GUEST: I'd say about six or seven years ago, I went to my local thrift store, and when I saw this bowl, my first thought was maybe my sister or my nieces would like to use it as a pasta bowl. Coming from an Italian family, we know that you can never have too many pasta bowls. For $3.75, I couldn't pass it up.
APPRAISER: Knowing what I know about Italian families, it's not big enough to be a pasta bowl.
GUEST (chuckles): True.
APPRAISER: It's a beautiful bowl, though. It's actually a fruit bowl. This is English porcelain. I would date it to about 1830. It's not worth a fortune. If you ever decided to sell it, and I hope you don't, you'd probably be lucky to get more than $100 or $150 for it. It looks the same today as it did 200 years ago.
GUEST: Well, I'm glad I didn't put pasta sauce in it.
(both chuckling)
