GUEST: We bought this from a friend of ours, and they picked it up somewhere in the Southwest.
APPRAISER: Well, it's a nice Navajo pictorial. They started doing pictorials in the 1880s, when the trains started coming to the Southwest. As automobiles came in and airplanes came in, they would document that on pictorials. This one probably dates to about the 1920s. This one's a nice one because it does have an airplane. It appears to be a biplane, and it's an U.S. Mail Express plane, which is probably fairly rare. These are probably representative of cattle brands.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: And I'm not quite sure what this shape is. You've got simulated arrows here.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: It's a very nice pictorial, obviously with a lot of condition problems.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: I think because of its condition, it would be worth about $3,000 to $5,000, as is. If you could clean some of these stains out and get the ends restored, it could be as valuable as $8,000 to $12,000.
