GUEST: Basically, I was in real estate, and real estate slowed down, so we opened a secondhand dealer store, and this is one of the items that got purchased in our store five years ago. We knew there was something there, we just didn't know what it was.
APPRAISER: This is a very old piece of jewelry, and it's got something that we normally don't see. It's got table-cut diamonds coming down from a pyramid-shape top to a flat-shape top, and it's in the evolution of diamond cuts, it's a very important step.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: We feel that the piece is 18th century, and it's some sort of an order badge. The iconography is a fleur-de-lis and a cross. It weighs five ounces, give or take. That's a lot of gold.
GUEST: Yeah?
APPRAISER: We tested it, we got 22 karat.
GUEST: Oh, we thought it was 18 karat, actually. Yes, we come up a little bit higher. We can see that it's a solid-built piece of jewelry that was made to be worn as a pendant. And somebody put, very, very carefully, a brooch attachment to the back of it. The good news about this piece is that it's probably worth more than scrap here.
APPRAISER: Ah - what did you pay for this?
GUEST: $3,800.
APPRAISER: We would feel comfortable giving it a presale auction estimate of $20,000 to $30,000.
GUEST: Wow. That's amazing. Gave me goosebumps.
