GUEST: I know it's a picture of El Tovar. I know it was painted in 1906. El Tovar is the main lodge at the Grand Canyon.
APPRAISER: Finest hotel you can stay on the rim of the Grand Canyon.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: And the painting here, Louis Akin, Grand Canyon, 1906. You mentioned the lodge was built in 1905 by the architects of the Santa Fe railroad. So it has Santa Fe railroad associations.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: They brought in Louis Akin to paint this picture and had many copies produced.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: As an advertisement for the hotel to bring guests and tourists in to... What could possibly be a more idyllic spot than this perch on, on the Grand Canyon? How did you come to, uh, to acquire the piece?
GUEST: It's a funny story. My husband had a horse, and we were selling it. A man said, "I'll buy it from you, and I'll trade you a painting." So we gave him the horse, and he gave us the painting. I have no idea if the painting was the same value as the horse or not. (laughs)
APPRAISER: You traded the painting for a horse.
GUEST: For a horse. We didn't have to feed the painting anymore.
APPRAISER: Yeah.
GUEST: And we'd like to know the value of the horse or the picture.
APPRAISER: Right, uh-huh. (laughs)
GUEST: Whichever you want to tell me.
APPRAISER: Uh, well, this piece at auction, I would probably put an estimate somewhere in the $2,500 to $3,500 range.
GUEST: Very nice. I didn't have to feed it.
APPRAISER: (laughs): Very... Such as this.
GUEST: Okay, well, I'll go put it back on the wall.
APPRAISER: Excellent, thank you.
GUEST: Thank you very much.
