GUEST: What I have here is a poster of Mount St. Helens pre-1980. Actually, this is about the area of post-World War II, I would think, or during that time in the 1940s. And it's, as you can see, it's a Northern Pacific poster. I have a number of these that I've got. I've got about five or six. I had a friend of mine, belonged to her father, he was in the military in World War II.
APPRAISER: And you got them from him...
GUEST: About 25 years ago. I liked them, and I figured they're worth, you know, $100 or so apiece.
APPRAISER: Let's take a look at the other ones, if we could, I want to show you these ones in here. Also from the Northern Pacific Railroad.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: More impressively, perhaps than the one in the frame, this one features a locomotive. While the condition isn't great, it's the same artist, Gustav Krollmann, for the same railroad, the Northern Pacific. This one is illustrated the North Coast Limited, which is one of their famous locomotives. Also... the Northern Pacific Railroad, this is Yellowstone Park by Edward Bremer. It's an image of Old Faithful.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: You know, one of the great natural, uh, places in all, in all of the Continental United States. They date to the 1930s, so they're pre-war. American railroads have become so highly collectible in the poster field, $100 is very, very, very low. The Mount St. Helens poster sold at auction for about $1,500.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: The Yellowstone Park, Old Faithful, sold just last year for $2,800.
GUEST: You gotta be kidding me!
APPRAISER: And the image of the locomotive...
GUEST: I don't wanna know, I think.
APPRAISER: The image of the locomotive, now albeit, this one is gonna have to be restored because the condition is so rough. But, with the train, we've sold this one, again, as high as about $2,500.
GUEST: Whoa.
