Collection:LPB

Genre: Event

Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2001-03-05

Duration: 01:10:38

Subjects: Collectors and collecting | Antiques

Contributors:

• Courtney, Beth Host
• Normand, Tonja Producer
• Allen, Gary Producer
• LaFleur, Donna Producer
• Smith, Robert Speaker
• Long, Cary Speaker
• Groves, Eugene Speaker
• Bacot, Pat Speaker
• Weeks, Gail Speaker
• Probst, A.E. Speaker
• Kaltakdjian, Sarkis Speaker
• Wink, Douglas Speaker
• Smyth, Elaine Speaker

This program from March 5, 2001, features the appraisals from the LPB Antiques Fair in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It includes the appraisals for the following items: a Louis XVI mirror; a Tiffany daffodil lamp; a Civil War-era ambrotype; a silver epergne; a French decorative vase; a reproduction of a Civil War newspaper; a Navajo rug; a dance certificate; an early 20th century photograph; an Eastlake bed; a Wallace Nutting photograph; a Japanese vase; a coin silver sugar and creamer set; Coushatta Indian baskets; a Louis XV table; an English Regency chair; fore edge books; a Tiffany peacock mirror; an English table and American candle stand; sugar nippers; transfer ware; a silver presentation cup; Japanese woodblock prints; tribal rugs; an early edition of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”; a 19th century sewing caddy; and a daguerreotype and tintype. The appraisers include: Robert Smith of Au Vieux Paris Antiques; Cary Long of Goudeau Antiques; Eugene Groves, a collector; Pat Bacot, the former curator of the LSU Museum of Art; Gail Weeks of Gail Weeks Antiques; A. E. Probst, collector; Sarkis Kaltakdjian of Sarkis’ Oriental Rugs; Douglas Wink, collector; and Elaine Smyth of the LSU Libraries. Host: Beth Courtney