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GUEST: I bought this about a
year ago from a local dealer.

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APPRAISER: Let's check
it out on the back.

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GUEST: Sure.

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APPRAISER: So it's relatively
rare to find furniture with
signatures on it, and your

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chair has two. One of them is a
decal label from the L. & J.G.
Stickley Furniture Company.

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The label that's on it is
this rectangular shape.

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GUEST: Right.

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APPRAISER: Which means that it
was made between 1912 and 1920.
And it also is stamped "Breakers

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Cottages."

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GUEST: Yes, yes.

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APPRAISER: Which probably
was not done by the Stickley
Company themselves, but probably

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from either the preservation
society once they took over
the Breakers, or the Vanderbilt

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family themselves. Of
course, Cornelius Vanderbilt
built it, but he furnished
his home with really

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fanciful European furniture.
And this was an oak,
pretty pedestrian piece.

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GUEST: That's what
confused me a little bit.

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APPRAISER: Yes, I am guessing
that this probably came out of
either the servants' quarters

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or... It was a utilitarian
piece, because by the time
this was made in 1912 to '20,

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it wasn't made by Gustav
Stickley, the grandfather
of the Arts and Crafts
movement-- he made

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very expensive furniture.
His brothers then went
on to make a little more
pedestrian furniture...

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: More affordable.
Any idea of its value, or...?

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GUEST: I paid $750 for it.

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APPRAISER: Well, I would
probably insure this in the
range of $800 to $1,200.

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GUEST: Oh, great, great.

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APPRAISER: Yeah. It's a
connection between the Arts and
Crafts movement and one of the

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grand homes here in Newport.

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GUEST: Oh, thank you.