SAVANNAH – Rafael Eledge sits in his office overlooking a shop filled with Civil War rifles, buttons, canteens, knives, swords and more. Each item has a tag and is ready to be shipped to buyers ...

During ROADSHOW's July 28, 2007, stopover in Louisville, our cameras took a day trip to Perryville, Kentucky, the site of a Civil War battle no less bloody for having been fought in what was, ...

SHILOH, Tenn. (AP) — Every Civil War bullet, every sword and every musket tells a story. There's the .69 caliber musket made in 1831 by a company founded by cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney, the leaden ...

SHILOH, Tenn. -- Every Civil War bullet, every sword and every musket tells a story. There's the .69-caliber musket made in 1831 by a company founded by cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney, the leaden ...

Rafael Eledge, a Shiloh, Tenn., antiques dealer who's been an appraiser for the show for six years, credits both the program and the Internet in changing the way people antique. "It has really opened ...

Bird prints by John James Audubon can be quite valuable, as appraiser Christopher Lane explained last summer. Antiques Roadshow opened its 20th season Jan. 4 with the first of three TV shows taped in ...

"Antiques Roadshow" guests are usually people who hold on to items for decades without having any idea how much they're actually worth. This is why their reactions to the appraisals stand out as a ...

What’s your favorite Rafael quote? You never know what is going to come out of Civil War specialist and arms & militaria appraiser Rafael Eledge’s mouth! We lovingly dub these quips “Rafael-isms.” ...

Appraiser Rafael Eledge examines a Civil War-era limber box brought by Betty and Melvin Tingle at an "Antiques Roadshow" appraisal event in Biloxi, Miss., on July 24, 2010. (Press-Register file ...

SHILOH, Tenn. – Every Civil War bullet, every sword and every musket tells a story. There’s the .69 calibre musket made in 1831 by a company founded by cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney, the leaden ...