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Antiques Roadshow: Salt Lake City

What's the value of an 1857 Mormon advertisement on textile and a copy of Brigham Young’s Invasion Proclamation? Watch Monday, October 1, 2012 at 7pm.

At Salt Lake City’s Utah Museum of Natural History, appraiser Gary Piattoni introduces ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark Walberg to the world of the rock hound and the market in minerals. At the Salt Palace Convention Center, ROADSHOW appraisers hit a mother lode of precious objects, including a set of clubs once owned by Utah golf legend George “Gix” Von Elm, who won the U.S. Open Amateur in 1926; a set of beautiful 18th-century Chinese white jade carvings; and a pair of rare documents: a Mormon advertisement on textile and a copy of Brigham Young’s Invasion Proclamation — both issued in 1857, during hostilities between the Mormons in Utah and the U.S. government — valued at $10,000 to $15,000.

Watch Monday, October 1, 2012 at 7pm.

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Antiques Roadshow in Salt Lake City

Watch Monday, September 17, 2012 at 7pm.

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.

Watch Monday, September 17, 2012 at 7pm.

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Antiques Roadshow in Mobile, AL

Rare trio of books containing lithographs of American Indian chiefs. Watch Monday, September 3, 2012 at 7pm.

Host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Don Cresswell visit the Audubon Bird Sanctuary on Dauphin Island to explore why collectors flock to bird prints by artists including James Audubon. Highlights include: a circa 1969 jersey worn by NFL football legend Gae Sayers when he played for the Chicago Bears; a side chair that may have graced the Lincoln White House; and a rare trio of books containing lithographs of American Indian chiefs whose portraits were painted when they came to Washington to negotiate treaties with the U.S. Department of War, valued at $70,000 to $90,000.

Watch Antiques Roadshow Monday, September 3, 2012 at 7pm.

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Antiques Roadshow in Philadelphia

A triple play wins an auction estimate of $34,000 to $46,000. Watch Monday, July 30, 2012 at 7pm.

Host Mark L. Walberg wraps up ANTIQUE ROADSHOW’s visit to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a stop at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he’s joined by appraiser Alasdair Nichol. The oldest art school in the country, the Academy continues to be a hothouse for some of America’s most promising new artists. At the Pennsylvania Convention Center, experts unveil more masterworks, including a pair of paintings by noted Hudson River School artist John F. Kensett – bought at a yard sale for $35; a dazzling three-carat, Asscher-cut, yellow diamond ring; and a trio of autographed baseballs featuring signatures from the 1944 St. Louis Cardinals, Ted Williams in his 1939 rookie season and an authenticated autograph from Babe Ruth himself in the late 1940s. Together, this triple play wins an auction estimate of $34,000 to $46,000.

Watch Monday, July 30, 2012 at 7pm.

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