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

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

GUEST: Sure.

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

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

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

GUEST: Right.

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

Cottages."

GUEST: Yes, yes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GUEST: Okay.

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

GUEST: I paid $750 for it.

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

GUEST: Oh, great, great.

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

grand homes here in Newport.

GUEST: Oh, thank you.