Antiques Roadshow: Des Moines, Iowa - Hour Two

Airs Monday, February 21, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

At "Antiques Roadshow" in Des Moines, this guest learns an incomplete but genuine 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original published collection of William Shakespeare’s plays, is estimated to have a significant worth of $40,000 to $50,000.

Credit: Courtesy of Jeff Dunn for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

Above: At "Antiques Roadshow" in Des Moines, this guest learns an incomplete but genuine 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, part of the original published collection of William Shakespeare’s plays, is estimated to have a significant worth of $40,000 to $50,000.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

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In Des Moines, Iowa, "Antiques Roadshow" host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Francis Wahlgren explore an impressive extra-illustrated book set based on a biography of Charles Dickens at Salisbury House and Gardens, the estate of 1920s cosmetics tycoon Carl Weeks.

Highlights include: a collection of late 1950s and 1960s Lucy M. Lewis Acoma Pueblo pottery; an 1820 Russian Lukutin snuff box inscribed with the imperial arms of the Romanov dynasty; and an extremely rare 1623 Shakespeare First Folio, valued at $40,000 to $50,000.

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Above: Adam Patrick appraises a Russian Lukutin snuffbox, ca. 1840, from "Antiques Roadshow: Des Moines, Iowa - Hour Two."

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