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GUETS: It's an Egyptian hawk
mummy, and I bought it in 1996
at the Knights of Columbus

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Hall in Middletown, Rhode
Island. There was an auction
of the contents of a house from

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an old professor in Maine.
And I saw in the newspaper the
day before that there was an

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Egyptian mummy in the auction,
so I thought, "I need to get

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down there and buy that mummy."

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APPRAISER: Of course.

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GUEST: (chuckling) Yes,
so I did, and that's
really about all. There
were some Egyptologists

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holding on the line to bid
on it, but I outbid them.

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APPRAISER: Well, mummified
animals and birds are found in
many Egyptian tombs, and they're

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there as offerings. This one
is to the god Horus, the god
of light. He's also the lord

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of the sky, so he's really,
really important. Horus is a
falcon, and he's also considered

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the savior of Egypt
from the scorpions.
So he's really, really
important. These are found

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really from about 650 BC to
about 250 A.D. in Egypt. Have
you any idea what it's worth?

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GUEST: No, none whatsoever.

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APPRAISER: And what
did you pay for it?

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GUEST: I paid-- well, my top
bid was going to be $1,000.

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APPRAISER: Uh-huh.

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GUEST: But I went
to $2,500, so...

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APPRAISER: All right. I think
a retail market for this would
be between $3,500 and about

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$5,000.

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GUEST: Wow. That's amazing,
I would never sell it.