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Hello, welcome to Personal FX.
Now look, we have Mike here and Mike brought a couple of his sons
and we have some people here from Tulsa.
This lady brought her sons and one thing that we're finding,
we're finding a lot of young collectors as well as collecting couples.
We seem to encounter a lot of them on the road.
In fact, Io Hanes is with one such couple.
She's in Cicero, Indiana with a true collecting couple, right Io?
You are so right.
In fact, he collects burger chef memorabilia and she collects bowling memorabilia.
They say the combination of love for each other and love for each other's collections
make this union work.
I want you both to meet Alan and Rhonda Hunter.
Thank you for having us in your home.
Thank you.
Now people usually collect for sentimental reasons.
Is that why you collect burger chef memorabilia?
Yeah, growing up in Indiana in the 60s or 70s,
you were either a McDonald's kid or a burger chef kid.
I was a burger chef kid.
Alright, you went every week?
Every week.
Every Sunday my grandmother would take me religiously.
And Rhonda, why do you collect bowling memorabilia?
Well, my aunt and uncle have two centers here in Indiana
and I've been a bowler since I was about eight years old,
rolling it between my legs and hoping to get pins down.
That's how it all started.
So you two have been married for how long?
For eight years.
Eight years and collecting bowling memorabilia for how long?
About eight years.
And how about you?
About ten years.
Ten years, alright.
We're going to roll two strikes here today with two collections.
Alright, that's good.
We'll check out both of those collections a little later on in the show.
But right now let's go to the dining room with Claire, Mike,
and of course our great appraisers.
Yes, any bowlers at this table?
No.
Bob Connelly and Pat Dudley to our ace appraisers.
Please meet Mike.
Nice to have you with us.
What do you collect?
Bob and head dolls.
Oh, the bobbing heads.
We've had super collectors of bobbing heads.
And tell us about the doll that you've brought to be appraised.
Well, I brought this at a house sale.
It's a German doll.
Do we have to take care of her?
I can't pronounce her.
Mods, somebody.
Herman Marseille?
Yes, that's it.
Do you remember how much you paid for her?
$150.
That was about six years ago.
Herman Marseille was one of the most prolific doll makers in Germany
from about 1880 through 1920.
And this one here with the 360 mark, or 390 mark on the back
tells us it's what they call a socket head, that it pivots.
And the mold mark number six tells us it's for a 20 to 23 inch doll.
And it's a Floradora.
Yep.
And you can see that if you look inside, the eyes are fixed with plaster,
and therefore they don't sleep, or what we call sleep eyes.
She has an open mouth, and her body is composition and it's jointed.
We'll be rather discreet when we do this.
Well, we just took off her hair.
Yeah, well, we don't want to give her a little dig at here.
What's very nice about this doll, and very important in terms of judging
bisque head dolls as she is, is that the bisque is very fine and very
beautifully colored, and that makes a great deal of difference in terms
of the value of a bisque doll.
Well, how much is the value of this particular doll?
Is this a replacement that you got?
Yeah.
Okay, I would presume so.
Okay.
It just came with the doll.
Okay.
In excellent condition, which really she is, except for the hair,
I would say, and without original clothes, I would value her around $400.
Quarter dollars, Bob?
I'd say three and a quarter to three and a half.
And with the box, does that add anything to it?
Not really.
It's just the fact that it has been totally restored.
And Mike, in that category of price range, you're welcome to put it up for sale.
Oh, sure.
She can go.
We'll be happy to do that.
Thank you so much for bringing her.
Thank you.
And I'll bring the wig back on.
Thank you.
And I know where to call for any or all items that are up for sale throughout the show is
212-802-0082.
And Ann is going to join us next.
Hi, Ann.
Good to have you with us.
Where are you from?
Thanks.
From Tulsa, Oklahoma.
What did it bring you to New York?
I picked my son up from college.
How nice.
Just finished his freshman year.
And where did you pick up this bag?
This has been in my husband's family.
It was his grandmother's.
And when she passed away, just distributed some items.
My daughter, Emily, took it to her prom.
Oh, that's nice.
It's a very, very lovely beaded bag.
It's a glass beaded bag on a piercer openwork frame with some faux jewels, probably from
the Art Nouveau period.
Which means what period?
Probably from the teens, 1910s.
It has a silk lining with the original silk covered mirror.
Very, very nice condition.
From very, very heavy, dense beading, which is very, very nice and very desirable in a
beaded bag.
Any well known manufacturer?
I could not find a mark on it anywhere.
I looked at it with a magnifying glass and couldn't see anything.
It looks to be a pot metal or a white metal.
I'd say it's a little more into the deco period with the round curving design rather than
the flowing design.
But the year is right.
1910.
I'd rate this about $200, $225.
I would place it in the $200 range in terms of value.
In that particular price range, is it staying in the family or thinking of putting it up
for sale?
You might find a new home for it.
Someone that will love it.
Thank you so much.
And Danny joins us next with his baseball mitt.
Hi there, Danny.
Hi.
Do you collect baseball memorabilia?
Just baseball cards.
Cards?
And where did you get your mitt?
In a garage sale.
I usually go to antique stores and stuff.
Did you get a great buy?
Yeah.
How much?
Actually, I went in there and my mom was...
Oh, she was?
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, it's made by the George Worthington Company, which made many professional baseball
mitts.
But this one, which is a Pee Wee Reese model, and it says junior model, which means it was
made not for an adult but for a child.
Now, the normal pieces by Pee Wee Reese, their models, bring anywhere from $50 to $150.
But this was made for a child and is not that collectible as the ones made for adults.
More collectible in the toy category, actually, than in the baseball category.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Sort of a cross-collectible in that sense.
Give us a...
It's got the webbing in it.
I'd put a value on this at $25 to $50.
$25 to $50?
$25 to $35.
Yeah, we're in the same range.
In that particular range?
Are you interested in putting it up for sale?
Yeah.
Can you just...
Let me just see this for one second.
If I had a ball...
Right now, I put this on and I toss it over to John Davis.
If I had a ball.
Now that's a toss, ladies and gentlemen.
And it fits you, Claire.
That's what's good.
Thank you.
All right.
Let me toss it out to Cicero, Indiana, where we have Gary, who has some interesting Japanese
incense burners.
Tell us about it, Gary.
I'm going to have my Japanese incense burners appraised coming up next on Personal FX.
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I'm with Aaron Lustig who plays Dr. Timothy Reed on The Young and the Restless.
And this Wednesday, daytime Emmys, congratulations on your nomination.
Thanks.
Best supporting actor.
Yeah.
Now, is this your first nomination?
Yeah.
I've only been on the show for a year, so it's kind of like one for one sort of a thing.
Were you surprised?
I wasn't as surprised as many other people were.
Really kind of sad.
No, well, I hadn't been on the show for almost two months, so the surprise was for me, I
thought out of sight, out of mind, and people would have forgotten, but they didn't, which
is great.
So what do you think your chances are of winning?
Well, I don't think my chances of winning were as good as I thought my chances were
for getting nominated.
I think I'm the dark horse, unfortunately.
You haven't written your acceptance speech yet.
I did.
I wrote it on the plane, actually, on my way here.
You did?
I've written it already, and if I lose, you can come to my hotel room and I'll do it forever.
Or you'll come back with your Beanie Babies.
Sign on, y'all.
Tell us when you're accepted to the speech.
We're gonna be, by the way, we're gonna be seeing his collection of Beanie Babies a little
later on, and you and your kids collect.
So this is a whole family affair, JD.
It really is, and we have an interesting family affair thing happening here.
Pat Dudley and I have never been in the apartment at the same time.
So this is a first for this family here, and of course we have Bob Connolly down there,
and we're gonna head out to Cicero, Indiana.
Let's get the appraisals going.
We saw Gary's Japanese incense burners earlier.
Tell us a little bit more about it, Gary.
This incense burner was collected by my grandfather.
He was a colonel in the Army.
After the war, he was sent to Japan to rebuild the railway systems and collected several
pieces.
Wow.
Is that metal or porcelain?
It appears to be made out of bronze or brass.
Alright, it looks more Chinese to me than Japanese, but these things are sort of the
arts and crafts period, which would put it back in the 1880s to 1910, and they were doing
things that were somewhat atypical.
That's a little ornate and fancy for what normal incense burners are.
No, you do have a lot of very figural incense burners that have a great deal of detail.
Is there any mark on this piece at all?
Not that we can find.
Okay, that makes it a little bit more difficult to date.
As Bob said, you do have a lot of these that were made around the turn of the century,
into the early part of the century, that do look like this, but you also have some from
a very early date.
The bronze to me is a clear giveaway that this would be a later one.
The patination is simply not as dark as it would be on perhaps an earlier piece.
What kind of a value do you think you'd put on this?
I'm going to put $100 on it.
I would think because it is more figural, even if it is fairly late, I would say in
the $350 to $400 range.
Wow, so we have a spread of $100 to about $400.
Do you have the cover that goes on the top?
No.
I'll stay with my $100.
What do you think, Gary?
Would you like to entertain some offers?
Yes.
You would?
Yes.
Okay, thank you very much for joining us.
Now, if you'd like to bid on Gary's item or any of the other items on the show, give
us a call at 212-802-0082.
Now we're back here with Tommy, who just completed your first year at Brown University.
Yes, I did.
That's great.
What are you studying?
I'm not sure yet.
I'm starting out in pre-med, but I think so is half the freshman class.
Good, okay.
Good luck.
Tell us about your fishing lures here.
Well, I've been going to garage sales with my mom, actually more drag since I was about
two.
We picked up this item.
I can't remember when, but we found it at a garage sale.
We collect mainly a lot of old sports stuff.
My dad works for a fishing company, so we decided to get that and bring it on.
Okay, good.
Bob, Pat, what can you tell us?
First of all, these lures are mainly used with a fly rod.
These are called poppers.
With a fly rod, as you pull them through the water, the concave front allows it to make
a popping sound.
They're not quite as desirable as the earlier wooden lures with the glass eyes and all.
These are called bucktails.
These are, if I can get one of them out of here, these are wet flies.
honest.