Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

This came through my wife's grandmother. She inherited it from her grandmother. Her grandmother married a man from Mexico City. He was an antique collector, and he collected it in Mexico City. His inventory indicated that he wrote the word Guatemala. So we assumed that, maybe, it came from Guatemala.

APPRAISER

It probably is from Guatemala, would probably need to do a little more research on that. It's certainly from Central or South America. It's dated right here, done in Roman numerals. I think we tend to think that only samplers that are made in the United States or England are valuable, but there are many wonderful samplers from Mexico and other places in Central or South America. I think this is a great example of that. We not only have really nice embroidery, it's done to the same degree of fineness you'd find on most any really high quality American sampler. I would probably insure this for somewhere around $2,000.

GUEST

Ah, very good.