u/RogerBalderer

All of these steaks are ungraded. But, they all have way past prime marbling.

This tankard has been in my family since at least the 1840s.

Christie’s reviewed and they believe it to be an authentic 800 gram coin silver tankard by colonial silver smith Andrew Tyler.

This Medal was awarded to my great grandfather for assisting in developing a therapy for pernicious anemia. He also shared the Nobel Prize for the same discovery.

The Popular Science Monthly medal was intended to compete with the Nobel Prize and was launched at the start of The Great Depression. It is unknown how many of these were awarded, but it could be as low as 3.

I believe that due to the severe economic downturn in the 30s the award was discontinued, leaving this example extremely unique.

SORRY FOR THE TITLE!

Two advanced 60+ players take on two players in their late 30s.

Edited down the time to fit on reddit.

This was George Richards Minot’s pocket watch. Minot was helped develop an effective therapy for pernicious anemia in the early 1900’s. This was a fatal condition at the time. His work earned him a Nobel Prize in Medicine in the 1930s.

Obviously the collector market for this is very niche, but Is my watch worth more than scrap gold due to the provenance?

This thing is HEAVY!!

I recently inherited this antique Waltham pocket watch from my family. It belonged to my great-grandfather, George Richards Minot.

George Minot was a Harvard physician and hematologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1934 for helping develop liver therapy for pernicious anemia, which was considered fatal at the time. His work became one of the earliest major breakthroughs in treating anemia and helped shape modern hematology.

The watch is a Waltham “Riverside Maximus” 19 jewel pocket watch engraved “George R. Minot 1913,” and it still has a Harvard / Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society fob attached to it. The movement is incredibly detailed and much higher grade than I initially realized.

Unfortunately it is not currently in working order, but overall it has survived in pretty amazing condition considering its age and history.

I am also interested in potentially selling it, but I have not been able to find much information on whether the provenance and historical connection make it significantly more valuable than the gold/scrap value alone. Curious what people here think.

Edit: damn you guys are ruthless. I’m am more wondering what something like this is worth. I would never sell this for scrap metal. However, since neither me or my sister are having kids, this basically is the end of the road.

Seeing mixed thing online and even in this sub