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GUEST: It's a family piece, and 
I don't know, uh, much about it, 
other than it came down through

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a cousin to my grandmother, then 
to my parents, and then to me.

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APPRAISER: So this is a pansy 
brooch. This dates to around the 
turn of the 1900s.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: 1900 up to 1910. 
Somewhere in that era. And this 
one is great,

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because it's got three pansies. 
Commonly, you'll see brooches 
with just a singular

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pansy on it. And this one also 
has a great enamel coloring to 
it, and very impressive

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that that enamel has survived so 
well over all these years. Did 
you ever wear it?

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GUEST: A couple of times, yeah.

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APPRAISER: Oh, yeah? GUEST: I 
just, I'm always worried I would 
lose it.

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APPRAISER: Right, yeah, I can 
imagine. And you never saw, 
like,

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whoever gave it to you 
wearing it? Or anybo...

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GUEST: My grandmother wore it, 
and then my mother wore it.

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APPRAISER: They took excellent 
care of it, that's great.

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GUEST: Yeah, thanks.

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APPRAISER: This one has, in the 
middle, old-European-cut 
diamonds,

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which was very indicative of the 
type of diamond cut you would 
see in that era.

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A really fun piece is, is 
that one of them is loose.

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GUEST: Right.

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APPRAISER: And kind of moves 
around a little bit. (chuckles)

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GUEST: Yeah.

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APPRAISER: And what did you say 
your grandmother called that?

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GUEST: Drops of dew.

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APPRAISER: Drops of 
dew on the pansies.

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GUEST: Yeah.

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APPRAISER: That's awesome. 
And you can see that it moves

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inside the petals. Did you ever 
try to find a signature on it?

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GUEST: I did. And I was never 
able to find one. It was marked 
in the family's provenance as a

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Tiffany. So I'm, like, it's 
gotta be here somewhere, and I 
just could never find it.

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APPRAISER: Yeah, it, it wasn't 
easy to find. (chuckles) It's

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on the back of one of the 
stems and it's textured.

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GUEST: Ah.

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APPRAISER: Making it more 
difficult to find. This is back 
when Louis Comfort

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Tiffany was running the company 
and the designs, Tiffany 
Studios.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: I'm not sure if they 
actually designed this one or 
they retailed it-- they would do 
a

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little bit of both. So the 
signature's on there. Also, the 
diamonds are a pretty good size.

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GUEST: Right. APPRAISER: Most 
of the pansy brooches I see

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have a much smaller diamond, 
anywhere from about a tenth of a 
carat, maybe slightly larger.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: Each one of these 
is about a quarter of a carat.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: Nice size. Also, of 
course, being from Tiffany...

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GUEST: Right. APPRAISER: 
...very good-quality diamonds.

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GUEST: (chuckles) Right.

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APPRAISER: When I was doing a 
little research on this, the 
much smaller versions

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were selling at retail for 
around $5,000. But this is not 
the same thing. This has much 
larger

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diamonds of much finer quality, 
and that Tiffany thing takes us 
the extra mile. I would suspect

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that in a retail situation, you 
could easily get $15,000 to 
$20,000 for this.

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GUEST: Okay.

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APPRAISER: Yeah.

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GUEST: That's excellent. 
(chuckles) Thank you so much.

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APPRAISER: Thanks for bringing 
it in, it'’’s a great-looking 
piece.

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GUEST: Yeah.