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Thanks, Van...

Never mind I got someone else working for me.....

Hi All:

Best to contact me through my email on my website as I check this several times a day. Been pretty busy lately with major TR research requests. In addition, Maryland Public Television has started a local version of "Antiques Roadshow" called "Chesapeake Collectibles." I am one of the appraisals and we just taped 13 shows in two days which was fun but pretty exhausting. The new season starts in January 2012. A few TR items were brought in, but they don't get on air yet. More at:

http://www.chesapeakecollectibles.com/

I was also a consultant/contributor to the Maryland Historical Society's new exhibit on Maryland in the Civil War. I also produced a 3-D video show using stereoviews taken in the state at the beginning of the war that is now running there. I will follow this up next year with a 3-D show on the Battle of Antietam for the 150th and have a major book on Maryland Civil War photos going into production shortly. More on the exhibit at:

http://www.mdhs.org/

And I am still working on a book on numbered SS daggers!

Enjoy!

Ross Kelbaugh
www.ssdaggers.com

What TR items were brought in?

Among the items brought in were a TR Naval Dagger and a PP with a SD marked holster. A number of US military/political items were brought. A fully autographed menu from the secret meeting in 1941 of Roosevelt & Churchill that resulted in the Atlantic Charter that was Averell Harriman's personal copy and given to the owner's mother who had worked for the ambassador knocked me out. Another fellow brought in a love letter that had been written to his mother by a sailor on the U.S.S. Arizona starting in June 1941 on Arizona stationary. He told me that he had several letters to her from that summer until December 1941. She sent the sailor a letter on December 6 addressed to him on the Arizona and it was sent back to her stamped "Return to Sender." The sailor died in the attack on December 7. I told him to bring them all in next year and if I am there we would go on camera with them. Quite a moving lot.

Never know what's out there!

Ross Kelbaugh
www.ssdaggers.com