GUEST: I'm currently fixing my grandparents' home, and I came across a very heavy box in the attic. I brought it downstairs and opened it up, and I found this cabinet, closed.
APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: And I opened it and found all this food in here wrapped in...
APPRAISER: Wrapped in this Chicago newspaper.
GUEST: Yeah, Chicago newspaper, World's Fair paper. I was really surprised, so I found out that my uncle lost his apartment or home during the Depression because of the money problems, so he had to move back home. And everything went in the attic.
APPRAISER: Okay.
GUEST: It just was frozen in time in the attic until I came across it.
APPRAISER: Now, these are some of the spices and various tins that you found wrapped in these items, correct?
GUEST: Right. Right, they were all wrapped up, yes. I want to preserve this for my family.
APPRAISER: Great-- well, a couple of things, and I want to use this as an example. You can see here that this is Menu sugar, which is a great advertising piece.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: But you can see that the box is a little crumpled here, and it does have the sugar in it. Now, with all of these items, what you want to do is empty the product, okay?
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Having the product in there will only incite bugs to, you know, greatly attract them.
GUEST: Okay, all right.
APPRAISER: So you do want to get rid of that, because that will help preserve the integrity of the piece.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Once you do that, and you can see here, if you go slowly and open this up, you can get a piece of cardboard in here that will help open this up and help preserve the piece, because that's where your value is going to be in, is in the condition and the quality of some of the graphics that are on these items. And I would put an estimate on this of about $800 to $1,200 for the whole group. And it could go higher because of the condition.
GUEST: That's great. Great. Oh, he'd be happy.
APPRAISER: Yes, he would.
GUEST: He's up there watching this.
