Appraisal: Women's Carved Surfboard, ca. 1925
Clip: Season 30 Episode 22 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Women's Carved Surfboard, ca. 1925
Watch Grant Zahajko's appraisal of a women's carved surboard, ca. 1925, in 250 Years of Americana.
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Appraisal: Women's Carved Surfboard, ca. 1925
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: I acquired this about three years ago from a very dear friend, um, and she's had it for probably the last 60 years.
It was carved, to my belief, either in 1925.
I have a picture from 1929 with her.
It was a female that carved it named Bea Rous here in Oceanside where it was made.
APPRAISER: Okay, now, she actually carved this for her use.
That's correct.
The 1920s is when surfing really took off in Southern California.
But the history of female surfers is very limited.
It's the first board that I've ever seen that we can document belonged to a female surfer.
It's hand-carved out of redwood.
Some of the neat things about it are her initials at the bottom.
And then, of course, we have the decorations here.
Some of us have been looking at surfboards for 30-plus years and haven't seen this kind of carving on a board from this era.
The squares down here that are missing, what originally would have been abalone squares.
I put a value on this at auction of $3,000 to $5,000.
GUEST: Oh, that's great.
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