Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: My dear Aunt Esther gave it to me.

My maternal grandmother was her mother.

APPRAISER: Uh-huh.

GUEST: And, uh, she gave it to her in the '20s.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: And I know my Aunt Esther loved to dance.

APPRAISER : Right.

GUEST: You know, Charleston, Black Bottom.

APPRAISER : Uh-huh.

GUEST: And I could just picture her with this over her arm, dancing.

APPRAISER: Chic.

Well, it's a Mandalian handbag made in the teens.

And there were two major companies in America who made them.

Whiting & Davis was the other one.

GUEST : Uh-huh.

APPRAISER: Mandalian, I don't think wasn't in... in business as long.

Beautiful quality, lovely colors.

GUEST: Thank you.

APPRAISER: The pale pink and the white and the gold.

GUEST: Oh!

APPRAISER: And the nicest thing about this one is there's no loss of color on the metal mesh.

And it's in perfect condition.

So the retail price on this in a good vintage store would be between $150 and $200.

GUEST: Oh, how wonderful.

Well, thank you, Aunt Esther.

APPRAISER: Yes!