1 00:00:02,302 --> 00:00:08,074 GUEST: Well, it's a family piece. My family is from the East Coast, New England area-- I, I don't 2 00:00:08,074 --> 00:00:12,879 know quite back that far. There was a captain of a clipper ship that ran out of Yarmouth, 3 00:00:12,879 --> 00:00:19,552 on the Cape. The other side of my dad's family was from Pennsylvania area. My uncles, my aunt, 4 00:00:19,552 --> 00:00:26,092 and my dad all kind of moved out west in the '70s. And my grandmother and grandfather followed the 5 00:00:26,092 --> 00:00:32,732 kids to Colorado and Idaho. Um, and then as my grandmother was aging and we were just moving 6 00:00:32,732 --> 00:00:40,006 her into a smaller home, this one ended up with me. My uncle had, I think, gotten a little bit 7 00:00:40,006 --> 00:00:43,476 tired of taking care of it. (chuckles) It's got some, it's a little bit more high-maintenance. 8 00:00:43,476 --> 00:00:49,082 I think there's some, some legs and some of the skirt stuff that had been kind of knocked 9 00:00:49,082 --> 00:00:52,519 off a couple of times. And I think they'd just kind of done some home remedy fixes. It didn't 10 00:00:52,519 --> 00:00:56,689 really fit in with their, with their plans to kind of take care of it, and I just didn't want 11 00:00:56,689 --> 00:01:00,994 to see it go anywhere else. So I stuffed it in a U-Haul and brought it back up to Idaho. 12 00:01:00,994 --> 00:01:02,629 APPRAISER: And that was from Denver? 13 00:01:02,629 --> 00:01:04,664 GUEST: Yeah, Colorado Springs area. 14 00:01:04,664 --> 00:01:06,866 APPRAISER: Yeah, okay. Yeah. So, do you think this is one 15 00:01:06,866 --> 00:01:09,035 of the original pieces from the East Coast, or...? 16 00:01:09,035 --> 00:01:12,472 GUEST: (slowly): Yeah. My aunt thought it might 17 00:01:12,472 --> 00:01:14,040 have come from the side of the family in Pennsylvania. 18 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,277 APPRAISER: This chest is from the Federal period, 19 00:01:17,277 --> 00:01:21,181 and it's likely 1795 to 1805. It's actually from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 20 00:01:21,181 --> 00:01:21,881 GUEST: Okay. 21 00:01:21,881 --> 00:01:22,215 APPRAISER: Not Pennsylvania. 22 00:01:22,215 --> 00:01:23,950 GUEST: Okay. 23 00:01:23,950 --> 00:01:25,552 APPRAISER: So it's probably from your New England side of the family. 24 00:01:25,552 --> 00:01:27,620 GUEST: Okay, okay. 25 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:33,460 APPRAISER: And I know that without even having to pull the drawers or anything. What's iconic about 26 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:36,863 this and, and indicative of the Portsmouth area is the way the drawers are divided... 27 00:01:36,863 --> 00:01:38,264 GUEST: Okay. 28 00:01:38,264 --> 00:01:44,137 APPRAISER: ...into thirds. And the real giveaway is that panel in the 29 00:01:44,137 --> 00:01:46,573 middle of each drawer that drops down to the middle... 30 00:01:46,573 --> 00:01:48,274 GUEST: Uh-huh. APPRAISER: ...and then that pendant apron below. 31 00:01:48,274 --> 00:01:49,109 GUEST: Uh-huh. 32 00:01:49,109 --> 00:01:52,212 APPRAISER: The drawers are made out of mahogany veneer, 33 00:01:52,212 --> 00:01:55,982 but they have what's called flame birch panels in the middle. The 34 00:01:55,982 --> 00:02:01,121 secondary woods are white pine. The case sides and the case top, again, 35 00:02:01,121 --> 00:02:04,157 made out of birch. Birch grows in abundance, white pine grows in abundance in New Hampshire. 36 00:02:04,157 --> 00:02:04,724 GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, uh-huh. 37 00:02:04,724 --> 00:02:06,960 APPRAISER: Mahogany was imported from the Caribbean often. 38 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:07,660 GUEST: Mm-hmm. 39 00:02:07,660 --> 00:02:10,730 APPRAISER: And they used it in very limited amounts, 40 00:02:10,730 --> 00:02:14,901 and here it's just veneer and accents. I see. The inlay that mat, 41 00:02:14,901 --> 00:02:17,504 that goes a, around the edge of the top is also repeated around the bottom of the case. 42 00:02:17,504 --> 00:02:18,771 GUEST: Yeah. 43 00:02:18,771 --> 00:02:24,210 APPRAISER: And the other piece of the detail that I like a great deal is 44 00:02:24,210 --> 00:02:27,780 the drop pendant that I mentioned, and how it's flanked by checkered inlay... 45 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:29,682 GUEST: Uh-huh. APPRAISER: ...or staggered inlay. I almost, 46 00:02:29,682 --> 00:02:32,252 if I step back and look at it, it feels to me almost like a column. 47 00:02:32,252 --> 00:02:33,419 GUEST: Yeah. 48 00:02:33,419 --> 00:02:36,489 APPRAISER: Because this is a Neoclassical period, 49 00:02:36,489 --> 00:02:40,460 it's harkening back to earlier Classical architecture. The brasses have been replaced. 50 00:02:40,460 --> 00:02:42,195 GUEST: Okay. 51 00:02:42,195 --> 00:02:45,298 APPRAISER: So you were mentioning some of the condition issues. Easy to fix. 52 00:02:45,298 --> 00:02:49,903 These things are built to last. In this condition and with this nice old surface, 53 00:02:49,903 --> 00:02:52,071 which is not original, but it's old and dry and great color... 54 00:02:52,071 --> 00:02:53,673 GUEST: Yeah. 55 00:02:53,673 --> 00:02:56,643 APPRAISER: ...I think I could put an auction estimate on this piece 56 00:02:56,643 --> 00:03:00,413 without any difficulty of $15,000 to $20,000. 57 00:03:00,413 --> 00:03:08,721 GUEST: (chuckling): Wow. That's pretty amazing. That's cool. I'm just glad it's survived as many 58 00:03:08,721 --> 00:03:13,660 moves across the country and around the West, and I hope my daughters are going to be interested in 59 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:20,300 it enough to kind of keep, keep it in good shape and hopefully pass it on down through 60 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:25,738 the generations. Back in my 20s, I may have had ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, uh, drinking games... 61 00:03:25,738 --> 00:03:28,508 APPRAISER: (laughs) GUEST: ...uh, with some of my friends. I might 62 00:03:28,508 --> 00:03:30,577 send, uh, a few pictures of this to some old buddies, and see if they... 63 00:03:30,577 --> 00:03:31,578 APPRAISER: (chuckles) 64 00:03:31,578 --> 00:03:33,346 GUEST: ...make the over under, ...or if they owe me a beer. So... 65 00:03:33,346 --> 00:03:33,913 APPRAISER: (laughs)