Appraisal: Mid-20th Century Ralph Cahoon Oil Painting
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Appraisal: Mid-20th Century Ralph Cahoon Oil Painting
Watch David McCarron appraise a mid-20th century Ralph Cahoon oil painting in Vintage Hartford 2023, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: Mid-20th Century Ralph Cahoon Oil Painting
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Watch David McCarron appraise a mid-20th century Ralph Cahoon oil painting in Vintage Hartford 2023, Hour 2.
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And he died and he had six of these paintings.
And my stepmother gave one to each of his children.
APPRAISER: He had had them for how long, do you know, or...
GUEST: Oh, for as long as I remember.
Probably late '50s, early '60s.
APPRAISER: Yeah, do you know anything about who the artist is or anything, have you...
GUEST: I know his name is Cahoon.
APPRAISER: Okay.
Ralph Cahoon was a Cape Cod artist and known for these whimsical, nautical, 19th-century-inspired motifs, primarily with mermaids and sailors.
Some of them had hot air balloons.
He was born in 1910.
He died in 1982.
This is a mid-20th-century work.
This is a, uh, oil on masonite.
He lived on the Cape, uh, in Cotuit, I think, most of the time.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: And after his death, his prices and, uh, recognition started to gain quite nicely.
This is basically the original frame.
I'm sure Ralph put it in this frame.
It's a Victorian frame, very typical of his work.
Nice, bright picture here.
We have a lot of the bells and whistles.
We have 13 mermaids; we have a sailing ship with sailors; and then we have an American flag.
And we're either in the, it looks like the Antarctic, but it could have been in the North Pole.
This is a nice, cool picture.
I was very excited when I saw it.
I lived on the Cape for a number of years and knew a lot of friends of his and heard a lot of stories about him over the years.
Sounded like a wonderful guy.
GUEST: Sense of humor.
APPRAISER: Oh, yeah.
GUEST: (chuckles) APPRAISER: Wonderful, folky, whimsical painting.
And I think a good auction estimate would be $30,000 to $50,000.
GUEST: Great.
Good price.
APPRAISER: (chuckles)
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Appraisal: 1894 Charles Courtney Curran Portrait
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Appraisal: 1941 USS Trever Deck Logs
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Clip: S27 Ep17 | 3m 50s | Appraisal: '20,000 Leagues Under the Seas' 1st U.S. Edition (3m 50s)
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Clip: S27 Ep17 | 2m 53s | Appraisal: Converted Van Cleef & Arpels Brooch, ca. 1925 (2m 53s)
Appraisal: European Decorative Plates
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Appraisal: Evelyn Rumsey Cary "Woman Suffrage" Poster
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Clip: S27 Ep17 | 3m 23s | Appraisal: Evelyn Rumsey Cary 'Woman Suffrage' Poster, ca. 1905 (3m 23s)
Appraisal: Frankenau Purse Revolver, ca. 1880
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Appraisal: French Bru Doll, ca. 1880
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Appraisal: Gouda Pottery Charger, ca. 1950
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Appraisal: Japanese Cloisonné Vase, ca. 1920
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Clip: S27 Ep17 | 2m 4s | Appraisal: Japanese Cloisonné Vase, ca. 1920 (2m 4s)
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Clip: S27 Ep17 | 1m 2s | Appraisal: Japanese Export Textile, ca. 1875 (1m 2s)
Appraisal: Military Uniform Button Collection, ca. 1865
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Appraisal: Tiffany Glass Vase, ca. 1895
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