{"id":95143,"date":"2020-02-04T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=95143"},"modified":"2020-02-04T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:38:33","slug":"auction-house-confronted-about-military-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=95143","title":{"rendered":"Auction House Confronted About Military Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We carried a story here<\/a> last week about the Bird family complaining that an auction house was selling medals allegedly belonging to their service member that was KIA.<\/p>\n

It seems the auction house was confronted about all of this and they insist that the medals are real.<\/p>\n

Cleveland 19 News<\/a> carries another story about this ongoing situation.<\/p>\n

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Our CBS affiliate talked to the frustrated family members in Pittsburgh, who say that they have all of their relatives medals.<\/p>\n

The Bird brothers say the Marine medals with their brother\u2019s name on them that were listed for sale can\u2019t be real.<\/p>\n

But, as we investigated, we actually discovered it is possible for families to have several real copies of a medal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that no one in my family would have ever ask for duplicate medals,\u201d one of the Bird brothers said. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason. We had all of his medals. There would be no reason for us to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an effort to be fair and get both sides of this story, 19 News tracked down the warehouse that the online auction house runs out of.<\/p>\n

The owner didn’t want to go on camera, but let us in and gave us information.<\/p>\n

Lt. Thomas Bird\u2019s medals sold for more than $1,200 at Milestone Auctions, along with tons of other military memorabilia.<\/p>\n

The owner here says his reputation depends on selling authentic items. He has an expert look at all the items that come in, and he sends the ones he deems fake back to whoever sent them in.<\/p>\n

When Lt. Bird\u2019s medals came in, the expert deemed them authentic.<\/p>\n

The auction house still insists they are real, saying the engraving on the back is perfect.<\/p>\n

The owner of the auction house says he\u2019s seen many cases where family members don\u2019t know other relatives ordered duplicate medals and later sold them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It seems to me that the family members that claim to have had duplicate copies of the medals should come forward and say they sold them.\u00a0 I don’t know how this works, but maybe there are privacy issues involved with revealing their names.\u00a0 Shouldn’t be too hard to narrow down, however… if in fact this is true.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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