Well, we've got more local gems to share with you tonight.

From family heirlooms to hidden fines, our ninth annual Carolina Collectibles event brought people to our studio hoping to discover what their treasures were really worth.

With experts from Leland Little Auction, it was a day full of surprises.

Producer Russ Hunsinger gives us our first look.

(brassy music) - To have this opportunity to come and be a part of this today was something that I canceled a meeting with my husband.

I would not travel with him today so I could make sure I was here.

I actually have three of these.

I have two this size and I have one that is a little larger.

And my father, he was a career military man.

He was in the Army, and when he was stationed in Germany, he purchased these.

These are scenes from the Alps of Germany.

It could be around the hundreds.

If I put 'em all together, I could possibly get $800.

But this is something that I will never part with because of the sentiment of it being a part of my family.

- It's a Roseville piece from Roseville, Ohio pottery.

I love the color, it's in great shape, sits in my living room on a stand.

I found this on my birthday, some type of bag at the Salvation Army Thrift Shop.

The six bucks just appraised for 400.

So I feel pretty good about that.

(catchy music) - I like that... - What we have here is a beautiful maple music box from the turn of the 20th century.

It's a Regina, and we have a tune on it called "Youthful Dreams Waltz".

And why don't we just listen to a little bit of that and then we can discuss the machine some?

(light music) It does work, and I would like to hear a little bit more about this, please.

- This belonged to my aunt.

She acquired this in Denver, Colorado, then she gave it to my father, - Mm-hm.

- and then my father passed to me.

I hope to continue to hand it down through our family, but it's a very treasured piece and I love the wood.

- Oh, yeah.

- The sound of the music box to me is incredible.

I have 25 of these discs that go with the box, and a lot of them are listed on this directory.

It's really a beautiful thing to listen to.

- I think it's probably the best-sounding thing in this room.

- Thank you.

- Yes, ma'am.

(lively music) - Hi, Sue.

Thank you so much for bringing this painting in today.

Can you tell me a little bit about how your family acquired it?

- Sure, so this has been in our family for three generations.

My husband's grandfather took over a business.

The man who originally owned the business owned this painting.

We knew it came from Italy.

That's all we knew.

And it has been passed down and now it is ours and we love it.

- The artist is Carlo Fachinetti.

He was an Italian painter, born in Florence in 1870.

And this, from what I've been able to decipher, was likely painted around 1912, 1913.

When we were looking at the back of the painting, it has an exhibition label from the National Academy of Artists that was shown at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.

And it's known that he definitely exhibited there in 1913.

I'm not certain that it was this painting, but it's very possible that it could have been.

Fachinetti was very well known for these very intimate genre scenes, and most of the time, they incorporate mother with her children.

This is a garden scene, just a really sweet scene of just a domestic moment.

And another thing that I find interesting is this painting, compared to some of his earlier works, he was working in a more realistic style, in a more academic style.

This particular painting kind of skews more towards an impressionist, post-impressionist treatment - Okay.

- where you can see all the little individual brush strokes to kind of capture that fleeting moment in time and the light.

And it's amazing, the expressions that he's able to capture with just so few brushstrokes.

I think it's just a tremendous painting.

You know, I love the fact that it's been in your family for as long as it has.

It looks like the frame, like you were saying, is probably original to the work.

And where do you have it on display?

- In my guest room.

- In your guest room?

- Yes.

- Yeah, well, it's definitely a very nice treat for everybody coming to visit.

- Yes.

- And at auction, you know, his works have been selling in the 1,000 to $5,000 range.

- [Sue] Okay.

- I think that this is such an appealing painting that it would probably sell in the three to five.

So I would expect it to bring a little bit more than some of his other scenes.

- Great news.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

So thank you again for bringing it in and sharing it with us.

- Thank you.

- And I hope maybe it makes it out of the guest room.

- Oh, yeah.

It might now.

- Yeah.