I agree, the Diana stuff is probably your highest probability. I'd "vote" for the 1814 book next, myself. Have fun!!!
chimene On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:12 PM, penny1a wrote: > We are going to Antiques Roadshow Saturday in DC. We have 9 am tickets. I > am so excited. We can bring four items. Is anyone from the list going? > > I am bringing my collection of 23 original fashion plates of French plays > from the late 1890s-1903. Some are Sarah Bernhardt plays. The > illustrations show the costume changes per character with five to six > costumes per fashion plate. These once belonged to the illustrator or > editor. A while back, we discussed these plates on h-costume. I was having > a problem scanning them because they are so large. I now own a scanner with > a large enough bed to scan the plates. Hopefully, I will getting them > online in the autumn. > > I am also bringing some hand-tinted stereoviews from the first stereoview > London publisher. The photos are of weddings. A photo historian told me > that these are the earliest known hand-tinted stereoviews that they have > seen by this photographer. I am excited to see if this is true. > > We are bringing an antique inlaid game table that I gave my husband for his > birthday. It has a chess table and a roulette wheel. It is beautiful! We > really don't care about the value, we just want to know how old it is. > > I am trying to decide what our 4th item will be. Maybe you all can help me > decide. I need to know the following items value for insurance purposes. > So let me know what you think that I should bring: > 1. Hand-beaded traditional Philippians dress (we discussed this dress on > h-costume) > 2. An 1814 book titled Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners > of the English. It is a rare book and has full page hand-tinted > illustrations of the occupations with a corresponding page with the > occupation description. You can see thumbnails of this book at: > http://www.costumegallery.com/1814/British_Occupations/Laborers/ This is > just the laborers section online. I own the entire book and haven't put all > of them online yet. > 3. My Princess Diana auction dress books and photos. The books are > autographed by fashion designer David Emanuel (Di's wedding dress) and some > of the current dress owners. They autographed the books when I worked on > the dresses For newbies to h-costume, I have worked with David and seven of > the charity dresses. I don't know if these would really be classified as an > antique. > 4. Delineator magazine collection spanning from 1880-1930. > 5. A 1900s template ad book that was used by the fashion advertising > industry for fashion ads in magazines and newspapers. The ads in fashion > magazines were originally templates and the publisher would insert the > business info into the templates for publication. > > Let me know what you think my 4th item should be. We are leaving for DC > Friday night. > > Penny Ladnier > Owner, The Costume Gallery Websites > <http://www.costumegallery.com/> www.costumegallery.com > 14 websites of fashion, textiles, & costume history > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
