GUEST: It was given to me by a friend, and it was given to him by an uncle around 1950.

APPRAISER: It was a presidential campaign drum. It's from the campaign of Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Of 1848. It's really rare. It's 155 years old, and it's survived beautifully.

GUEST: Oh!

APPRAISER: You can see the stars, 13 stars, and an American eagle. And Zachary Taylor was an officer, a hero, during the Mexican War. "Rough and Ready" was his slogan. Later drums had little iron attachments for the ropes.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: And a drum of this period has holes, and the ropes went through the holes, and these tightened the drum. These are leather tighteners.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: And these are the original hand-carved wooden drumsticks.

GUEST: We actually have used those to stir paint with.

APPRAISER: That's interesting.

GUEST: And then kind of thought about it, and then cleaned them off.

APPRAISER: Don't stir paint with them anymore, no.

GUEST: Don't stir paint with them anymore.

APPRAISER: If I had this drum, I think I'd want between $10,000 and $15,000 for it.

GUEST: No!

APPRAISER: Yes. Well, it's a wonderful thing, 155... Well, you know, it's very historically important.

GUEST: Would these be original ropes on here?

APPRAISER: They could have been replaced.

GUEST: Could have been replaced, okay.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: I saw you looking in this hole.

APPRAISER: That's a percussion hole.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: When they beat the drum...

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: The air came out that hole. But opposite that hole would have been the maker's label, and you can see where it was, but it's long gone.

GUEST: So even looking like this, this is great condition.

APPRAISER: Oh, it's wonderful... I wouldn't touch it.

GUEST: Okay.