Appraisal: WWII Special Force Wings
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Appraisal: WWII Special Force Wings
Check out Jeff Shrader's appraisal of WWII Special Force wings in RECUT: Idaho Botanical Garden, Part 1.
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Appraisal: WWII Special Force Wings
Clip: Special | 2m 58sVideo has Closed Captions
Check out Jeff Shrader's appraisal of WWII Special Force wings in RECUT: Idaho Botanical Garden, Part 1.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: So I brought some of my dad's World War II memorabilia.
He was a Dutch Jedburgh, a Special Ops soldier, and he jumped with General Gavin of the 82nd Airborne.
They were the first two to land.
My dad was walking point and he spotted a s, a machine gunnist in a tree and, and shot him before the machine gunnist had a chance to shoot General Gavin.
So General Gavin al, has always credited my dad with saving his life.
APPRAISER: So when I walked up here, you're hanging out with our volunteer.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: And do you guys.... How do you guys know each other?
Did you come together?
CREW: I've never met you before.
Before today.
GUEST: I can confirm that.
Yeah, one of the things I was carrying... APPRAISER: Yeah.
GUEST: ...had an 82nd Airborne insignia on it, and he commented on it.
CREW: So I said, "Oh, 82nd Airborne."
And you said your dad had jumped into Holland.
And I said, "What parachute regiment?"
And she said, "Oh, he wasn't in a parachute regiment, he was Dutch."
And I said, "What's your dad's name?"
(chuckles) Because, of course, I know the story that he saved my grandfather's life, because my grandfather was General Gavin.
And... She said it was Ari Brestaburgge.
And it was, like...
GUEST: (laughs) CREW: And, and, you know, when she first said, "My father saved General Gavin's life," I'm a little suspicious because there are a lot of stories about my grandfather, um... And then she said it was Ari Brestaburgge.
I said, "Yes, he did save my grandfather's life."
(laughing) So it was amazing.
I'd never met anyone from your family, and it was just amazing to, to meet her here.
APPRAISER: Well, that's awesome.
So, of the stuff that you brought, this was what we picked out to look at here.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: Have you ever had this stuff appraised?
Have you had it looked at?
GUEST: No.
I just took the box from my dad's house and brought it to Boise, and I haven't opened it for... 25 years.
APPRAISER: But you know what these wings represent.
GUEST: Well, they're his Special Force insignia.
APPRAISER: Exactly.
GUEST: I know that-- I do know that.
APRAISER: So from a value perspective, I mean, this is interesting and wonderful, but the meat of the value of what you brought today is right here in those three wings.
GUEST: Really?
APPRAISER: A retail price for those three, because... On their own, they would be wonderful, but because they're him, they're a little better than average.
You have in the neighborhood of $10,000 worth of cloth insignia right there on that table.
GUEST: Aw... (laughing): No way.
That's amazing.
APPRAISER: And it was really special for me today to be a part of, of, of this.
Do you have, do you have any plans for this evening?
GUEST: Yeah, we're going to go to dinner.
CREW: Absolutely.
GUEST: If, if, if you let him off early enough.
(all laughing) APPRAISER: I can't guarantee that.
(laughs)
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