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GUEST: This was sitting on
my grandparents' coffee table
ever since I can remember. I

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understand that my grandfather's
brother George, who lived in
Berlin during World War II, got

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it from some Jewish friends
that he helped escape Berlin
during the war. And he gave

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it to my grandparents. And
I inherited this after my
grandmother passed away.

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I'd heard that it
belonged on the tusk of
an elephant, perhaps,

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and also, we looked at
magazines, and my cousin
says she saw one of
these on the ankle of,

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some tribesman or something.
So I don't know.

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APPRAISER: It is an anklet, and
it's called an antal. They're
made in Oman, which is on

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the Arabian Peninsula, in a
place called Nizwa, and would
probably be part of a dowry, and

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I think this one was probably
made any time, probably about
1850 to about 1910. It's made

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out of silver. The workmanship
is extremely good. It's very
beautiful, indeed. And, as

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you can tell, I really like it.

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GUEST: Thank you,
I like it, too.

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APPRAISER: I think a retail
price for this would be
around $800 to $1,000.

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GUEST: Holy cow! Wow. That's
amazing. I had no idea.