Handwritten lyrics of America also known as my country tis of thee

It's really cool. You know, it's sort of like our unofficial national anthem

It's not nearly as hard to sing my country tis of thee sweet land

The document of my country tis of thee is a piece of heritage in America

I want to sell it because I think it's a good way to make some money

I'm hoping to sell the document for ten thousand dollars

This is really cool. Where did you get this? It's a family heirloom. I got it after my mother had passed away

Okay, Samuel Francis Smith was a really interesting guy

One of the cool things about him was is he knew 15 different languages?

He said he had traveled to every single country in Europe

which would be really weird at the time because during the early eighteen hundreds they kept on

switching I

mean in Spain one day is France the next

He ended up writing the song he put it to a German him when the music came from and it's slowly but surely

Became our unofficial national anthem

It's really neat. I mean, it's good. They got a lot of significance

I know that he would write these out for people and sell them to him and

Go for decent money

but

There's some serious damage on this thing

It looks like it was sitting in a house somewhere with a lot of sunlight hitting it. The Sun has turned yellow

you know, this was on white paper at one time and

It really concerns me this ink being this black

usually it's a reddish tinge after it's this old and

It can be a print it could be right

And how much were you looking to get out of it 10,000 let me have someone take a look at it. Okay and

You know if everything checks out we'll go from there

Hang out a few minutes. I'll give someone a call. Okay?

I'm looking forward to an expert coming in to authenticate the signature and the writing of this document. Here we go

I'll so it's large format. Yeah, okay. You don't need two crosses?

Well, typically the ones that I've seen they're really small cuz he just didn't have a lot of room. No, Brian

He'd use a little piece of paper, you know, when people would write away to him and you know, he'd sent it back to him

Well, the first thing I want to do I I do want to take a look at the signature itself

This guy had a really nice autograph

Very neat very legible and we see kind of the same type of formations s.f

Smith

We're looking at literally

The same thing. Okay, but is it legit? You know the good thing is is the signature matches up with mine

Okay on the other hand, you take a look right here under magnification

See some odd skipping

That's something that's not really totally consistent with

Handwriting okay, because if you're writing and crossing over and we have it right here on a tee

If you're crossing over usually depends not gonna skip like that you're gonna have a straight flow through and this is the most important thing

If you're writing in a pen or writing quill fountain pen

Whatever you're using the ink will start to run out maybe if you started here

By the time you reach here that ain't gonna start to run dry. It's not original

Everything else including the signature - it just all reproduced. That's a bummer. Yeah better luck next time. I'm sorry

Can you hear my heart breaking? Yeah, well, thanks man. Yeah good to see ya. Sorry

Yep, you bet

No, unfortunately just it's something that was kind of manufactured in Mass. Really realistically doesn't have a lot of value

Well, sorry, that's um, I'm obviously not interested in it. I

Could give it to you

I don't want it

It was a neat conversation though, and thanks for bringing it it certainly thank you for the problem. I'm very disappointed and

Wish it could have turned out differently

I guess you get yourself in a mental state of mind

where you're

Excited about something being authentic and worth something and then you find out you almost can't buy a cup of coffee with what it's worth

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