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Antiques Roadshow: Washington, D.C.- Hour One

Airs Monday, May 23, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

At the "Antiques Roadshow" event in Washington, D.C., this guest is thrilled to learn a tea set she inherited from her mother is an extremely rare turn-of-the-20th-century Gorham silver tea set, part of the very limited, hand-wrought Martelé line. Appraiser Stuart Whitehurst values this shining example of Art Nouveau design at $90,000.

Credit: Courtesy of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

Above: At the "Antiques Roadshow" event in Washington, D.C., this guest is thrilled to learn a tea set she inherited from her mother is an extremely rare turn-of-the-20th-century Gorham silver tea set, part of the very limited, hand-wrought Martelé line. Appraiser Stuart Whitehurst values this shining example of Art Nouveau design at $90,000.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Behind the Scenes in Washington, D.C.

View photos from "Roadshow's" visit to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, August 21, 2010.

In Washington, D.C., "Antiques Roadshow" host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Michael Flanigan visit the Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters of the U.S. State Department and its diplomatic reception rooms, including the Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room, appointed with some of the best Americana of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Highlights include a 1958 signed letter by Martin Luther King Jr.; a circa 1965 Andy Warhol lithograph; and a unique, turn-of-the-20th-century, hand-wrought Gorham silver tea set, valued at $90,000.

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Above: Host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Michael Flanigan visit the Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters of the U.S. State Department and its diplomatic reception rooms, including the Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room, appointed with some of the best Americana of the 18th and 19th centuries. Highlights include a 1958 signed letter by Martin Luther King Jr.; a circa 1965 Andy Warhol lithograph; and a unique, turn-of-the-20th-century, hand-wrought Gorham silver tea set, valued at $90,000.

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Above: Nancy Druckman appraises a folk art oil of African American men "dancing for eels."

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