GUEST: It's a family piece, and I don't know, uh, much about it, other than it came down through a cousin to my grandmother, then to my parents, and then to me.
APPRAISER: So this is a pansy brooch. This dates to around the turn of the 1900s.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: 1900 up to 1910. Somewhere in that era. And this one is great, because it's got three pansies. Commonly, you'll see brooches with just a singular pansy on it. And this one also has a great enamel coloring to it, and very impressive that that enamel has survived so well over all these years. Did you ever wear it?
GUEST: A couple of times, yeah.
APPRAISER: Oh, yeah?
GUEST: I just, I'm always worried I would lose it.
APPRAISER: Right, yeah, I can imagine. And you never saw, like, whoever gave it to you wearing it? Or anybo...
GUEST: My grandmother wore it, and then my mother wore it.
APPRAISER: They took excellent care of it, that's great.
GUEST: Yeah, thanks.
APPRAISER: This one has, in the middle, old-European-cut diamonds, which was very indicative of the type of diamond cut you would see in that era. A really fun piece is, is that one of them is loose.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: And kind of moves around a little bit. (chuckles)
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: And what did you say your grandmother called that?
GUEST: Drops of dew.
APPRAISER: Drops of dew on the pansies.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: That's awesome. And you can see that it moves inside the petals. Did you ever try to find a signature on it?
GUEST: I did. And I was never able to find one. It was marked in the family's provenance as a Tiffany. So I'm, like, it's gotta be here somewhere, and I just could never find it.
APPRAISER: Yeah, it, it wasn't easy to find. (chuckles) It's on the back of one of the stems and it's textured.
GUEST: Ah.
APPRAISER: Making it more difficult to find. This is back when Louis Comfort Tiffany was running the company and the designs, Tiffany Studios.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: I'm not sure if they actually designed this one or they retailed it-- they would do a little bit of both. So the signature's on there. Also, the diamonds are a pretty good size.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: Most of the pansy brooches I see have a much smaller diamond, anywhere from about a tenth of a carat, maybe slightly larger.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Each one of these is about a quarter of a carat.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Nice size. Also, of course, being from Tiffany...
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: ...very good-quality diamonds.
GUEST: (chuckles) Right.
APPRAISER: When I was doing a little research on this, the much smaller versions were selling at retail for around $5,000. But this is not the same thing. This has much larger diamonds of much finer quality, and that Tiffany thing takes us the extra mile. I would suspect that in a retail situation, you could easily get $15,000 to $20,000 for this.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Yeah.
GUEST: That's excellent. (chuckles) Thank you so much.
APPRAISER: Thanks for bringing it in, it’s a great-looking piece.
GUEST: Yeah.
