ever wondered how much your vhs tapes or
game boys are going to be worth in 100
years
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
antiques roadshow discoveries of all
time
so i think that your box
remind me where you got it from again
the dump the dump
we think that uh your box is worth
ten thousand pounds
oh my god for this list we'll be looking
at those strange and surprising items
that turned out to be worth
way more than expected from both the
american and british series
number 10 1870s boston baseball archive
passed down by the owner's great great
grandmother this collection consists of
baseball memorabilia from the boston red
stockings one of baseball's first
professional teams dating back to the
19th century
now all these cards went to your great
grandfather that's how that's how he got
them and they got handed down to you
yeah apparently he collected them and he
unfortunately cut them down to fit this
little album so they're all
slightly askew it included baseball
cards of some of the sport's earliest
known players
and personal handwritten messages from
those players intended for the owner's
great-great-grandmother
who owned a boarding house where the
players stayed the thing that's special
in addition to the cards is this letter
and they all wrote a little sentence and
signed it
they must have really loved her
believing it to only be worth
five to ten thousand dollars the owner
was shocked to find out from the
appraiser that it was worth an
estimated 1 million dollars are you
serious
oh my holy smokes
it is the greatest archive i have ever
had at the road show
however despite the nice surprise the
owner believed it would be best to keep
the archive in the family
number nine little model appearing on
the cover of colliers in 1919
the little model is a painting by one of
america's greatest painters norman
rockwell
by age 14 he was enrolled in art classes
he was born in 1894 and in 1910 he
actually quit high school so he could go
to art school full time
and he became the art director of boy's
life when he was just
18 years old it depicts a little girl
dressed in red who appears to be a
housekeep
the painting was given to rockwell's
aunt and was passed down until it came
into the possession of the current owner
it is such a charming work around the
time the late 90s his work started to
consistently bring about six
figures it also came with an old note in
which the estimated value was 10 to 15
000
on the show nan chisholm gave it a
current estimated value of five
hundred thousand dollars so are you
surprised to hear that yeah
very suppressed thank you so much for
bringing it in
wow i didn't realize number eight
remington portrait as you know frederick
remington is one of the most
important western artists of the turn of
the century another of the american
west's greatest artists
frederick remington was a painter
illustrator sculptor and writer
he's best known for his depictions of
cowboys first nations people and
the army this painting is a portrait of
the owner's great-grandfather as part of
a series on the military
accompanying the painting was a letter
describing the subjects and artists
relationship
as well as their adventures uh the
letter itself because it is so intimate
and specific is worth probably about two
thousand dollars really
the owner had previously received an
appraisal on the painting
estimating its worth at around seventy
five hundred dollars
at the time of the show it was valued
for up to six hundred to eight hundred
thousand dollars
number seven anthony van dyke painting
nothing about it
this famous flemish painter lived from
1599 to 1641.
he's known as a baroque artist and
famous for his portraits of charles the
first of england
the style of beards that men wore at the
time eventually became known as the van
dyke thanks to the artist
the owner of the painting was a priest
who bought it at an antique shop for 400
pounds
he thought it was fake until he brought
it in for appraisal
where it turns out to be both the
genuine work and worth over
400 thousand pounds number six
calder mobile a mobile is a type of
structure that's built and designed to
take advantage of balance and
equilibrium
it's made on very thin wire and then
these are usually either aluminum or an
anodized
weather resistant material that slipped
in and then very delicately soldered
and you can see in here where all of the
knots and joints
all put in in a very balancing kind of
format they're usually free-standing
structures that either float or hang
and the best example of a mobile is the
rotating toy people hang above a baby's
crib to calm them
i know that earlier back in the late 80s
or 90s you had an approximate value of
what it was worth the man who restored
it said at least thirty thousand dollars
the originator of the mobile as a form
of art was american sculptor alexander
calder
and so it's no great surprise that the
piece brought into antiques roadshow is
valued at over one
million dollars not bad for a pillow
oh my problem is i've got one more bill
and two children
number five jade collections imagine
finding out that those strange looking
green things in your
closet were worth over 1 million dollars
that's what happened to jinx taylor when
she took her father's jade collection to
be evaluated by the people at antiques
roadshow
as children we heard that some of them
had
imperial seals and then i've just always
been curious her father had acquired the
items in china while serving in the u.s
army during the 1930s and 40s generally
you see people who purchased things at
china at that period of time
and they purchased things that were very
very poor quality these things are
all a very very fine quality as it
happened these valuable pieces are from
the 18th century
during the chenglong dynasty it's an
incredible collection
and he also bought at a period of time
with i would doubt if he paid more than
a hundred dollars for any one of these
yeah i'm sure you're right here's hoping
she wasn't using them to eat
cereal out of number four el abanil
it's a wonderful period early 20th
century painting
but it also gives hints of his mural
style
his technique meaning the laborer in
spanish this was one of diego rivera's
earliest paintings
the style of signature on it means that
it's from rivera's days in school
for many years the picture was thought
to be lost until it showed up on an
episode of antiques roadshow
roof ferguson came into possession of
the painting which had been hanging
behind the door at his great
grandparents house
it's thought to be the earliest rivera
painting in the united states
and is valued at up to one million
dollars
well i think you have something of a
painting trifecta here
oh good good number three faberge flower
brought to the show by colonel stamford
cartwright this ornament was originally
gifted to the british squadron
queen's own wursterseer hussers in 1904
by the countess of dudley that's why we
think it was 1904
because that was when they received the
battle on a south africa well it's
absolutely bang on for date for the
object because some of the best things
from faberge are made in the 20th
century crafted by peter carl faberge
in imperial russia the 5-inch ornament
sitting in a crystal vaz
is just one of 80 pieces of its kind in
addition
the flower was made with a variety of
materials including enamel
gold diamond and jade and i just think
it provides that link
for all the different ages of soldiers
that have soldiered with the regiment
and are intending in the future to
soldier with the regiment due to its
pristine condition and historical
significance
appraiser jeffrey munn valued the flower
at 1.27 million dollars
becoming one of three items to ever be
valued at seven figures on the show
well i'm supposed to say now it's not
for sale it certainly isn't no sale well
that's
just a custodian i know well that is the
rub isn't it it's not for sale
number two angel of the north maquette
so just to clarify this is the bronze
maquette
for the 20 meter high steel version
this maquette was so heavy that it took
five people to carry it onto the
showroom floor
though massive it's only a fraction of
the size that the full statue would be
the completed statue ended up being over
66 feet tall
with a wingspan of 177 feet
this concept piece was brought in and
valued at over 1 million pounds
which is more than the cost of the
actual landmark although it's smaller
than the completed piece
the maquette has a unique beauty and
presence to it
a sort of deeply emotional sight
for something quite so beautiful
important
and salvationary is this before we
unveil our number one pick
here are a few honorable mentions navajo
blanket
when you walked in with this i just
about died
congratulations congratulations i can't
believe this
clitch painting gallery price would be
500 000 oh really that's
quite nice to know yeah clifford's still
painting
but given the importance of the artist
given the importance of this painting
i believe that this shouldn't be insured
for anything less than half a million
dollars
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number one rhinoceros cups at the time i
bought them
they were affordable in the 70s early
80s
these cups made from rhinoceros horns
were originally made for ceremonial and
libation purposes
the owner came into possession of them
in the 1970s
as an avid collector of the art form
they were crafted sometime between the
17th and 18th century
and are considered fine pieces of art
the craftsmanship and detail that went
into the dragon designs is a sight to
behold
although the owner paid approximately 5
000 for the pieces
they're worth up to 1.5 million dollars
for the set
well it won't have to depend on just
social security
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