GUEST: Well, this is the military record of a, uh, fella who was the sheriff of New London County, name of Frank Hawkins. He was the father-in-law of the gentleman that my father bought a house from in 1941. This was left in the attic. We've had it since then.
APPRAISER: Well, what it is is a commemorative service wall hanging.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: What's special about it is that it's hand-done. A lot of these, you could send off in the back of a magazine after the Civil War, and they'd send you the blank one, and you could fill the information in.
GUEST: Uh-huh.
APPRAISER: This one is custom-done. Up here it says "Designed for Sheriff Frank Hawkins."
GUEST: Well, do you suppose he had it done, or his family? Or how was that...
APPRAISER: It's hard to say. When I looked him up, I found that he died in 1893. It could have been done after he died, but probably it was something that hung on his wall...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...because he was proud of his service.
GUEST: Sure.
APPRAISER: The normal ones, that are printed with the information filled in on them...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...would usually sell for a couple hundred dollars.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: This one, because it has that flair, it's probably more in the $800 to $1,200 range.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: It's a beautiful piece of history.
