo I've just been informed it's referred to as a tenor banjo because it's four strings, and my dad purchased this about the year I was born, so that's been a while.

(laughs) And he purchased it from a preacher who used to travel around and play music, and what is special about this banjo is that it has the autographs of numerous musicians.

One being Benny Goodman, Guy Lombardo, Phil Harris, and there are numerous other signatures that we can't make out.

So it's just a fun piece and it's not worth a lot of money, but now we know.

(laughs) He said actually the banjo might be worth more than the signatures, because if it's just an autograph, musicians autographed many things, and so it wasn't like a personal letter or something.

That's what would make the autographs more valuable.

(bell chimes) Approximately up to $1,000 value.

- I brought in some books of my late father's and he was a book collector.

He had a lot of murder mysteries, also books on natural history and historical fiction as well.

And I love a lot of this stuff.

I just don't know what it is.

And this is a "Works of Natural History" from Sherborne, England, and it has a wonderful little etching it.

This is from 1802, so this is an early edition, almost like an Audubon-like thing.

Yeah, they're consulting me on the value, but it was still neat and it's a great way to use my pledge dollars.

- I brought a Romeo and Juliet painting that I didn't know whether it was worth anything or not.

And it's by E. Palmer in 1904.

They say it's a real painting, it's not a print, so it was valued (bell chimes) from two to $600.

(cheerful music) - Hi, thank you so much for coming today and bringing this lovely photograph.

Will you tell me a little bit about it?

- Sure.

This started when I finished college and I was with my great-aunt and she said, "Oh, you need a frame.

You've gotta frame your diploma."

And she went in the closet and pulled this picture out, this photograph out, with an old frame.

And she was going to discard the photograph and give me the frame.

And I was like, no, let's switch that.

- Yeah.

(laughs) - I want the photograph.

That's how I got it.

We've had it ever since.

- It was a good choice, because the photograph is really lovely and it's a really nice early example of American photography of the American West.

As you probably know, it's by William Henry Jackson, and he was one of the photographers that really got American photography started when photography was finding its footing in the 19th century.

It's a mammoth albumen print, so it's a really large photograph.

And the type of printing is an albumen print.

He was a photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad.

He took photographs as it was being developed.

So it's a really, really special photograph.

- Well, I think that's the connection is the railroad.

- Yeah.

- Because what I understand, the family story from her was that her husband's family worked for the railroad and was out here in the west with this project and got shot by the Indians.

And someone in that group said, "Well, I've got a place you can go.

I have family in South Carolina to recuperate."

So he went there and that's how he met someone got married and that's how the family connection began.

- Well, it's so special it stayed in the family all this time.

I would say if you were to sell it at auction, it would probably fetch (bell chimes) between three to $5,000.

It's just beautiful.

Thank you so much for bringing it in today.

- Well, thank you.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you.

(cheerful music) (people chattering) - So Linda, tell us a little bit about what you've brought here today.

- Well, I've been collecting noise makers for about 30 years.

I just love the variety and the graphics that are on them.

And I've learned that Kirchhof certain companies made several different, what would you call it, graphics, but still the same shape.

And they come in so many different varieties, rattles and pans and whistles and it's amazing.

- Yeah.

And you've got a little bit of everything here.

- Yeah.

- So you've got the little shakers.

- Yep.

- And all the little cats.

- Yep.

And there's like four or five in that series.

It would come in a pan or a rattle with that particular cat on it.

Just like this witch has four or five different versions of her.

- Oh, that's so fun.

- So it's a fun collectible, and they're getting harder to find nowadays.

- Yeah, and so these basically kind of started in the '20s, but then most of what we have here is from the '50s and '60s.

- Right, right.

I have a few from the '40s.

- Yeah.

- But most of 'em in the old days, as we showed, the madman days, is what they are.

- Oh yeah.

- I guess people used to have more parties back then, the kind that they used noisemakers at anyway.

- Yeah.

And then you've got this one here that's got the little original five and dime store sticker here.

- Yeah.

- So 10 cents.

Yeah, this is just a great little grouping here.

- And do we have any guess on what they might be worth?

- So I would say that if you were to sell the entire collection as a whole, you're looking at probably (bell chimes) about 800 to $1,200 at all auction.

- Wow.

- Yeah.

Well, I love 'em, and I won't give them up.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

- But I just wondered after all these years if they had any value besides my affection.

- All right, Ms. Jones.

So tell us some history on this doll that you brought in today.

- Well, it belongs to my mother's first cousin.

Before she passed, she gave me this doll and told me this was her doll.

The only one she really had.

And she told me that the outfit was not the original outfit, but the shoes, the socks.

- She believed those to be original?

- Right, well, the doll was new when she got it.

- Wow.

Yeah, that's great.

So you're the second owner?

- Yes, I am, come think of it.

- Okay, yeah.

- I was just blessed to get her, but I don't know anything about it.

- Yeah.

- And I was amazed when you...

I never saw this.

- Yeah, as we took it out, we found these documents that were in there, so one of these was tucked inside her clothing, and this is just the maker.

So, and you can find item on the back of the neck here.

So it's Armand Marseille, a famous German maker of dolls.

And you can see it's all stamped there in the bisque porcelain head.

It's got the model number 390, and then you also have another piece of paperwork in there that's the repair bill back from 1980, where they had some repainting done, some waxing to the eyelids.

And one nice feature you want to find for doll collectors is the sleepy eye and an open mouth, which you have here, and the actions working properly on her there.

She does have later clothing.

It's all handmade.

Her body is jointed wood and painted there.

And this maker, they made a ton of dolls and they're actually one of the most well-known doll makers in Germany at the turn of the century.

And at one point they were making up to 1,000 porcelain heads a day.

- Wow.

- And just a lot of dolls were produced through there.

So with that, you know, few survive because they're so fragile, but there are so many on the market.

So you really need one that's a standout piece to be worth a lot of money, but this doll at auction, (bell chimes) you're in the 200 to $400 range.

- Okay.

- So it's still a collectible thing.

It's a great vintage piece.

Again, if we had the original clothing, the condition were a little bit better.

The value could be a little higher on it, but it's a good antique piece.

- All right.

- Thank you for bringing her in.

- Thank you so much for coming in today.

Tell me a little bit about the work that you brought.

- This was inherited, and I know that the (indistinct) married the (indistinct) and it has (people chattering) come down through the family.

So I brought her in today because I'd like to know, are we related?

(laughs) - Yeah.

- And of course I'd like to know if there's any value.

- Well, she's really beautiful and I can see why you've kept her all these years and she's just, it's beautiful in this frame.

We've done a little research, and the artist is a German artist, Friedrich August von Kaulbach, who painted in the late 19th, early 20th century.

What's unique about this, this is actually a hand-done print after the original painting.

- Okay.

- But the good thing is, it still has a little bit of age to it.

If it were the original painting, it would be around 5 to $10,000.

- Okay.

- This is Chromolithograph.

- Okay.

So it's a type of print which makes it less valuable than if it were a painting.

- Okay.

- But the good news is, it's a very early print.

- Okay.

- So it probably is 100-plus years old.

That's a type of printmaking, the chromolithograph, that was very popular late 19th century, early 20th century.

So I would say if you were to offer this work at auction, it would likely sell between (bell chimes) about 500 to $1,000.

- Okay.

- So not as strong as the oil on canvas painting, but it still has some nice age to it.

It's a lovely presentation in this frame.

It's a really nice overall work.

Thank you so much for bringing it in.

- Well, I had lots of information, so that's good.

- Great.

Well, thank you.

(cheerful music) - This is a dish that my uncle left me when he passed away.

And I knew nothing about it, but I found out it's a Japanese dish.

She told me that the Japanese use all these flowers and these things more than, Chinese just used flowers, so this is definitely Japanese, and it was worth (bell chimes) 3 to $500 if I sold an auction, and that if I sold it privately, (bell chimes) it would be between 800 and $1,200.

Sentimental, so I'll probably just keep it.

(laughs) - I brought a tapestry that's a gift for my mother and I always wanted to know if it was worth anything.

So this has been quite an adventure to come and see.

It's not as much as I thought, but I'm just happy to know.

(bell chimes) Three to $500.

- This is a painting that my mother was given by her mother, so my grandmother, and it's worth (bell chimes) about 1 to 4,000, and is from a painter that used to paint for the railways, the west, and he would sell really big pictures.

This is just a small picture.

Well, it's just special because it came down from two generations.

- I have this violin.

It's been in the family for a long, long time.

The story in the family is that it was made for my grandmother when she went off to college.

She went to University of Michigan and studied music.

The violin was made by a Robert Glier Jr. in Cincinnati, Ohio, and it was made in 1919.

But they said this violin might go (bell chimes) for about $800.

It needs a little bit of work.

There's a crack on it, and the bridge isn't on it.

But, you know, my grandmother used it, one of her children used it, some of her grandchildren used it, and also one of her great-grandchildren used it, so I think we're gonna keep it.

(laughs) - This is a pot that belonged to my grandmother.

And then when it was time to break up her house after she passed away, we visited her house in St. Paul's, North Carolina, and I don't remember it so much growing up in the summers I spent there, but I've always liked pottery in particular, and so I've had it on my bookshelf probably 30 years.

It's probably worth (bell chimes) between 100 and $300, I think she said.

- I brought this porcelain picture that I got from a friend's mother back in 1973.

I helped them put on a household garage sale.

They had never done one before.

And as thanks, she gave me this picture, which had hung in my best friend's bedroom, and I've had it now for 50 years and always wondered about it, and found out that it's a porcelain numbered plate from Boston.

Originally sold for $15, and she estimates somewhere (bell chimes) between 2 and 600.

I just love the fact that it was in my best friend's bedroom when she was growing up, and also that it's Alice in Wonderland with her sister.

And I think she's telling her the story of what she experienced when she was in Wonderland, 'cause her sister looks kind of skeptical.

- I brought an award for the best chilled plow in South Bend, Indiana.

We found out it's worth somewhere between 800 and $1,500.

(bell chimes) - And I brought an oil on canvas painting I had no history on.

I bought it because I thought it was beautiful for $35.

Turns out it's worth between three to $600.

And I also brought a, what we hope is a Stradivarius violin.

We weren't able to authenticate it.

However, there is hope.

We're gonna take it to another expert to get a second opinion.

- A lot of nice people here.

It was a good experience.

- Absolutely.

And just, you know, sharing the love of vintage items with all of the people that came out and brought things that were near and dear to them, so that was exciting to see that there's other people like us that have that passion for what's old is new again.

(cheerful music continues) - Hey Rich and Tracy, thank you for coming to Carolina Collectibles today.

So you brought us something interesting here just besides a drawer.

- We did.

We did.

- Yeah.

- It's actually part of a bigger cupboard that belonged to my family for the last 100-plus years.

Just recently got this from my mother who passed away a few years ago.

Her name was Francis K. N. Hampton.

Been in her family for many, many years.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- So I know you brought in some interesting family history for this as well, and you have one particular name that you can at least date it back to, so tell us a little bit about him.

- Yes, so if you go back in time to the turn of the 1800s, 17th century, Andrew Durr was around around 1800.

That's the earliest that we've seen it.

He came originally from German descendants, settled in Lincoln County, North Carolina.

- So your family's always been in that area, Lincoln County?

- They have.

They have.

- Yeah.

- So not too far from here.

- Not far from here at all.

- Yeah, so it's pretty interesting.

And so you brought in the photo that we took a look at, with the corner cardboard.

- Yes.

So you have some more details.

What's nice on this is that you can see all the hand carving features, and it's similar to what you're seeing with a lot of the Germanic inspiration coming to North Carolina, you see in the (indistinct) pottery, you see in the wood workers, and obviously here in this corner cabinet.

Now it's been sitting in the same place since the '60s, is that right?

- It had been moved two or three times, but it's been in the place it's at now for 65 years.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

- And it looks like the ceiling hat is right there at that arched part of it.

- Yeah, it's very tall.

Yes, absolutely.

- Yeah, and you said some finials that go on top of there that you have, too, which is nice.

- We do, yes.

- Yeah.

Well, the carving and everything is unusual, and it would take some more homework and research to go through, but there's a number of cabinet makers that you could attribute something like this to, which is something we would do more work on.

So with the drawer that you brought in here, we can look at and see the construction, the primary, the secondary wood, so it's a walnut corner cupboard.

The secondary that we see on here is all poplar, so these are southern woods, typical of what you're seeing in craftsmanship.

It's all hand dovetailed.

There's no nails in here, and we believe this piece to be 1800s.

We've seen a number of rare and important pieces like this come to market.

Without doing further research and being able to attribute it to somebody, at auction, we're looking at somewhere (bell chimes) in the 40 to $60,000 range for a piece like this.

- Wow.

That's great.

(Tracy laughs) - Yeah.

- That's great, yeah.

- So it's a thrilling piece.

Definitely the best piece of furniture seen come through today, and thank you for bringing it out.

- Great.

Thank you so much.

- Wow.

- Yes, sir.

- Appreciate that.

- Yeah.

- That is crazy.

- That's crazy.

That's crazy.

(Tracy laughs) Did not expect that, too.

- Yeah.

- Not a bit.

And if you think about it, I mean, it's been sitting in that house since the early 1960s.

- Yeah.

- You and your three brothers ran around that cabinet all the time.

- I grew up seeing this piece every day.

- Your grandchildren, your kids ran around it, your grandchildren ran around it.

I mean, it's just been sitting in the corner, like this stately piece of furniture.

- And the history you have is awesome.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

- I mean, not very many people have that to go along with it, so that's perfect.

That's what every collector wants to have, you know, a museum, anybody's gonna want to have that information with that piece of furniture.

(cheerful music) - All I've got to say is who knew that was worth so much money?

And to think that their son thought it would actually be worth just $5?

You never know what the treasures and your attics are worth.

That does it for the sixth anniversary of Carolina Collectibles, but I hope to see you at next year's seventh anniversary.

Your collectibles, we'll know the stories behind them and learn so much and have a great day here at your public television station, PBS Charlotte.

From all of us at PBS Charlotte, thanks for joining us.

We'll see you back here again next time.

Good night, my friends.

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