#16002 - Minies Relic Board from Colonel Vietzen Museum
When I first started buying Civil War items, I had the luck to attend the auction of the Colonel Vietzen Civil War & Native American Museum in Ohio. It was active for decades, but now, being dissolved after his death. I was a wide-eyed kid in a candy store. While many fine & expensive relics changed hands, I was most interested in the common relics with a historic "feel" and seeming story. Thus, I bought this plain felt-lined wooden tray of common impacted Civil War minie bullets. It reminded me so much of the displays in old museums that I gazed at in awe as a child. Things do not need to be large, fancy, or expensive to be valuable to the imagination.
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