Appraisal: Dale Nichols Group, ca. 1950
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Appraisal: Dale Nichols Group, ca. 1950
Check out Graydon Sikes' appraisal of Dale Nichols group, ca. 1950, in Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: Dale Nichols Group, ca. 1950
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Check out Graydon Sikes' appraisal of Dale Nichols group, ca. 1950, in Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 2.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: After I graduated from college 1985, I was in a small antique gallery in Pass Christian, Mississippi and I saw four of these paintings that each were $20.
But I only had $20 in cash on me, so I only could buy one of em and this is the one I bought.
APPRAISER: And what about the other two?
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: The, the tray and the cards?
GUEST: Years later, my wife and I were just looking online to see if there was anything else by Dale Nichols and we came across these items.
APPRAISER: It makes for a nice group.
These are both illustrated works on products, that this being an offset lithograph on a tray and we have that deck of cards with scenes by Nichols.
Both the box of cards and the tray mass produced and would be circa 1940s or '50s.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Dale Nichols is born in 1904 in David City, Nebraska.
APPRAISER: And made his way to Chicago for his studies and in the 1930s and '40s emerged as one of the prominent American regionalists.
Nichols was an illustrator and a fine artist, but along his career path he was always doing commercial work.
He's best known for this kind of subjects.
Now, while this is a small painting, it has all of the bells and whistles that a collector of Nichols' work would want.
It's a winter scene.
We have a little figure, looks like he's sort of turning the corner at a house or a barn, and it's clearly a rural subject.
He's got his dog there-- it's a little gem.
It's an oil on Masonite board, which was a more inexpensive medium.
A lot of illustrators used Masonite.
It is signed, although he had a really distinct teensy, tiny way... GUEST: Mm.
APPRAISER: ...of signing his works, and it's dated 1949.
It has one little issue.
It has some flaking, but all in all it's in a nice state of preservation.
So to value-- the tray and the decks of cards together would be worth about $20 today.
APPRAISER: The painting itself, an auction value would be in the $6,000 to $8,000 range.
GUEST: Whoa.
(chuckling): Not bad for 20 bucks, I guess.
APPRAISER: Not at all.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: Really cool, thank you for bringing it in.
GUEST: Yeah.
Thank you.
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 3m 27s | Appraisal: 1628 Mercator Hondius Map of China (3m 27s)
Appraisal: 1921 Kurt Arno Gütter Violin
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 1m 33s | Appraisal: 1921 Kurt Arno Gütter Violin (1m 33s)
Appraisal: 1935 S.S. Normandie Art Deco Chrome Vases
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 38s | Appraisal: 1935 S.S. Normandie Art Deco Chrome Vases (2m 38s)
Appraisal: 1949 Babe Didrikson Zaharias-signed Ball
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 34s | Appraisal: 1949 Babe Didrikson Zaharias-signed Ball (2m 34s)
Appraisal: 1966 William de Kooning Sketch
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 25s | Appraisal: 1966 William de Kooning Sketch (2m 25s)
Appraisal: 1978 Joichi Hoshi Autumn Light Woodblock
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 17s | Appraisal: 1978 Joichi Hoshi Autumn Light Woodblock (2m 17s)
Appraisal: 1978 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers-signed poster
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 13s | Appraisal: 1978 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers-signed poster (2m 13s)
Appraisal: 19th C. Jim Williams-owned Federal Hunt Board
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 45s | Appraisal: 19th C. Jim Williams-owned Federal Hunt Board (2m 45s)
Appraisal: Alvan Clark & Sons Refractor Telescope, ca. 1875
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 1m 14s | Appraisal: Alvan Clark & Sons Refractor Telescope, ca. 1875 (1m 14s)
Appraisal: Autograph Book, ca. 1900
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 3m 1s | Appraisal: Autograph Book, ca. 1900 (3m 1s)
Appraisal: Clitso Dedman Wooden Carvings, ca. 1950
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 1m 31s | Appraisal: Clitso Dedman Wooden Carvings, ca. 1950 (1m 31s)
Appraisal: Davis Pennington Brown Stoneware Face Jug, ca. 1917
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 53s | Appraisal: Davis Pennington Brown Stoneware Face Jug, ca. 1917 (2m 53s)
Appraisal: Delta & Eastern Flight Attendant Uniforms
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 21s | Appraisal: Delta & Eastern Flight Attendant Uniforms (2m 21s)
Appraisal: Egyptian 18th Dynasty Scarab Ring, ca.1450 BCE
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 3m 35s | Appraisal: Egyptian 18th Dynasty Scarab Ring, ca.1450 BCE (3m 35s)
Appraisal: Jessie Arms Botke Oil Painting, ca. 1940
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 14s | Appraisal: Jessie Arms Botke Oil Painting, ca. 1940 (2m 14s)
Appraisal: Sapphire & Diamond Ring, ca. 1940
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 3m 5s | Appraisal: Sapphire & Diamond Ring, ca. 1940 (3m 5s)
Appraisal: Three Illustrations, ca. 1945
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Appraisal: Tiffany Studios "Bookmark" Pattern Clock, ca.1915
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Clip: S30 Ep5 | 2m 2s | Appraisal: Tiffany Studios "Bookmark" Pattern Clock, ca.1915 (2m 2s)
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