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Lori Verderame. Lori Ann Verderame / ˌvɜːrdəˈreɪm / [2] (born January 11, 1965), known professionally as Dr. Lori, is an American appraiser of antiques, collectibles, and fine art; she is also a television personality, public speaker, author, professor and museum curator and director. Verderame has been called “America's appraiser" and ...
Antiques Roadshow (American TV program) Antiques Roadshow appraises thousands of items in any given taping, with the public ticketed for time slots between 8 am and 5 pm local time; this image shows a portion of the public entering a July 2009 roadshow in Madison, Wisconsin, at noon. Before people enter the main appraisal/recording area ...
Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was the manufacturer of the Sharps Rifle. The company was organized by Samuel Robbins and Richard S. Lawrence as a holding company in Hartford, Connecticut, on October 9, 1851 with $100,000 in capital. Despite Sharps departing from the company bearing his name, Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company produced over ...
Antique firearms. Referencing the elite pastimes of hunting and writing, this Turkish ceremonial jeweled rifle set includes a dagger, pen case, penholder with pen, penknife, cleaner, and a spoon-all conveniently housed within the rifle butt, Walters Art Museum. An antique firearm is a term used to describe a firearm that was designed and ...
List of. Antiques Roadshow. episodes. Antiques Roadshow is a long-running British television series about the appraisal of antiques, broadcast on BBC One since the show's launch on February 18, 1979. It is currently in its forty-sixth series, with over 850 episodes to date. Series. 1970s. 01.
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Sharps rifle. .52-caliber (0.52" dia.) 475-grain (30.8 g) projectile with 50-grain (3.2 g) charge, later converted to .50-70 in 1867. The Model 1874 rifles and carbines were available in a variety of calibers, including .45-70, .45-110, and .45-120. Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles ...
"Antiques Roadshow" was in Richmond, Virginia, this week, where a woman brought in three first edition Langston Hughes books, published in the 1940s and '50s. The woman paid just $1 for each book ...