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06-17-2007, 09:31 AM
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Antiques Roadshow Trip Report
I'll keep this brief.
My girlfriend and I really enjoy Antiques Roadshow on MPT. Unfortunately, this fact translated to our attending the taping here in Baltimore yesterday. I knew what we were in for, but once a woman gets an idea, well, you know. It would be tough to find more dupes, rubes, hillbillies, simpletons, and mopes congregated outside of the WSOP. Before you go online for your Antiques Roadshow tickets, be forewarned: all you're signing up to do is stand in excruciatingly long lines (first line: two hours, second: one hour) with thousands of people for whom bathing is not a top priority. The olfactory experience is...new, it's unique, it's...something to be avoided. So before you think about lugging Aunt Nancy's baby doll with the one eye that was her great-grandmother's from back in the Old Country, just make sure you understand what you're in for. An utter waste of time. At least they have those really cool trucks at the monster truck things, and at least some guy goes flying off the turnbuckle at the smackdown things. Here, it was just the same people, only here they're carting around dusty old crap from their attic, and nobody crushes a Mini Cooper or gets all oiled up and flying through the air. If you should ever find yourself going to the Convention Center in any city anywhere, just make sure the tickets say "Twisted Sister Reunion Tour," "National Association of Cheesemakers Expo," or maybe "American Numismatists Convention," and not "Antiques Roadshow." You'll have a much better time, and you'll be in much better company. 
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06-18-2007, 12:17 PM
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Re: Antiques Roadshow Trip Report
After all that waiting, did you have anything apraised?
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06-18-2007, 06:28 PM
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Re: Antiques Roadshow Trip Report
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[ QUOTE ] After all that waiting, did you have anything apraised? [/ QUOTE ] seriously... what a tease..... [/ QUOTE ] OK, fine. I had a silver tea service, ca. 1855, which was valued at $4500-$6000, which was pretty much what I figured.
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06-18-2007, 06:36 PM
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Re: Antiques Roadshow Trip Report
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] After all that waiting, did you have anything apraised? [/ QUOTE ] seriously... what a tease..... [/ QUOTE ] OK, fine. I had a silver tea service, ca. 1855, which was valued at $4500-$6000, which was pretty much what I figured. [/ QUOTE ]Brag? Why wasn't this included in OP...
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#8
06-18-2007, 08:18 PM
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Re: Antiques Roadshow Trip Report
The OP is like porn w/o the sex.
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06-18-2007, 09:18 PM
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Re: Antiques Roadshow Trip Report
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] After all that waiting, did you have anything apraised? [/ QUOTE ] seriously... what a tease..... [/ QUOTE ] OK, fine. I had a silver tea service, ca. 1855, which was valued at $4500-$6000, which was pretty much what I figured. [/ QUOTE ]Brag? Why wasn't this included in OP... [/ QUOTE ] Because it's not a brag if you already know what it's worth and you're only going if your girlfriend wants to go and you're merely tolerating the entire process.
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#10
06-18-2007, 10:27 PM
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Re: Antiques Roadshow Trip Report
My mom had a couple of things she wanted appraised, so I went to help her out when they came to SLC, as each person only gets two items appraised, tho I suppose you can sneak extra, smaller items over to different appraisers (I spaced doing that).
Hottie in front of us, plus we were in a very large waiting area, so the three hour wait was OK, barely. OP is right about the overall quality of the crowd & their wares, although some people did have some pretty cool stuff and seemed to be from Planet Earth. Ma's beads & rug were about what we thought; $2-400ea. LOLOLOLOLOL at the two vases; $20-40ea, tho the guy did say they looked "kicky". WTF, they do look kinda cool, plus sentimental value n aw. We actually screwed up, there were a couple other things we could've brought that were much better. Overall, WTF, why not, s'long as you're prepared for the wait & realistic about what you're taking down there. Defo once is enough tho. And there's always the enormous BOOOOM!!! to hope for, like we got when a marble headboard went down right as Jed & Edna reached the front of the line. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
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