GUEST: I grew up in Santa Rosa, California.

Charles Schulz's first wife was a patient of my father's.

My father and Charles Schulz played golf together, so the Schulzes became friends of the family.

When I was about 15, I g, wasn't old enough to have a job yet, and I guess during a golf game or something, my father's, was talking to Charles, and asked if we, he could come over and help with babysitting-- they had four children.

So I drove over to their house, which was called Coffee Grounds.

It was really a cool place, and-- had a swimming pool and everything.

My job was primarily babysitting, but I also taught the kids how to swim, 'cause I had been on a swimming team.

His wife was always running around and Charles was always in his office.

Charles, A.K.A.

Sparky.

One day, I went up to get my paycheck, and he was doing one of the scripts for the, um, syndicate that was in New York.

And he said, "Here, you want this?"

And he handed me a book that was behind him, and I said, "Sure."

This was January 7, 1973, and he signed it "To Carole," and he screwed up the A here.

APPRAISER: (laughs) GUEST: "With memories and friendship," and it's Snoopy, who is swimming.

And he said, "Carole taught me all I know about the dog paddle."

And I thought that was pretty cool.

And then he just drew a picture of Linus, because I told him I really like Linus.

He was the nicest guy-- he was very quiet, very soft-spoken.

His wife was not.

(both laugh) APPRAISER: It takes two-- it takes two different types.

(laughing) GUEST: It does take... APPRAISER: Yin and yang, right?

GUEST: No kidding.

APPRAISER: I'm a big dog fan.

GUEST: Are you?

APPRAISER: So of course I love Snoopy.

GUEST: Me, too, yes.

APPRAISER: And that's what I loved about your inscription here.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: Is that you have Snoopy swimming.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: And he's doing the doggy paddle.

GUEST: Yeah, he was.

(laughing) APPRAISER: And it's also fun that he signed it "Sparky."

He was born in 1922, and within days of being born, there was a popular comic character at the time called Spark Plug, that was a horse.

GUEST: That's it!

Yeah!

(laughs) I remember, yeah.

APPRAISER: And so he became Sparky.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: So, he, his nickname from the time he was born... GUEST: Right, that's right!

APPRAISER: ...was actually a popular comic character.

GUEST: I remember that, yeah.

APPRAISER: So, he, he was meant to do this.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: Their value is probably about equal.

GUEST: Oh, really?

APPRAISER: Um, because he signed this one "Schulz."

It's framed, it's easy to display.

This one's inside a book.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: So, if you did want to display it, you'd have to kind of have it open.

GUEST: Yeah, right.

APPRAISER: At auction, I would expect them to bring anywhere in the $1,000 to $1,500 apiece.

GUEST: Hm, really?

Really?

Okay!

Did you hear that?

(laughing) Talking to my daughter.