GUEST: My husband bought it at a garage sale about 20 years ago in Alabama.

APPRAISER: Do you like it?

GUEST: I'm particularly not fond of it, but he likes it.

APPRAISER: What you've brought us is an Austrian cold-painted bronze by Franz Bergman, and Bergman was making these exotic bronzes at the late 19th, early 20th century. And it has a mark, which is how the Bergman company signed their work. And it is this quintessential gentlemen's desk object. It really has a utilitarian use in that you see this rug dealer with his rug rolled out-- it's probably a tribal rug-- and you could actually use that. You could lay your pen on it, you might put spare change on it, so it's a useful object as well as being beautiful. So do you know what he paid for it?

GUEST: He only paid, like, $20 for that and a vase that he also bought with it.

APPRAISER: Value on it, I would say probably $1,500 to $2,000. This would be an appropriate price.

GUEST: For this?

APPRAISER: Yes, yes. The reason is that it is in impeccable condition. Also the fact that this is a bigger one. They're in the $200 to $300 range for a little piece.

GUEST: I guess I will like it a lot more now and I probably will take a lot better care of it taking it home than I did bringing it in.