What's It Worth?

Out of the attic and into the spotlight

Watch chain

| June 28, 2010

Dear What’s It Worth, This woven bracelet is 8 1/2 inches long.  The ends and the charm look like gold but they are not marked anywhere that I can see.  Can you tell me what it is made of and what, if any, value it has? What you have described as a bracelet is actually [...]

Hummel Figures

| June 23, 2010

Dear What’s It Worth, I’m helping an elderly aunt downsize in preparation for a move to a retirement community.  She has a china cabinet full of over 30 Hummel figures and she has always cherished them.  There won’t be space in her new apartment for the cabinet so she can’t take them with her.  They [...]

Kentucky Derby Glasses & Stickley Server

| June 17, 2010

Dear Jane, I’m wondering about a set of 8 1936 Kentucky Derby Glasses. They are from the estate of my husband’s grandfather, a genuine Kentucky Colonel and civic leader of Louisville, KY in the 1920′s through the 60′s. They have lived in the same china cabinet since at least the 1950s, according to my husband. [...]

Lalique bottle

| June 7, 2010

Attached is a side view and bottom view of an R.LaLique perfume atomizer bottle with nudes. I’m not sure if it works (I didn’t want to test it) but all the pieces are there. This was from my Grandmother who liked fine things. It is about six inches tall.  My parents thought it was a [...]

Bertha Stringer Lee painting

| June 1, 2010

Dear Jane, I am downsizing and want to make give away a number of things to friends. None of the things have very high value but I like to give gifts that will have special meaning to the recipient. I have a little painting by Bertha Stringer Lee.  It’s never been one of my favorites [...]

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