Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

This is something that I've had since I was really tiny. And it's sort of like an olden-day View-Master.

APPRAISER

Uh-huh.

GUEST

You put a slide in there and you look through it and it gives a 3D image.

APPRAISER

Okay. What you have is a Brewster stereoscopic viewer. This is a relatively late one. It was probably made in England, but the earliest ones of these were made in the 1850s. You were telling me you like these because there were some naughty views in here?

GUEST

There are some naughty Victorian ones in there, yeah.

APPRAISER

Oh, my gosh. That is... That's very naughty.

GUEST

I know. I know, it is.

APPRAISER

This, in the original box, is worth about $800 to $1,000.

GUEST

Wow.

APPRAISER

It would be worth more, but the oculars are cracked.

GUEST

Yes.

APPRAISER

The thing that I'm sort of interested in is, how did these American stereo views get in here?

GUEST

I have no idea. How did we let those Yanks into my slide books?

APPRAISER

Well, these are very important American stereo views, too.

GUEST

Okay.

APPRAISER

These are from the Fisk expedition at 1866, crossing the plains to Montana. That slide is probably worth about $200 or $300.

GUEST

Oh, my gosh.

APPRAISER

The total value of the box that you have here...

GUEST

Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER

...is several thousand dollars. I haven't added them all up.

GUEST

Oh, wow.

APPRAISER

So you've got quite a little group of...

GUEST

I'm glad I came today.