Just saw a bit, lady had her great-grandfather's sword. In the scabbard backwards, and thus about three inches of blade showing. About halfway down the scabbard a bit of engraving ending with Lookout Mountain. She also has the letter he sent back with it three days after the battle: 'A ball struck it, and I cannot get the sword out of the scabbard, so I'm sending it to you.' Turn the thing over and there's a massive dent in the other side that looks like a straight-on impact; good chance it saved his leg.
Guy went over all this, and told her what it was probably worth due to the letter telling what happened, and she then asked "Can it be fixed?" He looked dumbfounded a moment before saying "Fixed... that'd be like spray-painting the Mona Lisa!"
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I saw that last night too. Was pretty funny when she said that, but to have relics like that from ancestors is pretty awesome.
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