Yeah...moral of the story is: Find something old somewhere? Do a WHOLE LOT of research on your own, and maybe have a very cool family heirloom. Give it a real cool history....history is written by the victors, after all. <^..^>
Have her oldest relative take it to Antiques Road Show and tell them it was given to great great great grandma after a dalliance with the king. They'll value it at 10 times that.
34 posted on 11/23/2013 8:08:34 AM PST by bgill
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