middle. that is what he said, he could not over estimate or underestimate the value of it. russ comes up with an offer to buy most of the contents of the case, $87,500, now ed thinks he struck gold. i thought wow, that say lot of money to me. it did look fair. it seemed fair to me, that is more money than i had ever gotten in my life. he accepts and a check and signs away the item, pitchard departs with the pikit artifacts, but general pickett s grand-great grandson is in for the shock of his life, he finds out what happened to his family heirloom. all lies, he lied to me. this is next. first our strange inheritance quiz question, how many generals were killed or mortally wounded at gettysburg?
sure. can i go out and play? whether he appreciates it or not, ed takes possession of suitcase in early 90s, his by family tradition as first born pickett male, after his mother moved into an assisted living facility, she warns her son to move it from the family home before someone steals it. i got it out of closet, i did not take time right away to to look through it i opened it, said okay, and closed it moved on. it was tucked, a again, at ed s house. he has no time to play curator. i spent time with my own children, that was more important to me than looking through stuff. ed may not take much interest but certainty. in the civil war collecting world do, rumor spread a metal case full of general pickett artifacts is still in the family possession in north carolina.
now, back to strange inheritance. in 2001, ed pickett wins a second legal battle over his civil war artifacts. past down from his great great grandfather, confederate general george pickett. ed feels it s a hollow victory, as those artifacts go on display in harrisburg, pennsylvania, whose mayor wrote pickett endorsing the con man who had swindled him. what s most unfortunate is harrisburg is willing to take items taken by fraud and keep them. fbi agent robert whitman investigated the case. ultimately the museum paid $880,000 for these artifacts, so they paid what they re supposed to. i think a better result would have been the city and the national civil war museum to
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appraiser standing in the middle. that is what he said, he could not over estimate or underestimate the value of it. russ comes up with an offer to buy most of the contents of the case, $87,500, now ed thinks he struck gold. i thought wow, that say lot of money to me. it did look fair. it seemed fair to me, that is more money than i had ever gotten in my life. he accepts and a check and signs away the item, pitchard departs with the pikit artifacts, but general pickett s grand-great grandson is in for the shock of his life, he finds out what happened to his family heirloom. all lies, he lied to me. this is next. first our strange inheritance quiz question, how many generals were killed or