GUEST: I received that from a dear friend.

Her husband had passed, no one in her family was that into music.

And she gave it-- gifted it to me.

It went from under her bed to under my bed, and really hasn't been seen a whole lot.

APPRAISER: Was her husband's name Ed, by any chance?

GUEST: It was, it was.

(laughs) It was his pride and joy.

He took really good care of it, as-as with the amplifier.

APPRAISER: What you have here is a 1968 Gibson EB-2D electric bass guitar.

Uh, this is the bass version of Gibson's famous semi-hollow body guitar, the ES-335.

This was actually made in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

We have a 30.5-inch scale length, mahogany neck.

We have thin line construction.

Two pickups, which is great, because the original models only had one in the neck position.

A lot of players found it kind of muddy, kind of woolly, impossible to get a bright tone out of, which is why we have the second pickup near the bridge.

Gives some much needed clarity to the instrument.

This is such a cool instrument, and the fact that it has a nameplate on it really tickles me.

It's in one of my favorite Gibson custom colors known as sparkling burgundy, which you can see originally was a very deep red, but because of UV rays, sun exposure, all of that, the red dye in the finish, as well as the clear coat, have both aged.

So we've got this kind of orange copper thing going on that I love, and it doesn't hurt the value at all.

Some people prefer a redder instrument, some people prefer it to look orange or even gold when they get a lot of sunlight.

Now, the amp you have here is an Ampeg B18-N Portaflex.

It was made in New Jersey in 1966.

All-tube, 18-inch speaker, and a very cool fliptop, where the amp lives inside the cabinet for storage until you're ready to play-- you flip the top over, lock it down, plug it in, and you're ready to go.

For this instrument, at retail, you're looking at between $4,000 and $6,000 for this instrument... GUEST: Oh, wow.

APPRAISER: ...in its color and condition.

You also have the original case.

GUEST: What a great gift.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

The amp, at retail, we are looking at about $2,000 to $2,500.

GUEST: Okay.

Wow.

APPRAISER: It's one of my favorite things about guitars, that they age like this.

GUEST: Well, clearly we both love copper.

APPRAISER: Yeah, yeah, we're-we're big copper fans.

(laughs)