GUEST: When my parents moved, we were cleaning out the basement, and Mom said, "This is an old mug. Why don't you take that with you?" And I said, "Oh, I don't know, but okay." So I threw it in a box, didn't wrap it or anything, and it ended up in my attic until I saw a picture in a magazine and I thought, "That looks a little familiar."
APPRAISER: And what did the magazine call it?
GUEST: It called it a mochaware mug.
APPRAISER: Well, it is indeed a mochaware mug. Mochaware was made in England in the early to mid 19th century. It was virtually never marked. It was certainly sold in England, but it was also shipped to the United States as well, where it was bought by people of modest means. They made lots of pitchers and mugs and utilitarian-type things. And it was usually decorated similar to this, with very bright colors. Some pieces are much, much more valuable based on the decoration, and this is a decoration, this middle band, that we have never seen before. We believe that, at auction, this would probably bring in the $1,200 to $1,800 range.
GUEST: Oh, my goodness!