Appraisal: 1937 Hindenburg Airship Fragments
Clip: Season 30 Episode 6 | 2m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: 1937 Hindenburg Airship Fragments
See Philip Weiss appraise 1937 Hindenburg airship fragments in Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 3.
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Appraisal: 1937 Hindenburg Airship Fragments
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See Philip Weiss appraise 1937 Hindenburg airship fragments in Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 3.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: This was a gift to my husband from his grandmother.
She worked for American Smelting and Refinery.
When metals came in from whatever wreck, they would analyze them.
They were working on it, and they kind of grabbed pieces, I guess, and, and she wrote all the notes on it.
APPRAISER: May 6, 1937, that was the day that the Hindenburg came into Lakehurst and... GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...was circling for a landing.
And from accounts that were eyewitness accounts, it seems that they saw some sort of flapping in the skin of the ship first.
Apparently, a gas leak was taking place.
They think static electricity hit that, and it wound up killing 36 people.
Ship went down in flames in a field in Lakehurst, and these are some of the remains.
They did an investigation, Germany and the United States.
APPRAISER: A lot of the pieces were reclaimed to Germany.
People were on the fields just grabbing souvenirs.
Pretty terrible, but that's what was happening.
APPRAISER: And it really knocked the faith in, in air travel down for Americans and for people the zeppelin before anything happened, circling.
You can see where it combusts, starts the fire.
And on the ground here, you can see the flames and the debris.
You have some ribbing struts, interior portions of the Hindenburg, which are large portions, including some of the canvas.
Not the exterior canvas, but interior.
You would think, in a, in a inferno, those would have been destroyed.
It's an unusual-sized piece and -shaped piece.
At auction, I would put an estimate on this conservatively at $3,000 to $5,000, for the, for the piece.
GUEST: Whoa.
(laughs) APPRAISER: Yeah, yeah-- yeah.
GUEST: That's crazy!
APPRAISER: Sounds crazy... GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: ...but people are really hot on buying pieces like this.
Um, anything related to history.
GUEST: Yeah?
APPRAISER: And this is pure history.
GUEST: Nice.
APPRAISER: Pure history, yeah.
GUEST: Yeah.
It's so crazy, we just threw it in the closet.
APPRAISER: There you go.
(laughs) APPRAISER: Well, the closet-- closet was a good safe place to keep it.
GUEST: Yeah.
Appraisal: 1865 Eyewitness Account of Lincoln Assassination
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 58s | Appraisal: 1865 Eyewitness Account of Lincoln Assassination (2m 58s)
Appraisal: 1966 A.E. Backus "Shelling Gungo Peas" Oil Painting
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 3m 22s | Appraisal: 1966 A.E. Backus "Shelling Gungo Peas" Oil Painting (3m 22s)
Appraisal: 1974 Cundo Bermudez Watercolor Painting
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 1m 4s | Appraisal: 1974 Cundo Bermudez Watercolor Painting (1m 4s)
Appraisal: 1974 Hank Aaron 715th Home Run Group
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 3m 4s | Appraisal: 1974 Hank Aaron 715th Home Run Group (3m 4s)
Appraisal: 1982 Bootleg Ozzy Osbourne Sweatshirt
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 1m 21s | Appraisal: 1982 Bootleg Ozzy Osbourne Sweatshirt (1m 21s)
Appraisal: 1987 Beverly Buchanan "Happy Shack" Lithograph
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 57s | Appraisal: 1987 Beverly Buchanan Happy Shack Lithograph (2m 57s)
Appraisal: 1993 Howard Finster Mixed-media Artwork
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 3m 14s | Appraisal: 1993 Howard Finster Mixed-media Artwork (3m 14s)
Appraisal: Adirondack Twig Rocking Chair, ca. 1930
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 1m 18s | Appraisal: Adirondack Twig Rocking Chair, ca. 1930 (1m 18s)
Appraisal: Anishinaabe Man's Beaded Bandolier Bag, ca. 1890
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 56s | Appraisal: Anishinaabe Man's Beaded Bandolier Bag, ca. 1890 (2m 56s)
Appraisal: Civil War POW Carved Wooden Box
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 49s | Appraisal: Civil War POW Carved Wooden Box (2m 49s)
Appraisal: Daum Nancy Art Deco Glass Vase, ca. 1920
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 1m 52s | Appraisal: Daum Nancy Art Deco Glass Vase, ca. 1920 (1m 52s)
Appraisal: Ernie Barnes Oil Painting, ca. 1963
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 47s | Appraisal: Ernie Barnes Oil Painting, ca. 1963 (2m 47s)
Appraisal: Ming Dynasty Bronze Vase
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 29s | Appraisal: Ming Dynasty Bronze Vase (2m 29s)
Appraisal: Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace, ca. 1930
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 1m 56s | Appraisal: Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace, ca. 1930 (1m 56s)
Appraisal: Reproduction Tiffany Lamp, ca. 1980
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 1m 1s | Appraisal: Reproduction Tiffany Lamp, ca. 1980 (1m 1s)
Appraisal: Sèvres-style Pottery Urns, ca. 1900
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 57s | Appraisal: Sèvres-style Pottery Urns, ca. 1900 (2m 57s)
Appraisal: Tiffany & Co. Pocket Watch, ca. 1890
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 10s | Appraisal: Tiffany & Co. Pocket Watch, ca. 1890 (2m 10s)
Appraisal: Tiffany & Co. Purse, ca. 1915
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 6s | Appraisal: Tiffany & Co. Purse, ca. 1915 (2m 6s)
Appraisal: Tussie-Mussie with Fitted Box, ca. 1869
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Clip: S30 Ep6 | 2m 20s | Appraisal: Tussie-Mussie with Fitted Box, ca. 1869 (2m 20s)
Preview: Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 3
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Preview: S30 Ep6 | 30s | Preview: Georgia State Railroad Museum, Hour 3 (30s)
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