Antiques Roadshow: Grand Rapids, Michigan - Hour One

Series 30, episode 0

The show drives to the Gilmore Car Museum near Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a look at its collection of more than 1,500 hood ornaments or mascots. Appraisal highlights include a letter from Gerald Ford, a native son of Grand Rapids, written in 1967 to his former kindergarten teacher, a pair of earrings made from cufflinks given to the guest's grandfather by Tsar Nicholas of Russia, and an 1881 painting by noted Hudson River School artist Jasper Cropsey, valued at $300,000.