Appraisal: Augusto Dias Ukulele, ca. 1895
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Appraisal: Augusto Dias Ukulele, ca. 1895
Check out Richard Johnston's appraisal of an Augusto Dias ukulele, ca. 1895, in Vintage San Jose, Hour 1.
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Appraisal: Augusto Dias Ukulele, ca. 1895
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Check out Richard Johnston's appraisal of an Augusto Dias ukulele, ca. 1895, in Vintage San Jose, Hour 1.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: It was my mom's and she grew up in Waikiki, in the '20s and '30s.
Her memory is that she got a ukulele for Christmas.
APPRAISER: Well, this is an exceedingly rare and very early ukulele.
An example like this is-is probably from 1905 at the latest and it could easily be earlier.
A ship came from the island of Madeira with Portuguese settlers to work in the cane fields.
But along with the settlers to work in the cane fields, there were some cabinetmakers.
And one was named Dias.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: And the label tells us that he's the guy who-who made these.
Another one was Santo, and then Nunes, who's the one who kept doing it and then later claimed to have invented it.
But it's really hard to find a Dias instrument with a paper label intact.
There's probably only about two dozen of them known...
GUEST: Wow... APPRAISER: And of those, maybe a half dozen, maybe ten have an intact paper label.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: It's very thin, very small.
An ukulele is a small instrument, but this is......this is like a shirt pocket ukulele.
GUEST: (chuckling) Yeah.
Yeah.
APPRAISER: But that's the Portuguese instrument that was brought over.
And, of course, the Hawaiians fell in love with it, and they called it "ukulele," which meant "dancing flea."
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: It's got a few little cosmetic problems and one crack on the side, but it's really in very good condition.
And to a collector of early ukuleles, it, it could easily sell for as much as $15,000.
GUEST: Oh, you're kidding me.
(chuckling): Wow!
"Mahalo."
(laughs) APPRAISER: (laughing) Yeah, right!
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