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okay so what do we got here I have a
letter from John Quincy Adams John
Quincy Adams of 1822 he was Secretary of
State thing yes and he was president in
1824 well he was elected in 24 then
there was no inauguration till March
okay because didn't want to travel in
the wintertime I found in a box of items
that I got from my uncle when my uncle
passed away
I'd like to get $6,000 for it I would
drop down to five without probably the
least I take so what is this letter
about this letter actually pertains to a
census that was taken and they included
16 to 18 year old undocumented
immigrants who are here and they had to
go back and fix it to the proper census
so basically we have here John Quincy
Adams being Secretary of State sending a
letter saying you did the census wrong
redo it right okay interesting yeah a
letter signed by the president the
content is so important if you had a
letter by a pre Hamling and talking
about freeing the slaves that is worth a
lot more than Abraham Lincoln
complaining that his bathroom doesn't
work do you understand what I'm saying
yeah so things like this are always
scary to me because it was just common
common practice to have your secretary
sign everything for you you're a busy
guy or this was back in the 1800 as the
president might have been drunk
but the paper looks right the ink looks
right
have you checked this out at all I have
I've done some background on my own okay
the Internet
I did match up these signatures and
things like that oh yeah I'm assuming
you want to sell it yes I was looking
for $6,000 this is actually great shape
you're lucky because this has obviously
been under glass for a very very long
time do you mind if I call someone in no
not if it's gonna help us
okay sure it's real Tim all right um I'm
gonna call him up okay
hang out a few minutes maybe buy
something okay got some cool stuff
there's a lot of history behind this guy
I mean he's pretty much broom to be the
President of the United States at some
point in time this guy really stood out
you know okay so is it his signature did
he write the letter and what's it worth
it would look at a few things first
thing I'm gonna do is look at the
signature under magnification I want to
look at the ink and I could see this is
using a quill this overlapping on here
especially right in this area you know
we know this is living and what I did
bring along today are several examples
it's really flowing it's very beautiful
signature here's one example and we see
it some similarities tying in here
and what I want to do on this one
especially is look at his last name and
I'm starting to see the same thing over
and over again because that's actually
abbreviated and this makes sense where
he would do an abbreviation of this as
well and everything matches up pretty
well here okay from everything I could
tell we're talking about a piece signed
by the six present United States which
is kind of cool all right the letter
itself you have a lighter ink you have a
darker ink on here and two different
pressures but in this case on here and
this is pretty simple and it's something
that you know I've studied a lot
this isn't his writing
could have been written by a secretary
back then they call it son by proxy and
you think that just because the
differential between us I mean there's
several factors obviously the ink but
also just the style of writing it's not
is so what's it worth if it was three
years later a handwritten letter by him
could go for five to ten thousand
dollars as a sitting president but this
is secretary of state it's a little less
significant stuff like this typically
runs at about sixteen hundred dollars
they don't go for much more than that
okay thanks man thanks good to see ya
thank you yep good luck thanks thanks
Chuck Quincy Adams this is a collectible
autograph you know mostly just for
presidential collectors I mean is he
desirable yeah to an extent but not as
much as like a bruh ham Lincoln or
George Washington okay so if it was
written in his hand we'd have a whole
lot of money but we don't
I think whole thing was written by him
alright just this is a discrepancy and
the signature and the letter itself was
just the way he signed things okay well
um you know what Andrew you're always
free to have it checked out by somebody
else I have you like a thousand bucks
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yeah for that I think I better go to
keep it I'll keep it here please stay
with my kids or do something else with
it so ok sorry we could make a deal then
thank you
it's not his handwriting you got to be
kidding me I'm gonna try and go ahead
and legitimize 100% and see if I can get
some more two opinions on it
you