At 7pm, in Raleigh, North Carolina, amid a forest of giant “comic weathervanes,” appraiser Ken Farmer talks with host Mark L. Walberg aabout smaller examples of vintage whirligigs. Highlights include a 1920 Arts & Crafts desk and lamp — both of which light up; a rare circa 1960 Gibson Double 12 Electric Guitar; and a set of four Chinese Quianlong Period (1736-1795) carved jade objects whose auction estimate of $710,000 to $1,070,000 makes it the highest-value appraisal in ROADSHOW history.
Then at 8, in Salt Lake City, Utah, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark Walberg takes the plunge down Olympic Park’s bobsled run to get in the zone for a look at Olympics collectibles with appraiser Philip Weiss. At the Salt Palace Convention Center, ROADSHOW experts favorably judge such outstanding finds as a 1920s to 1930s-era folk art quilt depicting scenes from Mormon history; a valuable Utah landscape painting by 20th-century Swedish-American artist Birger Sandzen; and a mid-19th-century archive of materials documenting the career of Philip Margetts, considered the first prominent Mormon actor, brought in by his great-granddaughter and valued at $100,000 to $150,000.
