Who struck gold on "Antiques Roadshow" and who skulked away in shame after being told her fake should be burned?
Tune in to TPT at 7 p.m. Monday when the first of three shows taped last July at the Minneapolis Convention Center airs.
Nearly 6,000 attendees lucky enough to get tickets brought almost 12,000 items for appraisal. Minneapolis produced two six-figure appraisals, said the show's executive producer, Marsha Bemko. "Most cities don't even have one," she said.
About 20 people and their wares were taped for the first show, including a woman's yellow diamond engagement ring worth $150,000, a silver enamel Russian punch bowl and ladle from 1890, and a 1940s-era Sonja Henie show costume from a collector of ice-skating memorabilia.
Roy Blakey of Minneapolis is the owner of the Henie dress, the crown jewel of his collection of theatrical skating memorabilia, which includes costumes, posters, souvenir programs and lapel pins. The dress was valued at $3,500.
"I knew it was going to be a good day when I found three pennies on the ground that morning," he said, adding that he got to meet his favorite Roadshow appraiser (Leila Dunbar) and be filmed for Monday's show. "I didn't go hoping [the dress] would be worth a lot of money. But it motivated me to start cataloging my collection."
Monday's show also features a rare pink Lionel train set made for girls (the only one ever seen on the Roadshow), a 1959 Gibson guitar purchased from a music store on Lake Street, a trade sign of a carved fish, a McKinley-Roosevelt campaign poster, and a German doll stuffed with reindeer hair. To give the show some local color, host Mark Walberg takes a detour from the Convention Center to the American Swedish Institute as appraiser Sebastian Clarke discusses Mora clocks.
The three episodes will air at 7 p.m. Monday, on May 14 and 21 and be rebroadcast at 7 p.m. on the Saturdays following each airing.
