APPRAISER: You really brought something very interesting to our ROADSHOW today.

GUEST: Oh, well, thank you.

APPRAISER: And it has all the right marks on it, Where the dark spots are, you have Russian hallmarks.

And also on the gold motif right over here, you have a 56.

In Russian, that means 14 karat.

And it even goes further and says who made it.

The man's initials are on there.

So you can look it up and get a rough idea when it was made.

Now, getting back to the uniqueness of this particular piece, uh, it's been put together.

It's not original.

GUEST: Oh, really?

APPRAISER: It's been put together by some good craftsman and some bad craftsman.

Okay?

GUEST: (laughs) APPRAISER: I think there was two hands on this one.

GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: If you look, it's supposed to be a Russian egg.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: There's one egg on top and one egg on the bottom, see?

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: Now, the enameling on the egg is done beautifully, and the engraving underneath the enamel is also done magnificently.

It's in the realm of Fabergé, but it's not Fabergé.

GUEST: Oh, really?

APPRAISER: Yeah.

Next thing.

Whoever put this together used some sort of enamel epoxy... GUEST: Oh.

APPRAISER: ...to adhere this egg to that egg.

GUEST: Hm.

APPRAISER: Because Fabergé would never put two eggs together.

He'd put one egg inside another egg, but he would never put one on top of the other.

GUEST: On top of the other.

APPRAISER: The other thing is the, uh... I think that's St.

George the dragon... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...but it's not really St.

George, because St.

George is really on a horse.

This particular person is standing up.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: So that tells me it's also not original.

GUEST: Oh, really?

APPRAISER: If this was original and was Fabergé, it would bring somewhere around $4,000 to $5,000.

In the state it's in, married, it's only going to bring somewhere between $300 and $500.

GUEST: Oh, really?

APPRAISER: Yeah.

I'm sorry to tell you the... GUEST: Well, that's all right.

APPRAISER: ...some good news and bad news.

GUEST: (chuckles)