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pipedreamer65

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Value Check
« on: August 18, 2018, 11:23:52 AM »
Friend of our family inherited these three items.  They brought them to me to inspect and place a value on.  I told them $275-350. Nothing remarkable here, full length cdv, no bm, private in New York State uniform with deep South backdrop.  Period small tintype of his wife and newborn circa 1862, and a soldiers book of prayer, water stain on cover, but the rest of the booklet is solid and has a notation in the back that he carried it during the war.  Soldier is id'd, 111th NY infantry.  Thanks for any feedback

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Re: Value Check
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2018, 11:43:15 AM »
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Re: Value Check
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2018, 01:02:09 AM »
I'm not much help on these items but like them.  Trader Sean and a number of other people on here are good resources.   Did the box of buttons, etc. come with them?
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Carl

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Re: Value Check
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2018, 05:56:19 PM »
If it is his ancestors, its priceless, but if it is some people lost to history, then $275 is at the top limit from what little I know about this sort of thing.

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Re: Value Check
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2018, 11:31:15 PM »
Did the box of buttons, etc. come with them?

Lol, negative, I was in a hurry and the table was the flattest thing besides the floor i could find.  That's my stuff.

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Re: Value Check
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2018, 01:43:57 PM »
Pipe, I think you made a good estimate of the value of the items.   If the condition and content of the CDV was better then it could have been higher.   What's in the box? 
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Re: Value Check
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2018, 03:12:12 PM »
Thanks guys.  I feel like I gave them a good range.  They can do what they want with it.  You know how some people are, they think they are sitting on a gold mine. 

Garrett, it is a display table filled with dug relics from Wilmington/Ft Fisher.  It has a little bit of everything in it.

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Re: Value Check
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2018, 03:26:08 AM »
I knew it.   Wish I could see your vast Fort Fisher collection in detail. 
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