2010 Sponsors of What's it Worth?
URS
MK Foundation
Thank you for your generous support and sponsorship of What's It Worth?
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What’s It Worth? 2010
“What’s it Worth?” was more than a boring fundraiser dinner or black tie event. It was an intimate museum experience that provided the opportunity to have personal valuables evaluated. The event staged wifi-equiped evaluators throughout the museum in specialty lit stations. Adjacent to the historic guns exhibit Ken Swanson evaluated guns, and military items, alongside Steven Allen our hunting and fishing expert. A group of fantastic ladies sorted through general items outside the Sherman General Store while our experts from SICC parked themselves in front of the saloon and bar and examined collected coins. It was as if the exhibits themselves came to life and stepped out from behind the glass to share in the day’s excitement.
Fiddlers roamed the museum and members from VPS played records as patrons toured the museum, waited on evaluations, or told tall tales over food and drink.
A table piled high with baked goods welcomed guests on Sunday. Most patrons brought three items ranging from crystal, book, fine-art, Native-American artifacts, to clocks. Many attendees planed to sell their items on Craigslist or Ebay, and the event gave them a solid starting figure for resale.
After the event’s success The Friends B.O.D. voted to continue “What’s it Worth?” every year on the last Sunday in February. Thanks to our generous sponsors – URS, MK Foundation, and Boise Legacy Constructors, “What’s it Worth?” bolstered the Idaho State Historical Museum’s coffers.
When Cindy Everhart and Athena Crowley evaluated an antique doll at $300 the doll’s owner commented, “That’s exactly the same value as when I took it to Antiques Road Show in Las Vegas.”
WHAT'S IT WORTH?
When Henrietta’s Grandmother passed away the family’s silver items were divided between the siblings – most of which still sit in a closet waiting to be burnished back to life. Most pieces that Henrietta presented were not solid sterling silver, but in fact merely silver-plated. This unassuming teapot was different. Purchased by a great aunt, gifted to Henrietta’s mother in law, and passed on from a sister in law that doesn’t like to polish silver, Henrietta lucked into a teapot and its matching set forged by artist Tango Aceves of Taxco Mexico. Evaluator Vanessa Lyon fell instantly in love with the piece and valued the entire set between $4,000 and $5,000.
