WEBVTT 00:02.369 --> 00:06.206 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: It's a family piece, and I don't know, uh, much about it, other than it came down through 00:08.074 --> 00:11.344 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% a cousin to my grandmother, then to my parents, and then to me. 00:11.344 --> 00:16.216 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: So this is a pansy brooch. This dates to around the turn of the 1900s. 00:16.216 --> 00:17.851 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Okay. 00:17.851 --> 00:23.223 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: 1900 up to 1910. Somewhere in that era. And this one is great, 00:23.223 --> 00:27.494 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% because it's got three pansies. Commonly, you'll see brooches with just a singular 00:27.494 --> 00:35.135 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% pansy on it. And this one also has a great enamel coloring to it, and very impressive 00:35.135 --> 00:39.539 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that that enamel has survived so well over all these years. Did you ever wear it? 00:39.539 --> 00:42.776 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GUEST: A couple of times, yeah. 00:42.776 --> 00:45.211 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Oh, yeah? GUEST: I just, I'm always worried I would lose it. 00:45.211 --> 00:47.414 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Right, yeah, I can imagine. And you never saw, like, 00:47.414 --> 00:49.449 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% whoever gave it to you wearing it? Or anybo... 00:49.449 --> 00:51.451 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GUEST: My grandmother wore it, and then my mother wore it. 00:51.451 --> 00:52.719 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: They took excellent care of it, that's great. 00:52.719 --> 00:53.686 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Yeah, thanks. 00:53.686 --> 00:57.824 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: This one has, in the middle, old-European-cut diamonds, 00:57.824 --> 01:01.461 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% which was very indicative of the type of diamond cut you would see in that era. 01:01.461 --> 01:04.631 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% A really fun piece is, is that one of them is loose. 01:04.631 --> 01:05.899 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Right. 01:05.899 --> 01:07.133 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: And kind of moves around a little bit. (chuckles) 01:07.133 --> 01:08.468 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yeah. 01:08.468 --> 01:09.836 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: And what did you say your grandmother called that? 01:09.836 --> 01:11.271 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Drops of dew. 01:11.271 --> 01:12.672 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% APPRAISER: Drops of dew on the pansies. 01:12.672 --> 01:13.573 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yeah. 01:13.573 --> 01:16.009 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: That's awesome. And you can see that it moves 01:16.009 --> 01:20.480 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% inside the petals. Did you ever try to find a signature on it? 01:20.480 --> 01:25.185 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: I did. And I was never able to find one. It was marked in the family's provenance as a 01:25.185 --> 01:28.588 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Tiffany. So I'm, like, it's gotta be here somewhere, and I just could never find it. 01:28.588 --> 01:30.490 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: Yeah, it, it wasn't easy to find. (chuckles) It's 01:30.490 --> 01:31.991 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% on the back of one of the stems and it's textured. 01:31.991 --> 01:33.827 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Ah. 01:33.827 --> 01:38.064 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Making it more difficult to find. This is back when Louis Comfort 01:38.064 --> 01:41.134 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Tiffany was running the company and the designs, Tiffany Studios. 01:41.134 --> 01:43.403 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Okay. 01:43.403 --> 01:48.508 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% APPRAISER: I'm not sure if they actually designed this one or they retailed it-- they would do a 01:48.508 --> 01:52.779 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% little bit of both. So the signature's on there. Also, the diamonds are a pretty good size. 01:52.779 --> 01:56.483 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GUEST: Right. APPRAISER: Most of the pansy brooches I see 01:56.483 --> 02:00.653 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% have a much smaller diamond, anywhere from about a tenth of a carat, maybe slightly larger. 02:00.653 --> 02:01.888 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Okay. 02:01.888 --> 02:04.124 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: Each one of these is about a quarter of a carat. 02:04.124 --> 02:05.592 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Okay. 02:05.592 --> 02:08.595 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: Nice size. Also, of course, being from Tiffany... 02:08.595 --> 02:09.896 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% GUEST: Right. APPRAISER: ...very good-quality diamonds. 02:09.896 --> 02:11.231 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: (chuckles) Right. 02:11.231 --> 02:15.702 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: When I was doing a little research on this, the much smaller versions 02:15.702 --> 02:23.476 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% were selling at retail for around $5,000. But this is not the same thing. This has much larger 02:23.476 --> 02:29.449 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% diamonds of much finer quality, and that Tiffany thing takes us the extra mile. I would suspect 02:29.449 --> 02:33.786 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that in a retail situation, you could easily get $15,000 to $20,000 for this. 02:33.786 --> 02:34.220 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Okay. 02:34.220 --> 02:35.522 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% APPRAISER: Yeah. 02:35.522 --> 02:38.591 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% GUEST: That's excellent. (chuckles) Thank you so much. 02:38.591 --> 02:49.836 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Thanks for bringing it in, it'’’s a great-looking piece. 02:53.306 --> 02:53.907 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yeah.