GUEST: This was a gift to my husband from his grandmother.

She worked for American Smelting and Refinery.

When metals came in from whatever wreck, they would analyze them.

They were working on it, and they kind of grabbed pieces, I guess, and, and she wrote all the notes on it.

APPRAISER: May 6, 1937, that was the day that the Hindenburg came into Lakehurst and... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...was circling for a landing.

And from accounts that were eyewitness accounts, it seems that they saw some sort of flapping in the skin of the ship first.

Apparently, a gas leak was taking place.

They think static electricity hit that, and it wound up killing 36 people.

Ship went down in flames in a field in Lakehurst, and these are some of the remains.

They did an investigation, Germany and the United States.

APPRAISER: A lot of the pieces were reclaimed to Germany.

People were on the fields just grabbing souvenirs.

Pretty terrible, but that's what was happening.

APPRAISER: And it really knocked the faith in, in air travel down for Americans and for people the zeppelin before anything happened, circling.

You can see where it combusts, starts the fire.

And on the ground here, you can see the flames and the debris.

You have some ribbing struts, interior portions of the Hindenburg, which are large portions, including some of the canvas.

Not the exterior canvas, but interior.

You would think, in a, in a inferno, those would have been destroyed.

It's an unusual-sized piece and -shaped piece.

At auction, I would put an estimate on this conservatively at $3,000 to $5,000, for the, for the piece.

GUEST: Whoa.

(laughs) APPRAISER: Yeah, yeah-- yeah.

GUEST: That's crazy!

APPRAISER: Sounds crazy... GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: ...but people are really hot on buying pieces like this.

Um, anything related to history.

GUEST: Yeah?

APPRAISER: And this is pure history.

GUEST: Nice.

APPRAISER: Pure history, yeah.

GUEST: Yeah.

It's so crazy, we just threw it in the closet.

APPRAISER: There you go.

(laughs) APPRAISER: Well, the closet-- closet was a good safe place to keep it.

GUEST: Yeah.