Local man gets the shock of a lifetime at the Antique Roadshow in Savannah

Local Man gets the Surprise of a Lifetime at the Antique Roadshow in Savannah BY KHYRA WALKER Most of us are not experienced enough to know what is just old or worth a heap of money when dealing with antiques. That is why there is the “Antique Roadshow”.... More

Local Man gets the Surprise of a Lifetime at the Antique Roadshow in Savannah BY KHYRA WALKER Most of us are not experienced enough to know what is just old or worth a heap of money when dealing with antiques. That is why there is the “Antique Roadshow”. For one gentleman with a hand-woven Navajo blanket, an appraiser assisted in determining that he was in ownership of an incredible piece of antiquity. At a recent antique roadshow taped in Savannah and aired on television Monday night, retired handyman and business owner Ted “Yoolee” Uehlander unknowingly brought in a Ute First Phase Weaving blanket that Appraiser Donald Ellis valued between $350,000 and $500,000. What Uehlander thought to be a Navajo chief’s blanket given to his grandmother’s foster father by Kit Carson, a famous American frontiersman and Indian fighter, has been in his family for generations. The blanket that had been lying on the back of a chair in his home is a “national treasure”, according to Ellis of the Donald Less