GUEST: I brought this glass dome, and it has an anchor in it. It's from my nana and my grandpa. I was told it was made of fish scales, but I don't know if that's right or not.

APPRAISER: Well, what you've brought us today, I think, is a truly amazing and very fun example of this Victorian trend of creating these elaborate curiosities-- you're correct. It is fish scale.

GUEST: Is it? Okay.

APPRAISER: And some of them are so delicately carved, you can see through them. But then they've carved these veins of leaves in 'em. It's so finely done. They took a real anchor...

GUEST: Oh!

APPRAISER: ...and crushed fish scale and applied it to it. And it's in this great Victorian glass dust dome.

GUEST: Uh-huh.

APPRAISER: And the pearls are synthetic. At auction, I would expect this to have an estimate of around $1,500 to $2,000.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: And my advice to you would be to insure it for $3,000.

GUEST: Okay. Well, I've wondered for so long, so now I know for sure.