Series · PBS · 1997
Pass it on
Antiques Roadshow
55Watch it awake.
A record of what a house held onto. The price is the least of it.
The review
The gasp at the number is the televised part. The useful part is the sentence before the number: where it came from, who used it, why it was not thrown away. A spoon, a painting, a chair that survived a particular decade. The show is a national attic, and an attic is a form of stewardship even when the taste is mixed.
Watch it the way you would visit an older relative. Do not watch it as a hunt for money in the basement. The moment the price becomes the only fact, you have missed the object.
Journal
Keep Antiques Roadshow in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
This Old House
65 instead of 55
This Old House is still a documentary show, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: The trade is the entire show.
The eight
- 5Industry
Appraisal is a skill. The family's work was the keeping.
- 6Household
The objects are from households. The stories are inheritance.
- 3Piety
No creed. A respect for the dead who bought the thing.
- 3Courage
Little danger. The courage is bringing the family junk into public.
- 4Republic
A civic tent. Not a town, but a people looking at its own attic.
- 6Temperance
Greed flickers when the number is high. The show usually returns to the story.
- 8Truth
Provenance is the truth the object needs.
- 9Stewardship
The whole hour is about what was handed on, and whether anyone knows why.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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