{"id":2188,"date":"2019-09-15T10:05:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2019-09-15T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T14:05:59","slug":"antiques-roadshow-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"Antiques Roadshow, May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the Antiques Roadshow since it first aired in 1997, hoping to spot anything with an inventive repair. I finally got my wish in May 2010 with a Native American Tlingit ladle made of mountain sheep horn,\u00a0c.1800.<\/p>\n<p>The ladle was appraised for $75,000 in 2010 and I imagine it has appreciated in value over the past 9 years.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>APRAISER: These would have been considered family heirlooms of the Tlingit people. That&#8217;s obviously not the shape of an original horn.<\/div>\n<div>GUEST: Yeah, I wondered, is it carved out?<\/div>\n<div>APPRAISER: Boiled until the horn fabric is soft and malleable, and then pressed into a mold, tied down and left to dry, and then it retains that shape. Right in the middle, there are little cracks and what we might call staples.<\/div>\n<div>GUEST: Uh-huh.<\/div>\n<div>APPRAISER: Although the material is not metallic, it&#8217;s baleen, from a whale&#8217;s mouth.<\/div>\n<div>GUEST: Wow.<\/div>\n<div>APPRAISER: So where it began to split, we see a Native repair.<\/div>\n<div>GUEST: That&#8217;s cool.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3824_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2602\" title=\"IMG_3824_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3824_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3824_2.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3824_2-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wa200906A14_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2189\" title=\"wa200906A14_01\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wa200906A14_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wa200906A14_01.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wa200906A14_01-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3831_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2603\" title=\"IMG_3831_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3831_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3831_2.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3831_2-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/roadshow\/archive\/200906A14.html\">Antiques Roadshow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the Antiques Roadshow since it first aired in 1997, hoping to spot anything with an inventive repair. I finally got my wish in May 2010 with a Native American Tlingit ladle made of mountain sheep horn,\u00a0c.1800. The ladle was appraised for $75,000 in 2010 and I imagine it has appreciated in value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication","tag-staplesrivets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14324,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/14324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}