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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Delmer, post: 243103, member: 8219&quot;]Um.. Nope I won&#039;t be on TV... The short reason is because it wouldn&#039;t be entertaining at all.. because the appraisers were unfamiliar with the works.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indianhead gets the WIN!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t want to rip their system.. it accomplishes their goal of having people bring them material for a show.. I guess I shouldn&#039;t have expected that they would have detailed knowlege on my piece as much as they have for the pieces that make it on TV.&nbsp; The 2 people in the &quot;metalwork&quot; section learned 8 things from me and I learned 2 from them.&nbsp; They had never seen what I had, could not put a firm value on it with their combined resources.. but DID tell me that someone had attempted to clean them a little, and they gave be the name of the fellow who owns the archives of the Gorham company. where they say I can get an appraisel and possibly sales records since they are serialized.&nbsp; Oh they also said that the frames were from the 50&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was about one person per 5 seconds being let into the group of appraisers. They gotta figure SOMEONE is going to bring in a piece that one of the appraisers get overly excited about.&nbsp; I guess the theory is that if the appraisers just aren&#039;t familiar with something.. it probably isn&#039;t worth getting too excited about... and theres no WAY that any piece they&#039;re not familiar with gets on TV.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t even stay to get my 1920 fishing lures looked at.. I envisioned them saying &quot;what are those?&quot;.&nbsp; I&#039;ll delete the sarcasm after the dissapointment fades. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; My things are not popular.. so how would appraisers know them on the spot I guess. They use books and alot of research(thats why it costs $350 for an appraisel)&nbsp; to find things and no one had books that I could see.</p><p><br /></p><p>My buddy&#039;s 1800s Piano lamp was appraised at 1500 (he paid 200)... so the day wasn&#039;t a total loss. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll get ahold of the guy that they suggested and see at least how many of these there are.</p><p><br /></p><p>So contest over.. The 2 appraisers listened to what I paid -1850- and said reluctantly &quot;yeah, that&#039;s probably okay&quot;.&nbsp; CONGRATS INDIANHEAD.. PM me your address for your nearly 40 year old copper![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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