APPRAISER: Thomas, what's the story on this little chair and this bigger chair?
GUEST: Well, the little chair came from an estate sale here in Chicago 15 years ago. And after I purchased the little chair, she asked me if I'd be interested in acquiring the big chair, which was directly behind me and I didn't even see it because it was covered in a blanket.
APPRAISER: They're from a period that I absolutely love, probably the 1950s, and it's post-Bauhaus, when Mies van der Rohe was working with pieces with tubular aluminum and canvas, and these very minimal pieces were being made. Just gorgeous, the construction. And then you go over to the bigger chair, and you have the same exact setup. I just think it's so cool. Right now in this state, what do you think they're worth?
GUEST: I couldn't tell you.
APPRAISER: What'd you pay?
GUEST: For the little one I paid $10, and for the big one I paid $20.
APPRAISER: $30 total.
GUEST: $30 investment.
APPRAISER: Okay, they have to be, just because of the quality of this and the quality of this, even if you don't figure out who it is, they got to be worth $2,000.
GUEST: Oh, no kidding, really? Awesome.
APPRAISER: Not bad for a day.
GUEST: Not bad for a day's work.
