Antiques Roadshow coming to Delaware!
 

...and I got 2 tickets! Have to wait til June, but have a couple pieces in mind to take. Actually, we are allowed 2 items per ticket.
Anyone else been selected for another venue? Should be interesting. :)
It will be held at Winterthur. This is the estate of Henry Francis du Pont, one of the famous du Pont family members.

Taking the NSK? ;)

Wilmington?

See OP: https://www.winterthur.org/

Maybe. Only as transportation. :)

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Maybe these three baskets. Oak hand split by two "old maids" in the early 1900's. This was their livelihood. They lived close to my dad, and he knew them. Hopeful the provenance will help. :fingerscrossed: The craftmenship is amazing.

Shelton sisters baskets.

My mom used the middle one for her sewing basket, and we used the larger one for a magazine holder. The smallest one was never used other than for display as far as I know.

In searching the internet, I found this copy of a letter my dad wrote about the sisters and their baskets:

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Doh. Missed that. Have fun, Gene.

Thanks for posting the letter from your father, Gene. It was very touching. You get a real sense of the different times we lived in two generations ago. Good luck with your tip to the Roadshow. I've never gone or even tried to get in. I don't have anything that rare and the things that might be interesting have no provenance.

Cool story Gene. We should all try to record stuff that the next generation or maybe the one after might appreciate.

That Thermos might not be very rare were it unsigned., but it sure is interesting, as is the story behind it. Still using it?

Now and again. It works!

Slightly off topic but...I was at my son's school one day and noticed the family name on a painting in the chapel - it's not a common family name so it stood out. After a little research we discovered my great-uncle (grandmother's brother) went to the same school in the late 1920s-early 1930s. This was news to me because the family back then was based several hundred miles away. His name is on the roll of honor in the Founder's room as he was a prefect there in 1933. Sadly he died when his Lancaster was shot down over Holland in 1943, hence his name appearing on the painting.

We dug some more, and eventually we were stunned to discover the national film archives have footage of my great uncle at the school in 1930. The film was shot by my great grandfather. I don't know why but this affects me more than 89 years of separation from the event should.

Back on topic: My wife can't go to bed at night without watching half an hour or so of Antiques Roadshow, although we only get the UK version at the moment. She's an antiques fan and we have far more furniture than we really need.

Good story. Digging into the past can be very rewarding. I spent the winter of 2015 doing genealogy research for our families. Ended up with 187 pages of pure text, plus dozens of pages of multiple photos per page, identified 725 people, and traced some back to 1600. Every winter I tell myself I want to dive back in and do more, as I have many more leads to follow.