For Release: 2007-12-21 12:41:00
A new season of Antiques Roadshow, the popular series celebrating America’s hidden treasures, features three programs from its July 2007 stop in Louisville in its 12th season. Catch new episodes beginning Jan. 7 with programs from Baltimore as the country’s most enduring appraisal series barnstorms its way across the country revealing hidden treasures uncovered along the way.The Louisville programs, airing in April, will feature original cover art for The Saturday Evening Post by the guest’s stepfather, John Falter, who used his stepdaughter as a model for the illustration when she was a child — estimated to be worth $100,000 to $150,000.
In the season opener, travel to Baltimore to see a collection of American Indian artifacts, passed down from the owner’s great grandfather — proprietor of a government store in Nebraska — valued at $130,000 to $200,000. It airs Monday, Jan. 7 at 8/7 p.m. CT on KET2 and Thursday, Jan. 10 at 8/7 p.m. CT on KET1 and KET HD. Featured in the second program from Baltimore, airing the following week, is a World Championship jacket worn by Colts legend and U of L quarterback Johnny Unitas.
Other highlights this season are autographed programs valued at $4,000 from a July 1957 Buddy Holly and the Crickets concert in Liverpool, England — attended not only by the owner when she was 16, but by an impressionable young John Lennon — and two letters written by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to General Halleck and a signed photograph, authenticated by Lincoln’s secretary, John Hay, valued at $75,000 to $100,000.
Antiques Roadshow is produced by WGBH/Boston. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.
Contact: Ellen Soileau
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