GUEST: It was given to me at my godmother's death. It was given to her by a lady she was a private duty nurse for who bought it on her honeymoon. When I first acquired it, I had it cleaned professionally.
APPRAISER: Okay.
GUEST: And the gentleman who cleaned it offered me a couple of hundred dollars for it.
APPRAISER: What you have here is an antique Caucasian Gendje rug. Gendje is an area in the southeast Caucasus. It's very close to where the Kazak rugs are made.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: There are certain characteristics of this type of rug that lead us to make it a Gendje. It has a multi-corded selvage, and then the design is almost exclusively Gendje. It has, like, these barber pole striped bands in the field, in this case enclosing pears or boteh patterns along with shrubs. And also, the ivory rosette border. It dates from the late 19th century, it exclusively has vegetable dyes, and it's in fine condition. The value for this rug today in a retail situation would be $6,500.
GUEST: Wow, yay!
APPRAISER: So many thanks for bringing it in, and I'm glad you didn't sell it for $200.
GUEST: Me too.
