GUEST: Today I brought a cream pot forged by Paul Revere and a diary belonging to Thaddeus Harris and his portrait.

APPRAISER: So it's interesting that there's a contemporary journal and he was the son of the person who actually, of the man who owned this cream pitcher.

GUEST: Yes, William Harris.

So the diary is depicting the night that they left Charlestown because they got intel that the Regulars were coming.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

When you say the Regulars, that means the British... GUEST: The British.

APPRAISER: ...the British army.

GUEST: Yeah, the British Army.

So they grabbed a bundle of important papers and some linens, some silver plate, this cream pot and some spoons.

And obviously the wife and children... (soft chuckle) ...and the mother-in-law and fled to Lexington.

They didn't stay there long because the Battle of Concord and Lexington had just happened.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: Um, on April 19.

APPRAISER: What year was that?

GUEST: 1775.

APPRAISER: Okay.

GUEST: And so they left Lexington and went out to Sterling, Mass., where they felt that they were safer.

APPRAISER: Okay.

Paul Revere, of course, is the one maker of colonial silver that any collector would really want to have.

By colonial silver, I mean silver made before America became the United States, when it was still the 13 colonies and owned by England.

APPRAISER: Paul Revere was a silversmith in Boston.

His father had also been a silversmith.

This pitcher was probably relatively new at the time that this, uh, incident occurred.

It's, uh, neoclassical in style.

It's a helmet form pitcher.

And it's got some very lovely engraving on the outside of it with some initials as, as showing who it belonged to in the family.

And then the mark of Paul Revere, Jr.

on, on the back of the foot.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: A similar creamer sold this year, 2025, for a little over $25,000.

I think with the archival material that you have, the story of it relating to having been something that was saved from being stolen by the British army... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...uh, makes it a very interesting story and adds some value to it.

I would say that if this were to come up at a public auction of American silver, the pitcher combined with the archival material and the miniature portrait would bring in the neighborhood of $25,000 to $30,000.

And as its property of your family and has historical importance to your family, I'm sure you're not going to sell it.

So I would put an insurance value of $40,000 to $60,000 on it.

GUEST: Wow.

That's amazing.