From Memorial Hall in Hutchinson.

This is Kansas Hidden Treasures, the second annual downtown Hutchinson Antique Appraisal Fair.

I'm Pat Moyer from KPTS, and we're glad you've joined us.

You know, Kansans from all over the state have brought their hidden treasures.

They've brought antiques, collectibles, maybe even some family heirlooms just to find out what they're worth.

We're excited to bring you a local program, kind of a Kansas spin on the appraisal shows that have become so popular here on KPTS and elsewhere.

I'm ready if you are.

Let's go inside.

Let's see some Kansas hidden treasures.

Hi, I'm Mark Buckley.

This is Vickie Wolfe.

And Vickie has brought to me a very interesting item.

This is a 1915 Wizard of Oz book, and I'm a Wizard of Oz collector.

I have about 30 different books.

And when I saw this, Vickie, I was very impressed because not only is this an old book and I'm going to open it up here to show you it has cutouts of all the characters in The Wizard of Oz.

And you'll notice here is the scarecrow.

And down here is is pirate face.

And over here is Tik-Tok.

And here's the tin woodsman.

So this has all the characters in The Wizard of Oz, not just the ones we know from the movies.

And as you can see here is Toto in here is here is a king a kid and different ones, all the different characters that you see in the story.

Now, what is unique about this is, see, it's not the book, it's the characters.

And as we go through now, I went ahead and looked it up and conservatively, I'm a toy dealer.

I would probably offer somewhere around 2500 to $3000 wholesale.

Retail, I would say in the condition of what was meant would be 8500.

But you're you're not quite mint.

You've got a little damage.

I would say probably around $7,000 is retail, and I would insure it for no less than $10,000.

And one of the questions you asked me earlier is, will this appreciate in value?

Right.

And yes, it will.

This will never be seen again.

What you need to do, though, is make sure that you store this in acid free paper and keep it well-protected away from sun, water and dirt.

If you do that, it will become a legend or a treasure you can pass on to your children and your children's children.

But thank you very much for bringing this in.

It's been a pleasure.

Thank you so much for inviting me.

And thank you so much for the appraisal.

This is great.

Okay.

I'm Dave Broker.

This is Doug and Terry.

And they brought in this this planter.

It's a bronze.

With a flower from a piece that held the floral pieces.

And as near as we can determine, it's probably late 1920s.

I'll let you tell about what.

What you know about this.

This was a present to my dad from an industrial representative relationship he had.

And I think it was back in the fifties and since then, it's kicked around the house and been a decoration and been a paperweight and then tucked in the garage and survived at least one garage sale when nobody wanted it.

One day we were looking at it and realized that there is the artist's name on it and the base of the bowl has Roman bronze works on it, and they happened to be the foundry in New York City that did the Remington's.

So they handled some very prestigious casters and we wondered whether this was something special or not.

And we did some research on the Internet today and found the artist and he's a semi-famous sculptor from Chicago.

And looks like it was.

Most everything we're finding was done in the 19, late 1920s along in that period.

And it looks to me like the value of it ought to be in the thousand to $2,000 range.

It's a pretty nice piece of bronze.

And everything we're finding in value on the Internet has has at least brought that much money.

In this size.

And it all being original and not damaged in any way would really help it.

Pretty good for a family outcast.

Yeah, it's going to stay the way it is.

And together in a place of honor in the house now.

So what do you bring in today?

This lamp.

Very nice.

These lamps were made in the 1920s and 19, probably the late teens to 1930.

They're called slide glass lamps.

It has some art deco designs in it.

This is slide glass, marble, slide glass on the top has a corral up above a very, very nice style.

These these lamps range in a retail situation, 650 to $850.

My mother got it at an auction.

I have no idea what it was worth, but my mother just loved it.

She felt it beautiful and I did too, I think it's real pretty.

You didn't have far to come here from right here in Hutch.

No.

You've got a good looking chair here.

There's got to be a story behind it.

There is a.

Wonderful story behind this kind of a love story.

This is the best.

Yeah.

There was a lady from here in Hutchinson that went on a.

Cruise.

To Hawaii.

Hawaii?

And she found a man in Hawaii and they fell in love.

So she brought the man back.

Here and the chair.

And the chair.

And then I bought it at a garage sale.

Right.

And can I ask You what you paid for it?

$25.

$25.

I don't have to know what it's worth to tell you got a good deal.

Yes, I did get a good deal.

They appraised that and it appraised at 350.

Dollars.

350 Dollars pretty good return on that $25.

You betcha.

It's been a lot of fun.

You let people sit on it?

You know what I do?

It sits in my front room.

I have a cushion for it, and we use it every day.

Well, you've taken good care of it, and now you know it's worth 300 and something.

They may not sit on it.

Well, you going to continue to take good care of it?

Yes, I will.

Thanks for showing us your chair.

You're sure welcome and thank you.

It's been Fun.

Let's take a look at some more of Kansas hidden treasures.

So, Barbara, what have you brought to the appraisal fair?

I brought this old mirror.

I think it's old.

I've had probably 46 years.

I got it.

We had a rental in northern Kansas and they moved out during the night because they owed rent and they left a bunch of stuff.

And this was there.

Mirrors were real popular in the 1920s and thirties.

And they were they that were a place behind a buffet.

If you had a buffet that didn't have a mirror on the back or a sofa.

A lot of them are called sofa mirrors.

So it fits back there.

This is all made out of plaster and gesso and hand-painted.

This one's in real good shape.

It's starting to get some of the plaster is cracking and stuff.

But that's just from age but I've seen a lot of them.

And this one is in really good shape.

The mirror, the mirrors usually are cloudy by now.

These are still nice and clear.

It still has the etching on the corners and the value of this mirror is between 250 and 350.

So... Yeah.

It still has all the original painting out here.

I try to take care of it.

Yeah.

Great shape.

I, I thought maybe I'd get a little bit more out of it.

I didn't know.

I had no idea.

So but you know, for getting free.

Can you tell us a little bit about this clock?

Well, I got from my brother in law about 40 years ago, and I took it in to get it cleaned and and make sure its working okay.

And the clockmaker that worked on it said that he thought it was from the 1880s and I've had it hanging on the wall, running for the last 40 years, and it runs good.

It's all in good shape.

So this is a German wall clock and probably made in the 1880s, like you said.

And it looks like the condition is in excellent condition.

It has a horse that's not on top.

But we didn't want it to fall.

I think it's all original and nothing's ever been replaced.

It's very good and it strikes on the hour and a half.

Right.

And and it's it's in very good condition.

And how much how much did you pay for it or did you get it given to you?

I done some trading around with my brother in law.

I traded him a set of tires.

And so I think we've figured it about $100 value.

And at 40, I think that was in late sixties, 66 or 67.

Well, for a while the clocks went up real high.

And then the last four or five years, antiques have dropped some.

But but this clock, I would say the value probably today you're probably looking in the thousand at 1200 dollar range.

And if you've got the right auction or the right person that want it possibly more but it's a very nice condition clocks running for 40 years.

And I guess it keeps good time right?

Yes.

It keeps good time.

And and I think it's a great clock.

And I'm glad you brought it.

Well, thank you.

And I like that appraisal.

That sounds good.

Thank you very much.

Ruth.

You brought a picture here to Memorial Hall.

This one's been in the family a long time, I understand.

Yes, quite a while.

What's the story?

Well, as far as we can trace back, it was my great granddaddy, grandmother.

Father and mother.

Yes.

Do you have any idea of what this is worth?

It's been in the family forever, so.

We can't trace it.

That's why we brought it to you.

I'll bet it's worth more to the family than.

Oh, I'm sure.

Or would you think about selling it?

Oh, no, no, no.

Tell me what you do know about it.

It just that I remember as a small child, I remember seeing it hanging on in my granddaddy's home when I got it.

You couldnt see the details on it because evidently the chalk dust was on the inside of the glass.

We didn't realize it until I took it apart.

So you've done a little bit of restoration minor at least reframed.

It just reframed that, yes.

The original frame was a cut out, wood cut out, and it was so brittle they would break when we handled it, you know.

So therefore, my daughter had it reframed for me for Mother's Day.

We've got a family heirloom.

Even if you find out it's worth $1,000,000, well, that might put you in a little bit of a pickle, but I'll bet you hold on to it.

It stays in the family.

Yes.

Thanks for showing us your picture Ruth.

Well, thank you.

Let's see some more Kansas hidden treasures.

Yeah.

Paul, we just looked at a clock of yours.

What else is this?

You've brought to us?

Can you tell us a little bit about.

Well, I would call it a coal bin.

And this I got it from my brother in law.

He had an old house in Garden City, Kansas, that his parents built, I think it was in the late 1800s.

And he was going to tear the house down and he said, Go through it.

If there's anything in there you want, why, take it.

So I said, That's I found this.

And I thought, Well, that's too good to leave in the house.

So I took it home.

And that's been probably 40 years ago.

Yeah, that I picked it up.

We just used it in the bedroom for a nightstand.

This is nice.

It's a, it's a coal hod and I'd say it's a late 1800, probably the original in that house and it opens up for you.

Put the coal in here shoveling it out as you need it in the fireplace and and it's very well made and looks like it's either it might be walnut or it looks like a walnut Eastlake in the Eastlake style has a mirror in the back makes a great side piece for you beside your bed and it's and it's very nice got the original handles all original original finished and it's very nice piece and I would say at auction all of this probably bring somewhere between four and $600 it's very nice.

Well thank you I appreciate you looking at it for me.

And that sounds like a reasonable price to me.

I'd be happy with that.

You like your price?

Yes.

Free.

Jeanne, this is a nice rocker.

Where did you obtain this rocker?

Well, we were my family was cleaning out my grandmother's garage, and I saw this and had to know the story behind it.

And it turns out that about 50 or 60 years before we were doing that and one of my grandmother's neighbors wanted to store it in the attic of her garage.

So this thing was in the attic of the garage for at least 50 or 60 years.

And I never saw it until that day.

We were cleaning out the garage that had to have been 25, 30 years ago.

Did you buy it or did they give it to you?

They just gave it to me.

Actually, no one wanted it, so I was excited about it.

I thought it had a lot of character and I can tell it was well loved and they just gave it to me.

I think it would have gotten thrown out if I hadnt.

Well, this chair is mission oak and you can tell by the slats and stuff.

It was made probably between 1915 and 1925.

It's early mission because it has Victorian characteristics, it has the animal heads, which is very unusual for mission.

Then it has a little scroll on the seat which is different for for missions.

Most general is real plain square.

It also has a tooled leather back, which is real nice too.

And if you look at the at the bottom of the chair, it has courtesan seat, which is which is real neat.

And what they done back in those days, if they took a log and run it straight through that saw, it would be straight grain, if they turned to the quarter turn it was had a cross grain and make that plain courtesan look which is really nice and this chair has been well used because you can see the arms are used.

Yeah, it was made in Michigan.

It has a label on the bottom that says Michigan manufactured was made in Michigan probably back in the late around the 20s was when it was made.

It's a very nice chair and it is solid and you could use this chair without any problem that it wouldn't hurt to refinish this chair and make it nicer for the house.

I don't think would decrease the value at all.

And I'd say this chair at auction today would probably bring between four and $500.

All right.

And I'd say maybe more.

If somebody liked mission and have a collection, they might pay more than that for it.

But it's a very nice shape, its solid.

And if I was you, I cleaned it up and used it.

All right.

Well, thank you very much.

It's very nice.

Well, hello, Barbara.

Hi.

What do you have for us today?

Well, I have an Eisenberg pin that my mother gave me a long time.

Ago.

And she lived about 102.

And she dressed very firmly in Wichita, Kansas.

And this came from Inness department store.

And she's been telling me it's from the early thirties, and I've had it all this time and worn it a lot.

And I think it's beautiful and very different.

And sterling silver Yeah, it's a beautiful piece and it is signed Sterling And it is an Eisenberg original, which is one of the first pins they made.

Eisenberg is a top of the line costume jewelry.

Collectors go crazy when they can find that good Eisenberg Pieces.

This particular Eisenberg started making dress flips, and then people started stealing the clips off the dresses, so they had to start making jewelry.

They said, Well, they like it so much, we'll make jewelry.

And the Eisenberg original on this shows that this was made when they first started doing that, which would have been in the thirties and forties, which is what you're saying from it goes with what your mom said when she purchased it with it being sterling, silver and heavy and big.

It's a very, very desirable piece the size of it.

It is missing.

It is missing one of the stones.

And I am and all of this is costume jewelry.

So these are costume pieces.

This is glass.

And just pieces.

These are not gemstones.

These are not real jewels that the costume piece.

But as the costume value, this could be close to a $2,000 piece for the costume, but with the one piece missing, you bring it a little bit down.

Personally, if I had it for sale, I would sell it personally for itself for 1500 is what I would have it listed as for a costume piece just because of it.

The Sterling, the early date of the Eisenberg and the the everybody Loves the Eisenberg are the easy ones.

They're the ones people like to collect.

Well, thank you for telling me about that.

All right.

Thanks for bringing in.

Okay.

Jake, not everybody has a Picasso.

How did you happen to come by a Picasso?

Hey, we came by the Picasso.

My wife got it as a graduation present when she graduated from college.

She got it from one of her uncles that was.

An art guru, and.

He just had it hanging on his wall and decided that we needed a little worse than he did.

Not a typical graduation gift.

No, it's not.

Got a letter of authentication on the back.

Yes it does.

It's a 1961 lithograph.

Yep.

Yeah.

We've got all the paperwork and everything on the back showing what it is and everything.

We're just.

Nobody's really sure what it's worth.

And it hangs on the wall at home.

Hangs on the wall at home.

What's.

What's it worth to you, though?

Priceless.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, surprise me.

If you found out it was worth big, big money, would it still hanging on the wall at home?

I'm sure my wife would just as soon sell.

And pay off the house.

Hi.

And today we have Gene with us and he has brought a train in here for me to appraise, tell me a little bit about it Gene.

Its a train, set, I believe, around the 1950 time frame and it is actually belongs to our son now Lincoln.

So he's he gave it to us to keep and we've always kind of been wondering what it was worth and what the value of it was, whether the condition or anything like that.

And so with his permission, we brought it down today and let you look at it and see what you think.

Oh, well, when I saw this, I was very excited because I'm a train collector.

And one thing train collectors like are engines that are in really good shape.

And when we rate engines, mint, excellent like new and it goes all the way down to poor, this train is in excellent condition.

This is what we call a Christmas train, which people ran it at Christmas and put it away.

It's from the mid-fifties.

So it's a 681 engine.

And what's unique about it is it comes with the Pennsylvania tender and also came with the Lionel line tender.

So it came two different ways.

This has the magnet traction.

What happens is that these wheels are actually magnetized.

It keeps it on the track, it has the full eight wheels and it has a six wheel truck and a trailer and it kept it on the track.

The new the 2020, which is a newer version, did not have the spring.

And they do have a tendency to fall off.

What is unique also on this that I saw was the front end is not been dropped, is not bent down.

There are no steps.

This engine did not come with steps it does have a light.

It does have a a smoker on it.

A smoker has a little bit of smoke in it.

All you have to do is you have a cleaner in there, you push it in there and it'll put it back in.

This engines ready to run.

It's just amazing shape.

I'm just really impressed.

Difference on the tender.

Is it better to have Pennsylvania than Lionel?

Yes, the Pennsylvania is the rarer of the two.

And this is a very good tender.

Again, what I'm looking for is, you know, it has a six wheels, it has the scoop, it has the steps right here.

Are still there, never been broken.

This tender is not cracked.

Nothing wrong with it.

It looks just like it did when it came out of the factory, there's not a chip, there's not a dent, there's not a nick on any of this, which is rare to see.

What was unique about this train, it came with this caboose and a lot of cabooses are worth about four bucks.

They're not very expensive.

4 to $10.

This one is it has the double coupler, see this one in the front, one in the back.

It also has the toolboxes underneath.

And it is lit.

It's one of the harder to come by cabooses.

This was a very expensive set and came with a probably this boxcar, this gondola and a tank car.

And you'll find that this has been the higher end caboose.

I see them maybe one out of 150, 200, very rare like this car right here that came with it has a little pop out man.

He went across the uncoupler.

What happens is the door is closed.

If I get it closed here... and then when you hit the uncoupler to pull this plunger down and he pops out and it and then you have to put him back in.

This one over here, as you can see, it's got the milkman in it and then you put it on the same piece of track.

It also had a button.

It said Unload the doors would open this one needs the spring and you can get those very easily.

They're very inexpensive.

And that little man would pop out a milk can from up here for and here they go out on the platform which you have.

We don't have an on camera, but we do have it.

And it came with, I believe, 6 cans.

I apologize.

This also is the gondola.

There are three gondolas.

Theres the red, the green and the black.

The blacks very common $10 car.

The red is the medium and the green is the rare of the three.

Very good car, all excellent shape.

What about.

What about cleaning them?

Cleaning them?

You do not use any harsh cleaners.

Don't use Windex.

No ever use Windex.

Don't ever use Mr. Clean don't ever use 409.

What itll do is take all this hot stamping off.

Some of these are hot stamp like this one if it's a heated stamp that's in Pennsylvania and they put it over foil and it stamped it here, these are these are just decals.

These are silkscreened on.

And it will come off easily.

Notice on these cars.

No no signage problem whatsoever any of this.

It also came you have the kit and what's unique about your kit?

It has all the pieces.

Here's your smoke cleaner.

You just set this inside it.

It cleans up smokestack.

It has oil container, the grease, the track cleaner and all your picks and brushes the clean and red.

And what is really nice is you have the boxes over here.

You go for the engine and the tender very hard boxes to find.

The other boxes are for the semaphore and the other cars you have.

Everything you brought me have boxes which really increase the value about 25 to 40%.

Yeah.

What's it worth?

Everything here.

Plus what you other you have for me.

Conservatively, I would say $500.

The other things I saw in your collection could run up to a thousand.

And I'll tell you what, thank you very much.

Again, I see very few pieces this clean.

We've heard that the market's down a little bit, but that's I think our son will be happy and I'm sure he could use the money if he decides to sell it.

But he's not one to sell things so... Colleen, I see you brought a watch.

Tell me a little bit about the watch if you have any history of the watch.

We actually received it from my mother in law who purchased it at a real estate sale.

It was in the back of the jewelry box and I picked it up and thought it was pretty.

I didn't expect it to work and so I cleaned it up and realized it was shiny, just like my wedding ring.

I decided I took it to the jewelry store.

They told me it was real diamonds, but they couldn't appraise it, so I have no idea what it's worth.

Well, I'll be happy to take a look at it.

I see.

It's.

It's called a Lady Hamilton.

It's made by Hamilton watch company.

It was they were made in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The watch this watch was made in the fifties.

It happens to be a solid gold, 14 karat white gold case and bezel.

So all you see is white gold.

The band is not solid gold.

It's actually a Speidel band, not the original that it's been a replacement band, but the value is all owing to the Watch.

The Lady Hamilton was the higher end of the Hamilton Watch Company for ladies.

This model happens to be a 22 jewel, which was the highest premium of all of their watches.

It has like a unbreakable mainspring, and it was just billed as a good quality.

Good quality watch.

The diamonds.

They always do is really top of the line.

Nice diamonds, too.

And there's about a half carat total weight of all the diamonds together.

So if we added all the diamond weights together, the value of this watch...

I would put this in about $3,000 is the value of this watch.

So it's it's very pretty valuable and it's absolutely beautiful watch.

And the interesting thing is about very little wear I'm seeing, I'm not seeing much wear in the case.

The original case was made, the little lines, they are still there.

So there's not a lot of there's not a lot of wear on that.

Someone didn't wear it a whole lot.

Fantastic.

But I'm definitely going to be more careful when I'm wearing it.

I hope you've enjoyed Kansas Hidden Treasures, the second annual Downtown Hutchinson Antique Appraisal Fair.

I'm Pat Moyer from KPTS.

And we appreciate you watching.

And if you like the show, let us know.

We'd like to hear from you.

Hope you can join us again next year.

Maybe you have a Kansas hidden treasure.