GUEST: They were gems and, um, gold that were given to my grandmother.

They've been in the family since the early 1900s.

APPRAISER: You brought them in, like, a little crumpled up plastic bag.

Yeah.

(chuckles) Took me half an hour to get the note out.

(laughs) Tell us what the note says.

GUEST: The note says the h, Idaho gems were given to Louise Morrison when her father, John Tracy Morrison, was governor of Idaho.

APPRAISER: The red one is, in fact, garnet, which is one of the gemstones... Of Idaho, uh-huh.

...of Idaho.

The other one really fooled me, because it's got this light bluish green.

Uh-huh.

And I'm thinking, okay, maybe it's aqua.

I tested it, and son of a gun, it's sapphire.

GUEST: I'll be darned.

APPRAISER: Now, Montana is famous for sapphire.

GUEST: Uh-huh.

APPRAISER: Idaho, I didn't know.

GUEST: Uh-huh.

APPRAISER: Potatoes, yeah.

GUEST: The Gem State.

APPRAISER: Gem State.

Yeah.

And then what I love is the gold nuggets.

They're also from here.

It's a pair of earrings and a little pin/pendant.

They weigh about three pennyweights.

There's not a ton of gold here.

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: But the fact that all of this comes from this state...

GUEST: Isn't that great?

APPRAISER: I think it's so cool.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: So value-wise, you have about $300 of gold in, in the gold nuggets.

But the fact that you got that provenance, could be $300 to $500.

And then you have a ring, which, I just love the story, and it's lovely, but the ring is probably worth $150.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: Thank you.

GUEST: Well, as they say, it's priceless to us, yeah.