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Appraisals: Comedian Jay Leno | Celebrity Edition, Hour 1 | ANTIQUES ROADSHOW | PBS - YouTube
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right now we're headed north to newport
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rhode island and a 16 000 square foot
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estate the vacation home of comedy
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legend jay leno
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well we're in newport rhode island this
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is a house called seafair the name was
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here when i got here and i kept the name
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i'm not one of those and i deem it
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seafarer
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we live in los angeles i was born in new
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rochelle new york
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about eight and a half nine years old we
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moved to andover massachusetts
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we had a great life i mean my dad was a
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prize fighter as a young man and he
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became a salesman
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because he said being a prize fighter
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even on his best day at work
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he still got punched in the face
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i went to emerson college in boston i
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got into comedy and it was a good place
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to break in and sort of learn your craft
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excuse me can i have the key to the
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washroom yeah it is done this big ring
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and don't try to steal it
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hey thank you very much
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[Applause]
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jay not only learned his craft some
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would say he perfected it
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leno the pelican faced comedian
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eventually earning himself a lucrative
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gig hosting nbc's tonight show for 22
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seasons and the type of success that
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gets somebody a house like this
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i got this home about uh four years ago
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my wife and i were driving past it and
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my wife said look at that house that's
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unbelievable that's the greatest house
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i've ever seen i thought
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you like it you want it she goes
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no we live in california i said i don't
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know let's go see her i mean how often
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do you get your girl a castle you know
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it's the main entrance although
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the house was built in 1936 it seems
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much older it seems like a house from
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the early 1900s
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this painting was here i bought the
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house fully furnished and it was already
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here
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and you can't even see the numbers where
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the colors went you know so that's
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always a good sign you bought a good
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painting when you can't see the numbers
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for the different colors
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so i walked in i walked around and i
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said can you get the owner on the phone
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and i said would you sell it as is with
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all the furniture in it and just
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you know salt and the salt shaker and
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this ketchup in the refrigerator that's
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all i need i go sure so we came up with
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the price and i bought it nice fireplace
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little elephants and knickknacks and all
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kinds of things in here it's all nicely
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done
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it's not stuff i would probably buy i
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would have like motorcycle engines and
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everything like that in the house
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so i i'm not sure what goes with where
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with which one i i don't know that's why
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the appraiser is here we'll find out
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here to help jay find out about the
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treasures included in the purchase of
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his newport mansion our appraisers karen
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keane and michael grogan
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i'm feeling good about what might be in
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there
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wow
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wow wow wow oh my gosh welcome welcome
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you see we have the the outdoor urinal
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always a very very classy item come on
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inside i'll show you around thank you so
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much thank you thank you
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[Music]
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i guess this is a foyer i know
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foyer or for you what do you say i think
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foyer fourier yeah four yeah i mean
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we're in a very fancy house so well i'm
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almost an antique myself so enjoy
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yourself and feel free to poke around
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thanks you guys thanks jay have fun
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gosh
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look at this fantastic pretty i i'm
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distracted by the ocean but i'm going to
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focus on the antiques
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you said you're going to take it off and
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see if i can learn anything from the
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back let's just hold it for you yeah
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sure
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[Music]
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those antique rocho yahoos are in the
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house right now am i going to count the
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silver after they leave
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you bet i am
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it's fitting a beach house would have a
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ship model model of the revenue cutter
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surprise 1815 by bill hitchcock of new
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york it's very cool it's kind of like
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the race car of its day on the water
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auction estimate uh i would probably say
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in the two to three thousand dollar
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range jay leno's revenue cutter may you
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know you'd put a premium on it for sure
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that provenance um i would say maybe
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three times that
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the paintings here i mean it's a giant
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painting as you walk in
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i don't know 15 feet long and so i i
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don't know how it's it's enormous so i'm
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curious to see what the history is on
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that and what that's worth
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appraiser michael grogan has the answers
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to all of jay leno's questions jay this
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is one of my favorite paintings in your
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house i mean it's absolutely spectacular
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and not just because of the size which
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is immense do you know this artist i do
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her name is blanche camus okay she was
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born in france 1884. died died in 1968
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had a pretty prolific life was called a
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neo-impressionist style kind of like a
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revival of the impressionist style
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the colors are remarkable the colors are
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remarkable that it really does pop when
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you walk in it totally yeah here they
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are they're harvesting grapes because
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they're dress is spectacular
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uh you got the children in the
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background
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this was probably painted about 1940 or
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so
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just think of the cost of the frame
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alone right right i mean it probably
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cost you 20 000 to frame a painting like
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this her auction record just two years
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ago was eighty thousand dollars this is
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probably worth more i think it's worth
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about 100 to 150 000 at auction today if
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jay leno wants to sell this painting and
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it came to an auction gallery and we
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could put the provenance from the jay
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leno collection yeah the jay little
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collection of fine art yes it could be
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double it really could be that would be
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dogs with big eyes playing poker that
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would be
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[Music]
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well the number of asian items scattered
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about the house i don't know
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actually i know nothing about them
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nice enough i've had a terrific time
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touring jay's house looking at his asian
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art looking at his furniture looking at
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the paintings and i'm really struck by
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this pair of japanese meiji bronze
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elephants we're looking at one of them
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right here
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the castings is just terrific the large
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scale and to have these rock crystal
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very massive rock crystal obelisks right
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on the back a pair of these at auction
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today probably bring twenty to thirty
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thousand dollars they're really
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spectacular they'd be highly sought
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after in any international auction
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[Music]
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jay leno's newport mansion has all the
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creature comforts inside plus some
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interesting creatures outside
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jay we're in the garden and there's even
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antiques out here right right tell me
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tell me about the weather vein well i
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was hoping you could tell me something
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about the weather vein i i've been up on
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the roof but never examined it up close
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i don't know if it's a one-off if
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somebody made it specifically for this
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house or i don't know anything about it
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i don't believe that it's a 19th century
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weather veins which is most of the ones
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that we see in america the antique ones
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i think this is a custom made piece from
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the
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probably 2000 to
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not very long ago you can get these
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weather veins done in the 15 000 range
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and then they start going up this is a
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mermaid form right and she's got a shell
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that she's holding which is a rarer uh
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form for the 19th century we see them
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much more in the 20th and 21st it just
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seems to be one of those symbols that
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that people love this one is
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particularly beautifully made if you
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look at the directionals i mean that's
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always
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a nice sign for the quality of a weather
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vein but i would say probably in the 15
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to 25 000 range to buy it new right if
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you had to to have it fabricated did you
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notice the peacock out on the i saw that
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in 1947 the lady bought this house and
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redid it after being devastated in 38.
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and she had that in the garden basically
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right out here
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as a centerpiece then there was a huge
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hurricane water came and swept it out to
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sea and that was the end of that
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then 10 years later she sold the house
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then 20 years later she comes to visit
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the new owners sometime in the 90s
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and she sees the peacock out on the lawn
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again and she says to them and it's hers
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it's a bit battered and beat up and she
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says where'd that come from they said oh
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we had a huge storm one day
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and the peacock just showed up on the
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lawn the next day so apparently got
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swept out to sea stayed out there for a
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couple of decades and then was swept
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back in again oh my gosh at least it
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came back so that's that's good so maybe
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it's maybe it's a homing uh peacock so
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the peacock is a symbol of many many
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things and one of the symbols is
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resurrection because they lose these
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tail feathers right and then they grow
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back again so there's biblical
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references um to the peacock so that's
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kind of cool so this is sort of a
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resurrection this thing left and then it
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came back again kind of like my career i
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work for nbc so that they're simple as a
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peacock and so there you go oh wow i
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mean it's a great complicated story so
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any idea of its value
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i have no idea i have no idea of its
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value i mean i think the story makes it
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valuable so i think it's more in the
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providence almost than in the actual
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value of the statue i think it's a
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pretty cool thing yeah and i think there
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is a vibrant market in garden statuary
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right um maybe an auction estimate of
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ten to fifteen thousand dollars
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you know um and i think it would do
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better than that yeah it's it's a really
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pretty i love the tail right drapes down
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you just don't know it's gonna run off
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again you know it's like runaway bride
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it's one of those things that shows up
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and it disappears for decades and it
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comes
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[Music]
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i want to back in on two things that are
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painted by artists right here in newport
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okay okay this is a william tross
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richard
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american uh artist in the late 19th
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century painted mostly around newport
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and all around rhode island this is a
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pencil drawing probably worth about
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eight to twelve hundred dollars not a
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fortune but local artists right this is
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different this is uh not a professional
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artist it's a professional diplomat bill
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mittendorf is his name he was a a
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secretary of the navy under nixon and
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ford okay ambassador to the european
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union ambassador of the netherlands a
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distinguished diplomat right he's in his
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90s and he's a weekend painter oh you've
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got one of his paintings and michael
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jordan also played baseball yeah i got
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them far yeah you like the bus ride so
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it's one of those deals one of those
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deals probably worth in the 500 range at
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auction today it's very nice it's very
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nice local newport local yeah right okay
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it's nice to have something right here
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at home
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well i appreciate it well thank you i
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mean i really wanted to talk to you
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about the gilded chair oh yeah we'll
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talk about that next time
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thanks guys appreciate it thank you so
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much thank you
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god those people are nosy
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geez
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you
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