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A VASE passed down to a woman by her parents has been valued at a few thousand dollars thanks to its unique past.
She took the rare item to Antiques Roadshow for a second look and quickly discovered the qualities that made it worth serious money.
“I got it from my mom — this is always something I really admired and wanted,” the owner of the pottery vase told appraiser David Lackey during a 2009 episode of the PBS series.
Her parents had told her a brief history of how they’d come across the vase, which could be seen in a turquoise hue and fish drawn down the side.
“They’d got it from family friends either in the 1940s or 1950s,” she recalled.
“[Her mother] knew it was a Rookwood vase, but beyond that, she didn’t really know anything.”
Lackey quickly confirmed that it was indeed a Rookwood pottery design and that the company was “one of the most important manufacturers of art pottery in America.”
Rookwood was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1880s and quickly became known for its innovative works, according to the appraiser.
While the company did later mass-produce pottery, it sometimes made “one-of-a-kind and hand-painted” designs and the woman’s parents had come across just that.
“What’s great about this is these terrific fish that are on here,” Lackey noted.
He praised the “sea green” coloring and design that made it seem like the fish were underwater.
Although several “marks” on the bottom of the vase significantly increased its value.
Included were what Lackey noted as the standard Rookwood marks of RP.
The “flames” around the initials helped date it back to the 1900s, with the “V” Roman numeral under it confirming the vase was from 1905 specifically.
Another “V” marking just below the others also meant that the glaze on the vase was “vellum,” a combination of a glossy and matte finish.
On the very bottom of the vase’s base was the artist’s mark, identified as “Albert Valentine” by the appraiser.
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Considering the markings, coloring, and “particularly large” design of the woman’s vase, Lackey confirmed it would go for thousands.
“This piece, at auction, would probably sell for at least $5,000 to $7,500,” he said.
“Oh, wow, that is wonderful!” the owner of the vase exclaimed.
Lackey also recommended that she clean it a bit before putting it up for auction if she intended to.
Surprisingly, the value of the vase has decreased over the years, according to Antiques Roadshow.
In 2024, the show estimated it would only be worth a maximum of $4,000.
Another collector was recently told by Antiques Roadshow that their great-grandmother’s vase was worth at least $25,000 because of its shape.
Similarly, the owner of a vase that was gifted to them 30 years ago said it was “worth more than the condo” they sold when Antiques Roadshow told them it was worth $65,000.
MUNCHING on “cheesesteak” in the blazing sunshine, thousands queued patiently in “Bidentown” for a glimpse of their political hero Donald J Trump.
With a chopper circling overhead and snipers on rooftops, the former president and November 5 election hopeful posted a characteristically caustic tweet to stir up the masses.
“I’m speaking in Crooked Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, today, in the ultimate troll of him!” the 45th President of the USA said gleefully of the 46th.
Biden has mined much political capital from his childhood in this former coal and iron-producing city in what is a pivotal state in the next presidential election.
Now Republican Party candidate Trump was visiting this resolutely blue collar city to tease out every vote as his battle with Kamala Harris goes to the wire.
For the race to be the next Commander-in-Chief of 345million Americans may be decided by just a few thousand voters in this key swing state.
Trump had recently told supporters: “If we win Pennsylvania, we win the whole thing.”
If the yard signs bearing his name that festoon Scranton are anything to go by, it seems he has a good chance.
Trump began speaking at the rally as Hurricane Milton edged towards Florida — the state where he spends much of his time.
Mercifully for him, his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach was not in the cyclone’s path but the gathering storm was very much on his mind.
Breaking off from the trademark insults and invective that peppered his lengthy speech, he said: “I want to send our love to everyone in Florida. They’re going through a big one tonight.
“We’re praying for them and asking God to keep them all safe.”
Of course, Trump hasn’t always been so charitable on disaster response.
After Hurricane Helene caused devastation and death last month, he claimed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was diverting relief funds to migrants.
And there were no warm words from Trump for the current president at Wednesday’s rally as Biden coordinated the hurricane relief efforts
Instead he labelled Biden a “sad, pathetic guy”.
Both Trump and his Democratic challenger Harris have expended much electoral firepower on Pennsylvania, the key election battleground of America’s seven swing states.
US elections are decided by a so-called electoral college system, with each state having a number of votes based on its population size.
Pennsylvania has a hefty 19 electoral college votes. In a neck and neck race, it can be the kingmaker.
My mother came from Costa Rica and my father Jamaica but they came through the front door.
Joe Biden home town resident
Last month Harris campaigned in Pennsylvania once every three days.
And Harris, Trump and their allies have spent an incredible $350million on rival TV ads in the state alone.
Working-class Scranton, which had a road renamed Biden Street in the president’s honour, was chosen as the setting for the US version of TV’s The Office.
Old brick plants from its industrial heyday lie empty while newer warehouses and financial firms have sprung up in their place.
Last month Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited a Scranton munitions plant.
It produces shells crucial in his nation’s fight against Russian invaders, but Trump has given indications that he might end costly military support for the East European country.
Stopping outside Biden’s modest clapboard childhood home in an upmarket area of the city, my taxi driver nods approvingly at a Trump placard pitched on a manicured lawn three doors away.
Homeowner and dad-of-five Herbert McKingley, 42, says the chaotic US border with Mexico is his primary election concern.
The son of immigrants who arrived legally in the States, he insisted: “My mother came from Costa Rica and my father Jamaica but they came through the front door.”
In 2022 alone a record 2.2million people were apprehended at the border, with Herbert adding: “We don’t even have the resources to help those who are already here.
“If I was another country wanting to attack the US, why would I not send terrorists through the back door? It’s a no-brainer.”
Parked on a verge at the entrance to Trump’s rally is Joe Granteed, 63, who flies a “God, guns, Trump” flag from his truck, along with a sign reading “No fake news zone”.
Reclining in the sunshine on a fold-up chair in the back of his pick up, he says Scraton is now “pretty diverse”, adding: “When I grew up it was a lot of coal-mining families. It’s totally changed now.”
“Trump 2024” and “Never Surrender” flags billowed outside the rally venue, the cavernous RiverFront sports centre, like standards on a medieval battlefield.
Meanwhile many proudly wear “I’m voting for the felon” T-shirts, referring to Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of violating laws on corporate record-keeping.
With rock and country music blaring from stalls hawking Trump tat, it sometimes felt more like a pop festival than a political rally.
Traders were flogging must-have MAGA (Make America Great Again) baseball hats for around £15.
Dawn Vititoe was selling bug-eyed, cymbal-banging Trump dolls, also for £15.
When you press the top of the mannequin’s head it blares out some of Trump’s best-known sayings, including: “Build the wall”.
While conceding that Harris has had a successful career, Dawn thinks that a “superpower country” needs “a man” as president.
And she believes Trump’s enemies tried to “set him up” over the 2021 insurrection when a mob of his supporters invaded the US Capitol building.
The businesswoman, whose mum is from the Cotwolds in Britain, added: “I love Trump. I think he’s a martyr.
“When I don’t want to get up in the mornings, I don’t want to deal with everything, I think about him.”
Another vendor was doing brisk business in £4 badges, one of which read, “F*** Biden and f*** you for voting for him.”
Some queuing even insisted Trump’s claim that illegal Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio, which has been widely debunked, is true.
“The police chief said they haven’t had any calls,” admitted Trump fan Bruce Gilbert, 63.
“But I heard 15 people on the radio going, ‘Yeah, my pet’s missing.
“These people are sleeping in my front yard and I see the carcass left over after they cook them’.”
Conceding there isn’t any evidence for a spate of pet-eating, he added: “What are you going to do? Take a DNA swipe or take a stool sample and say, ‘Yeah, you had dog matter in you?’”
Thousands snaked in queues for hours as crowds filed through metal detectors amid tight security, following two failed assassination attempts.
Hundreds were locked out as the venue eventually filled to capacity.
At 3pm, Trump ambled on stage.
In a blue suit, with his trademark red tie dangling down to crotch height, the insults levelled at Harris soon came thick and fast.
Amid wild whoops and hollers, Trump called her “a horrible person,” “a liar,” a “radical-Left Marxist” and “not a smart person”.
And he told the multitude that he wouldn’t stop the poisonous barbs against Harris and other women, even if it turned off female voters.
“I don’t want to be nice,” Trump insisted. “You know, somebody said, ‘You should be nicer. Women won’t like it.’ I said, ‘I don’t care’.”
Outside the rally, protestor Mark Scott, 63, held aloft a sign reading: “Trump hates women.”
The chef recalled the moment before Trump’s 2016 election win, when a tape was leaked of the ex-president saying that fame allowed him to “grab” women “by the pussy”.
The Democrat supporter said: “If you can become president after saying things like that, it diminishes the office of president.
“It also tells a child who hears it that it’s OK to grab a girl.”
Retired Scranton teacher Barb O’Malley was holding a placard outside the sports centre labelling Trump a liar.
“I know that Trump has a lot of support,” she said. “But I’m hoping the more he speaks about all the crazy stuff and gives out misinformation, then people will think they don’t want four more years of that.”
Yet it is Trump’s rhetoric on the economy that may yet have the greatest sway.
Theatrically, he told the crowd: “Kamala will deliver a 1929-style depression.”
In a working-class town like Scranton, where jobs can be precarious, that may well have cut through to those not among the MAGA diehards at the rally.
Artist Dorina Amendola, in her thirties, insisted America’s economy was marshalled better during Trump’s presidency.
The chemistry graduate added that it was obvious to Scrantonians “except the white, professional, wealthy, educated liberals that live in Joe Biden’s old neighbourhood”.
It’s my first-ever Trump rally. It’s all positivity here.My favourite Trump policy is to keep that border closed.
Joe Biden home town resident
Despite Harris gaining ground, Trump still leads in the bulk of polls pondering which candidate would run the economy best.
It is the key electoral concern of most Americans.
Trump also spoke about fracking of natural gas which is a key industry in Pennsylvania, Harris said she was against fracking in 2019 before changing her mind.
As cheers echoed, Trump said: “On Day One, I will tell Pennsylvania energy workers to frack, frack, frack, and drill, drill, drill, drill, baby, drill.”
Trump described turning to wind energy as “bulls**t.”
While the crowd was predominantly male and pale, there were supporters there from across America’s racial mix. There’s also a large contingent of under thirties and many women.
Wearing a Trump wig, 17-year-old Colin Froese proudly said: “It’s my first-ever Trump rally. It’s all positivity here.
“My favourite Trump policy is to keep that border closed.”
Soon Trump’s motorcade was winding its way through Bidenland.
A few hours later there would be another rally in the Pennsylvanian town of Reading.
For the road from Scranton may lead through this knife-edge state all the way to the White House.
AN EBAY seller has revealed how her $150,000-a-year business was shut down by the reselling giant – after she sold an “illegal” antique online.
Cassie LaBelle, who sells mostly antiques on eBay, revealed how her platform was shut down without warning over a 140-year-old “pill press” she put online.
Speaking from her home in Aurora, Colorado, Cassie told The U.S. Sun how she had been selling items on eBay for some 20 years as a side hustle, before making it her full-time profession in 2017.
Last year, she made gross profits of close to $150,000, and she estimates she has made eBay more than $100,000 over the years.
But her decades-long partnership with the website came to an abrupt end recently when her account was shut down and with it her livelihood.
Picking up small items from flea markets and yard sales has been a “childhood passion” of Cassie’s, and over the years, she’s sought out quirky trinkets, such as a 1970s life-size statue of Ronald MacDonald from Japan and a digital voice recorder used by ghost hunters to pick up “signals” from the other realm.
In July, she went to an estate sale and picked up a number of antiques.
The sale included several old apothecary items from the 19th century, including a pill press from the 1890s.
Not thinking of any ties to illegal drugs, Cassie listed the item on her eBay account and eventually sold it for just over $250 plus postage and packaging.
A few days later, she received a form letter from eBay.
“There are lots of eBay policies and when you’re an ‘everything seller,’ which is what eBay encourages, you’re going to find stuff that hit some policy you never even thought of,” Cassie said.
“Usually, they’ll send you a warning and tell you, hey, this isn’t okay to sell. Don’t sell it again.
“And if you sell it again, obviously they’ll start suspending your account.”
As she had already sold the item, Cassie ignored the letter but made a mental note that she wouldn’t sell any item like that again.
“A few weeks after that, I get another message saying that my account was suspended for a week for multiple violations of their drug pill and press policy,” she said.
“My heart stops. I think somebody made a mistake because I didn’t do this again.”
After calling eBay and eventually getting through to customer support, Cassie was told that she was supposed to have been punished more harshly the first time around, so she was being penalized again.
Cassie took the punishment, hoping that would be the end of her issues.
But then in late September, Cassie says her account was completely shut down.
“They pulled all my listings, they froze my accounts, and they said it was for repeated violations of this policy.”
AN eBay spokesperson told The U.S. Sun,
“Maintaining a safe and trusted marketplace for our global community of sellers and buyers is a fundamental principle of our business. eBay is proud of its well-recognized, proactive, and voluntary efforts to remove products that could be used for counterfeit pills – including dies, molds, and pill presses—and has zero tolerance for illegal activity on its platform. In this case, involving the sale of an antique press, we have been in touch with the seller and have reinstated their account.”
Cassie is still stunned that she is unable to make her living on eBay as she has done for years, after an “honest mistake” of selling the banned item.
“It’s from the 1890s,” Cassie fumed. “I’ve had multiple people who are in pharmaceuticals say that this cannot make drugs in the year 2024.
“It is not a thing that can do harm to anyone.”
I sold something that could not do any harm and lost my livelihood over it.
Cassie LaBelle
Cassie kept chasing eBay, spending weeks trying to get the company to review her appeal.
When they denied it this week, she took to X to share her story.
“I was hoping that rattling some cages on social media would make the right people listen to me,” she said.
“I understand that they want to prevent illegal equipment from getting into the wrong hands, and I am all for that.
“But this is clearly a mistake. I sold something that could not do any harm and lost my livelihood over it.”
She called on eBay to “stop relying on AI” to make these decisions.
“They need to treat us like business partners and not like disposable pawns.”
The U.S. Sun has been to eBay for comment.
A spokesperson said that the company had now reinstated Cassie’s account, but reiterated that eBay has “zero tolerance” for the selling of anything that could be used to make counterfeit pills.
COPS investigating Yung Filly over rape and abuse allegations say they have an “extremely strong” case that includes CCTV footage of the social media star.
Filly, whose real name Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, was arrested by Western Australian cops after allegedly raping a woman in her 20s in his Perth hotel after a nightclub appearance last month.
It comes as the Football Association (FA) have pulled a new online cookery show featuring the British YouTube star, 29, amid the serious sexual allegations.
Filly had filmed a new show with the FA and M&S due to be released in the coming weeks but since the allegations came to light they have decided to axe the episodes, Sky News revealed.
The YouTuber and rapper was arrested and taken into custody in Brisbane on Tuesday before being extradited to Perth a day later.
He was then hauled in front of a Perth court for the first time earlier today.
Western Australia police prosecutor Julius Depetro says there is an “extremely strong” prosecution case against Filly.
He claims they have CCTV and photo evidence which helps to prove the accusations are true.
Detectives from Western Australia Police’s sexual assault squad charged Filly with four counts of sexual penetration without consent.
He is also accused of three counts of assault and one count of impeding a person’s normal breathing or circulation by applying pressure to their neck.
The prosecution told the court the alleged victim’s body is marked “by a history of violent acts”.
In the hours after Filly was charged England‘s FA swiftly pulled the Colombian-born Brit from their upcoming YouTube projects.
Filly was involved in a series of videos due to be part of “The Greater Game” campaign launched yesterday by the FA alongside M&S who sponsor the national side.
It has been designed to promote healthy eating and help to “positively influence” kids aged between 12 and 16 years old.
England aces Bukayo Saka, Ezri Konsa, and Jarrod Bowen were all set to feature in the video alongside Filly as part of a “Freestyle Cooking” series on the FA YouTube channel.
An announcement by the FA released on Wednesday said Filly was specially chosen for the series to “encourage young people up and down the country to experiment with cooking healthy alternatives”.
The FA confirmed to Sky that the videos have now been removed.
M&S is also believed to have no direct endorsement deal with Yung Filly.
The 29-year-old was bailed following his court hearing today after stumping up $100,000AUD (£51,000) for bail.
This has already made headlines. Given nature of social media, nature of people jumping on bandwagons, given the nature of (the) power imbalance between the parties
Julius Depetro
He is banned from leaving the state and must also report to Perth Police Station in Northbridge every day.
Filly’s defence lawyer argued the victim was drunk at the time of the alleged ordeal on September 28, Channel 9 reported.
He had performed a show at Perth’s Bar1 Nightclub the hours before meeting the woman making the allegations.
Prosecutor Depetro wanted Filly to remain behind bars as he accused the star’s fame of potentially playing a part in the assault.
He said: “This has already made headlines.
“Given nature of social media, nature of people jumping on bandwagons, given the nature of (the) power imbalance between the parties.”
Yung Filly is known for his comedic talents on YouTube where he shot to fame alongside fellow creators Beta Squad while also appearing in The Sidemen videos.
He then branched out to his own individual projects including podcasts, music and mainstream TV gigs.
He featured on Channel 4’s The Great Celebrity Bake Off in 2022 and has previously fronted the BBC’s Hot Property.
YUNG Filly’s rise to fame saw him start out as a social media star.
The influencer got his big break on YouTube before moving into mainstream TV.
Although he goes by Yung Filly, his real name is Andres Felipé Barrientos.
He was born on August 6, 1995, and moved to the UK from Colombia when he was two years old.
Filly then relocated to southeast London during his childhood.
When asked what it was like growing up in the capital, he told Indy100: “I come from the bottom of the barrel…and that’s why I’m so grateful for the position I’m in now.
“My mum definitely shaped me with the lessons she taught me.
“She’s a single mum with three kids, my dad was a s*** dad so she just had to make it happen.
“She did loads of cleaning jobs. My mum worked at Poundland at the time I had some mad BBC series…just getting my mum out of the position she was in was just the biggest motivation.”
Filly is best known for being a member of the comedy group known as The Wall of Comedy.
He is affiliated with fellow YouTuber Chunkz and the pair have collaborated on many videos and tracks.
Over the years, Filly has also taken part in The Sidemen‘s Charity Football Match, organised by members Josh Bradley, Simon Minter, Tobi Brown, KSI, Ethan Payne, Vikram Barn and Harry Lewis.
