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GUEST: Well, it's a family
piece. My family is from the
East Coast, New England area--
I, I don't

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know quite back that far. There
was a captain of a clipper ship
that ran out of Yarmouth,

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on the Cape. The other side of
my dad's family was from
Pennsylvania area. My uncles, my
aunt,

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and my dad all kind of moved out
west in the '70s. And my
grandmother and grandfather
followed the

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kids to Colorado and Idaho. Um,
and then as my grandmother was
aging and we were just moving

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her into a smaller home, this
one ended up with me. My uncle
had, I think, gotten a little
bit

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tired of taking care of it.
(chuckles) It's got some, it's a
little bit more
high-maintenance.

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I think there's some, some legs
and some of the skirt stuff that
had been kind of knocked

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off a couple of times. And I
think they'd just kind of done
some home remedy fixes. It
didn't

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really fit in with their, with
their plans to kind of take care
of it, and I just didn't want

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to see it go anywhere else. So I
stuffed it in a U-Haul and
brought it back up to Idaho.

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APPRAISER: And that
was from Denver?

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GUEST: Yeah, Colorado
Springs area.

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APPRAISER: Yeah, okay. Yeah.
So, do you think this is one

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of the original pieces
from the East Coast, or...?

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GUEST: (slowly): Yeah.
My aunt thought it might

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have come from the side of
the family in Pennsylvania.

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APPRAISER: This chest is
from the Federal period,

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and it's likely 1795 to 1805.
It's actually from Portsmouth,
New Hampshire.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: Not Pennsylvania.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: So it's probably from
your New England side of the
family.

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GUEST: Okay, okay.

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APPRAISER: And I know that
without even having to pull the
drawers or anything. What's
iconic about

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this and, and indicative of the
Portsmouth area is the way the
drawers are divided...

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: ...into thirds. And
the real giveaway is that panel
in the

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middle of each drawer that
drops down to the middle...

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GUEST: Uh-huh. APPRAISER: ...and
then that pendant apron below.

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GUEST: Uh-huh.

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APPRAISER: The drawers are
made out of mahogany veneer,

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but they have what's called
flame birch panels in the
middle. The

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secondary woods are white pine.
The case sides and the case top,
again,

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made out of birch. Birch grows
in abundance, white pine grows
in abundance in New Hampshire.

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GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, uh-huh.

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APPRAISER: Mahogany was imported
from the Caribbean often.

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GUEST: Mm-hmm.

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APPRAISER: And they used
it in very limited amounts,

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and here it's just veneer and
accents. I see. The inlay that
mat,

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that goes a, around the edge of
the top is also repeated around
the bottom of the case.

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GUEST: Yeah.

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APPRAISER: And the other piece
of the detail that I like a
great deal is

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the drop pendant that I
mentioned, and how it's flanked
by checkered inlay...

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GUEST: Uh-huh. APPRAISER: ...or
staggered inlay. I almost,

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if I step back and look at it,
it feels to me almost like a
column.

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GUEST: Yeah.

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APPRAISER: Because this
is a Neoclassical period,

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it's harkening back to earlier
Classical architecture. The
brasses have been replaced.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: So you were
mentioning some of the condition
issues. Easy to fix.

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These things are built to last.
In this condition and with this
nice old surface,

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which is not original, but it's
old and dry and great color...

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GUEST: Yeah.

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APPRAISER: ...I think I could
put an auction estimate on this
piece

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without any difficulty
of $15,000 to $20,000.

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GUEST: (chuckling): Wow. That's
pretty amazing. That's cool. I'm
just glad it's survived as many

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moves across the country and
around the West, and I hope my
daughters are going to be
interested in

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it enough to kind of keep, keep
it in good shape and hopefully
pass it on down through

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the generations. Back in my 20s,
I may have had ANTIQUES
ROADSHOW, uh, drinking games...

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APPRAISER: (laughs) GUEST:
...uh, with some of my friends.
I might

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send, uh, a few pictures of this
to some old buddies, and see if
they...

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APPRAISER: (chuckles)

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GUEST: ...make the over under,
...or if they owe me a beer.
So...

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APPRAISER: (laughs)