Appraisal: Tiffany Civil War Saber, ca. 1861
my grandfather's and he got it when he was born a neighbor across the street where he lived made it for him when he was born in about 1918 you know a lot of times the stories that come down through family history and everything sometimes there are little problems okay sometimes they're good problems and sometimes they're bad problems this is a good problem okay this is a manufactured toy and it is made by a company called Turner it's a Turner Lincoln okay it's from the 1920s even though it has this problem of somebody put some paint on here and that's not original to the piece and even though it's missing a trunk it does have its headlights steering wheel bumper at auction in this condition even with this paint on here we would estimate this at three to four thousand dollars a little better than handmade yeah you
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