Valuable Vintage Surprises at Heartland Antique Show & Appraisal Fair

We get to see the keepsakes people have hidden at home in this hybrid antique show and appraisal fair video! It's amazing what comes out of the woodwork when a museum sponsors a gathering of dealers and collectors to swap stories, buy and sell antiques, and view vintage items brought by regular folks curious what the value of their heirlooms might be.
We're back in the Midwest, and our quick view of the Newburgh, Indiana antique show reveals quaint quilts and primitives, ironstone and crocks--but also vibrant vintage signs, sparkling jewelry and uranium glass! We make a round and put a few things on our go back to buy list, while enjoying cigar linen throws and an amazingly cute child's sized oak cabinet we've never seen on such a petite scale.
But the appraisal fair is where the amazement happens! We've never seen a lot of these pieces before, and some of them are real discoveries. Along with fun 1950s TV lamps, a stylish set for the sick and a wildly carved chair, we discover gifts people got that now have great significance, including a five-figure painting and a photo album of WWII dignitaries taken by one of the few people in the room at a major conference of world leaders! The Midwest sure has a lot of interesting things, and we have a great time appreciating them and helping their owners understand their true value.
We leave with a few good buys of our own, and take heart that so many people are stewards of tremendous pieces of our world's heritage!
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[@m.c.master4622]

Oh, George, I got a big laugh over the historic photo album. The photo identified as Haile Selassie that you spoke about with the lady was actually a photo of Chiang Kai-shek, the head of China!! Those photos are of significant importance of which I am sure you are aware. It would be easy to track down which conference that was and compare their images online.

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Yes, I am ashamed to admit I overlooked that when I saw the album, I think I need to start wearing my reading glasses! I'm glad a bunch of you pointed it our and hopefully I can pin one of these comments.

[@janetpogue4970]

😅😊

[@DynamiteDaynaD]

I cannot get over George's knowledge!! When Liberace had his show back in the day sometimes he would say "I wish my brother George were here". Sometimes I see things when I'm at antique stores and I say, "I wish George the Antique Nomad were here!"

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Lol I love that! My friend Misty at Thrifter Junker Vintage Hunter is a huge Liberace fan

[@donnahughes8409]

Absolutely George is amazing

[@cherylmellblom9736]

About 40 years ago I was having dinner at a fellow teacher’s home when I noticed that our silverware had JQA on it. I was astonished to learn my friend was related to John Quincey Adams and we were eating on inherited silverware.

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Oh, how interesting!

[@kathygolden2103]

I had never heard about the liners from cigar boxes sewn into little quilts. My mom 93 has been a quilter forever and I've been around antique shops for 50 years and I had never heard about that. Even old gals can learn new stuff watching your channel. Thank you George!

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

I'm so glad! I don't see those often either

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

@cancerlmar I hope you get the chance to tell your story! It takes time, I had very few viewers the first several months

[@joannejohnston3996]

Thank you George for another wonderful learning experience. ❤

[@giselawilliams1877]

Your wealth of knowledge is amazing🥰

[@sarahj.8372]

Way better than Antiques Road Show...thank you George....just wonderful.

[@elderlypoodle9181]

Yes! Way better than Roadshow. ❤

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Wow, thanks! This one had some good stuff. I love Antiques Roadshow, but you don't see a lot that you're likely to find like we do at regional appraisal fairs

[@elderlypoodle9181]

The colors on that MAP!!!!

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

That was neat

[@cbobby]

In the photo album...the picture was not that of Haile Selassie, it is a picture of Chiang Kai Shek ....I believe.

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

You are right and another viewer pointed that out! I should've known that from the photo. I think I need reading glasses!

[@janiceboling]

love the old war album!

[@janetpogue4970]

The 1st glimpse of you doing appraisals. Such varied and interesting items. 😊

[@kingluxephotography]

That carved chair gives off beauty and the beast vibes

[@gardendaisy]

I love the way you respected the little bible.

[@janetpogue4970]

Hi George, hope you're doing well! I am just about to watch again. 🎉

[@Eclectista]

Hi, George, the sharp hooked end on the little oil lamp was t to pull the wick out, it was to stick into a beam to hold the lamp, that's why it's flared from the needle- like end.

[@Deborah4Antiques]

Boy, I would have paid $100 for that 1900 watercolour! Would have reframed and different mat colour. Great show!

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Good call!

[@lisakeller9105]

It is amazing what the right frame/ matting will do!

[@jamie4697]

Loved the video! You do such an excellent job!

[@ginahawks_nest2608]

You must have a photogenic memory !

[@Lovesoldsongs]

I visited Colorado about 10 years ago and I saw a large mourning frame filled with an array of mourning hair, priced at 250.00 very beautifully displayed. I was tempted to buy but didn't. Now wish I had.

[@donnahughes8409]

George that was amazing antique appraisal show, and the boots that you went to was amazing also. Thank you 🤗

[@lynnmcnamara5380]

Very interesting.

[@patricialyle1656]

Packed full of great items!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!! My favorite was the old photo album! ❤️

[@denisemcnabb]

Very interesting and thanks George!

[@george.carrasco]

Great video George! Thanks for sharing!

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Thanks for watching!

[@francesh3423]

What a great appraisal fair George, thank you! So thrilled with the Martin Boyd bowl as I've not seen him shown/discussed before! I, too, thrifted a piece, your 🇨🇦 neighbour: a pristine condition decorative hanging plate (untouched by any hanging apparatuses phew) of an Aboriginal hunter crouched with his spear in front of a desert background. It's just beautiful and in my forever collection 😍

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Oh how fun! I like Australian ware and rarely find it.

[@judithjohnson2111]

Thank you George. That was fantastic.

[@sharlynebeach2786]

As always, thanks for sharing yor knowledge with us. 👍

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

My pleasure!

[@elizabethhiebler6198]

So informative! As I was watching this you appraised an elephant. I had just bought the same one yesterday at an estate sale and it helped me know what it was!! Thank you

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Great timing! You're most welcome

[@martisteele6542]

What a great video. I learn something new every time! Thank you.

[@laraemitchell9064]

Sorry I missed the live chat. Watching replay!

[@user-xd2ky4it8m]

So fun, your so brilliant 😊ty

[@beckyc.5743]

My husband says Dutchboy was “mislead” 😂thanks George!

[@jillburstein2066]

Thanks! Enjoyed this.

[@EBMFlowers]

OMG...I wish I was at this show. So many great things

[@cynthiaclick9381]

George, I find your vast knowledge just amazing! So fun to watch your videos!

[@LauraMe...]

I just love all the stories! ❤

[@karenpaxton]

Those post war photos should go to a war museum or NATOs history archive or some such. Great treasures and wonderful knowledge. 🇬🇧

[@pamelahansen5928]

Wow- what a wonderful video- thank you 💝

[@george.carrasco]

Great appraisal video George! Great stories! Thanks for sharing!

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

The stories make it for me! I'm glad you concur

[@sharonchartier1592]

Great show!

[@uniquesbythecreek7071]

Hello, George. This is a great video. Such a variety of interesting items.

[@trudymiller582]

😎👍I found a small vase at a goodwill . Research shows it’s a was found a 1934 World Fair# 597 Satin Matte Glaze . Vase created by Frank Joseph Koenig in 1928 . It’s 4 7/8 “tall

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Ooh neat find!

[@robinwatson5970]

This was great Thank you

[@dtruetheeness]

This was a fascinating appraisal fair!.

[@cecoya]

WOW I learned a few different things here. Did not realize they had clothe liners in old cigar boxes, I have only seen the wooden and cardboard ones though. Then the pics of WWII had no idea on who they all were at all. Did some research on Haile Selassie he is an interesting read for sure. Being Rastafarian and died in 1975 he led a very active life. How cool, thanks for sharing your knowledge and letting me tag along. Have a wonderful day

[@m.c.master4622]

The photo identifies as Haile Selassie was actually the head of China, Chiang Kai-shek!! It is easy to compare their images online.

[@AliceGoesNomad]

💖

[@dorisbern6539]

Oh my goodness George I love the green dishes and the blankets. Thanks for such an interesting video 📸📸📸📸

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@patgustafson6077]

Awesome video! Thank you for posting it.

[@bettyenovak7001]

George impressive the ww2 info you have. Good show

[@allisonnaeim9905]

I love that German bible wow

[@ivycurto8180]

Fascinating you are a wealth of knowledge

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Thanks! It was fun

[@Lizs.Tallent]

Why do people cringe over human hair? My hair is very clean all the time. I think Hair is beautiful to make jewelry out of or whatever you need to do with it. Love your show!

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Thank you! Yes, I got over hair jewelry "being weird" as soon as I saw how cool it can look

[@CONSTELLATION_PEGASUS]

Good evening, George! There was what looked like either a milk glass or custard glass kerosene lamp, just to the left of the Wedgwood pitchers, that really caught my eye. Those hair mourning jewelry pieces were really nice. I'd like to have the two main pieces there. That seemed a super-good deal on them. The small oak cabinet was super-nice! I wouldn't mind having that. I really liked that German bible, but I loved the sick call set! I'd pay $150.00 for that in a heartbeat. I have a couple of the Consolidated Glass "Cosmos" lamps. Mine, with the shade, has a shade that matches the font, (not clear). The other one didn't come with a shade. I liked the hand-forged oil lamp. That post WWII album was amasing! It was like a museum, in itself, between two covers! That was a fantastic appraisal fair!!! Thanks for sharing it with us!!!!!

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Hello! I thought the hair jewelry and the sick call set were both awfully neat too, and I agree the oak cabinet was a deal. I was surprised to see the Cosmos shade in clear, but I've seen so many where they had peeling paint that I suspect Consolidated had quality control issues with those. I really had fun doing this and I"m glad you enjoyed it!

[@teresafaulkner4874]

Cool I'm from the midwest

[@janetpogue4970]

Hude, that's what Dad drank at tha Reds's games. Get moody with Hude! 😂 Something like that ⚾

[@larkdavis6041]

I so hate that I missed this! 😒

[@SneakyPete331]

great

[@skellykelly2719]

Correction, dirty janes and kat, The nurse flipper.

[@skellykelly2719]

George, I am watching you at dirty jeans but wanted to come on and make a comment. You never cease to amaze me and you are a wealth of knowledge. I learned so much from you and I’m so glad you’re friends with cat because U2 are my top thrifters! Have you been Thrifting and antiquing all of your life? How do you have so much information? Thank you for all you do.

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Oh thank you! I've been thrifting since childhood and antiquing since not much after that. I'll have to do my origin story someday!

[@skellykelly2719]

@@TheAntiqueNomad Hi George, yes doing your backstory would be great. I would be super interested. Do you ever come to California Thrifting?

[@kathleenmontier8744]

Nurse thrifter

[@kathleenmontier8744]

46:13

[@OriginalNethead]

13:43 Not a Bible - a prayer book/missal, best guess. Even a New Testament would be a LOT bigger than that, but a prayer book was something you carried. My house still has lead paint in it. It's tough stuff and won't hurt anyone as long as you leave it strictly alone. Not sure I'd want to use a can of it now though.

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Good to know, I don't speak German well enough to have determined and a missal makes sense. I agree about lead paint, people are very focused on it but it doesn't jump off the walls and into your body!

[@timhazeltine3256]

Yes, it's a Roman Catholic Missal. It was likely given as a gift for the young lady's first holy communion because the holy card depicts a young girl receiving her first holy communion from Christ. I have several from my family dating between the 1870s and the late 1960s. They are a traditional gift for first communion.

[@gardendaisy]

Ive always loved landscape paintings especially CA or TX. Are there any good paintings, artists you would recomend to buy?

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

I'm looking for the artist in this video after realizing how high the values have gone! I personally like 1910s California plein-aire paintings, they are well documented in the Charles Evans Hughes art books on the subject

[@gardendaisy]

@@TheAntiqueNomad me too. Think we have the same taste.

[@danielclaeys7598]

Loretta said that you shouldn't ever talk about tinkling since her last bout with that reoccurring kidney infection. She's still upset with that deal Xeno got on all that discount toilet paper after COVID. Buster don't mind it because he using it up polishing the scratches out of your bulk purchase of the Howard Johnson Formica covered hotel furniture. Thirty rooms worth, what were you thinking?

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Xeno believes in buying ahead!

[@sarahhardy8649]

George you need to make it a rider on your contact that you get half an hour before the show starts to look through the stalls yourself and make the purchases you want to.

[@gloriaross9838]

I love your videos. vi ha e a set of Wm Rogers vintage silverplate vintage grape pattern. The pattern was discontinued in 1904. Does it hurt the value being over 100 yrs. old?

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

No, that actually would be better in my opinion. Vintage grape is also a very popular pattern

[@kiki9618]

I have a very similar triangular shaped chair to the one you appraised but mine is lighter oak, has 4 legs and seems smaller, more for a lady. I was told it may have been a chair used on a train. I have no idea if that is true. Funny, I have a similar, small German bible that you appraised next and also the same wooden box that came after but mine has had the contents removed. What are the odds?😊

[@shartheheretic]

That photo album really had my full attention as a former history major (with a focus on the World Wars). So amazing! I have a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from WWII that I bought at a yard sale. I would love to know if It's actually worth anything (though I plan to keep it).

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Cool! i find them fascinating

[@barbn]

How do you know so much???

[@lisbethmllegaard8437]

Couldn’t that cover also be Welsh?

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

I know they were made similarly there but I don't believe they exported to the US

[@persiphonehellecat]

where is the level 3 chat?

[@VickieV1333]

What is a level 3 chat?

[@normaruef3652]

Is showing on West Coast? I m EDT

[@evelynfidler6285]

1850 for the tin sand toy?

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

Hmmm I don't recall it being that much. Please send a time stamp and I'll try to explain better.

[@dannil9878]

What was that map of? 1/4 of Europe was cropped off.

[@kenharris1054]

Dude, I enjoy your videos, but it's killing me. In the last item (WWII Picture Album), that is not a picture of Haile Salassie. That is Chiang Kai-shek, who is Chinese, not Ethiopian. OOOOh man, not even the right continent. Maybe you were being nice, and not correcting that lady. You really need to go back and edit that, sorry.

[@TheAntiqueNomad]

I appreciate you very much for pointing that out! I should have known that from the photo and you're right. Hopefully people will see this comment.