What's it Worth: Part 1

MOBILE, Ala. - Some items we saw at our "what's it Worth" event had been passed down for generations.

"The little elephant with the sprinkler thing, I'll keep that because it's cute, and I remember my mother using that," said Rose Gallager.

Other items were someone's trash, that became someone else's treasure.

Cindy Donahue literally found her treasure in the trash.

"Someone had set it by the road in a laundry basket," she said.

But Cindy didn't realize what her treasure was worth until Wednesday when she took it to Fox10's What's it worth.

An antique jug caught the eye of appraiser Charles Parmenter.

"This is a great piece, from George Ohr of Biloxi. I recently sold one of these I had in my shop for $4,500 so I'm going to say we're right in that $4,000-$5,000 ballpark on this jug," said Parmenter.

Tony Watkins found slave shackles on some property that has been his family for more than 50 years.

"When I was digging up under the dirt, about maybe three or four inches, I picked it up with a pitchfork and it was hanging like this," said Watkins.

Parmenter says the shackles are worth at least $2,500.

"Museums, private individuals would be all over them, to have as part of their collection. Again you never see them, there weren't that many around, and they made a special point not to keep them around. Since the gentleman actually dug them up there's no question of their authenticity, the fact that we can place them in Alabama just makes them just an incredible part of our history," said Parmenter .

One man brought in a Tiffany clock. The owner described it as a fox chase. It has beautiful details. Parmenter said it was from about 1890, and worth at least $25,000.

The cost to appraise each item was $2.00 per item, with proceeds benefiting the Historic Mobile Preservation Society and the Penelope House.