GUEST: This was a carving.

My husband's family had it, and they all chose to pick 'em, and we got the last pick.

But I feel like it's the best pick.

My husband's great-great-uncle, his name was Abraham Lincoln Hinrichs.

He had a boys club.

And he carved totem poles with those boys.

And then he got asked to do it for the Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City.

And he made three totem poles for the capitol.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: He was asked to do one of the life of Mark Twain.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: And one of Truman's, because Truman was from Missouri.

APPRAISER: Right, okay.

GUEST: And then he got to bring a personal one.

And this is from the personal one.

He did this in 1940.

APPRAISER: It's probably carved of cedar.

It's wonderfully stylized.

It's the essence of folk art.

So you have these clasped hands, these hands that are shaking, white painted against this black heart with a red surround.

And it... the surface is wonderful.

On the back, there are these initials.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: And-and what do you think that those are?

GUEST: We think that those are some of the boys that helped him.

APPRAISER: Also I love these signs from the club.

And he was teaching young men how to operate in the world as gentlemen, to be polite, how to work hard, how to get up when you fall.

All those good things that-that I-I taught my son, that we-we teach our sons and daughters.

"Be quick to forgive a guy who says," quote, "I am sorry."

That's pretty good.

And "learn to apologize now and have friends when you are old."

That's good.

GUEST: There were so many about just life lessons and how to live and how to love.

And this would have been in the '30s and '40s.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: They were ages 13 to 18 could come to the club.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: And he, if you're gonna hang out here, you're gonna learn a trade, you're gonna learn a skill, you're gonna learn manners.

He didn't let 'em, he didn't let 'em be ugly to each other.

APPRAISER: That's great.

GUEST: And they were all ethnicities.

We're very proud of the work he did.

(chuckles) APPRAISER: It's a pretty nice package.

You can insure a group like this easily for $3,000.

GUEST: Oh, wow.

(laughs) APPRAISER: Serious.

Just with...

GUEST: Okay.

That's fantastic.