GUEST: I bought it about eight years ago.
APPRAISER: The piece was made by Dr. Niblack, who was a doctor in Colorado who used dental tools to carve with. Do you know if he was a dentist?
GUEST: No, he was a chiropractor in the Denver area.
APPRAISER: Okay. He was active in the 1950s, did work for Disney.
GUEST: Uh-huh.
APPRAISER: Not a tremendous piece of woodwork, necessarily, but it is a great representation and celebration of the American West. And for people who collect Western Americana, it's a very difficult thing to find. Very few people were making this type of furniture in the mid-20th century. Do you have any idea of value?
GUEST: I know what I paid for it, which was $2,900.
APPRAISER: Okay.
GUEST: It's whimsical-- I love it.
APPRAISER: A lot of flash for the cash, as we say.
GUEST: That's right.
APPRAISER: An auction estimate would be $3,000 to $5,000 or thereabouts.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: So about what you paid for it.
GUEST: Right.