at the Antiques Road Show. Ille and I went to Roadshow when it visited Atlanta recently...it was a blast even though our feet hurt and our stuff was NOT well shall i say going to pay for our retirement...hmm it wouldn't even pay for our gas lol
Great great grandfather's NOT confederate money that we were to keep FOREVER because the Sawth would rise again...did i say some kind of premium from cereal or bread or uh well you fill in the blank....old but NOT valuable
and these "nickels" uh dare i say a page out of an old ration book?? ALSO NOT valuable...
we got to sit with the appraisers as "appraisers" right at the end of filming...all the crowds had gone and Ille was making a beeline for an antique Marie Antoinette style dress silk brocade they were stuffing with tissue and getting ready to film...the director asked her to go sit down and be an "appraiser" and when i tried to follow saying I am with her aka Ille...the director said go sit at the table too:> ...that was probably the highlight of our time there...
we talked to a very nice appraiser named Matthew...the other appraisers were picking on him about his purple checked shirt and bright light blue tie... did you know they wear "costumes" aka "their looks" for the show...the poster guy was there in 100 degree heat in a three piece purple plaid wool suit...sounds worse than it was ...the toy guy ALWAYS wears a mickey mouse tie...Matthew's look is this purple gingham checked shirt and electric blue tie
we had had a big conversation about provenance in the print line with the people ahead of us...the lady had bought a basket from a famous basket maker on SapeloIsland down by Savannah but because of all the Chinese basket imports that look quite similar the only way hers will ever be valuable is if she has paperwork of some kind on the basket- like the check she bought it with...She bought it 20 years ago so HOW will she EVER do that...and the basket maker is dead so he can not give her a letter saying YES that is my basket signed Charles Green
I asked our new BFF Matthew about the provenance of our quilts since there are also a lot of Chinese quilts...
you and i, dear reader, know the difference but do other people like appraisers somewhere in the future of Antiques Road Show know the difference??...
Evidently those much touted labels that quilters are so fond of saying you MUST do will NOT do...To quote our new friend Matthew "anyone can take a pen and sign it" aka those annoying labels...Matthew said programs from quilt shows and of course pictures would provide provenance and i thought FAT chance i will document my quilts like that or that my kids would not throw out all those valuable papers when i am gone and they are cleaning out this river house.
Now I LOVE to quilt my name into a quilt and sometimes the date and SOMETIMES even the place like Augusta GA...I just think its fun and I LOVE to "write" on a quilt when i quilt it.
I asked him would quilting your name into the quilting work ...and he said yes...one problem solved lol!!!
So from now one...save yourself all that paperwork trouble and just learn to quilt your name into your quilt. I would think that IF you must use a label, add it to the back BEFORE you quilt it so that the dreaded label is quilted into the quilt.
