re: Tigerdroppings Antique Roadshow - show us what you got, we'll give you an appraisal.

I'm also taking pics right now on an older Hamilton Industries drafting table. Solid oak, weighs about 125 lbs, all iron hardware. It is a more desirable model than some others. I haven't checked the value in a while. On it is an Art Deco Art Specialty Company articulated drafting lamp. It goes for $100-$150 regularly.

I'd take a pic of them, but that room is a mess right now.

There was a somewhat well off family here that got into a huge estate brawl. So, they left everything in the deceased grandparents' house. House has been unoccupied without utilities for over 15 years. Windows are broken. Old 1800's photos in frames are ruined by humidity. A first edition of Wesley's Sermons is covered in mold (and I'm sure it has gone downhill since I was in the house five years ago).

The furniture and other antiques inside are mostly ruined.

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The desk, gotta be $1500-$2000

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Yeah. You pretty much have to find them in person because anything online is local pickup or comes with an outrageous shipping cost.

We bought three of them years ago from a newspaper that went out of business. We paid $100 each. Sold two and kept one. I use it all the time.

The lamp I got for $10 from an older lady who runs a shop in North Mississippi. She liked my Mom and Pops and myself and never charged us what she should. I even left an extra $5 for the lamp that she put in an envelope with my name on it and gave back to my parents the next time they stopped by.

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Here’s one my grandfather purchased in the early 90’s. He said he thought Mawmaw would like it because it was a religious work of art.

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I think he bought some stolen goods. That one was stolen from Gardner Museum, Boston. :)

I worked retail at the mall in the 1990s. I found a steel wheat penny in my till and swapped a penny in my pocket for it.

1944 Steel Wheat Penny

Looked it up and was apparently very rare. So I took it to a coin shop to have it evaluated. They said it was a counterfeit. I kept it in case they were lying to me (at the time I was only 16).

What would it be worth if it is
a) Counterfeit
b) real

So I watched a guy on tik tok who buys $500 in pennies at a time. Runs a magnet over them first to get the steels. Then gets all the coppers and smells them. Then bundles the rest back up and gets the money back. He claims to make good money doing it because so many old pennies are still in circulation.

I’ve dealt (and collected) those before. I forget what playset they came with, maybe Creature from Black Lagoon.

If I remember correctly, about $20 each.

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1944 Steel Wheat Penny

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I thought the 1944 copper penny was the rare one, due to the war.

CoinTrackers.com has estimated the 1944 Steel Wheat Penny value at an average of $77234.00, one in certified mint state (MS+) could be worth $110334.