Antiques Roadshow: Atlantic City, N.J.- Hour One

Airs Monday, October 17, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

At "Antiques Roadshow" in Atlantic City, this guest (right) brings in an heirloom oil painting by 19th-century Canadian artist Cornelius Krieghoff, known for painting vibrant scenes that tell a story. Appraiser Colleene Fesko is as pleased as the guest when she values the painting at an impressive $200,000 to $300,000.

Credit: Jeff Dunn for Antiques Roadshow

Above: At "Antiques Roadshow" in Atlantic City, this guest (right) brings in an heirloom oil painting by 19th-century Canadian artist Cornelius Krieghoff, known for painting vibrant scenes that tell a story. Appraiser Colleene Fesko is as pleased as the guest when she values the painting at an impressive $200,000 to $300,000.

Friday, January 22, 2010

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"Antiques Roadshow" touches down in Atlantic City, then detours to the Wheaton Arts Center in Millville, New Jersey, where appraiser Arlie Sulka looks at some beautiful old American paperweights and host Mark L. Walberg tries his hand at glass blowing.

Behind the Scenes in Atlantic City, New Jersey

View photos from "Antiques Roadshow's" visit to Atlantic City on Saturday, June 6, 2009.

Highlights include a Walt Whitman memoir inscribed by the author to a group of firefighters; a late 19th-century bronze and marble statue by the acclaimed French sculptor Albert Ernest Carrier Belleuse; and an oil painting by acclaimed 19th-century Canadian artist Cornelius Krieghoff, noted for portraying narrative-like scenes, valued at $200,000 to $350,000. Margot Rosenberg appraises a pair of folk art portraits attributed to Ruth Henshaw Bascom, ca. 1830, worth between $20,000 and $30,000.

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