GUEST: This is a sculpture that my dad, somewhere in about early '70s, mid-'70s, he sculpted out of laminated maple.

He would take and laminate several pieces of wood that we actually got as... from-from his work.

He used to work in a cabinet shop.

And so he would take laminated pieces, glue 'em together, put 'em under a bumper jack, and leave 'em, let 'em sit there overnight.

And then he would begin to carve his wood and he would create different things.

And this is probably sculpture number three or four.

APPRAISER: I've been collecting folk art since 1970, so over 50 years.

And this book comes out in 1974.

And one of the pieces that your dad made was in this book.

And I believe it was a sculpture of your grandfather.

GUEST: That's right.

APPRAISER: And where is that piece now?

GUEST: It is actually at the Little Rock Arts Center, and it's-it's part of their permanent collection.

Uh, after that, he really never knew how to get his artwork out there to show people.

So a lot of people didn't really know that it existed.

APPRAISER: This is a story, and I wanted to tell it...

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: ...that is repeated time and time again...

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: ...throughout the country, of these local artisans that are very, very talented.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: Your dad knew what to do with wood.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: I had read that your father actually liked to draw in high school.

GUEST: Yes, that's correct.

APPRAISER: And he did drawings of flames, of fire, and of taffy pulling.

GUEST: Yes, movement, everything-thing that moved.

Kind of interesting, yes.

APPRAISER: So here he is actually trying to replicate that movement.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: In his pieces of sculpture.

And this wonderful female figure here leading up to the head, and so much movement going on.

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: If he was able to be in an area where he could sell his artwork, clearly that would have been his career.

Putting a value on this is difficult because no pieces have ever sold.

So we would have to look at this and put an arbitrary decorative value number on it of about $2,000.

GUEST: All right, that sounds good.

Well, I'm sure he'd appreciate it.

He would usually carve at night.

We'd wake up the next morning and have a bunch of shavings all over the floor.

APPRAISER: That's wonderful.