APPRAISER: Where did you fight in World War II?
GUEST: In the European theater. I found that in France, in Alsace. We sheltered in a glass factory there, and this was in the stockroom of that. And the Germans run us out, and when we left, I took it with me.
APPRAISER: I've been to that same factory. It's still there, by the way. It's the Lalique factory in Wingen-sur-Moder in Alsace, and they made this just before the war. So it would've been there in the early '40s. This was a heavy thing to put in your backpack, but you brought back a good piece. You didn't bring back the most valuable piece, I'll warn you. There are other things, even smaller things, that would be more valuable today. The religious Lalique that was made mostly in the '30s has some value today, but not a great deal. This one would only be worth in the hundreds of dollars, I'm afraid-- maybe $600, $700. Originally, this has a little wooden base, and that would add to the value.
