APPRAISER: You're a hardy soul to lug such a big piece.

GUEST: Oh, sure, I got my workout today doing this.

APPRAISER: I think it's the biggest piece I've seen yet on the, on the ROADSHOW.

GUEST: (chuckles) APPRAISER: Um, so what can you tell me about your carpet?

GUEST: Well, uh, I inherited this from my grandmother, actually.

Uh, as far as I know, she purchased it probably in the 1920s.

Had it in the dining room of her house.

And she had a companion rug to this in the living room.

It was larger, probably about 12 by 15.

Um, in the '50s when they put wall-to-wall carpeting in, she moved it upstairs to an upstairs bedroom.

And, uh, I always absolutely loved this rug.

I just thought it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen.

APPRAISER: It's quite a nice carpet and it's also in wonderful condition, which is nice to see in a carpet like this.

It was probably new in the 1920s when your grandmother acquired it, 'cause that's where it dates from.

It's a carpet from Persia.

It's an Iranian carpet from the city of Mashhad, which is in eastern Persia.

Um, and I want to point out one thing about how you can identify that.

Mashhads are great.

The Mashhadi weavers were great in that... area.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: So whenever you see this multicolored finish here on the edge of a carpet, you can be pretty much assured that it's been woven in Mashhad.

For the rest of the carpet... ...the design is picked up.

It's really a derivation of a 17th century design that you would see used throughout Persia.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: Primarily, uh, in the cities of Isfahan and also around Mashhad and Khorasan.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And it's just a nice representation of the Persian version of paradise, which is a lush, plentiful garden.

Do you use the carpet?

GUEST: Actually, no, I don't.

I don't really have a place to display it properly right now.

So it's been rolled up in a spare bedroom (chuckling) in my mother's house.

APPRAISER: Oh, okay.

Have you ever had it appraised?

GUEST: Never.

APPRAISER: Do you have any sense of its value?

GUEST: None whatsoever.

APPRAISER: Well, I would say because it's a great design with wonderful color and in just immaculate condition, if you're going out to buy this rug today, you'd be looking at a price of around $15,000 to $20,000.

GUEST: Not bad for a little inherited piece here.

APPRAISER: Yeah, yeah, well it's worthwhile taking care of as well.

GUEST: All right.