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Antiques Roadshow  San Antonio, Hour 2

Roadshow tours the Witte Museum's collection of horn furniture. Details

 
 

Program: Antiques Roadshow

Episode: San Antonio, Hour 2

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Beth Szescila tour the Witte Museum's collection of horn furniture, a German craft popularized in nineteenth-century America by Texas maker Wenzel Friedrich. Highlights include: a controversial statue of St. Catherine; an heirloom needlepoint sampler; and a massive desk and bookcase made in the mid-nineteenth-century German-Texan tradition.

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Duration: (52:56)
Premiere Date: 10/19/2009
Episode Expires: Sat 25 Feb 2012
TV Rating: TV-G


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