GUEST: I went to an estate sale, and there was a storage shed.
APPRAISER: Okay.
GUEST: And I saw this water-soaked box with just the corner of one of these sticking out. I actually thought maybe they were Pennsylvania Dutch.
APPRAISER: Well, they're not Pennsylvania Dutch, and… and and they're not junk, either, I would say.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: And what I like about them is that they were made by Maw & Company, in, in a small factory, in a town just a few miles from where I grew up.
GUEST: Is that right?
APPRAISER: Yeah. And when I was young, I worked in the Maw & Company tile works, which was a disused tile works by then.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: But as a historian, I worked on tiles just like this, restoring them...
GUEST: Oh my.
APPRAISER: ...and researching them. They're beautifully made, and look at all the colors on them. These have never been laid, they've never been put in mortars. So, I think today, in an antique shop, nicely presented like this, certainly would be priced at about... perhaps $1,000.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
