A controversial silver statue of St. Catherine; an early 19th-century heirloom needlepoint sampler; a massive desk and bookcase made in the mid-19th-century German-Texan tradition

In San Antonio, host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Beth Szecila visit the Witte Museum’s collection of horn furniture, a craft popularized in 19th-century America by Texas maker Wenzel Friedrich. Highlights include: a controversial silver statue of St. Catherine that could be a fabulously valuable medieval masterpiece — or a 17th-century copy; an early 19th-century heirloom needlepoint sampler from a Newport, Rhode Island, ancestor; and a massive desk and bookcase, made in the mid-19th-century German-Texan tradition, valued at $7,000 to $10,000.