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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (11496)	7/20/1998 3:39:00 AM
From: ZinMaster	Respond to of 71178

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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (11496)	7/20/1998 3:10:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

Speakin of old time screw jobs, looks like the North did in the South yet again, while you weren't lookin. Better to be speakin to young Mr. Pickett he is a disgrace to the flag and his Great great grandpappy's memory: Civil War Descendant Sues Appraiser Mon, 20 Jul 1998 5:20:56 PDT Story from AP Copyright 1998 by The Associated Press (via ClariNet) PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- It pays to know your history. Just ask George Pickett 5th. Pickett is the great-great-grandson of Gen. George Pickett, who led the ill-fated charge during the Civil War's bloodiest battle. In November 1995, the general's descendant sold a trunk of keepsakes to Russ Pritchard, a respected antiques expert, for $87,500. Two weeks later, Pritchard sold the items to the city of Harrisburg for $870,000 for its planned National Civil War Museum -- and city officials considered that price a bargain. Now, Pickett is suing Pritchard, saying the frequent guest on PBS' "The Antiques Road Show" duped him. "I was totally naive, regrettably," Pickett told Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer from his home in Wilmington, N.C. Pritchard denies the charge, and says Pickett set the price himself. "Any claim that we under-appraised the items or defrauded (him) is simply untrue," Pritchard said in a statement released by his company, American Ordnance Preservation Association in Bryn Mawr. Pickett, 43, admits he was ignorant about his forefather's history. Gen. Pickett's charge across a mile of open field capped the Confederacy's loss in the Battle of Gettysburg, a major turning point of the Civil War, on July 3, 1863. Of Pickett's 15,000 troops, more than half were killed, captured or injured. Pickett inherited the antiques from his father and kept them in an attic trunk for years, until Pritchard came along. Pritchard "said he was the expert, that there wasn't anybody better. I believed him.... I said, 'If that's all they're worth, that's all they're worth,'" Pickett said. Now that he knows their true value, Pickett wants his artifacts back, said his attorney, Gavin Lentz. But the city has no intention of returning the items, which were purchased for the $12 million museum, set to open by 2000. "I guess the argument's been made that Pickett didn't do his own diligence in finding out what his stuff was really worth," said Randy King, a spokesman for Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed. There oughta be a law, and I don't mean caveat emptor