GUEST: My husband got really excited about Windsor chairs, and then I noticed that he was buying more Windsor chair books.

And I was, like, "What is going on with the chairs?"

And he showed me that he had his eye on this chair that was being sold in Maine.

And when my husband told me that we were going to get it, he said, "I think it'll be worth $750."

And I was, like, "Hm, okay."

But I, I don't know, we'll see.

APPRAISER: So you paid...

GUEST: $250.

APPRAISER: All right-- how old do you think it is?

GUEST: We're hoping that it's, like, late 18th century... APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: ...or early 19th century.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

I don't think it's as old as you think it is.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: It's, like, over the top.

It's, it's sort of a Windsor chair on steroids, if you will.

(laughs): And so I think somebody had made this sort of in 1900, 1920 vintage.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

So, but for $250, I think we're fine.

If this were to, for instance, come to public auction, I don't think it's going to do much more than that for, for two reasons.

One, it's not period, and secondly, the finish on it is, is a little, kind of distressed.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

Distress is in now, though.

(laughs) APPRAISER: You're right, you're right.

It is.