GUEST: It's always been in my family. My great-great-grandfather bought it, from Baltimore. It was in Baltimore for many years until my grandmother moved to Bridgeport.

APPRAISER: And that to me is a very important thing. I think you mentioned, you thought it was the early 1800s.

GUEST: Around 1805, '10, somewhere.

APPRAISER: We know that the ownership goes all the way back to the original owner of the early 1800s. I'm going to tell you up front, this is a very nice, quite a valuable clock. It was a commemorative piece, and there were only a few of them made. The statuary, of course, depicts George Washington, and it shows him at the time of his famous farewell speech to his officers. Down below the dial is a slogan which...

GUEST: "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen."

APPRAISER: That's right. The statuary is very finely cast, which is typical of what the French were doing. This is a French-made clock. The name on the clock is Dubuc. He was a bronzer. He was the caster, and he would sell these clocks to the American market. We know from the address that's on there that this clock was made probably between 1808 and 1816. Did you know there were also two of these-- very similar clocks to these-- in the White House collection, State Department?

GUEST: I thought, perhaps, we saw one at one time in back of one of the presidents'...

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: When he was making a speech, and it looked like it.

APPRAISER: These clocks have bounced around a lot in value in the last, say, ten or 20 years. About one comes for sale a year. We found one example of one that was similar that brought over $140,000.

GUEST: Oh, my goodness.

APPRAISER: This has some problems.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: The hands are replaced, and the ormolu's redone. This clock has a value today at, let's say, auction, between $50,000 to $80,000.

GUEST: Oh, my goodness! I can't believe that.