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FRANK SHAIA: These are actually woven for purpose as opposed to the commercial rugs that are just gonna be sold and put on the floor.

AMORY LeCUYER: Both of these are examples of how lighting can get really interesting.

Sometimes bordering on, uh, the bazaar.

TONYA: So this was a presentation piece presented to your great-great-grandfather.

KATHLEEN HAMILL: Tom Everhart was one of the few artists that was given permission by Charles Schultz to copy his work.

PATRICK REDDING: You actually have two distinctive types of pistols here.

GUEST: I brought a collection, a grouping of material from my association with Tom Clancy early in his career.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ KATHLEEN: Hello and welcome to "Chesapeake Collectibles."

GUEST: Well, thank you.

It's great to be here.

KATHLEEN: So I think I recognize these guys.

So why don't you tell me a little bit about what you brought today?

GUEST: Sure, so I've brought three of, what is eight that we have eight to 10 actually, of hand sketches that were done in my mother's classroom.

My mother was a teacher at the Calvert School, and her show and tell for one day was these pictures being hand-drawn.

The artist was somebody who was involved with one of the parents and was brought in as the artist of the day.

KATHLEEN: That is so fun.

And how old were the children in her class?

GUEST: They were six.

So this was the sixth age of pre-first.

KATHLEEN: Yeah.

And obviously familiar with who Snoopy was/is.

GUEST: Absolutely.

KATHLEEN: Yes.

GUEST: Absolutely.

KATHLEEN: And so, so Tom Everhart walks into the classroom, and then what does he do?

GUEST: So the children were able to give specific, "Who do you know of the Peanuts characters?"

KATHLEEN: Right.

GUEST: "And who would you like me to draw?"

And so he'd start with the clean sleeve paper, and magically it would turn into one of these.

KATHLEEN: So done in real time.

GUEST: Oh, it was done real time, and they enjoyed it and got to see how it turned into something right before their eyes.

KATHLEEN: That's amazing.

And what year did you tell me this was?

GUEST: This was in the '90s, 1990s.

So this was before Charles Schultz had passed.

KATHLEEN: Right.

And Tom Everhart was one of the few artists that was given permission by Charles Schultz to be able to copy his work.

So that's incredibly special.

And it's so fun to think about an artist of this national acclaim being right at the Calvert School, which is, you know, right here in Baltimore.

GUEST: Exactly.

KATHLEEN: Um, which is so fascinating.

And I bet that we're gonna have children who attended Calvert, who maybe even were there when he was doing these drawings...

GUEST: Oh, I'm sure.

KATHLEEN: ...watch this and remember the whole experience.

And have you or your mother ever gotten these appraised or looked into any kind of value?

GUEST: We've not had them appraised, but my mother and I were in a gallery out in California where we saw some of Tom Everhart's big prints... KATHLEEN: Yes.

GUEST: And we were just talking, and the shop owner, the gallery owner, overheard us and said, "You have original sketches?"

KATHLEEN: Right.

GUEST: And was willing to buy them from us right then and there.

KATHLEEN: I'm sure he was, yes.

GUEST: So that's all we know.

KATHLEEN: Right, so on the market today, we usually find lithographs or stereographs by the artist.

And even the prints are bringing around two to 3,000 at auction.

So when we get into these hand-drawn magic marker, like real-time drawings, I would say four to 5,000 a piece.

GUEST: Wow.

KATHLEEN: And you have 10, 8, 10?

GUEST: Right.

KATHLEEN: And just with the whole story, they're so special.

So, thank you so much for bringing them in today.

I just think they're so fun and amazing.

GUEST: Well, I think my mom will be very pleased.

KATHLEEN: Your mom should be pleased, yeah, very pleased.

GUEST: Thank you.

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♪ ♪ TONYA: Good afternoon.

GUEST: Good Afternoon.

TONYA: Welcome to "Chesapeake Collectibles."

GUEST: Thank you.

TONYA: Oh my goodness.

It's so nice to have a young person in here today.

GUEST: Yeah, thank you.

TONYA: You're what, about 12, 13, 15?

GUEST: Yeah, 13.

TONYA: Oh, great, great, great, nice to have you here.

Tell us what you bought in here for us today to see.

GUEST: Well, it's a glass pitcher with a silver overlay from 1906 from my great-grandfather.

TONYA: This belonged to your great-great-grandfather.

GUEST: Yeah.

TONYA: Oh wow.

What drew you to this to make you wanna bring this particular item in for us to have a look at today?

GUEST: Well, I just think it's kind of interesting, you know, it's like all the details, and it's pretty cool.

TONYA: Beautiful, it was in your cabinet, in your home.

GUEST: Yeah.

TONYA: Okay, okay.

I also see that it's been engraved here.

Can you tell me what the, the wording is on the front?

GUEST: Yes, it says Edner L. Story from Ina E. Marshall and son, as a token of appreciation for faithful services, 1881 to 1906.

TONYA: So 1881 to 1906.

So this was a presentation piece presented to your great-great-grandfather for the excellent service and recognition that he's done for the company.

Well, let me tell you a little bit about the item.

This is a Art Nouveau silver overlay jug by the Alvin Smith Silver Company.

The work on this is exquisite, as you can see here, the grapes, the cherries.

There was some technique and time done in doing this particular item.

This pitcher has a little bit of damage here.

So I'm gonna give you two values.

You wanna know the value?

GUEST: Sure.

TONYA: I'll give you two values, one for the condition that it's in and the condition it would be if it were in mint to perfect condition, okay.

So in looking at this particular crack here, this area, if you can see the, the demarcation line in there, this would be worth eight to $900 in as-is condition.

If it were in perfect condition, mint, you'd be looking at 25 to 2,800.

GUEST: Wow.

TONYA: Are you surprised by that?

GUEST: Yeah.

TONYA: Okay, but it's a great piece, it's a great story.

It's nice to see young collectors coming back into the market.

I thank you so much for coming out.

GUEST: Thank you.

TONYA: Thank you.

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♪ ♪ FRANK: Well, hi there, welcome to "Chesapeake Collectibles."

GUEST: Thank you.

FRANK: And what'd you bring us today?

GUEST: I brought two, what I wanna call like Persian rugs, but that are utilitarian.

Like this is a tent.

FRANK: Uh-huh.

GUEST: And this is a saddlebag.

FRANK: Uh-huh, where'd you get 'em?

GUEST: At estate sales.

FRANK: At estate sales.

GUEST: Yeah, two different ones.

So not the same, you know, grouping, this one I picked up last year, and this one just this year.

FRANK: Did you pay a lot of money for them?

GUEST: No, this one I only paid $20 for and... FRANK: Nice.

GUEST: ...this one I paid 175.

FRANK: 175, well...

GUEST: But still, I'd not ever seen them for sale anywhere, so I was really excited.

FRANK: You know, they're not the kind of thing that you see just anywhere, actually.

And as you mentioned, these are what we call utilitarian.

They were woven for a purpose as opposed to the commercial rugs that are just gonna be sold and put on the floor.

These are actually woven for purposes; this piece is known as a torba.

GUEST: Okay.

FRANK: And it actually is a bag, so you can see the back of it.

And they would hang this on the wall to decorate the tent, and they would probably put tent pegs or small things and just store them in the bag, but...

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

FRANK: ...because they lived in a tent in the desert, this is Bedouin tribes that are along the border from Persia into Afghanistan and Turkmenistan.

I think this piece is Turkmenistan, I think this one is actually Persian, Iranian.

They use all the colors to brighten up their day.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

FRANK: So they just are decorative pieces.

This piece is what we call a saddlebag.

So this is just a bag, it's called a torba, but this is a saddlebag which actually draped over the horse or the camel and something that people don't ever notice about these is the way they do this.

So these loops are so that once you have your bag full of stuff, you can just actually loop it up like this.

You go like that, and then you come over, and the next one goes through here, and then you've got the bag closed up.

GUEST: Okay.

FRANK: So nothing will fall out while you're traveling.

GUEST: Oh, okay.

FRANK: This piece is very unusual for a couple reasons.

Number one is, I was looking at this Kelim here, I call it aubergine.

GUEST: Okay.

FRANK: You called it eggplant.

But it's a very interesting color to see in a saddlebag.

GUEST: Okay.

FRANK: There's another interesting feature about this bag that I happen to notice, and that is these little markers right here.

This one and this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, as you know, they weave from side to side.

GUEST: Right.

FRANK: And all of these are on the same line.

And it would probably mean some significant thing happened that day in the life of the weaver.

GUEST: Oh, that's wonderful.

FRANK: It could be a birthday, a marriage, a death, but it definitely signified something.

So they put in these threads, and actually, the pink ones, I believe, are silk actually as well.

So, but it's just a marker of some kind, and occasionally you'll see that in tribal things.

GUEST: Oh, okay.

FRANK: So you paid $20 for this and $175 for this?

GUEST: Yeah.

FRANK: Well, this is a better investment because I probably appraise this in a retail shop, I mean, at auction it would sell cheaper, but in a retail shop, this is definitely an $800 to a $1,000 item.

GUEST: Oh, oh.

FRANK: This one is probably five to $700.

GUEST: Oh, okay.

FRANK: But when you walked in with these, they're just really cool pieces.

It's where my heart is in this kind of tribal stuff, so...

GUEST: Yeah.

FRANK: So, thank you so much for bringing these in.

GUEST: Yeah, my pleasure.

FRANK: And I really appreciate it, thank you for coming to...

GUEST: Yeah.

FRANK: ...visit us at "Chesapeake Collectibles."

GUEST: Thank you, thank you.

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♪ ♪ AMORY: You know, I wanna thank you first for coming out to "Chesapeake Collectibles."

You were thrown under the bus to be on camera.

GUEST: That's right.

AMORY: So, tell me what you got here, a little bit.

GUEST: Sure.

This is my mom's, bought in 1986, Salvation Army in Maryland.

AMORY: This looks like a Salvation Army piece.

GUEST: Yeah, she paid $30 for it.

AMORY: Okay.

GUEST: And it's been hanging in our house in our kitchen, she literally uses it.

My dad took it down this morning from the kitchen, off the kitchen table.

AMORY: Oh my goodness, from this morning?

GUEST: Yes.

AMORY: Okay.

And you know, it dates probably from the mid-50s.

GUEST: Okay.

AMORY: The circus memorabilia kind of thing that was going on during that timeframe, carousel horses, things like that.

With, with both of these examples, and we're gonna get to the parrot here in a minute, but both of these are examples of how lighting can get really interesting.

Sometimes bordering on the bizarre.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

AMORY: And, and you really have to have a real need to have a carousel horse chandelier.

What I also loved, but I found out later that Mom had added these curly-Q bulbs.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

AMORY: I think, fully lit, this thing would be just...

GUEST: It's... AMORY: ...kicking.

GUEST: It is, it's kicking it, yeah.

AMORY: Yeah.

Now tell me about your other piece.

GUEST: This is from my Aunt Jeanette.

She sadly passed away, but her daughter was giving away all these antiques she had collected.

AMORY: Right.

GUEST: She was like, whatever you guys, whatever people don't take, I'm giving away, throwing away.

I was like, I'll take that lamp.

It looks interesting.

AMORY: Right.

GUEST: And so that's how I ended up with it.

AMORY: Okay, very good.

GUEST: Yeah.

AMORY: Well, you did better than Mom did.

Mom's chandelier probably in today's market, I think you said she paid $30 for it.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

AMORY: That's probably 30 to $50.

Unless you had a real circus or carousel collector.

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But, but as a piece of lighting in the home, it's great.

GUEST: Yeah.

AMORY: But your parrot is a much better, more interesting piece.

It's an Art Deco parrot.

Very popular, it has been rewired.

GUEST: Okay.

AMORY: Which is not unusual from a lamp that may have been created in the 1920s or 1930s.

But the parrot lamp, and it's in really, really nice shape.

It has its original paint and decoration.

In today's market, this is bringing 550 to $800...

GUEST: Wow.

AMORY: ...at auction.

GUEST: Okay.

AMORY: So what we have here is one that you could horse around with and one that will repeat and make fun of you during the day.

GUEST: There we go.

AMORY: I wanna thank you for coming out today.

GUEST: Yeah, thank you.

AMORY: This was just a marvelous thing to come up to the table.

GUEST: Yeah, thanks.

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♪ ♪ ALLAN STYPECK: Welcome to "Chesapeake Collectibles."

What did you bring us?

GUEST: I brought a collection, a grouping of material from my association with Tom Clancy early in his career.

I met him, he was my insurance agent, when I first moved back to Maryland.

One day, I was sitting in his office and he presents me a, a ream of paper.

And he says, "I, I wrote a book, would you mind taking a look at it?"

And I read it and I told him, "I think it's pretty good."

ALLAN: Really?

So that being...

GUEST: That was the first draft of "The Hunt For Red October."

ALLAN: No kidding.

So, in addition to being a client of his, I understand he was a client of yours.

GUEST: Yeah, yeah.

I was a physician for him and his family, and I was a medical advisor for his first couple of books.

He would sometimes shoot me five or 10 pages that involves something medical, and he would enclose a little clip on the top saying, you know, "What do you think of this?"

"Does this make sense medically?"

ALLAN: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: "Any changes you would advise..." and that sort of thing.

He also shared with me a, a copy of "Harpoon."

ALLAN: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: And this was a, a game designed by a friend of his, Larry Bond, with whom he corresponded.

And I have some of that correspondence there.

And he gave that to me, wondering if maybe I wanted to learn how to play it.

Frankly, I looked through it and it was way too detailed for me.

ALLAN: Way over your skill set.

GUEST: Way over my head.

ALLAN: Right, for full disclosure, I'm, I'm the person who did Tom Clancy's estate, his archive.

And one thing I did see in that was that he reached out to so many people for technical advice.

GUEST: Yes.

ALLAN: So, give us an idea of what you shared with him.

GUEST: So what I have, this is a picture that Tom gave me that he shot at one of the Army bases.

"It just says my enemy destroyed my battle won, and now it's Miller Time!"

And that, that's vintage Clancy.

ALLAN: Clancy, right.

This is a first edition, first printing of "The Hunt For Red October."

I bought a dozen of 'em, I gave 'em to friends and family for Christmas presents.

ALLAN: Right, but this one is special, right?

GUEST: Yeah, this one's, this one's mine.

ALLAN: Right, and it is inscribed personally to you by Tom.

GUEST: Yes, yes, right.

And this is, we went to the premier, which was a hoot, and they gave us paperback copies... ALLAN: Right.

GUEST: ...at the premier.

And I managed to get Alec Baldwin, Courtney Vance, and Scott Glenn... ALLAN: And Scott Glenn.

GUEST: Yeah, to, to, to sign my copy of it.

ALLAN: Show us the other material, this is exceptional.

GUEST: Then there was his 60th birthday on the Battleship New Jersey.

ALLAN: Right.

GUEST: With a very ornate invitation and instructions of where to go and, and such.

ALLAN: You know, I have to just interject here, it's not every person that can get a U.S. flag battleship commissioned by the Navy for their personal birthday party, right?

GUEST: Probably not, yeah.

ALLAN: So imagine the depth of influence he had...

GUEST: Yep.

ALLAN: ...in the Navy.

I always remember the joke that every Navy commander wanted to be the next Jack Ryan.

So they threw him so many favors to be able to get involved with the books.

GUEST: It was a great association.

He was, he was a great guy.

He was one of the smartest people I ever met.

ALLAN: Right.

He took an idea and turned it into an enterprise.

And it has really recalibrated the concept of the U.S. Navy into civilian speak, which I've always appreciated.

Now let's talk about this specifically.

GUEST: Okay.

ALLAN: Okay, tell us what it is.

GUEST: Oh, so that is an excerpt from "Red Storm Rising."

ALLAN: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: And it's 10 or 12 pages involving a particular scene.

And he just enclosed a little note, and he would do this, he would just drop it by my office.

Our offices were like a quarter mile apart.

ALLAN: Right.

GUEST: And he would just drop it by my office and in closing a little note saying, you know, "Take a look through this, see what you think," you know, "if there are any thoughts or suggestions."

ALLAN: Right.

GUEST: I still remember talking with him about the scene in, in "Red October" where the political officer dies.

ALLAN: Right.

GUEST: And talking over with him, how do you, how do you kill a guy so that he doesn't make any noise?

ALLAN: Right.

GUEST: I told him, well, it's, it's gotta be, if, if we're gonna go to a neck fracture, it's gotta be pretty high up.

It's gotta be like C1, C2 hangman type fracture.

"Well, how, how do we do that?"

You gotta, gotta hit it pretty hard on the side of the table or something.

ALLAN: Right, this is great.

I mean, I, you know, having that relationship with the Clancy estate myself, I totally appreciate how Tom was willing to share his...

GUEST: Yep.

ALLAN: ...life and use his friends to help him enhance it, shall we say.

So, have you ever had this appraised before?

GUEST: No, no, this was the first time I've ever had anybody look at it.

ALLAN: Is there any other... yeah.

Is there any other material in the collection that we should talk about?

GUEST: Uh, there are four or five other books that are signed by him... ALLAN: Right.

GUEST: ...and they just weigh too much to bring in.

ALLAN: Okay, so they being association copies, your first step into celebrity has just been made.

GUEST: Yeah.

ALLAN: Because you were that friendly with Tom, you actually would be cited if we cataloged this because of your relationship.

So you do have a one degree of celebrity here?

GUEST: Well, I, I, I'm in the acknowledgement.

ALLAN: Right, that's great, that's really important.

GUEST: In, in a couple of them.

ALLAN: So saying that, I'm gonna estimate the collection in its entirety for insurance purposes for a minimum of $25,000.

GUEST: Wow.

ALLAN: Yeah, so...

GUEST: Cool.

ALLAN: There you go.

So, thanks for coming to "Chesapeake Collectibles."

We appreciate your time.

GUEST: Thanks, thanks for taking a look at this, I appreciate it.

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♪ ♪ PATRICK: Hello and welcome to "Chesapeake Collectibles."

GUEST: Thank you, Patrick.

PATRICK: I appreciate you coming in today, can you tell me a little bit about what you might have brought in?

GUEST: Well, what I brought in were a couple of antique pistols that I don't know a lot about.

I picked them up in the Middle East on a business trip, and I don't know much more than that, and I wanted to find out more about 'em.

PATRICK: Well, very good.

I really do appreciate you bringing them in.

You actually have two distinctive types of pistols here.

We'll talk about the first one, which is a pepper box.

And believe it or not, it gets its terminology pepper box, like a salt and pepper shaker that you would twist in order to get the pepper out.

So, here when what the pepper box is, is whenever you cock the hammer back, the barrel will twist one click, you shoot it, and then it falls back down, and then you do it again, and then it cocks again, and it goes around all six times.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

PATRICK: So it's very interesting that the concept of how they manufacture this designed to get more shots out of a one-shot pistol.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

PATRICK: And what's unique about this one is how it has gold-lined wire inlay and mother of pearl.

This one here is what we call a duck-foot pistol.

And the idea how it gets the word duck foot is the fact how the barrels are webbed out in all four.

It resembles a duck's foot.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

PATRICK: So what happens with this one is, is the fact that you pull the hammer back and you hold it and then you shoot it, all four barrels go off at one time, that was really popular with a lot of sea captains, prison wardens, and also bank guards.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

PATRICK: It was designed for short, close, to control crowds in a short, quick manner, but you better get 'em all with the first shot.

GUEST: That's right.

PATRICK: Because you have to load all four barrels individually again.

And this one here is silver wired and also has a little bit of mother-of-pearl inlay.

Now, where did you say you got 'em at again?

GUEST: Well, I got them in the Middle East, and I can't remember specifically which country it was at the time.

PATRICK: Understood.

GUEST: It was either I think Saudi Arabia or Iraq.

PATRICK: Okay, very good.

GUEST: Well, when I saw these first, they have the appearance of the Middle Eastern appearance to 'em and how they were manufactured.

English manufactured 'em, American manufactured them, these, you know, have like little more of a crudeness look to 'em, don't have the detail of an American or of what an English would've manufactured, which goes along with other period weapons we see from that time period, which is not anything different.

It's still gonna get the job done, which way you want to get it done, with what the use of 'em is for.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

PATRICK: It's interesting, back to the duck foot pistol here, it also has a side belt holder there.

GUEST: Alright.

PATRICK: So you would actually physically would carry it on the side of your belt.

That might be a little intimidating, too, walking through a town or something like that, too.

GUEST: Mm-hmm, right.

PATRICK: That would get some attention.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

PATRICK: Have you ever had 'em evaluated?

GUEST: Never.

PATRICK: Never.

Well it being, they're very unique in how you found them and where you got 'em.

They're definitely are from the same era.

They're definitely, which early 18... 10, 20, 30s.

GUEST: Hmm.

PATRICK: Okay, so there were definitely way pre-Civil War, great, you know, historical significance there in the type of weaponry that they are.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

PATRICK: And so what I would evaluate the pepper box, the first one, and again, like I said, that has the six barrels like we looked at, I would estimate that one in that seven to $900 range.

GUEST: Hmm.

PATRICK: And then on the duck foot, one of course, which has the four barrels like that, I would estimate that one in the 1500 to $2,500 range.

GUEST: Oh, that's very nice to know.

PATRICK: So, uh, that was a pretty neat find that you found...

GUEST: Yes, it was.

PATRICK: ...in the Middle Eastern.

GUEST: Probably less than 100 bucks when I got 'em.

PATRICK: Well, that was a very good investment.

GUEST: Yes, it was.

PATRICK: Absolutely.

Well, we really do appreciate you bringing them in today to share 'em with us.

And we thank you for coming to "Chesapeake Collectibles."

GUEST: Thank you for your time.

PATRICK: Thank you, nice having you.

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KATHLEEN: Next time on "Chesapeake Collectibles..." LISA JONES: I turned it over, and I see a royal Dalton impressed mark there.

GUEST: This is the fire pot that held the fuel that lit JFK's eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery.

ROSS KELBAUGH: I decided to bring in one of my collections that I acquired at an antique show for $35.

A World War I grouping belonging to a Marylander.

GUEST: And I had an opportunity to collect a few of these works because they were going to discard them and throw them away.

AMORY: What do you feel like makes these distinctive spurs besides them being your grandfather's?

GUEST: It's the legs.

AMORY: That's right.

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GUEST: I learned that the more personal the item was, actually the more, the more valuable it tended to be.

GUEST: The experience overall was fabulous, my husband came with me, kind of kicking and screaming, but he found the backstory to be really exciting.

GUEST: Oh, my, uh, overall experience was great.

Everyone was very nice and they're just cool.

It's really a cool place.

GUEST: Well, it's great, it's interesting to see behind the scenes.

I'm here with my family, sister, sister-in-law, my mom, so it was just a fun day.

GUEST: I enjoyed talking with Allan; he's extremely knowledgeable, and he knew Tom Clancy from a different perspective during the same timeframe that I did.

GUEST: Yeah, I may have to try it again next year.

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GUEST: It was informative and fascinating to sit back and watch all you guys work.

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