GUEST: We got it at a flea market in Kansas City about 15 years ago.

APPRAISER: What did you pay for it?

GUEST: About $120, if I remember.

APPRAISER: Okay, what you have here is a paint sample display. You could scroll through and see how a house would look with the various colored paints. Aside from being a very interesting device, it tells us something very interesting about how houses were painted back then-- the colorful combinations. I'd date this between 1900 and 1905. I find this absolutely fascinating. It's in very good shape. This roughness up here, it sort of fits in with the whole thing. It's not... this is not a matter of condition. The images are bright, the mechanism works, and in an advertising auction, it should sell for between $1,200 and $1,500.

GUEST: Really?

APPRAISER: Yeah, really.

GUEST: That's great. Now we just have to find one of those houses so we can paint it.

GUEST: Yes, right.