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Pie safe piece valued, but paint keeps it off Antiques Road Show Antiques Roadshow didn't turn Mom into one of the rich and famous but still accounted for some great fun. The finish turned out not to be "buttermilk green paint" the show thought from the photographs, but that's the breaks With one photograph By Linda Marcum Waggener The trip to the Louisville taping of the Antiques Roadshow with my Mom, Geniece Marcum, was something I'll treasure always. The popular PBS show advertised back in the winter that they were looking for a few large pieces for a show they would tape in Louisville on Saturday, July 28, 2007, to be aired sometime after the first of the year. Antiques Roadshow is one of the most watched of the PBS Television features. It showcases antiques and gives free estimates. Just as Mom was giving up on ever hearing from our February entry, they called her late in June and told her they wanted the green cabinet for possible taping for the show. They would pick it up and return it free of charge and it would be fully insured while in their possession; whether it would get filmed or not, they would give her a free appraisal of her entry. She was invited to be downtown at the Convention Center on Saturday, July 28 at 7:15 a.m., with only one guest, for a free appraisal of her cabinet and if they selected her, she should be prepared to be on camera and she was scared about what to wear, what to say, and what if she couldn't hear well enough to understand the questions they asked, etc. My quest, as her designated-driver, application-entering, meddlesome daughter, was to get her there, on time, when neither of us do anything at 7:15am, let alone in downtown Louisville convention center traffic. It was a fine dilemma. The antique cabinet came from the home of her great grandparents Cynthia Murphy Scott and Robert Winfield Scott in Edmonton, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, who came from Dinwiddie County, Virginia, to Kentucky, and were married in 1846. It was sold at an auction of great uncle, their son, Michael O. Scott, at his death, one-time Metcalfe County Judge and then commonwealth attorney. He had a widowed sister and one who never married, Ottillie Elizabeth Scott Bell and Helen (pronounced Hee-lun) Scott, who came to live with him in their later years, who were thought to have brought the cabinet to his home with them. Turned out that her pie safe wasn't filmed to be on the actual show because the type of paint someone had put on it during its lifetime disqualified it. From the entry photos, the appraiser said, they wanted it brought in for possible airing in case the color turned out to be old, country "buttermilk green paint" which would have made it worth considerably more. Unfortunately, under close inspection once it got to the Roadshow floor, the green color turned out to be a coat of green enamel porch paint someone before it came to Mom had put on it. However it still has value and we both enjoyed talking with the appraiser who gave insight that it was probably made around 1840 in Virginia -- near the place where Mom says the Scott grandparents came from, and about the same time they would have started a life together and prepared for a move west where they'd settle and raise their family in Metcalfe County. Appraiser Ken Farmer is from Virginia and a lifetime collector and seller of pie safes. A local antique dealer had told Mom that it might be a Shaker cupboard and that the metal insets on the front doors and on the sides had a religious symbol punched into them. However, appraiser Farmer said, "The design in the metal panels determines the valule of the pie safe, and this design is not that uncommon. It was of German origin and had been considered a good luck symbol until Adolph Hitler took it, squared it off and turned it into his Swastika." Farmer told her not to remove the green paint because if she ever wanted to sell it, the type person who would buy it would want it exactly as is. So it's back to storage. To check out your treasures, you can contact Antiques Roadshow at 125 Western Avenue, Boston, MA 02134, 1-888-762-3749, or on the web, Antiques Roadshow. Geniece Marcum, known by the most important people in the world as "Great Mema," is the founder of Senior Quest Magazine, Edmonton, KY, a publication for which she still writes, and is a frequent resident of Columbia, KY, where she writes for ColumbiaMagazine.com as drama critic and feature writer about Hoop Toys and other interesting topics. The author, Linda Waggener, was the founder of ColumbiaMagazine.com and is known by the most important people in her world as "Plain Mema." -Ed. This story was posted on 2007-08-06 11:35:16
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