GUEST: Here you have Ms.

Louisa, and I have known Ms.

Louisa since I was about five years old.

I have a picture of my mother and Ms.

Louisa together.

And the picture was taken in 1920, when my mother was about five years old.

And this was in Pennsylvania, where my mother grew up.

So other than that, I know my mother played with her, obviously, because she was holding her.

I was not allowed to play with her.

She was just to sit quietly under the Christmas tree and look very serene and spiritual.

(laughing) APPRAISER: So we know she's been in your family since at least 1920.

GUEST: Correct.

APPRAISER: So, Ms.

Louisa is about 100 years before that almost.

GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: So Ms.

Louisa comes about 1830.

GUEST: (exhales) That's wonderful.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

she is an American papier-mâché and there's a cloth body that's all hand sewn under here.

And these dolls are usually Philadelphia, East Coast area.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: She has a body similar to some of the dolls made in Philadelphia, which were Greiner dolls with these individuals made fingers GUEST: Mm-hmm APPRAISER: individual stitched toes.

It is a papier-mâché, These were handmade, hand-painted.

A lot of times you see ones that are very feminine looking.

Um, this one's a little more masculine, but we do know it is a female because of that part in the middle of her face there.

GUEST: Oh, okay.

APPRAISER: She would have been a special, special-made doll.

GUEST: Oh.

Huh.

APPRAISER: So not cheap, meaning that she maybe was five dollars... GUEST: Yeah.

Yeah.

APPRAISER: ...as opposed to a dollar... GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: ...back then, which is a lot of money.

Ms.

Louisa, in her condition that she is in, and obviously her clothing has... Eh.

gotten old, but it's her original clothing... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...and 1830s is a long time ago.

APPRAISER: So we don't expect her to look new or pristine.

Her value at a doll show would be anywhere from $2,500 to $4,000.

GUEST: Oh my!

Oh, that's wonderful.

(chuckles)My kids will be super pleased.

Uh, and my mother would be, too.

(laughs)