I hope you get to go someday, Joellyn, it looks so fun!
I have a unique bracelet from a Yankee member of my mother's family I want to have appraised. The giver of the bracelet was a prisoner at Andersonville in the South; his wife sent gold coins to the commander to be used for her husband's care (he was a general I believe). He was released before all the money had been used so he took the coins home with him and designed a bracelet to showcase them. The bracelet is a long thin narrow piece of flattened gold, embossed with a design and with the engraved story I just told you on the inside of it. It wrapped around her arm (like a snake?) and the coins dangled loose from it. (I am SO blessed to have history and treasures like this bracelet and the 1780 quilt in my family.
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But there is one of the appraisers who often appears on Roadshow just 90 minutes from me.
He is apparently "the best one" for appraising Civil War jewelry and antiques, so I hope to go visit the store soon and take my treasure with me, because the likelihood of having the show anywhere near me is nil!
You are so lucky to have the opportunity to be able to go.
Jan in VA
The bracelet link is not mine!! I can't seem to delete it.
