Appraisal: Walter Mader Black Forest Carved Dogs, ca. 1900
Clip: Season 27 Episode 22 | 2m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Walter Mader Black Forest Carved Dogs, ca. 1900
Check out Matthew C. Quinn's appraisal of Walter Mader black forest carved dogs, ca. 1900, in Wags to Riches.
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Appraisal: Walter Mader Black Forest Carved Dogs, ca. 1900
Clip: Season 27 Episode 22 | 2m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Check out Matthew C. Quinn's appraisal of Walter Mader black forest carved dogs, ca. 1900, in Wags to Riches.
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APPRAISER: When you first brought it up, I thought we had this great bronze dog.
GUEST (chuckles): Did you really?
APPRAISER: Then I got closer and realized that it was carved wood.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: And immediately, I said to myself, "Wow, that's just such an amazing piece of Black Forest carving."
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: Typical Black Forest...
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: ...was, it was in Germany and Switzerland, a group of primarily Swiss carvers that really started the movement in the early 19th century.
GUEST: All right.
APPRAISER: This piece should date to the latter part of the 19th, early part of the 20th century.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Because of the subject matter, we can attribute it to a specific carver...
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: ...by the name of Walter Mader.
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: As you begin to analyze what brings value to a ple, piece of Black Forest carving, there's a number of factors: the quality of the carving and what I would like to think of as the character of the piece.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: I would say, without question, this is the best piece of Black Forest carving...
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: ...the show has ever seen.
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: Yeah.
GUEST (chuckles): Wow.
That's wonderful.
APPRAISER: Now, there's a few things wrong with it.
Not, not a lot.
We have a couple of repairs.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: This leg came off.
GUEST: Yep.
APPRAISER: Uh, I can't tell what's going on across the face here.
Ultimately, none of it affects the character of the piece.
GUEST: Okay.
Okay.
APPRAISER: None of it affects the quality of the piece.
These come up for auction periodically.
Conservatively at auction, I would estimate this piece at $20,000 to $25,000.
GUEST (laughing): Oh, really?
Really?
That's wonderful!
That's wonderful.
That's, that's really great.
APPRAISER: It wouldn't surprise me if a insurance value was, was north of $50,000.
GUEST: $50,000?
(mouths, laughs) APPRAISER: If, if you had to go in and find this and buy it retail, it would cost you an awful lot of money.
GUEST: A lot of money, yeah.
APPRAISER: It has just been an absolute privilege and honor to see it.
GUEST: Well, that's great, I'm so happy.
Thank you so much.
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