GUEST: My dog portrait was in my grandmother's apartment for many, many years growing up as a kid. My grandmother said this was her dog growing up, so we have photographs of the dog going way back to probably 1895. And his name was Jim, and Jim must have been pretty special, because somebody painted him.
APPRAISER: Tell me about... This is Jim in the picture here, and is that your great-grandmother?
GUEST: Yeah, that's my great-grandmother and that's my grandmother. She's a little blurry in it, yes.
APPRAISER: She must have been jumping around when they were taking the picture.
GUEST: And there's another dog in there, a setter, but she never mentioned the
setter. It was always about Jim.
APPRAISER: The thing I love about the picture is the fact that the dog really has expression in his face. He really looks alive and like he's ready to jump off and go do something. And it's hard to paint animals like that and make them look any kind of animation in their faces or the way they're posed. And I think the cool thing about this is that it is very folky. They've got him all gussied up there with a blue ribbon on his collar. And if you notice, it's got a few little condition issues. It would not be a big deal to get that cleaned, and there's some abrasions on his leg. I think that almost looks like that happened while the paint was still drying. As it stands right now, I would say value on something like this would probably be about $2,000.
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: Yeah.
GUEST: Wow.
