Age Group:
Adults- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration is no longer available for this event.
Program Description
Event Details
Have a family heirloom at home you're curious about? Not sure if that piece of jewelry your grandma gave you is worth anything? Join us for our antiques and collectibles appraisal event featuring author and antiques expert Mark F. Moran. Moran is the author of more than 25 books on antiques and collectibles, a contributing editor for Antique Trader magazine, and was a guest expert on the PBS program, Antiques Roadshow, for 9 seasons.
Registration for a single object to be appraised is required. Don't have an item you'd like appraised? Join us to watch appraisals and ask questions.
Categories of items for appraisals include:
Americana: including autographs and historical documents.
Fine art: including paintings, drawings, prints and statuary.
Furniture: (usually smaller pieces are best).
Ceramics: including figural pottery, vases, dishes, kitchenware, and stoneware.
Glassware: including marbles and souvenir items.
Vintage photographs: including snapshots, tintypes, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes.
Advertising: including posters, lithographed tin, paper and figural objects.
Folk art: including carvings, quilts, weathervanes, windmill weights and "outsider" art.
Assorted toys: including dolls (bisque, composition and plastic), windups and mechanical banks.
Metalware: including iron, bronze, brass, pot metal, silver, silver plate.
Clocks: including mantel, hanging and figural.
Costume jewelry: including brooches, bracelets, earrings.
Musical Instruments: including string, wind and reed instruments.
Antique and vintage lighting of all kinds.
Books
Sports memorabilia
Excluded Items:
All weapons, including swords and knives (though folding knives with advertising are accepted); traps (like leg-hold); Nazi memorabilia; coins and paper money; fine jewelry, including precious gems; Beanie Babies.