GUEST: It was my late husband's chair when he was a small child. It used to be his time out chair. So...
APPRAISER: Aww.
GUEST: He was born in '35. He said it was old even then, so that's really about all I know.
APPRAISER: And it's almost a history of American furniture. There's this wonderful-- starting at the top, a Chippendale crest rail, which is great.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: And vigorous, but kind of wildly over-exaggerated, you know?
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: And a comb-back Windsor chair...
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: It moves through. It's got a bow back going on with it, as well.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: And then you move around to these wrap-around arms. And so it's also a round-about chair, meant to go into the corner. We move down into the seat itself...
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: And somebody has fashioned it so it would be super-comfy to sit in.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: And they describe this in Windsor chairs sometimes as a saddle seat. There are pierced splats on it, which is part of a Chippendale tradition. So these are all 18th-century forms, but it's so crazy, it's out of the playbook, absolutely. Then you move down to the base, and you start to get a little bit of the area here that we're in, the Winterthur- Delaware Valley area. These little Queen Anne side chairs have turnings that are similar to this. I believe it's an 18th-century chair, say, 1780 or so. It has a variety of, of woods in it, which you would expect to see in a Windsor.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: There's maple in it. There is ash, and then it's all sort of homogeneously painted with this nice red-brown finish.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: So, I'm kind of thinking an estimate might be in the $1,000 to $2,000 range.
GUEST: Oh, okay.
APPRAISER: You know?
GUEST: Great, yeah.
APPRAISER: And, and take it from there. (chuckling)
GUEST: It's-- yeah. It's got a lot of personality, and we love it.
