Antiques Roadshow: Milwaukee, Wis. - Hour Three

Airs Monday, October 22, 2012 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

At ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appraiser Simeon Lipman of Heritage Auction Galleries hits one out of the park when he catches sight of these two baseballs, autographed by Milwaukee Braves legend Warren Spahn. The signatures were obtained by the owner's grandfather, a photographer for the Milwaukee Journal. Lipman explains that these pieces are milestone game balls - one from Spahn's 327th winning game, which made him the winningest left-handed pitcher of all time, and the other from Spahn's 300th winning game, the gold standard for pitchers. Lipman predicts an auction value of $11,000 to $14,000 for the pair.

Credit: Courtesy of Jeff Dunn for WGBH

Above: At ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appraiser Simeon Lipman of Heritage Auction Galleries hits one out of the park when he catches sight of these two baseballs, autographed by Milwaukee Braves legend Warren Spahn. The signatures were obtained by the owner's grandfather, a photographer for the Milwaukee Journal. Lipman explains that these pieces are milestone game balls - one from Spahn's 327th winning game, which made him the winningest left-handed pitcher of all time, and the other from Spahn's 300th winning game, the gold standard for pitchers. Lipman predicts an auction value of $11,000 to $14,000 for the pair.

Friday, October 19, 2012

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW wraps up its visit to the Cream City - Milwaukee, Wisconsin - nicknamed for the locally manufactured, off-white bricks that mark the city's mid-19th-century architecture.

A Sarouk carpet, a rug that woven in northwest Persia in the 1920s. At the Midwest Airlines Center, "Roadshow" experts pave the way for some unique discoveries, including this valuable Persian rug the owner used to cover furniture in the rain.

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Credit: Jeff Dunn for WGBH

Above: A Sarouk carpet, a rug that woven in northwest Persia in the 1920s. At the Midwest Airlines Center, "Roadshow" experts pave the way for some unique discoveries, including this valuable Persian rug the owner used to cover furniture in the rain.

At the Midwest Airlines Center, ROADSHOW experts pave the way for some unique discoveries, including a valuable Persian rug the owner used to cover furniture in the rain; a stained glass figurine originally commissioned for the owner of horse racing legend Dan Patch; and two milestone game baseballs autographed by Milwaukee Braves legend Warren Spahn - one from Spahn's 327th winning game, which made him the winningest left-handed pitcher of all time, and the other from Spahn's 300th winning game, the gold standard for pitchers. Auction value for the pair could hit $11,000 to $14,000.

This program originally aired in 2010.

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Antiques Roadshow: Milwaukee: 1879 Bannister Oil Painting

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Watch Coming Monday, October 22, at 8/7C, Milwaukee, Hour 3 on PBS. See more from Antiques Roadshow.

Above: The grass is always greener, but not for the owner of this lovely little oil painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister. Watch the appraisal by Alasdair Nichol to see just how much green the painting is actually worth.

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