Not sure if this is being aired on other PBS channels tonight, but KRMA, Channel 6 is airing a "Vintage Wichita" episode of Antiques Roadshow that includes a Goldsmith Chandlee surveyor's compass, circa 1790. This is a 2021 update episode, so it will be interesting to see how much the appraisers think the compass has appreciated since the original episode aired.
The compass was found in an antique shop in Salina, Kansas. The sticker on the compass said $120. The buyer was a contractor looking to pick up some tools at the shop and he couldn't resist buying it in 1970. Under the compass cover a note said, "owned and used by David Smith in Ohio in 1795."
The episode was first aired in 2008 and the estimate was $20,000 to 25,000. I was surprised that the 2021 appraisal was the same.
I looked on the GLO Records website and did not find "David Smith" listed as a surveyor, but the earliest survey I found on GLO Records was 1811. He might have been a private surveyor or a county surveyor.
Anyone here, follow Mr. David Smith's footsteps?
The "Ohio Company Purchase" surveys (one of the original surveys of Ohio) were completed in 1795. The Ohio Company Purchase is around Marietta and Gallipolis in southeastern Ohio. Other surveys, both government and private were in progress prior to 1795.
"Original Ohio land subdivisions: being volume III final report (in four volumes) Ohio cooperative topographic survey" and map are available online at Ohio State University Knowledge Bank in downloadable formats.
I saw it last night. ?ÿThey said the tripod wasn??t original and an original tripod would add more value. ?ÿDidn??t they use a Jacobs Staff back in the day?