GUEST: I found it at an estate sale in south Mississippi. I saw it, thought it was absolutely beautiful. I paid $5,400. It's a Verdura brooch. According to the box that it was in, it's from 1954.
APPRAISER: I'm an old-time jeweler, and I knew Mr. Verdura. He passed away in 1978, but he made some fabulous, fabulous jewelry. And he loved color. He loved insects, he loved flowers. And he was a Fifth Avenue upstairs jeweler. That to me is like the top of the line. You have a Verdura flower pin here. In this particular piece, you have diamonds, which are all full-cut, all set in platinum. You have emeralds, which are South American emeralds, which are green. It's 18-karat gold, and your amethysts are of the top quality of Uruguayan amethyst. They have that purple-blue in them. And Verdura, when he made this piece, he made it so beautifully. In the back here, all these little set screws come apart.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: So you can take the flowers off, repair it, and put it back together again.
GUEST: Oh, how interesting!
APPRAISER: It's very easy for a jeweler to repair this, if it ever breaks. But he made it like a piece of rock.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: A piece like this, if it came up for auction and we advertised it right, could easily sell anywhere from $25,000 to $35,000.
GUEST (gasps): Oh, my goodness! Oh, wow.