GUEST: I brought a mirror that lights up, and it's got some kind of crystals on the outside.

I found it at a thrift store, and it was $7.99.

APPRAISER: You're kidding.

GUEST: No.

APPRAISER: What about it made you look at it?

GUEST: I loved the crystals, although, I thought, maybe they're... fake crystals, I don't know.

It was just very interesting, and I've never seen anything like it before.

I know that it was made in West Germany, which means that it's probably pre-1990s, 1980s, and it has old wiring.

I don't know how sturdy it is, but I have plugged it in and it works.

APPRAISER: How long ago did you get it?

GUEST: Uh, four years ago.

APPRAISER: This is an illuminated mirror by Palwa and it was made around 1970.

Palwa, first and foremost, was a lighting company.

So inside these, these channels, underneath the crystals, there's, there's lights.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: When you had it on, did you look at it?

Did you, you see the reflection?

GUEST: Yeah, you-- you kind of glow, yes.

APPRAISER: Okay.

Flattering?

GUEST: Yes.

APPRAISER: Okay.

They were good at this.

And what's really wonderful about it is the materials they, they used, helped complement the reflection.

So this is gold-plated brass, and they use crystal, and typically they use Swarovski crystal.

GUEST: Okay.

APPRAISER: So, this is very high quality, very nice glass that they would use.

This company made lights and illuminated mirrors in all kinds of different styles.

But this style that they made in the late '60s and '70s, it's very groovy, it's very fabulous.

There's an optical effect by the way that they layered the crystal in.

Large ones, small sizes, ones that are in the front, others that are kind of behind... GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER:...recessed further.

And so it has this great kind of, kind of optical effect.

We've seen round ones, we’ve seen different sizes-- and again, they made all kinds of different lights.

And they sell; there's a great market for these pieces.

This, at auction, is worth more than $7.99.

GUEST: (laughing): I hope so.

APPRAISER: Well, it's worth $2,000 to $3,000 at auction, conservatively.

GUEST: (softly) Wow.

Wow.

Oh, that's amazing.

That is amazing.

APPRAISER: Do you go thrifting a lot?

GUEST: Uh, every day.

(chuckles)