'Antiques Roadshow' season premiere: 'The Hobbit' gets 6
Deseret News••entertainment
Key Points:
- The Season 30 premiere of “Antiques Roadshow” features appraisals from Salt Lake City, including a six-figure valuation of a 1937 first edition of “The Hobbit” due to a rare printing typo.
- Approximately 4,000 people attended the appraisal event at Red Butte Garden in June, with around 140 items filmed and about 120 featured across three episodes airing January 5, 12, and 19 on PBS.
- Other notable Salt Lake City appraisals include a Viennese platter valued at $30,000-$60,000, a personal Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz, a third edition of The Book of Mormon, and a handwritten Ronald Reagan letter.
