Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: My sister thought I would like this for a Christmas present.

So she gave it to me about ten years ago.

She paid $25 for it.

APPRAISER: Well, the decoration, the prunus branches, and birds that you find on a lot of things, but particularly, you find on Asian items and this was marked, "Zee Sung silver."

Now Zee Sung was a silversmith working in Shanghai.

Now in Shanghai, you had a large Western community.

So they made things to a Western design.

But they also incorporated Asian motifs, hence the prunus blossoms and the birds and so on.

I think at auction, it's somewhere between $1,000 and $1,500 for it.

GUEST: Okay, very good.

APPRAISER: So your sister did a, did a good thing.