APPRAISER: I have twin daughters. You know what I'm really excited about?
GUEST: Probably those cufflinks.
APPRAISER: Cufflinks, but cufflinks are for guys. We do this show all the time. We don't get too much jewelry for men. So where'd you get them from?
GUEST: They're actually from my daddy's great-grandfather.
APPRAISER: You know anything about them?
GUEST: I don't know anything about them.
APPRAISER: These are probably from around 1875 through the early 1900s.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: First of all, they're a little unusual. A lot of cufflinks you see, they're dark, they're black onyx. They're white, so it's the kind of thing that would have been worn for a very, very dressy occasion.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: That white is white enamel. And what's raised up through it are these little granulated designs-- almost like a little flower, each one.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: But they're made out of 18-karat yellow gold.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: When we flip it over, we can see right over here that it's signed "T.B. Starr." Did you ever notice that?
GUEST: No, I did not.
APPRAISER: So T.B. Starr, his real name is Theodore B. Starr. He went into the jewelry business, the retail jewelry business in New York on John Street, around 1864. He eventually became part of Black, Starr & Frost, which was a big retailer in New York City. Whatever they sold was quality. So at auction today, $3,000 easy.
GUEST: That's not bad.
APPRAISER: That's great, I mean, for a pair of cufflinks, you know?
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: Guys don't get to spend money on jewelry like that.
GUEST: No, no.
