GUEST: My father, in 1962, was given this camera and asked to modify it so that it could be worked left-handed singlehandedly, and he had to make this viewfinder from scratch, and then it was used for John Glenn's Mercury capsule.
APPRAISER: You did tell me-- and we've got this wonderful newspaper clipping, and you did say that the camera is in the Smithsonian. How did your father get the viewfinder back?
GUEST: After John Glenn's mission, they had asked to-- they sent the camera back and asked him to replace the viewfinder with a flip-type, and I guess they used the camera again in another space mission. But he kept the piece in his toolbox and no one ever came back for it or claimed it.
APPRAISER: And they never claimed it. Items that have been in space and used during space exploration have become more and more collectible. I would probably put $1,000 to $2,000 as an estimate on it.
GUEST: Oh, great, that's great!
APPRAISER: Because it's so significant, yeah.
GUEST: That's wonderful.
