"It surprised me," said Jeffery, who lives next to her father, Harvey Jeffery. "Both days. My husband leaves for work about 6 o'clock in the morning and he called me and he said at 6 o'clock there were people out there.

"I stopped to get my dad's paper and one guy told me he was out there at 5:30."

Jeffery had some help. A crew from RePurpose Estate Services in Northville conducted the sale on Friday and Saturday.

And a film crew was there to record the sale and Jeffery's reactions for the HGTV show, "Cash Cari."

The show features professional estate liquidator Cari Cucksey, who owns RePurpose Estate Services.

"My mom (Anna Jeffery) was a collector for probably 40 years ....," Jeffery said. "A friend of mine -- my mom had probably hundreds of boxes -- and we went through and put things on tables. It was just too overwhelming for me to do.

"I was watching the TV show and I called the phone number. They came out and said I had more than enough stuff to do an estate sale."

Bargain hunters were carting away items such as an antique library table, numerous wall clocks and an old church bell. One of the cast members was trying to get an old motorcycle to start.

"They were very nice," Jeffery said. "They did all the moving of stuff, pricing of things. That's something, unless that's your specialty, you have no idea.

She said the money from the sale will come in handy as she lost her job at General Motors several
years ago.

"That was going to be my retirement, go out and have fun money," Jeffery said.

One of the conditions for filming the sale was Jeffery remaining away from the action and in the dark about what was going on.

The results, she said, were better than she expected.

"But they said I can't say (what she made) until the show is aired."

Article source: http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20120206/NEWS01/202060310/Estate-sale-finds-itself-filmed-HGTV-show-Cash-Cari-

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Guest antiques expert Mark Moran, seated, examines a sterling silver teapot owned by Sue Larson, left, during a special antique appraisal event held Monday at Milton City Hall. The event, a fundraiser for the Milton Public Library, drew a wide variety of items including everything from sleigh bells to clocks to antique cameras.

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Morris Gallagher shows off his lalique crystal vase that he had appraised during Monday night’s program. The vase was estimated to be worth $2,000.

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Guest antiques appraisal expert Mark Moran displays a small Hull art pottery vase to the audience at a special fundraiser Monday for the Milton Public Library. The vase, which dated back to the 1920s or 1930s, had an estimated value of about $25.

MILTON — A jade tiger.

A raisin de-seeder.

A pigtailed Hummel figurine that might not have been real Hummel.

Antiques expert Mark Moran took on Rock County's most eclectic and quirky curios Monday at Milton City Hall armed with nothing but a few reference books, a magnifying glass and an iPad.

Moran, an Iola native and guest appraiser on PBS's "Antiques Roadshow," has written and edited dozens of books and guides on antiques and collectibles. He has been touring the Midwest for a year, appraising antiques during events at local libraries and historical societies.

Monday's event the city council chambers was part of a fundraiser for the Milton Public Library. Moran didn't know ahead of time what items people would bring him.

One he heard coming a mile away.

"Jingle bells!" someone in the crowd of 50 whispered as Rita Buchholz of Milton jingled toward Moran's desk with a cardboard box.

Buchholz pulled from the box a large leather strap of sleigh bells. Beaming ear-to-ear, she explained that her father, who people considered "the local junkman" of Lancaster, had bought them when she was a child.

Moran told Buchholz the bells are circa 1920, handmade by a German whitesmith. He pointed to some green tarnish on a few of the bells. He explained it was caused by moisture from the leather, but that it actually added character to the bells.

"It's not hurting it. It's really causing a patina," Moran said.

He said all that the bells needed was some saddle soap to liven up the leather strap. He appraised the bells at $200.

It was clear Buchholz was not concerned about the bells' value.

"I just have such great memories of all the things my father used to bring home," she said.

Some of the items were random finds. For instance, Pam Garelli showed Moran a wooden wine stopper carved in the shape of a jovial-looking boy perched on a wine barrel.

Moran told Garelli the stopper was a common item made in Germany in the 1930s, and Moran appraised it at $15. Garelli said she'd found the relic stuffed in a crawlspace in her home while she was tearing out a wall in 1998.

There were surprises, too. Anne Corey of Milton brought in a French mantel clock made of pot metal. Moran said he had seen other clocks like it, but he didn't recognize the maker. He searched for a listing on his iPad and hit on 1,115 online auction results. Most booked for about $500.

"Heavens to Betsy," he said.

Some weren't so lucky. Milton resident Lowell Lamont brought in a circa-1895 box camera made of leather and lustrous rosewood. It had all its original working parts, and Lamont said he hoped to hear it was worth hundreds of dollars.

Moran said the camera was in exceptional shape, but he indicated Japanese buyers had flooded the marked for antique cameras in the late 1990s. He said the camera now books for about $80.

"Huh … OK," Lamont said.

Moran touched on the declining market for some antiques. He said mass-produced "faux antiques" sold at box stores are a huge reason for the decline in antique values.

"If someone wants a look and is not concerned with the age or the maker, they just want something that looks good, they go to Pottery Barn or Pier One, or a million places online," Moran said. "A couple of clicks and you've got it. That's the single thing that's hurt the antique business the most."

Still, Moran noted that what people value continues to evolve as the years pass. He pointed to a Sesame Street toy house someone brought in. The item was manufactured in the 1970s—just old enough for nostalgia.

And while the toy only booked at $40, Moran offered hope—or at least a bit of philosophy.

"Once upon a time, everything was pop culture," he said.

Article source: http://gazettextra.com/news/2012/jan/31/antiques-appraisal-serves-fundraiser-milton-librar/

Attempting to help county retailers and other business owners in
this regard, the Liberty-Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce has been
contacting and following up with regional senior-citizen tour
organizers.

The Westmorelands have played an active role in this endeavor,
beginning with traveling to the Humble Civic Center on Tuesday,
Feb. 7, as members of a chamber delegation attending the 2012
Destinations Galore Travel Show, practically a tourism industry
trade show.

Seniors and tour organizers for seniors operate somewhat of a
scouting combine at events such as the travel show, the existence
of which connotes the competitive nature of attracting the tourism
dollar by pitching places to see and activities to do in any given
area.

Nevertheless, there is at least one crucial distinction between
sports competition and free-market competition. In the latter, a
firm, indeed an industry, may suffer a loss simply by not playing
the game.

The Westmorelands are among those Liberty County business
leaders who have firsthand knowledge of the value of tourism.

Nearly a year ago, a busload traveled to the Liberty County Opry
on the Square, Ann Westmoreland recalled. Dovetail Antiques,
www.facebook.com/DovetailAntiques, happens to be located nearby on
Courthouse Square in Liberty.

“We have had one bus of people coming over to the Opry who
called us at our shop one time,” Ann said. “They wanted to know who
would stay open because they wouldn’t be there until right at 5
[p.m.]. We said, “Sure,” and we stayed open. We had about 80
people, I think, who came by.”

It would come as no surprise, especially to people who have
spent any time in Liberty, that scores of tourists would visit
Dovetail Antiques. The shop is considered, even by commercial
peers, one of many fascinating Liberty-Dayton Area Chamber of
Commerce members. Tourists are not the only ones who would like it,
chamber leaders say.

“The type of business that Norbet and Ann Westmoreland have —
and they partner with some other folks — is a wonderful, nostalgic
place of collectibles for people to be able to walk through and
spend time,” Chamber President Mary Anne Campbell said. “It is
right on the Courthouse Square.”

To characterize Dovetail Antiques, located at 1925 Trinity St.,
as a tangible trip down memory lane would be an understatement.
Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Dovetail seems
more like a drive on history’s superhighway.

The shop is comprised of numerous booths worth of antiques and
collectibles from nine dealers.

“Go green, recycle and buy antiques,” co-owner Nell Key said,
plugging the shop’s motto. “That is about as green as you can
get.”

Dovetail sells collectibles as well as antiques, an assortment
that spans furniture, clocks, including grandfather clocks, coins,
old tools, glassware and jewelry.

There is a Guy Room, the collectibles of which include art.
There are posters from motion pictures in there, including one from
the 1980 release titled “It’s My Turn,” starring Jill Clayburgh and
Michael Douglas.

Key, the woman and the metal device, wound grandfather clocks
and showed off furniture, such as an antique dresser with a
pull-out desk, and collectibles, including 1930s wooden hand-made
goose decoys.

Norbet is clearly a cabinetry man, proud of all of the
selections and notably an antique kitchen cabinet equipped with a
built-in flour sifter.

Mary Gagné Bossett browses Dovetail from time to time, confident
that she will get a good price for anything.

“This is a nice shopping place,” Bossett said, feeling a pair of
chaps hanging on a wall. “They’ve got good prices. They are so
friendly. They will make a deal with you. They’ve got a lot of good
things, from the low end to the high end.”

Just the sort of selection and value that a bus full of 80
tourists admired last year.

A concerted effort by the business community, spearheaded by the
Liberty-Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, perhaps will attract to
the region 80 more of those visitors, then another 80, and so
on.

Entrepreneurs such as the Westmorelands believe the tourist
dollar is worthy of the special effort. They and other shop owners
ought to know.

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