It's about 7 minutes now past 11 you listening to mid-day on the FM news station. I'm accidentally in the Twin Cities today at midday antique collecting is our topic Professor Timothy blade from the University of Minnesota is here this morning to answer your questions about antiques. How much are your Treasures actually worth what were some of the items you've collected over the years originally used for will try to take care of the all that over the telephone. That should be a good chance for you Tim. Thanks for coming in this morning preciate it great to be here among other topics. Timothy play teaches the history of American furniture at the University of Minnesota. He's author of antique collecting a sensible guy to its art and miss you also run into his writings in the antique trade newspaper the old times where he has a monthly column. If you have a question about antique collecting to 276 thousand is a number to call if you're listening in the Twin Cities to 276 thousand in the metro area anywhere else, you're listening to broadcasts this morning. You can call toll-free with your questions and comments and suggestions one 802-422-8282 toll free number one song.One 802-422-8282 ask you is what about the psychology or sociology behind antique collecting why do people have this fascination with the what some people might consider old junk and has it's always been the case in 1850 were people chasing after items that were popular in 1750. Well in both 1758 and 1850 antiques were considered those objects that were from the ancient world, you know Greek and Roman things and maybe Byzantine things and maybe even Renaissance things but we have a very different definition of antiques now channel is thought that hundred years makes something an antique. But of course, the reason people collect antiques is not necessarily related to their date, but to the quality of their design or the certified historical or social interest that theyThat they illuminate to some people lose that too when they're picking up maybe old beat-up license plates at the exhibition that I'm working on right now certainly indicates that there is nothing so loathsome that people won't collect it at some time and you drop big distinction between collecting and I forget how you were characterizing at 11 thing and accumulate accumulate just throwing things away just not throwing things away does not make you a collector a collection has order and has Direction and his focus and usually a good collector will learn from their mistakes and they will focus and Horn they'll get rid of things and take on other objects. So it's a very complex process both sociologically andAnd psychologically this whole literature on the pathology of collecting. For example of her people collect to the point where it it really is considered madness Okay you listening to mid-day on the FM news station Timothy blade is here is a professor at the University of Minnesota, and we're talking about antique collecting to 276 thousand the number in the Twin Cities anywhere else, you're listening. You can call toll-free with your question at one 800-242-2828. We have a full Bank of colors right now. So I encourage you to hang up and try again. If you get a busy signal, let's go to Juilliard. Huson, St. Louis Park Avenue Station. Good morning.I have a set of spoons that my grandmother gave me that her mother purchased from an antique dealer in England. Where do I go to find out how old they are? Are there any marks in the back at all? I got one of those books and I looked in all of the little picture that I couldn't find for that matched. Okay, what are the marks specifically? Is there a lion? Yes, crouching lion and there right? Okay. Is there a is there a letter? S&S us and in what kind of form is that enclosed shut off? Okay. And what is the what are the other symbols? There should be some additional initials. Okay. Haha are looking to be a bust of a Roman Emperor. Okay, that's good. That's that's King George and it is they are Georgian silver. The letter s is a date letter which would be somewhere in the 18th or very early years of the 19th century and JB is the maker and the best book is Wyler's book. Wyler has a book on Marx and you should be able to find the initials of that maker. What's your guests him? How old is I would guess it sit there probably late eighteenth and early nineteenth Century. What for the record is so important about spoons that people are going to Las Vegas and bring spoons back. They're going to Washington DC and they bring a spoon back we have to care about no importance. But what's the point of that is that the collecting and travel have been Heart of one another since the Crusades and there it was pillaging but it seems to be part of human instinct want to bring back a trophy of some kind whether you're going out to the next Village to hunt or or whether you're bringing back moon rocks as the astronauts did or bringing back souvenir spoons from Las Vegas. It is all the same impulse of documenting your life. And then that's what collecting is to some extent and I would suppose just as a case with the as is the case with everything else that we acquire eventually some of this junk might be worth something. Well absolutely in particularly if the junk is honed in such a way that as a grouping it makes sense. And the tighter that grouping is the more likely the collection is to be good. All other factors being equal Arlene is in Wahpeton North Dakota the morning on the FM station. Good morning. I have a place that's been in the family for maybe ninety years and I'd like to know whether it is worth anything or what year it was. It does on the back it has pressure which is no longer a country. It has a royal rudolstadt on it and it's in beautiful condition. It has a group of grapes and grape leaves and is gold and it has two little handles on each side. Okay, it would be a probably a little Sandwich Tray is generally what those are called is the decoration. Do you think the decoration is hand-painted is it or is it a decal? Well that it's very smooth. The unfortunate thing is that there was a silly from Sophie's things produced in a variety of patterns, for example, Haviland and even rudolstadt and several of the other ones did thousands of patterns and an individual item of course is far less than if we were a complete set but my guess is that your item is probably riddles. Still made things up the 1920s, but probably it's turn of the century would be my guess right around 1900. Okay. Let's move on we have on the line George from Grand Rapids. Good morning. Good morning in the late 1800s early 1900s. There is no identification Nano identifying manufacturer. There are about five one in numbers on the back if the has a beveled mirror 36 white keys. We were wondering what it's worth. Well, a lot of people wonder about their pump organs are a lot of organs around Ardmore pump organs around and then there are old snowmobiles. I think very popular particularly. They were cheaper than pianos for example, and so lots of farm families had them and they just had very simple bellows in the end. They sounded queasy but you could at least it looks great Tunes. They were sold certainly through Sears in Montgomery Ward catalogs all the way up to the turn of the century. Although I suspect your date. You're correct on the date of about 1880 or so, but they were married it made in very large quantity. And the one of the unfortunate things is no matter how magnificent they are or how well they play people just are not in tube to that kind of organ music the way they once were there so many other sound systems that are better and even small pianos that give a better reproduction of sound. Recommend in this case so I can Georgia sitting there with a beautiful horse make money off of but you probably could sell it for enough to take a trip to Duluth. They will go anywhere from a hundred and fifty two for $500 depending on what they look like. It's a piece of furniture rather than their utilitarian equality. And what would you say if George would I throw this thing away because he couldn't sell it. I mean, is it something that you could do with something like that? Some people make them into I've seen organs made into almost every imaginable piece of furniture, including cribs and sofas and everything else will take the component parts and reassemble them in Sunway, which of course I find cannibalistic and should definitely not be done. But if somebody in your family place, I would suggest that you just keep it you can also put it on consignment somewhere or you could run it through auction and sometimes it can be amazing. What what price those things that she? Okay. Well, I hope that George Judy is in Oakdale. Good morning. I have an old marble that's about 3 and 1/2 for 4 in in diameter. And I think it would be fun if we could find out how much it was worth and how we could sell it and give it to my college student who's always struggling for money in the parents of a college student interior like Well, it isn't glass. It's it's you can't see through it. Okay, is it like ceramic I mean is like a glazed them? Sure. I probably even dropped it on the cement floor and it doesn't break metal. Don't know I'd say, it's Marble actually a Marble Marble I think so, I can't say I've ever seen a Marble Marble but marbles particularly of that size would three or four in that almost has does that many decorations on the outside light and it has black polka dots kind of like, you know, if you think about the cows that they're selling right now if it's a carpet ball What's a carpet carpet ball is a ball that could be anywhere from the size of an orange the size of a grapefruit that they were very often decorative stripes or dots or something like that and they were used for playing parlor games that you actually literally roll them across the carpet. I suppose it was ten pins or something like that. And those are very collectible. That's pretty big for a marble just regular marble, but I I I could not speculate on its use other than that Judy might be able to take it to an antique shop and find out what shows are in St. Paul or Minneapolis and they're always dealers who have marbles and related items and you could get a pretty good assessment. Then you almost need a basis for comparison. It's about 20 minutes now past 11 you listening to mid-day on the FM news station. Timothy blade is here with me this morning. Timothy blade is a professor at the University of Minnesota who among other things teaches about the history of American Furniture. He's the author of the book antique. Acting a sensible guide to its art and mystery and we're talkin about antique collecting to 276 thousand in the Twin Cities one 800-242-2828 anywhere else you call her listening to broadcasts the toll free number to get through lines are jammed right now, but once again, hang up and try back if you get a busy signal hopefully be able to get you a question Tom is waiting patiently in Minneapolis. Good morning. I have a fairly unique piece of furniture. I think it's on the front of it. It has two drawers on the bottom on the left hand side is a beveled mirror, which is a door that opens up to an armoire and on the right hand side is a death to falls down about that are cup of shelled some large wooden Wheels with some counterweights in a tennager roll it out. You can fold on a Murphy bed in the back of 1895. This is it looks somewhat Victorian would have been made maybe who the manufacturer wasn't some idea what it might be worth. So I'm not sure I'd almost looks like an ass and they were made in huge quantities. Although I must say I've never heard of quite that combination as you probably know by the end of the Victorian. People were becoming preoccupied with multiple function furniture and the sounds like a regular home entertainment center. That is really pretty amazing. If it has a patent date does a fracture though. It's just a patent registration. I think we lost haha. Well, it is possible to find out exactly what it is by checking the patent number lookup number. Okay. If there is a patent number then you need to just go to to a large Public Library where they have the patent records on microfiche and you can find out exactly who took out the patent and when it was when it was invented them and all about a mechanical character sounds like a wonderful piece. We all don't strip and dip it could but you have to be careful how you do it. That's a that's a whole other program just don't have a dip somewhere. You have brought along some small items to certify have well, I'm not going to tell you you're going to kill me. Okay, let's first of all let me begin with this. This is a vase that's about 3 in tall and I'll just describe it. Alistair shaped face made of a hard piece porcelain fired it about 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. It has an underglaze blue decoration and has an overglaze polychrome decorate very color now, I'll pass this to you and you can tell me what you can tell me where it was made. It looks like it might be from It's always important to look at the bottom. Okay. There we go. You see it's made in the in the Far East at Oki Far East. You're good. You're half-right. Okay, I have to be more specific be more specific was made in mainland China 1750. You must have been listening to our conversation earlier. That's just about right it is right. And what was it used for the C that's good. It's just that there's something else very important about that. The underglaze blue decoration was done in the 18th century. It was sent to England as a as a marketable item and the English were pretty tired of blue and white by that time so they added their own color decoration on top of it and we fired it collectors of really fine Chinese porcelain consider these to be barbaric But in fact, I think they're wonderful collectors and dealers call them clobbered vases. But when you see a cloud Vapes, you always know that it's 18th century and sell. It makes a story W interesting as far as I'm concerned. It's interesting cuz just looking at that. It doesn't look like it is some very old piece as old as 1752 something like this. It. It's beautiful but it is not all cracked and it doesn't look like it's an antique, That's right that brings up another issue of of quality and condition that it's very important no matter what you collect if it's sheet music or if it's Philadelphia Chippendale High boys, they should be in as good condition as possible and I suppose some collectors are disappointed when they read in a book or a catalog that this particular item is worth such and such and they bring that particular item in but it's all cracked and has a hairline crack. There's a local Auctioneer who says now there's a $400 Crack. All right. We'll try the quiz with the the next piece and up in a few minutes. Go back to the phones on the Warren who's in St. Paul. Good morning. I have a sweet little. China pieces am I asked about Mark Rosenthal? fesbook, Germany When is a mouse? When is a horse and one is a cat I have the mouse in front of me is 3 in tall. Pantene color changes with a gold ring and on top of that is a gold ball gold colored balls and they produce a number of you know, utilitarian pieces, but also do decorative things they do human figures and you know various ethnic costumes that sort of thing and they do do animals it is there are books on collecting Rosenthal and if there are any kind of sort of in house numbers that have been written on the bottom you should be able to determine fairly easily when they were produced you might also just even write to the Rosenthal company and tell them what you've got and they Are usually very helpful in trying to focus on the precise date of manufacture their very collectible and I see them around quite often. Okay. Hope that helps you out Joe is in a. Dyna. Good morning. Good morning. Mr. Blade. I wonder if you could tell me anything about the relative Rarity or value of a couple of Currier and Ives prints title that kiss in the dark and one titled The Great Ocean Yacht Race. I'll hang up and listen to thank you. That's very interesting. As you know Currier and Ives were considered to be the printmakers to the American people. They have been popular both in their original form in a reproduction for for couple centuries and the best way to get well, first of all, in order to assess their value, you would really have to know where that they were original from the original series of lithographs or whether they were later reproductions. Sometimes the color gives that away in the early pieces you want to make certain that the color is as bright as possible. And actually it sounds like you have to quite saleable a subject matters because much of Currier and Ives were aware history pictures religious pictures and other things like that that have less market value curiously yacht racing and a kiss would would be probably more deliberately decorative vent and more useful to most modern collectors. There are there are specific price guides on Currier and Ives prints and you just need to look at the subject matter and then also check the measurements because some of the reproductions are bigger or smaller than the originals you listening to mid-day on the FM news station Timothy blade a professor from the University of Minnesota's here this morning. He is the author of the book antique collecting a sensible guide to its art and mystery and we're talking about antiques I think we'll be back your calls. I'm going to check the weather forecast real quickly. It is cloudy, but warm around the region today the forecast for the state of Minnesota. Mostly cloudy today a chance of light snow in the north possibly mixed with some flight freezing rain a few sprinkles in the South mainly this afternoon highest today in the 30s North to the forties in the South for tonight. Mostly cloudy a few evening sprinkles or flurries in the east in the South with lowest tonight in the teams in the North to the middle twenties in the South End the same type of weather on store on deck for Sunday cloudy in the North tomorrow with a Chance of light snow on Sunday, mostly cloudy and Centron southern Minnesota with his few sprinkles highs tomorrow from the upper twenties in the North to the middle forties in the South. Let's go back to antique collecting Kathy's waiting in Lake Vermilion. Good morning. Good morning, I have I have a statue a marble statue about 20 inches high and it's of a mother and a child though. It's not religious in nature and it's signed on the back. ECOT Orpheus key and how do you spell that? I was wondering if there was anywhere I could go to find out who made it how old was and if it has any value, I mean, I love it because it's it's the wonderful statue. That's the very most important thing about it statues. Like this were made in huge quantities. It would be a hand carved and they are Will Made in very large quantities in Italy and this eve fioti would undoubtedly be the name of the person who did Carvel they were done in a kind of almost a production line basis. But each one is original. Although there were there were many versions of the same gene are the same subject matter. 20 inches high that makes it just about right. Is there a do you have an iced marble stand to go with us. It must have been on some other part right? These things are very collectible and I haven't seen anything much like that that's under two or three hundred dollars and some of the bigger ones go for a quite a bit more to some extent depending on the originality with subject matter. I saw one recently of a little girl little Victorian girl with with ringlets sitting in a chair all carbs out of marble and that was about $1,200, but that's that was also a 3 ft tall and I almost wonder if it hadn't been ripped off of a tombstone. I think one of the hardest thing about collecting would be getting rid of the stuff that you found over the years and that is a problem. I think it's a problem because there are a lot of people who are never willing to admit that they made a mistake but the best collectors I've seen are people who believe that collecting is an educational process and then education we expect people to grow and naturally your tastes are going to change you get more sophisticated. It is partially the obligation of the dealer to educate collect if they start out at the low-end, there's no reason to collector can inform them about some of the better things and for $50 more you could get this it will it is much higher quality inn in better condition of Silence. The dealer has certainly has some vested interest in educating beginning collectors and we all grow out 25 years ago. I was collecting very Heist Victorian furniture mart carving the more elaborate the better. I had a Rococo Revival of Gothic Revival and everything Revival stuff. And I thought it was wonderful. And now I collect early American Furniture. My cutoff date is about 1840. I have from Bob 1790-1840 and I suppose you really can be up a true Bonafide collector unless you're turning a collection over so you can get the next thing right exactly and in a big Warehouse. Yeah. Alright Delores in Minnetonka you on the FM news stations morning glass covered jar and I'm wondering about how old it is. I'm guessing about a hundred years old and what it's used was it's very decorative and quite Charming if it isn't a used for perfume because the cover is too wide. It's about a one and a half inch in diameter and it's moving it seems rather be Okay, and it has exported has the base. I mean the main part of the jar is sort of knowing shaped and if silver decorated and their decorations on the outside looks like blueberries and then some other silver around the rim and smooth and only thing I could come up with was maybe a little rodent jar or something like that you say the top is about an inch-and-a-half. It could have had as it is. It doesn't look like a never had a glass stopper in a ton. So when you say stop it it's live like that and you're so that it's so frosted for instance both inside the rim and the stopper I'm living this live does not fit over, you know the right it goes down into it and the top is also glass decorated with a five-pointed SilverStar. Oh, okay. Well, I think and how how big how tall is it overall is a perfume perfume put on them. I am just trying to imagine you know, it is to stop or get the perfume on it. Then you dab the stopper on your On your neck Ur hands or wherever you want the perfume. That would be my impression considering a size in the Declaration. That's about all it could be unless it originally had an atomizer on it. But then and I I would guess it's probably actually it could be 1890s, but it could be they made those with a silver overlay all the way up to the 1920s. So it certainly is a toiletry bottle of some kind and very likely had been part of sat at one time when people describe these items what the immediately are you looking for, cuz it's amazing how you're able to pinpoint the stuff over the telephone. I just got it. So it's like that it's like diagnosing diseases easiest thing in the world, but I've seen an awful lot of stuff and I think that's also a clue for collectors is the best way to be a good collector is just to see as much stuff as you begin in museums and see the best stuff and then go to the Antique shows in the markets and see the kind of next step down from that. So she have a basis for comparison. And I don't I have a very visual memory and so I don't really have only once has anybody ever describe something that I didn't have a clue what it's your turn. See if you can't stump Timothy blade here. Thank you much, but I'm going right into his expertise and Furniture. Okay, that's where my grandparents bought it used. More or less a pipe holder. Okay, Matchbox holder included. Okay. What do the legs look like? Okay, I would there are lots of smoke stands Illustrated in some of the catalogs from the after the turn of century. My guess is the pieces probably from the teens. That would be pretty much my guests on it. It's labeled Chrisman Manufacturing Company North Bennington Vermont. I have tried to contact them and they Well, I guess that's probably all I could tell you then is that it probably was made. My guess would be around 1910 1915. What do you want to do you want to be able to tell people were visiting your home where it was built and when it was built. Smoke stance were made in a variety of styles. They were mission style ones, which is around 9:10 or so. And then there were sort of Tudor Revival things which had sometimes turning on the mend and elaborate stretchers going across between the legs and little applications of carbon and that sort of thing your sounds a little bit simpler and I would I would get gas as a result that it is some sort of a variation in the mission style from about 1910. He's basically ash trays with legs are what will they often have a little door or a drawer to contain the tobacco and sometimes they're even lined with copper or lead to keep to keep the humidity constant ashtrays and had little racks in the size for pipes in Grand Forks. Good morning. What how about you pick the most important one? Cuz we got a lot of people in line when I get to these calls and we can I have a large wood Rent-A-Car about 6 inches high runs across the top. Curve for the going down. The front of the piece has a side view of a lionhead rabbit goes off to the side back down all the way to the floor where there is like a lion's claw. Okay in the wood is hot. I don't think it's all okay on front legs pause then line pause or OK goes off to the side after the arm comes down and okay. These this would be part about parlor set which could include a settee an armchair in a couple of side chairs very often and even occasionally like a little Center table. They were sold in manufacturing Quality Inn sold through through the catalog houses and other furniture stores as well. Do you think that the covering is original? Spell mohair would bring it if it's the original. Mohair. It could be from about I would guess the teens also 1910 1915 very often these pieces were posted in black leather or even occasionally horse here is another possibility and it's kind of a transitional peace between the sort of heavy Mission and that more elaborate sort of baronial furniture. That was quite popular in In the early part of the night of the twentieth century. How about the value of a piece of these pieces? A lot of people don't like them because they're they're heavy and depending on the quality The Carving they can be worth. I mean, you've got a chair and a sofa settee. How long is the SAT? Okay. Yeah. Well, they could go for a couple hundred dollars a piece. I would guess. Okay. My closest guess Virginia, Minnesota. Good morning on the FM news station with Timothy play. I've got the teapot in the creamer and sugar and I was curious to know whether this is part of the blue red or green Geisha tea sets that I've heard so much about Japanese. I would imagine peace with Japanese it is they're all ornately designed they have each of each piece has a red Geisha and a Blue Geisha meaning the dress, right? It has well, they're kind of worn but it said it has been a gold. Edge and it does look like it has gold in a little paintings and squirrels squirrels on it rather and is a totally covered with decoration only covered but the painting itself, I don't know whether they completely detail meaning they paint everything but that that it is painted. I've got a red flowers blue flowers. Are there figures human figures? Yes, for instance on one of my cups. I have a red fuchsia standing with a gold fan is a very thin porcelain or is it very fat and very well is it in a case by any chance mining or something like that? They very often wore. These are sets that were made specifically for the Western Market and they occur I was thinking of Picture of a pig is porcelain. It would be Satsuma but it's that's probably too early for this. I would guess these pieces are from probably from between the wars. This is probably somewhere in the twenties would be my guess. It could be a little earlier than that, but they sound like pieces that were made for for the Western trade. What are you supposed to put blade? Will I be popular from Arden age right now? 50 60 70 80 years down the road something I can go pick up in the media Professor blade said that archaeologists five thousand years from now would find better things at Target than they would at the Minneapolis art institute what I meant to say what I meant to say our friends with my Heart Institute things that were more telling of our time. It's hard to say I'm one of the collections that I have in the exhibition is a collection of profoundly ugly ceramic ashtrays made in California. And these were collected by a teenager who truly believed that all the social change that has taken place regarding smoking will eventually make all this particular the ruling that was in the morning paper about the class action suit against tobacco companies that he believed that these things would become the rarest of all rare things and they would no longer have utility and people wouldn't want them even collectors wouldn't want them. So he started collecting he now has 300 huge boomerang-shaped ugly ashtrays from the 50s talk a little bit too. If you would Professor blade about the exhibit that they going to be opening March 4th through March 5th, March 5th, and the opening will be from 2 to 5 in the ghost. I'm gallery on the Saint Paul. Campus in this show will go all the way through May 21st. It's called collecting the Instinct for order. There will be soap boxes cigar bands Apple box labels. Tobacco tins. The world's largest alleged collection of Vera scarves wonderful collection of Statue of Liberty postcard six hundred of them. None the same tea caddy spoons laundry related items wire frames that held funeral flowers pictures of people in caskets cigar bands string buttons yellow smiling faces a lot of stuff a lot of stuff and if if it tells anything if a visitor walks away with anything it will be that Everybody is a collector and most of them are nuts and that starts March 5th or with University of Minnesota. St. Paul campus. The gallery again is the Goldstein Gallery. Okay, Timothy played the guest today on Saturday. Midday on the phone is dead in Bloomington. Good morning. I have my wife and I were having a dispute about similar things here. We're looking at a dump that has old jars in it just old enough to be odd, like ketchup bottles without a screw top build and kylux Bottles in a lot of different liquor bottles and wondering if we should recycle them or just or if they have the market there for him. Sleeping in the ground for a while have they? Yeah. Okay. Are they iridescent dish have they been in there long enough that they get kind of a Milky surface on most of them haven't the decoration on them is primarily impressed rather than enameled on. Okay. Well, there are there. In fact it is at least one bottle show here a year and I'm not you might actually call and Minneapolis number called The Old Times They Are the newspaper for whom I write that deal with the antique trade and they have a complete calendar of all the collector events for the next year and there's got to be a bottle show in there somewhere or at least they would know where one was and they think it was kind of a five-state area. So I would guess that they probably Know if anybody would and then you can get kind of a good idea. I mean it's only worth digging them up until I go in the dishwasher and and who knows somebody might be interested. Do you have the number for old times I've had. They can fight in the phone book and I'm looking at her son book Old Times. Is it at the antique trade paper? Barber chair and I was wondering if you could tell me what it might be worth. It's made of oak and leather that has a cast iron bottom on it. Really. Are you sure it's a barber chair novel Dental chair? Oh, okay, my brother stopped into somebody's house who consider himself a collector and there's a barber chair sitting right in the middle of the living room. He said, what did you get that for? He said a dollar and a half actually that would be worth a fair amount of money. I would guess for $500 at least if it's in good pretty good condition. These are the kind of things that are used in everything from themed restaurants to two historical societies. Do you know where it came from? I mean what barber shop at came from? K o c h s yeah. Well, they were the ones who made almost all the barber chairs that is embedded in my mind is a name when I was a little kid looking at. Yeah, but that that is the only ones I've seen are actually Reserve enameled metal ones. So that would certainly predate that I would guess. It's pretty close to the turn of the century. Alright, Margaret Plymouth wants to talk about our carpet sweeper. Good morning. Hi. Thank you are am I on I have a carpet sweeper that was given to me because I collect old tools and I'd like to find out more about it. If I could if the Fairly large singing and the thing is interesting is that it's stamped with my name, which is don't lie. And I guess that's the name of the carpet sweeper. Obviously been manufactured. It's made out of them middle of some sort and it's curved. And has kind of a wood grain on it, It's just got the two rollers underneath in the in the bottom right place. I could get information about them. Well, I certainly grew up with carpet sweepers the English still use the Miss though. They actually worked Bissell was the largest manufacturer in this is Bentley. Wii U and t l e y a i and its name is a rather unusual name, so well, it could be either English or American Gas and those things were sold in stores actually up through the 1940s after that. I think most people went to to vacuum cleaners. They have some limited value in the market. I mean, they're $50 or so depending on how decorative they are. I'm not sure why anybody would want to collect them but I I've stopped trying to judge people's motivations for collecting thinks we're could Margaret find out more about there are there are also cattle price guides on sort of domestic artifacts, like kitchen tools and all that sort of thing and I suspect you could pretty well find it in in in one of those any bigger book store has it in their antique section has lots and lots of price guides and various categories everything from records to baseball cards to Coca-Cola. Philia to whatever Cynthia in St. Paul is a question about a gadget. Kitchen utensils, I guess it was made around the depression and no one could figure out what this was and I guess you thought I knew but let me describe it has a long handle on it and at the end of the handle it sort of this aluminum. I believe it's made out of and it has a screened tinged. I'm top that cup in the and the and the cup actually seems to be made of also of aluminum, like maybe it looks like you could heat it but maybe not and I guess he put things in it and close the hinge and Screen things, but we don't know what we would have been screened you say it's old or how big is the round thing size of a tennis racket or is it? Oh, I was going to say it was the only thing I know that even looks like that would be a popcorn popper. Thank you. Got them. Are you stumped me on that one will be sending you? That's a new one on me. Guess you'll have to beat the aluminum is aluminum part of it is particularly enigmatic because I'm not you probably wouldn't use aluminum. Heating it because it would transfer the heat is the is the handle just aluminum or does it have a wooden shank on at her strange green color? School PowerSchool green color. That's okay. Well, then it's probably a kitchen piece from the 30s. They used green then red with goes in the 40s. Oh, I wonder it probably is a soap chip off thing. You take all your old little pieces of soap when you stick them in there and then you squish them around in the water and you can you can you wash a couple sets of dishes before they dissolve completely. That's probably what it is. Run that through the water in like us the water would go through and through the civil, right? That's right. Yeah, that's it. Absolutely. Amazing. Okay, let's go to Tobin and see if you can't stump template hear. Good morning. I have a this is more of a museum hand-carved teak wood a natural ivory tusks on at the cross and high in acid on a gold type pedestal. Give me the comes up. It's holding a Swiss jewel pocket watch. Huh, fire watches over four inches across or specially made me all the center of the elephant engraved with a I'm not sure what kind of drugs are glass jewels in it now right eye and the pace is what a metal gold. I have no idea what this is. There were elaborate watch stands of various kinds that were invented in the Victorian. That probably sounds like what it is. The elephant is carved or is that also metal? That's a very beautiful. Okay. Well, it probably was just a watch holder and these were used on men's dressers and bedrooms. And that's her thing. They have them in the shape of every Grandfather clocks to easy chairs. I think that's what you got. I hope that was helpful. I hope all these. Answers were helpful. The folks who collect antiques Timothy blade. We are about running out of time for this program. Thanks so much for coming in on that that went fast. I'd like to do this again throughout the whole hour just real quickly Tim. What are some of the biggest mistakes people make when they're collecting antiques if they really are trying to get a nice collection together. I would guess the biggest mistake that is made is buying things because you think they're going to appreciate in value. There's only one reason to possess anything with her. I told her no and that is because you genuinely liked it. And if the price is right for you don't pay attention to anybody else have the other thing is sometimes not looking carefully enough at the condition getting over-excited. Absolutely Tennessee blade is a professor at the University of Minnesota. Thanks a lot for coming in today and answering all the questions that opens March 5th at the Goldstein Gallery the University of Minnesota st. Paul campus that might be an interesting place to meet some other people who are into collecting antiques as well. Thanks to all of you who listened today in especially those of you who called him with the questions. I'm sorry about the folks were left hanging on the line. Maybe have to go to antique shop to have your questions answered the technical director for the broadcast has been Clifford Bentley Kitty. Play producer program. I marks a deck like midday on Saturday supported by the oriental rug company celebrating its 10th anniversary year at 50th and Bryant in Minneapolis.