GUEST: My grandfather bought it just for himself. He liked beautiful things and he bought it at a jewelry store in Columbia, South Carolina, in the early 1900s, maybe 1910, sort of.
APPRAISER: Well, that's wonderful, right here in the area then-- perfect. Well, what you have is a puffy Pairpoint lamp. And the puffy you can see by the roses and by the style there, what they mean by puffy. And on the shade, it says "patent applied for," which is what we want to see. Then we go down to the base and it's a beautiful, beautiful base with these floral patterns. This is circa 1905, and then they made them for a few years after that. And you know, the Pairpoint market dumped. It just dumped. However...
GUEST: However?
APPRAISER: However, a number of years ago, you would have found these in the thousands. Then they went down, got so low that maybe they weren't even selling, but guess what you did.
GUEST: What?
APPRAISER: You held on.
GUEST: I did, yes.
APPRAISER: You held on for this eight and ten years, and I see many sales now where the market has come back...
GUEST: That's wonderful.
APPRAISER: And you are now in possibly an $8,000 to $10,000 retail market.
GUEST: Oh, that's great!
APPRAISER: So I think you did the right thing.
GUEST: Thank you, thank you.
APPRAISER: Thank you. You too.
