you know fairly close to the the age that you're talking about so maybe early nineteenth century what's interesting when you look inside a violin like this that it will typically have a label and can you tell the folks what this label actually says  can't really tell you whether it is or isn't but i what i can tell you is that a lot of reproductions were made you know stradivarius being a very fine famous violin maker in italy and  mean it's got it's got an old label in there but that's typical of the reproductions as well and so it may be referring to a a style that was made in seven hundred twenty seven but it also what don't want to discount the fact that it could be authentic so i on something like this if it's a true stradivarius you'd you're talking about maybe millions of dollars for an instrument like that so  this is probably not the kind of appraisal fair we're where you'd want to get that kind of estimate but i would recommend taking it to a violin shop that does appraisals again most of them are reproductions  student models but this one you know has some some age to it and some nice appeal so there is a there's a man out in williams port that does a lot of violen repair jeff judd is his name that might be worth connecting with jeff and he could probably put you in the right direction but you there are some places in pittsburgh as well that will do a preserves and i think that's probably the direction to go on something like this again you kind of don't want to get your hopes up too high but but i think it's worth having checked out copies even the copies or even the copies the early copies are valuable and you know it does seem to have sufficient age to have that kind of process done yeah sorry i can't give you a real number on this but i can at least try to point in the right direction all right very good so what hundred twenty s they say they were doing a lot of art pottery they actually closed in the seventy's a lot of mccoy is found in western pennsylvania they distributed it through a lot of different retail outlets is quite valuable and a lot of mccoy is quite common and not relatively valuable piece like this maybe a ten or fifteen dollar piece some pieces if the early in the right kind of glee in order pottery it can go for hundreds and sometimes even thousands but most mccoy's is kind of in this range probably a ten to fifteen dollars piece so you're i'm guessing that the a bohemian pottery and then you have the card at china so they imported the blanks and then professional decorators at picard would apply the decoration this etched decoration is it's not uncommon there were a lot of companies that did it wheeling decorated in wheeling west virginia did the same sort of thing but the card celtel tends to sell for a little more the  best picard is hand painted it's factory paint a very bright vibrant colors artist signed and those can go for hundreds of dollars pieces like this a little more common but still desirable by the card collectors  cream and sugar set might be you know forty fifty dollars a vase like this probably in the same range but it's got a nice nice green glaze on the interior but if you ever see hand painted pickard china it's worth saving worth getting evaluated so if it's really bright and vibrant you have a lot more to it again i think the violin trumps the pottery in this case but chuck i really appreciate your bringing all this in and think that it's it's has her teacher looked at it go ok you you may you may just want to get this checked out before before it gets dropped in the parking lot ok yeah ok thanks for coming in ok let's get thanks so you brought in what's called a reverse p d how many of you have seen these before so it reversed painting on glass so this is pretty pretty common in the early part of the twentieth century where the you'd have a frame and curved glass like this and then you would you know paint a design on the inside of it and so it's the surface is just a glass but the reverse of it has this hand painted this you can see it's copyrighted one hundred seventeen one hundred years old it's almost one hundred years old that is exactly right and so this is the white house it may have been sold in washington it may have been sold and the people of people bought things like this and hung them on their walls us part of that patriotic spirit the the depictions of the white house and other buildings around washington or are not uncommon  there are some reverse paintings on glass that do tend to command significant prices this doesn't happen to be a piece that falls into that category however you you might see this in an antique shop  anywhere from thirty five to seventy five dollars depending on condition this this looks like it's a pretty decent condition a lot of problems with reversed paintings happened to the paint actually flicked off the glass but you kept  insult and one just like you said about the peeling on a back and she had another one of the ship that was destroyed yes and it cracked in the middle and yeah yeah that's true yeah but this is this is a nice piece and i would i would say hang it up if you like it i love it that's my gun just has to and you know it's it's as much a time now to be patriotic as it was back then so well my mother had ten can't is that right right on the youngest of ten and there were seven of us boys go out and served in a second world war my brother george served in korea my brother john and two tours in from fifty four to fifty seven and i was a soldier of the month back in fifty six at fort bragg and we on the honors of going up to west point to train a west point cadets during the summer months  privilege all right well thank you for your service bob i want to thank you for bringing this great patriotic we thank you for you have a good  you tell us a little bit about i don't know anything about that it was in my mother's stuff ok she passed away all right and it tends germany on the back and i tell you where to try a lot of porcelain was imported from germany the sexually says germany germany sex altenburg there were a lot of porcelain factories in germany in the early part of the twentieth century and this dates to that period around one thousand and one nine hundred fifteen something like that and again as with the card hand painted stuff always tends to bring a little more money by hand painted items cost more at the time as well and so they found ways to to produce items that were a little less expensive this happens to have some transfers on it and it's some transfer flowers and some cupid's and that's a pretty common theme for you know early twentieth century morsels and so if we look look very closely we can see actually pixelation that you have to look you have to be near sighted sometimes of to really get this which i am  but you can see the pixelation in the transfers they would they would paint the background and they would apply the transfers and the glaze and ultimately that this was a very common and it's come a type of bowl that you find in just a lot of houses in in america so it's a little fruit vegetable fairly common today probably around twenty dollars and that you'd find it and to much to try think it's pretty it stuff because she was raised by her and these were her shoes i don't know and this is my mother's writing and they're you know i wrote this when she passed away march thirteenth in one thousand nine hundred two they were one hundred  handmade baby shoes absolutely now they may be worth more as a as a keepsake and because you've actually got the history with this how many things you know that he will throw away right  don't i keep them in the box i bought the box so that i when you have a minute trunk somewhere cardboard people actually today collectors today buy these kinds of items just as of a folk yway of of displaying vintage items and and so i'd recommend that they they may sell for anywhere from thirty to forty dollars depending on the right collector because people like people actually like baby shoes and they do collect not nearly as old but i'd rather live display them they're a nice family keepsake of the clothes pin wouldn't sell for much but the shoes would have a little bit of value and if you can share those blood my husband's grandmother she got it when she got married in the early one thousand hundreds and she gave it to my husband when we got married twenty one years ago and it's been around the house been moved from room to room there's a bass that comes with it it's about three three feet tall and it's a as heavy as he is it does have some markings on it i could not carry  the you can see it actually has a hand mark on the china what can you tell me about where it came from i'm trying to my husband's grandmother she when she lived in florida she said that she bought it at a yard sale and when she moved up here and going through things she gave it to me ok so that's all that i know i mean this is this looks like i'm an old porcelain but truthfully a lot of these were reproduced in the law's family and i actually have the it was the box timers and the mr and the awards that he was given and i think that's the the burma yes so it actually says a lot of americans are helping the  but this this actually has a market a lot of these brown and great crocs are not part of this one was made in ohio a lot of these work being the ohio this one actually says crooksville ohio and crooks or heigho in the early part of the twentieth century we had a quarter piece earlier was made in that same region so it was a there were rich use and you can see there's a number two on it which means it's a it is a two gallon crock with a little heart shape that makes it a little bit nicer if they're plain they usually sell for the in the fifteen to twenty five dollar range little heart like this adds a little more to it so you might see for anywhere from forty to sixty dollars the the crux of the earlier that we're made of western pennsylvania can bring hundreds or thousands of dollars we haven't seen one of those yet today but this is nice people but the other porches that put the buy their fireplaces kitchens so it's a nice keepsake but not tremendous amount of value now and then you have a framed piece as well drawing is a charcoal you know what's what's the medium and when you look very closely at that did you ever assess that did you ever try to analyze it when you look really closely at the at the surface buy it mostly for the frame and put something else at it just because it's a nice size for it so i wish it were a painting you'd have something a little bit better put you to hang it in your home yes or you enjoy it that's where the real when i graduated from i can't remember a year of college or law school she gave me this man grant and i believe it's to the penn brothers you william and yes e but thomas and and richard penn i believe of the grandsons of william yes and i don't know and i do know that on this side i think king george's mentioned and i wouldn't be surprised what i'm f so you know or really asses and things of that nature right but i we took it to the history center of last august i think it was and they didn't have anyone there that was land actually one of these sold for around four hundred dollars it may be worth more to you than that just as a really cool early pennsylvania object that just happens to fit nicely into that attorney's office but it was is really a lot of it years ago the ferry place but this has a little bit of history attached to it that's what makes it a little more special so i would i would put a value in that if you were selling it would probably wall you know somewhere in the for the six hundred dollar range but it's it's a really nice piece of my aunt wrote when she passed away and then this is my husband said it was that bad that your background was just all pieces and show everyone what we've got here he was gone so i guess i was a fish i kept it well i mean i'm glad you did because you preserve them how many of these things got thrown out through the years but this is a piece of folk it you know and it came from my grandmother sure sound so if i were selling this sort of the entire show or in a shop i probably put for five hundred dollars over just because of the intricacy of the design  has a history all right what can you tell me about my uncle who would be one hundred twenty years old worked on a form in eighty four west you know there is here is that because his family was so large that they took the other children from the large families and gave them to the farmers that needed help so he lived with this knew that my husband really liked it and he told us it was chalk and it is signed and so again it's in my family room because of my husband but he also my husband liked it so much that he did have a new frame put on by simran galleries up in washington so my one grandson loves it so i is this is this is charcoal yes right so this was a pretty color it's really well done it appears to be a professional not even if there's nothing that we knew about the artist you'd probably see it in the three to four hundred dollar range just because of its i appeal because of its because of the the vote here you know you have item yes i have edition but there a george washington i had a sale after my aunt died and i had this piece in the sale and it turned out to be an antique dealer that came to my there is a signature on the back and it too is is german it was distributed through a company in new york city but this is this is probably nineteen twenties we saw earlier a piece  that had the white house or that it was a reverse pale glass well this was roughly that same time period it was the the the country was very much looking to its history to understand what was going on eighteen twenty's but again part of that patriotic spirit that reflected the mood of the country at the time this is actually a transfer as well it's not here painted but there are like the little so what can you tell me about so here it says the reliance automatic time recorder made by the cincinnati time work order company and there's there's a little document in here as well which is i am suing the original manual for this particular clock now you can see the hand there's a tape in here right there's a ribbon had you thought about what that might be used for know i think it was a clock that was that was used to do time stamps for workers right right so the workers were checked in and out is there any place where this t come it actually winds up through here it's very sophisticated little mechanism here but but clocks like this were made for industrial use or they were made for business use are or can star not easy to find and so i've actually never sold one of these or own one of these sometimes so you do a kind of a quick search online you can find some some value son of this sort of thing i would think but it does work yeah we one second and might be able to find a comparable cl all right so here you just do a google image search you can find these you can see right here the cincinnati time recorder clock it's it's a it's a it's a time in clock you know a check in  e finding a value what it would typically look at auction records for the sort of thing and so if you do a little bit of searching around you can often find you know a good option  something like this here's one that was up for auction not long ago and it will get an estimate this here sometimes you know you think they're worth more than they are this one actually sold at auction for one hundred twenty dollars so they may not be you know all that rare being a company that made  products for other companies that it might have been a you know kind of a standard in the in the industry and they're not uncommon to find here's another one the sold for five hundred fifty dollars and so i would i would yeah i mean you could put it on the shelf or on top of another piece of furniture and you could use it to you know keep track of your husband you know i would take to make him check  but the that at least gives you a rough al you want to have a people like industrial pieces they like you know pieces that were used for more than just the master purposes and this has a lot of i appeal to it yeah and it's got this wonderful cast iron mechanism here very very intricate sort of mechanism is even has a stilt its original wall so we really appreciate your bringing to you all right let's give them a it doesn't work oh wow so your name is fred was new ski fred we're we're glad you're here today what can you tell us about this amazing  well i had my son in law i had a friend that dabbles in guns and so forth and he from pictures looked at it and thought it might be a bought an eighteen sixteen model he either from pennsylvania or new york he thought and as you could see there's a lot of inlay that was on there and we feel that  the person must have a stolen the rifle or the pistol and taken the inlay off for the value of it and ditched the pistol between the walls sure so  this might have had like i've read lad as some type or even a gold and he say he thought silver maybe it could have been silver and he thought maybe it might have been a presentation pistol also y eighteen sixteen possibly well he said look over he said that he got that from the heart the picture of the heart on the thing there and he said the rounded but handle  maybe twenty five hundred or something yeah a lot of those a lot of these types of guns if they were you know reasonably original will go into the thousands i would say because of its age you do at least be talking high hundreds  here but this is a really nice item and that's really great to see something so old and reasonably well preserved as a piece of american history very good thanks for bringing that in thank you it would be my mother's mother's mother just have no idea i don't think that's very valuable but it was my grandfather's money and i'm just so some of these were actually hand painted in factories and so we saw the card or earlier some of that that sort of thing was painted a factory this is not a professional painting  this is so what we call an amateur here which are paid but it is a is a nice big tankard people still do like this sort of hand painted porcelain if it was factory painted you'd be talking about maybe a couple  they just made them as a state alone item of so people put these other mantles they put them in china cabinets had again it was more of a like a focal craft for a lot of young women in the early rugby but it's a great piece of decorative art so that also i have all these just as you say decorations in my yes so you'd probably see something like this with the crack you know rolled thirty dollars just because it's a deck that decorative object the very core can i tell you a real quick story about a clock since we just heard i was born in a will city my aunt and my dad's father and mother lived together and never married loved the time and i told my aunt that i would like to have that clock something when my when both of those people passed away the sister took it  working and there was a man here in gears township who used to work downtown pittsburgh a clock repair person and a lot of lies but he was the kind of street parallel to me i took it to him and he