Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: Godmother gave it to me, and she rescued it from a teacher's retreat up in the Hudson Valley area.

APPRAISER: I want to talk about this for several reasons.

It is a piece of Gustav Stickley and there are ways you know this when there's not a very clear mark.

And first of all, this is a later piece of Gustav Stickley.

We know because it has this little tricky thing going on.

It's got this lift front that locks into place.

And then from underneath it folds down.

So we know when we start seeing this little gimmicks it's a little later, like about 1910 or so.

But certain things tell us it's Gustav Stickley first of all, we know it's a good piece because it's pinned in the front and in the back instead of screws being used it's got wooden nails you see these through tenons on the sides, these are real through tenons this shelf ends on both sides with through tenons that lock it in place.

Dating to about 1910, at auction, a piece like this would certainly sell for $1,500 to $2,000.

And probably more like $2,000 to $3,000.

GUEST: Okay, great, thank you.