GUEST: My dad gave it to me. After he retired, he started to go to flea markets, and that's what he occupied his time with.
APPRAISER: He was a collector of sorts?
GUEST: Yes. I think it's a Tiffany lamp. I love it, I use it, that's about it. I don't know how much he paid for it.
APPRAISER: Was he a big spender?
GUEST: When the item was right, yes. He was pretty close with his money too, so...
APPRAISER: This lamp is actually a conundrum for us at the glass table. The base is a Zodiac base that would have been with a Zodiac desk set, and this is a Linenfold shade. Let me just take that off here. Now, it certainly looks like it fit perfectly from the beginning, and of course, it is a real Tiffany lamp. It would be from circa 1910. And here, we have it marked on the shade. The base is not marked. Some issues with the shade are there's some cracks here in the lower panel and there's at least one crack in one of the larger panels. But okay, let's see, we put this back, and as I say...
GUEST: Was this from two separate lamps that...?
APPRAISER: Well, that's what we normally wouldn't see or expect to see, a Linenfold shade on a Zodiac base. Now, however, it could have just been a variant. As I say, it fits perfectly and everything about it looks fine, but it's just kind of an unusual lamp for us to see with this shade and this base. Everything here is made by Tiffany Studios, perfectly legitimate early shade and early base, and a very good cap. That cap may be worth quite a bit itself alone. The cracks in the glass on the shade do hurt, but again, you've got a very good cap, you have a good shade and you have a good base, so even with the damage, I think probably retail, $4,500, right around there. If it had no cracks in the shade, you're probably talking about $7,500 or so.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: Closer to $8,000.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: That cap alone could be worth $2,000.
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: Yeah.
