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Proud of his family heritage, he shows off the heirlooms during dinner parties. >> im crazy about history and this was a resource that i wanted to share with people. >> he brings them out to the thanksgiving table. so this thing giving dinner literally between the gravy bowl and the turkey you bring the map out and put it on the table? there table? >> thats true. it was the end of dinner so it was mostly messy plates and that probably made it worse sfrs danger to the map. at the time, its value ...

>> the credit card debt is monumental. we have a small home equity loan that this potentially could pay of off. >> patrick notices an auction house is holding an appraisal fair in birmingham. >> i thought ill throw a box of stuff together and see if anything is worth anything. >> at the fair, patrick cautiously breaks out the old family war stuff. did you feel like one would be worth more than the others? >> i thought the muster book was going to be of more significant monetary value. as it turn...

>> which war sea most come about what the vet ans go on, so which warsaw the most combat veterans go on to become u.s. president? its, c, the civil war. five future presidents -- grant, hayes, garfield, harrison and mckinley saw combat during the civil war. in birmingham, alabama, in may, 2013, patrick martin visits a traveling appraisal fair hoping some of his familys old military artifacts can pay off his growing debts. its not going well. that is until he pulls out an old map of texas for...

Cordova, who commissioned the first maps in 1849 after the u.s. won the mexican-american war. decor d decordova used the map as a tool to lure immigrants into the state. >> he wanted a document that showed them the vastness of the land that was available for them to settle. >> decordova obtained signature endorsements from famous texans including sam houston to further his cause. >> sam houston on the floor of the u.s. senate referred to this as the most accurate depiction of texas that anyone h...

Texas once stretched as far north as wyoming and as far west as santa fe. over the years, those boundaries are chipped away. the biggest land transfer comes in 1850 when texas gives up vast tracts of western land to the federal government in exchange for debt relief. come to think of it, thats the same outcome patricks aiming for. the end result, the texas shape we know today. so what version of texas did patricks map show? >> just north of the state line of texas is an area referred to on the m...

Clue. >> theres a printed notice that basically says "without my signature this map is fraudulently obtained." >> patricks map includes a signature that appears to match decordovas but is it hand signed or printed? another clue. >> i could see the ink bleeding through to the back of the map. that only happens if its authentically signed with ink. once i saw this nothing else mattered that weekend. >> the map is no doubt the find of the appraisal fair. >> he said "we had this auction last year an...

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