Antiques Roadshow

APPRAISER: This is a photo of your grandfather working in his shop and he was a platinum jeweler.

GUEST: Yes, he was.

APPRAISER: Tell us about this great piece.

GUEST: My grandfather made this platinum glove for my grandmother right after they got married.

APPRAISER: Where's the other one?

GUEST: Well, you know, I don't know.

Uh, my mother, this is all I found that my mother had.

When I was a young child, she showed it to me and she only had one at the time.

So I'm thinking in the 1920s maybe they wore two, maybe they wore one.

APPRAISER: We had a Michael Jackson then?

GUEST: Maybe, I don't know.

APPRAISER: (laughs) I just want to let you know that-- it won't fall-- that this is not a glove.

GUEST: Oh, it's not a glove?

APPRAISER: Not a glove.

GUEST: What is that?

APPRAISER: It's a purse.

GUEST: It's a purse?

APPRAISER: And it's damaged up here where the string, the drawstring, and it goes like that.

GUEST: My goodness.

APPRAISER: And they would put a, a colored handkerchief on the inside and change the color all the time.

GUEST: Wow.

Very interesting.

APPRAISER: Now I'm going to sadly tell you the other thing.

GUEST: Oh, no.

APPRAISER: It's not platinum.

GUEST: Oh, no!

APPRAISER: It is cut steel.

GUEST: Cut steel?

APPRAISER: It's made in Germany.

It could have been done in Austria, but in that area.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISERS: 1920s.

The flappers wore this down here for a purse.

This is all woven and the women do this.

So your grandfather never made it.

GUEST: My goodness.

APPRAISER: Now, what the condition is-- cut steel today is very nice and it does sell-- it's worth about $350.

GUEST: Fantastic.

APPRAISER: If this was platinum... GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: we're talking $10,000 to $15,000.

GUEST: Wow.