re: Tigerdroppings Antique Roadshow - show us what you got, we'll give you an appraisal.

30's Lionel "Blue Streak" Set with original locomotive cab (they often have bad die castings and crumble. The set has its set box and is original.

At one of the auctions, likely $1500 t0 $2000. The market at auction for high grade prewar trains is really strong right now.

This is a weird set. It was a contest prize in a contest conducted in the Bahamas. The Duchess of Windsor awarded the set to the kid in the photo. In addition to the celebrity aspect, toy trains were basically non-existent in 1943.







I like sets with a story.

Not a treasure, but with all the LSU stuff being posted, I thought this might be interesting for some. Note the price.

Vintage Marklin is a rich man's game (which is why I have no Marklin). I attended an auction that had a lot of prewar Marklin listed - something to watch when a single freight car comes in at $30k.

This dining car was estimate at $1000, went for $6000.

I’ve had the LSU one. It’s pre-53 (I believe) due to horseshoe. It’s $50-$100

The Saints one, probably $50 because it’s just a basic one, but it’s an early one.

It’s worth $50-$75. I’ve actually sold the metal version of this just a few weeks ago for $51

They came from by grandfather, who also gave me (before he died in 1996) his musket with a bayonet which he bought on the street in Vicksburg for $3.00

Other than that, I have lots of Civil War and other goodies from around that time. This was my great great grandfather. I have his cain and a journal/diary he kept while he was practicing law. Don't expect me to post a pic of that journal. Museums have been trying to get their hands on it for decades. So, I can assure you that confederate money is 100% real.



Henry L. Burnett

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Henry L. Burnett, Union soldier and lawyer, was the son of Henry and Nancy Jones Burnett, and a descendant of William Burnet, colonial governor of New York. He was born at Youngstown, Ohio, December 26th, 1838. The Burnett family -- or Burnet, as it has been frequently spelled -- is one of the oldest and most honorable in the United States. More than one of it's family members have occupied positions of great importance in the history of the country.

A copy of General Burnett's memoirs on the Lincoln assassination begins, "I was serving with my regiment, the 2nd Ohio Cavalry along the Cumberland in Southern Kentucky in the latter part of the year 1863, when the Judge Advocate on the staff of General Burnside, Major J. Madison Curtis (brother-in-law of the late Senator Douglas), committed an offense for which charges were preferred against him. General Burnside sent inquiries to the front for some officer who was a lawyer, and who could be recommended as capable of trying his Judge Advocate. I was recommended, and ordered back to Cincinnati, where General Burnside's headquarters then were, as commander of the Department of the Ohio. "

In September 1864, Burnett was ordered to Indiana to act as Judge Advocate of the court detailed to try the members of the "Knights of the Golden Circle" or "Sons of Liberty." Shortly thereafter, he received a dispatch from the Secretary of War, directing him to report in person immediately to the War Department to aid in the examinations respecting the murder of President Lincoln and the attempted assassination of Mr. Seward.

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Nambu Pistol with holster from WWII (until the unfortunate boating accident, RIP)

Snow trigger guard on it. Very original.

The holster HAD the former owner’s name in it.

I’m not home so no pics

The CSA notes range from how common they are from below $100 to $200 for most. Like he said many can be forged and you have to know what to look for.