UEST: Well, I found it on the shelf in the back of a little shop. Just thought it looked like a good piece, but I didn't know what it was. I didn't recognize the markings on it. So I purchased it and then did some research, and it said, apparently it is attributed to Marblehead Pottery.

APPRAISER: And when you bought it from that, that shelf in that little shop, how much was that?

GUEST: Three dollars.

APPRAISER: And that was recently?

GUEST: A couple of weeks ago.

APPRAISER: Indeed, it was made by the Marblehead Pottery in Massachusetts. Doctor Hall had started a sanatorium, helping young women with... with physical and, and neurological issues through the making of pottery, which was a great idea. And it was a pretty common idea at the time, at the turn of the last century.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Except that it was found that instead of helping the patients, it was putting a lot of stress on them as patients, and it wasn't helping the pottery. And the actual pottery was sold to someone else.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: So, Arthur Baggs took over the pottery in about 1915. This particular piece would have been done, the original design, around 1919...

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: ...and produced over and over again through the 1920s, and probably through the '30s, as well. What I love about this is that you are buying it at this time, in the 21st century, for three dollars. Originally, it may have been a couple of dollars.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: These days, a very reasonable auction estimate would be $1,000 to $1,500, okay?

GUEST: Okay, wow.

APPRAISER: And, and the retail estimate, $1,500 to $2,000.

GUEST: Okay.