Passage of years can mean lots and lots of money

An Antiques Roadshow segment from 2004 tonight featured a 1914 watch shown by the grandson of its original owner. After talking about all of the watch’s features, the appraiser announced a value of $250,000. The owner was somewhat surprised. At the end of the segment, he asked, “How do I get it home?”

I said to my wife, “I hope he sold it.”

Then flashed on the screen the 2019 appraised value: $2 million to $3 million.

I said to my wife, “I hope he held on to it.” 

That dog still don’t hunt

Back in 2006 a Tennessee woman showed David Crockett’s not executed marriage license on Antiques Roadshow. Two courts have ruled she has to give it back to Jefferson County. “As for her argument that the county trashed the document, the trial court stated: ‘That dog just won't hunt ... it just don't make sense that you can have all of the other documents immediately preceding that and subsequent to that, they're all still official county records, they're still in the clerk's office of Jefferson County.’"

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/08/01/38616.htm

Linked from pbs.org/antiques

Some interesting comments at the pbs site. “Your appraiser said ‘Eskimo!’” “That submarine flag is racist!”