Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: It's been on the wall of my house my whole life.

My father was a writer.

And he traveled all around a lot in the '60s... APPRAISER: Uh-huh.

GUEST: And, uh, he lived in San Francisco for a little while.

And he came back with it.

APPRAISER: The Grabhorn Press was founded in San Francisco in 1919, and it really was the most distinguished fine press on the West Coast for almost 50 years.

Edwin and Robert Grabhorn had come out from Indianapolis and formed this press, printed many things in very limited quantities 100 copies, 30 copies and were very, very famous, even to this day, as essentially the founders of the fine press movement in the West Coast.

There are many, many collections of these books, but you very rarely see things that are one-off from the press itself since it was disbanded in 1965.

We're pretty certain that this was either created from a friend or admirer of the press and hung in the press's store.

You have here, which is a fish and a trumpet that is, uh, the equivalent of their imprint on every cover of each book.

So, for a collector of Grabhorn memorabilia, this is really a fabulous item.

Because it's so unique, we, conservatively, as a group, estimate it at about $700 to $900.

GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: But it may well be something that would go for significantly more than that for the right kind of collector.

GUEST: Mm.

APPRAISER: It's a really incredible piece of authentic San Francisco history.