GUEST: They were gems and, um, gold that were given to my grandmother.
They've been in the family since the early 1900s.
APPRAISER: You brought them in, like, a little crumpled up plastic bag.
Yeah.
(chuckles) Took me half an hour to get the note out.
(laughs) Tell us what the note says.
GUEST: The note says the h, Idaho gems were given to Louise Morrison when her father, John Tracy Morrison, was governor of Idaho.
APPRAISER: The red one is, in fact, garnet, which is one of the gemstones... Of Idaho, uh-huh.
...of Idaho.
The other one really fooled me, because it's got this light bluish green.
Uh-huh.
And I'm thinking, okay, maybe it's aqua.
I tested it, and son of a gun, it's sapphire.
GUEST: I'll be darned.
APPRAISER: Now, Montana is famous for sapphire.
GUEST: Uh-huh.
APPRAISER: Idaho, I didn't know.
GUEST: Uh-huh.
APPRAISER: Potatoes, yeah.
GUEST: The Gem State.
APPRAISER: Gem State.
Yeah.
And then what I love is the gold nuggets.
They're also from here.
It's a pair of earrings and a little pin/pendant.
They weigh about three pennyweights.
There's not a ton of gold here.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: But the fact that all of this comes from this state...
GUEST: Isn't that great?
APPRAISER: I think it's so cool.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: So value-wise, you have about $300 of gold in, in the gold nuggets.
But the fact that you got that provenance, could be $300 to $500.
And then you have a ring, which, I just love the story, and it's lovely, but the ring is probably worth $150.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: Thank you.
GUEST: Well, as they say, it's priceless to us, yeah.