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In the chips
Mary Walters of Norton, Kansas, discusses the value of her 1920s-era "dogs playing poker" prints with antiques appraiser Tom Bassett during an antiques and collectibles appraisal fair fund-raiser Friday at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, Nebraska. Bassett said that, yes, the prints appear to have faded slightly, "but they faded the same." He said the frames are nice, and he valued the framed prints at $125 to $150/$175 each. Bassett, the president of Bassett Enterprises and Bassetts' Appraisal Service of Lincoln, Nebraska, told those gathered at Hillcrest in the afternoon and at the Museum of the High Plains in the evening that so much of the value of antiques and collectibles depends upon "the law of supply and demand -- how many of something were made, how many still exist and how many people want to spend their money to own it. The value of something can go up and up and up, if there simply is not enough to go around."