Antique Roadshow – 1pm | FREE
Door County Library presents an antiques and collectibles appraisal event. Author and antiques expert Mark F. Moran will be available to appraise.
Pre-registration is required —and a limited number of spots are available. Due to the tremendous interest in this event, Mr. Moran will not be able to take walk-ins. Limit: 1 item per person. To register, email adult@doorcountylibrary.org with your name, phone, and item description. Call 920-746-7121 if you have questions. Please review the list below of accepted and excluded items, before booking an appointment.
More About Mark Moran:
Mark was formerly senior editor of Antiques and Collectibles Books for Krause Publications in Iola, Wis. He has also been a contributing editor for Antique Trader magazine. He has served as editor of Antique Review East magazine; as producer of Atlantique City, an antique show held in Atlantic City, N.J.; and as editorial director of F+W Media’s Antiques Group. Moran was also a guest expert on the PBS program, Antiques Roadshow, for 9 seasons. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 books on antiques and collectibles, including three editions of the 800-page annual Warman’s Antiques & Collectibles. Moran bought and sold antiques for more than 30 years, specializing in vintage folk art, Americana, and fine art. He has been active as an appraiser of antiques and fine art for more than 20 years.
Categories of objects for appraisal may include:
Americana: including autographs and historical documents
Fine Art: including paintings, drawings, prints and statuary
Furniture: smaller pieces are best
Ceramics: including figural pottery, vases, dishes, kitchenware and stoneware.
Glassware: including marbles and souvenir items.
Vintage Photographs: including snapshots, tintypes, ambrotypes and daguerreotypes.
Advertising: including posters, lithographed tin, paper and figural objects.
Folk Art: including carvings, quilts, weathervanes, windmill weights and “outsider” art.
Assorted Toys: including dolls (bisque, composition and plastic), windups and mechanical banks.
Metalware: including iron, bronze, brass, pot metal, silver, silver plate.
Clocks: including mantel, hanging and figural.
Costume Jewelry: including brooches, bracelets, earrings.
Musical Instruments: including string, wind and reed instruments.
Antique and Vintage Lighting
Books
Sports Memorabilia
Excluded items:
All Weapons: including swords and knives, though folding knives with advertising are accepted
Traps: like leg-hold
Nazi Memorabilia
Coins and Paper Money
Fine Jewelry: including precious gems
Beanie Babies
Questions about objects not covered here can be submitted to Moran in advance to determine if they are appropriate. Suggested categories for advance inquiry include, but are not limited to: Oriental, Native American and other tribal objects (African, Oceanic); ancient artifacts (Egyptian and other early cultures); fossils and minerals; automotive items; nautical and military-related objects; records; antique tools and technological objects (typewriters, cameras, assorted machinery or instruments for scientific measure, like sextants, telescopes, microscopes, etc.). When in doubt, email inquiry can often address this.
Opinions of value are informal and may not be used for insurance or charitable donations, which require a certified appraisal.