GUEST: I acquired this chair, um, thrifting in Long Island.
APPRAISER: How much was it?
GUEST: $38.
APPRAISER: It's actually made of beech. Up here, you can see traces of the grain painting that was put on the beech to make it look more like rosewood or a more expensive and, and flashy wood. This is a, an early-19th-century chair. The beautiful carving back here on the crest, those sort of heavier scrolls, and, uh, this bellflower those are sort of, uh, referencing classical antiquity, and in this period, designers and cabinetmakers are, are pulling their designs more closely from Classicism. These chairs were made in some quantity, and the big cabinet shops in London and the other urban centers would often use journeymen. Your chair has a stamp on it.
GUEST: Oh, it does?
APPRAISER: From one of those journeyman makers.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: Um, I would expect at auction for this chair to probably bring between $1,000 and $1,500.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Congratulations, and, uh, happy thrifting.
GUEST: Thank you so much.
