I own something pretty fucking cool.
It's a page of musical notes that were very likely written by Mozart himself. It was acquired somehow (nobody knows for sure exactly how) by one of my relatives in Europe sometime in the late 1800's.
It hasn't been "officially" verified but several musical scholars that my family had look at it over the years have stated it is almost 100% certainly Mozart's writing.
I have no idea what it's worth. I would never part with it.
I would definitely get that verified asap. For insurance purposes.
That would probably be wise but we have no record of how the page was acquired, and I have no idea of the potential labyrinthine legal issues that could emerge if someone else claimed the page doesn't legally belong to us (technically it's co-owned by me and my siblings but I have possession of it with their blessing). I'm assuming official verification would expose the document to public scrutiny.
Right now it's in a very safe place and will stay there indefinitely. A family treasure.
I just realized that there are currently less than a dozen people in the world who currently have some Coolcoin.
That makes it kinda rare, no?
don't do that. Get it verified, even if you have to find the latest Antiques Roadshow stop.
Who gives a shit, right? It's a cool thing to have, and you don't need someone else telling you it's a cool thing. Since you have no intention of getting rid of it, I only see downsides to having it professionally analyzed. If it burns up in a house fire or something, you'll have just as much money as you had before the fire(minus tangible losses of course). I think you're doing fine with its care.If I eventually do the first stop will definitely be a lawyer who specializes in international property rights to get ownership of the page confirmed somehow.
That'll be cheap (lol)
40m in gold bullion.Curious. That says "New Ulm (Neu-Ulm is a city) Customs Office. Overseas Luggage Service Main Station."
But Bahnstation Bremen (Train station Bremen) is quite far north in Germany, and Neu-Ulm is in Bavaria in the south. Perhaps it left Neu-Ulm to Bremen, and then to Canada? Both cities are old enough to be pre-WWI even. I doubt it's worth anything at all, but a neat piece of history none the less. Any other German language written on the container? Anything inside?