GUEST: When I was little, my great-uncle had a showroom out of his home... APPRAISER: Uh-huh.

GUEST: ...that he sold silver and glassware out of.

APPRAISER: Oh, okay.

GUEST: And every year, we were able to pick a piece that we liked.

And so for seven years, I picked one of each of these in the set.

APPRAISER: I think you had a very good eye for such a young lad.

GUEST: Oh.

APPRAISER: They are quite beautiful, and they are sterling silver.

Now, they all look very, very similar, and this is because they were made around the same time.

They range in date from 1800 to about 1819.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: So it's the late Georgian period into the Regency period.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: And the way we know that-that they are from this very specific time frame is through the marks and through the stylistic decoration on them.

They're all hallmark London.

Now, this looks like a set, but it's not an exact set.

It's a collection; they all follow a similar pattern.

You've got a goblet on a circular foot, and they all have this leaf tip and acanthus decoration on them.

And the acanthus leaf is an ancient motif that you'd find in ancient Roman ruins, for example.

It's a feature of the Corinthian capital, and it was revived in the Renaissance period and in the Georgian period as well.

So it's a, it harks back to antiquity.

The one here in front of me has very nice marks on it.

The quality of the strike is a good indication of the desirability of the piece because people sometimes collect silver just for the quality of the hallmarks.

A good strike is a better thing to have on a piece of silver.

I think the pair in the middle is, to me, probably the most finely executed.

GUEST: Oh.

APPRAISER: At auction, individually, they would probably be worth somewhere in the range of $500 to $800 each.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: As a group, though, even though they're not an exact set, they do form an instant collection.

So I think as a group, they're worth more than the sum of their parts.

So the whole collection at auction would probably be worth $8,000 or $9,000.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: That's... (chuckles) ...that's surprising, I... okay.

APPRAISER: And for insurance, you should ask a bit more.

GUEST: Okay, yeah.

APPRAISER: You know.

Yeah, uh, maybe, I would say probably $12,000, probably for insurance.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

GUEST: And they've just been sitting in a plastic box for a long time.

APPRAISER: Well, it might be nice to take them out once in a while and use them.

GUEST: Sure.