GUEST: Well, I found it in my aunt's attic back in 1973, and I brought it home, rolled it up, put it in my bedroom closet, and it's been there since then. We found a great big box of letters and all sorts of things. And as I started looking through them about six or seven years ago, I realized that, you know, this tapestry might be worth something.

APPRAISER: This was your aunt's, right? Well, we have a letter from her where she said she visited a tapestry factory, and then we have invoices—the original invoices-- for the purchase of three tapestries in Germany. And I believe that the purchase price for this particular tapestry was $140. She ordered this tapestry in 1922, and it took about six months to make. And the subject matter of this tapestry is from a very famous painting by Jan van Eyck, and it's a 15th-century artist, and it is in a church in Flanders. And this is very common for the tapestries to use this early subject matter. One of the clues that this is a newer tapestry is the color palette and it's got very soft, sort of pastel hues, and the early tapestries are very rich greens and blues. The other tip-off is that the faces are very crude, relative to the quality that you would see in an 18th-century tapestry.

GUEST: I see.

APPRAISER: What do you think the value might be?

GUEST: I haven't the faintest idea, but I'm hoping I go home in a limousine today.

APPRAISER: Oh, well, I can't guarantee a limousine, but I would value this at about $8,000 on the retail level.

GUEST: I can't believe that! That's fantastic!