GUEST: This hung in my grandmother's apartment on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago for over 40 years. The pen went through relatives on her husband's side. He got the pen in 1869. His daughter wrote Alice Longfellow that she would like an autograph to go with the pen. So Alice sent the letter. And the autograph, she couldn't find one, so she cut one out of a book.
APPRAISER: It actually, from here, looks rather like the front of an envelope, but it's a perfectly genuine, uh, signature. And it's a photograph of the famous author and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a quill pen that was evidently his. Autographed manuscript quotations come up a lot for sale. Uh, it's nice to have the pen, nice to have the photograph. And this letter supports the provenance perfectly well. And I would have thought an auction estimate on this package would be in the region of $500 to $1,000.
GUEST: That's terrific. That's terrific.