Appraisal: 1904 Philadelphia Quilt
Clip: Season 30 Episode 12 | 1m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: 1904 Philadelphia Quilt
In Castle Farms, Hour 3, Katy Kane appraises a 1904 Philadelphia quilt.
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Appraisal: 1904 Philadelphia Quilt
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In Castle Farms, Hour 3, Katy Kane appraises a 1904 Philadelphia quilt.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: My great-great grandmother won it in a raffle for church.
She spent a nickel.
And, um, it has the president Theodore Roosevelt and his wife, Edith Kermit Roosevelt and John Wanamaker, and it was in Philadelphia-- when she passed away, she gave it to her daughter, which was my great-grandmother.
APPRAISER: Uh-huh.
GUEST: And then when she passed away in 2003, it went up for an estate auction... APPRAISER: Uh-huh.
GUEST: ...and my mom paid $1,000 to get it back into the family from the estate auction.
APPRAISER: Oh, that's amazing.
This quilt was most likely made by the church group who had the raffle.
And I think a lot of these very involved squares with all of the signatures were church members who either contributed to piecing it together or cutting the fabric apart to make the quilt, and wealthy people in Philadelphia who might have contributed to have their name included on the quilt.
The most prominent names on the quilt would be Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith, and then John Wanamaker, who had the major department store in Philadelphia with a logo that turns out to be his exact signature, which is here on the quilt.
And we do have a date over here, yes.
GUEST: Oh, yes, 1904.
APPRAISER: It was 1904.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: As far as the value goes, it's very close to what your mother paid for it.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Because the interest in these quilts is really narrow.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: I would put a retail value on this piece of $1,000 to $1,200.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: You know, you also have a bit of fading, condition issues... GUEST: Yes.
Yeah.
APPRAISER: ...but it's just a remarkable piece of Philadelphia history.
GUEST: It is.
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