Episode
Antiques Roadshow: Madison, Wisconsin: Hour 3
Overview
The three-show stopover in Madison, Wis., concludes. Appraised: Stickley dining-room tables and chairs; a Chinese blanket designed to cover a child's saddle; and a hand-drawn 1909 comic-book illustration.
Details
- Series
- Antiques Roadshow
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2001-04-30
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Madison, Wisconsin: Hour 3 is Episode 14 in Season 5 of Antiques Roadshow. It aired on 2001-04-30. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 13: Madison, Wisconsin: Hour 2
Items appraised in Madison, Wis., include a silver-and-gold incense burner, and a parasol that was given to the owner's grandmother by Queen Victoria. Also: host Dan Elias visits Taliesin, architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin home.
Episode 15: Tulsa, Oklahoma: Hour 1
Appraised at the Tulsa Convention Center: a desk used in Congress in the 1850s (and found by its owner in a chicken coop); a handwritten diary kept by delegates to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention in 1906-7; and memorabilia from a Wild West show that includes a poster for a documentary in which an unknown cowboy named Tom Mix made his screen debut. Also: host Dan Elias presents a quickie survey of Tulsa's art-deco architecture.
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