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Guy get's BIG surprise at Antiques Roadshow
Hey. It was just laying around the house....
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Why am I never that fortunate.
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"Threw it over the back of a chair".
Wow. Very good story.
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I'm going through my closets as I type.
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09-01-2015, 10:20 PM
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Whenever I watch something really valuable like that appraised on that show, I wonder if the owner will keep it or sell it.
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I also like the ones where someone brings in "costume jewelry" that they bought at a rummage sale for two or three bucks. Then the appraiser tells them "These are diamonds. Real diamonds."
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That episode is like 100 seasons ago 
Well actually 2013
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I know. But the people above didn't see it.
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One of my favorite segments was a few years ago when a man brought in an old Revolutionary era rifle that he found wrapped in cloth and canvas in a dark corner of an equipment shed in his rural home in Massachusetts. He thought it might be valuable. It turned out to be a special limited edition rifle commissioned by the Continental Congress honoring a school teacher who rallied his teenage students to hold off a British unit attempting to enter their town, and holding them off successfully until the local militia could get there. They saved a large store of powder and other military supplies and were considered Revolutionary heroes. There were just enough of these made to give one to each of the boys and the school teacher. The arms expert who appraised it stated that it was widely believed that only 3 (or it may have been another low number) of these had survived and that this was an unprecedented find. He valued it, if I recall at $75000. Since my house was just built in 1991 and I am the third owner, I have no hopes of finding something like this, ever.
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Good for him!
That's fantastic!
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Reverse story. Was in a Thailand Jewelry with a buddy of mine.
He's from LA. We already know how brainy those guys are.
Bob says I want to get this blue sapphire stone reset into another ring.
The jeweler looks at the stone with his loup.
He say - Bob do you know this isn't a real stone?
Bob's voice gets Wayne Newton soprano high as he says,
'What do you mean it's not real? That ring has been in my Wife's family for a hundred years!'
The jeweler grins and says 'You can keep it another hundred years. It still won't be real.'
Did I laugh ? Only a little. Ok, it was a lot!
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I also like the ones where someone brings in "costume jewelry" that they bought at a rummage sale for two or three bucks. Then the appraiser tells them "These are diamonds. Real diamonds."
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A friend of my mom's, bought a broach at a flea market on the East side of Columbus, in the late 70's. She is/was a dealer in jewelry, and tested the metal. 22K!! So she took it to the museum of fine art. They gave it the once over and said, it was good costume jewelry from the Federalist period (AND would give her $400 for it). She already knew that was BS. So on her next trip to Washington DC, she went to the Smithsonian. One of the lesser officials said he would see if he could find out something and took it behind locked doors. After about three hours she begins to panic, and starts to try and find out where her gold broach is!, A different MUCH higher official, finds her and asks her to follow him. They end up in the big darkened workroom, her broach is mounted on a block of pitch and there are several spot light shining on it. There were stacks of books all around and one on an easel opened to a portrait of Marie Antoinette. The official turns to her and says, "Congratulations, you possess one of the Crown Jewels of Europe!" The portrait shows the last Queen of France wearing that broach.
The Smithsonian estimated the value at "Priceless, but not less than 10 million US Dollars."
What did she do with it? Not for sale! But on loan to various United States museums, so they can carry the insurance!
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. Ivan
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I'm really proud for that gentleman.....
If it had been in my family, one of us boys would been riding a fancy saddle blanket. 
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It would seem to me that beyond the monetary value of the blanket is the historical value as a first weaving style Navajo blanket.
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It would seem to me that beyond the monetary value of the blanket is the historical value as a first weaving style Navajo blanket.
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Yes it is a "National treasure" 2.44 on the video, that is where the "value" of some of these items are. Some are priceless. And just think of what happened to those people. 
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I just wish I had the toys from my childhood. Some of them are now considered "collectible." On an upbeat note, however, my mom saved me some gun magazines that belonged to one of her brothers who passed away about 15 years ago. I packed them without reading them, and completely forgot about them until yesterday, when I opened boxes from our most recent move.
The Dec. 1964 issue of "Guns" has an article about field testing a prototype AR- 15, Colt's civilian version of the Army's new M16. For some reason the author only reported shooting strings of five rounds at 100 yd. targets as quickly as he could gain sight picture, rather than using a bench and slow fire. He reported a 3.5" group with open sights, and a 2.5" group using a scope. I also got a big kick out of the mail order gun prices: $89 for a new M-1 carbine, $85 for a new "9mm Parabellum" aka Browning Hi Power.
A February 1966 "Guns & Ammo" featured an announcement of the new S&W Model 60 .38 Special made in Elmer Keith's "GUNNOTES." Elmer concludes, "It will not rust, even if dunked in water" in his announcement. Just to make it official, the inside back cover of the magazine is a full page ad for the new "S&W .38 Chief's Special STAINLESS Model 60 double action revolver" with a listed retail price of $85.
There's also an article in the same G&A titled "Twenty Shots for Twenty Inches," featuring a photo of one of the 1965 Camp Perry Wimbledon Cup winners, with the caption: "In what must be considered some of the finest long-range rifle marksmanship on record, USMC Corporal Carlos N. Hathcock won the 1965 1,000-yard Wimbledon at Camp Perry with and amazing score of 100 with 17 of the 20 shots landing in the 20-in. "V" ring!" He used a Winchester Mod. 70 in .300 Win. mag.
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After getting back from lraq in 2005 my ex and l split because he got lonely and cheated while l was away. l filed for divorce and decided to finance the lawyer with my 1 carat wedding ring. l got a SURPRISE when the jeweler told me it was a ''yag''. Worth $80 instead of $4000.
Lawyer did his magic and turned that yag into a 'gold mine' of a settlement for me and the kid. Best part is the 'mine' is still producing. Support check every month goes into her education fund. Senior this year in HS. Those checks will keep coming until she completes College of Charleston. l told her to take her time with her studies.
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Unless the dude hands him a check, it is all speculation.
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Yes but based on previous history. It's all speculation in anything. Even your firearms. Their value is speculative until someone actually hands you money for them.
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I have a lot of National Treasures in my collection----German national treasures. I have the last cased set of: Knights cross of the iron cross with oak leaves, swords and diamonds. These belonged to Erich Hartmann. That said, I can't retire if I sold these? Maybe buy a nice used car.
Another is an 8 place ribbon bar that belonged the the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Franz-Freidrich von Grossherzog IVth. Sadly, this thing could only pay for one fairly expensive date on the town with your girlfriend.
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Yes but based on previous history. It's all speculation in anything. Even your firearms. Their value is speculative until someone actually hands you money for them.
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How does one store and keep a blanket with $500K? Too big for a safe deposit box, plus there's no enjoyment owning it if you can't see it. And if you kept it in your house, eventually a thief would steal it. If it was mine, I'd sell it and let being the custodian of it be someone else's problem, then I'd buy a few really nice Smiths!
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At 64yo I'd sell it and split the money up.
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