(updated
Antiques Homeshow...
Please contact PCN with your questions or regarding permissions to use this information.
Concept...
To spin off the Antiques Roadshow program with a show, or show segment, called Antiques Homeshow.
The Antiques Roadshow has portable object owners come to it for informative and entertaining appraisals. This show and format is very popular with all - appraisers, owners and audience.
I can imagine that there are many interesting objects or collections in people's possession that are too large, too extensive or too valuable to be brought to the show. To see objects such as these, Antiques Homeshow coud send a camera crew, an appraiser and perhaps a host to these locations to create segments for a one-hour broadcast, or to create a supplemental segment for the regular Antiques Roadshow broadcast.
I think finding interested and interesting people with such objects and collections would be relatively easy, as collectors and investors are always looking for appraisals, and a trustworthy, in-the-home appraisal would be very welcome.
Anonymity of the owners and locations should be optional for those with exceptional objects or collections, for security reasons.
Commercial locations should be avoided in favour of private locations. Public locations could be considered, but this would be leaning away from the Homeshow aspect.
This message was sent to the Antiques Roadshow as feedback on May 11, 2009...
"I would like to see a variation of this show, call it "Antiques Homeshow", where your host, appraisers and crew go to someone's home and appraise antiques or collections that are either too big or too valuable to bring to the roadshow. There are probably a great many people who would like to show their antiques and collections, but don't want to open their houses to the public. And I'd bet a great many people would like a chance to see these things. You could do perhaps 4 to 6 locations per show/hour per week."
© Products of Concord North Ltd. Home