GUEST: Well, we got this in Uruguay in the '80s. I was working at the embassy there.

APPRAISER: Well, he's a very special artist who... Uruguayan. Spent really most of his life there. He incorporates icons one would see coming into port or coming in to the harbor of Montevideo. Yet, it's, it's a kind of a pattern work that he's done. What did you pay for this painting?

GUEST: Probably around $1,000.

APPRAISER: Today I would say, at auction, it would be in the neighborhood of $20,000 to $30,000, and that may be modest.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: You're very wise to have bought it.

GUEST: (laughing) Thank you very much.