GUEST: We moved to New York, and that's where my kids were born and raised. My neighbor was an older lady, and I liked the vase, so she said, "Okay, you can have it." And she gave it to me, and I've had it ever since the '60s. I put plastic flowers in it at home, and I keep it.
APPRAISER: Put plastic flowers in it?
GUEST: Yeah, I put... oh, no, I don't put it outside for flowers. I put plastic flowers in it. I always told my daughter, if we ever get a chance to go on the ROADSHOW, I would bring this piece with us.
APPRAISER: Okay, well, let's start with what it is.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Okay, it's Roseville pottery.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: So Roseville pottery started in about 1890. It went out of business in 1954.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: This particular pattern, it's called Dogwood One, or Textured Dogwood. There are two different versions of Dogwood. There's the one that has textured leaves, and there's one that has a much smoother leaf. Now, when I got into the business in 1995, Roseville pottery was it. I mean, everybody loved it. Okay, and they're so pretty.
GUEST: It's beautiful.
APPRAISER: And the Dogwood's one of the better ones.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: Oftentimes unmarked, so people don't realize what it is, so it ends up in a thrift store, ends up in a dumpster, something along those lines.
GUEST: Right, right.
APPRAISER: It's an interesting market. It's way, way, way down.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: But if you sold it at auction today I would estimate it between $600 and $800.
GUEST: Okay. All right, good.
APPRAISER: If it had been in '95, this probably would have been $3,000 to $5,000.
GUEST: Wow, wow.
