Love this post! I am a new member to the forum and somewhat of a 405 FG / 509 FS historian. I had a relative who flew with the 509th Fighter Squadron in WWII from September 1944 through the end of the war. 58 Combat Missions, 105 combat hours flying the P-47.   He kept pretty meticulous text and photograph records of the squadron, but they were unfortunately lost after his passing in 2007. I’ve been trying to put humpty-dumpty back together again since.    If anyone has additional photographs of the 509 FS or 405 FG that they would like to share, I would love to add them to my files! Don’t hesitate to reach out!

I would figure out the value of the sterling on today’s market and ad a premium.   Its worth at the very least it’s weight in sterling.  

It would help to post a photo of the overall grouping and then you can be advised what items should be focused in on.  

For a group with high value items, it’s best to evaluate each high value item separately.  Puts you on the road to arriving at a more logical overall value.  

I'm looking at this pistol made by Colt and I believe this is a post war due to the 2 inch barrel with step up sights I ran the serial number on the Colt serial number book and it does not come back to this model serial number 6450 located on the inner crane no other numbers has a letter U inside the crane as well what ever that means. Has the Ordnance Bomb stamp I assume that these were reworked after the war to have the 2 inch barrel installed. Just trying to find out what year this was made no luck on the serial number trace. 

Even though gold is $5,000 per ounce, this is 14k, so about half that. The value of this rare  badge  is well into the thousands and  I think it exceeds the scrap value by a decent amount.   

My  brother in laws older brother E's wings and shadow box.  Set of  theater made wings and a picture of him wearing them The MM sailor next to him in picture is his younger brother who enlisted under age and was met by E in north Africa.  After discharge from the Army he joined the MM

Hi everyone!  I recently acquired a new N1 Deck Jacket and I need help figuring out where it came from.  It has features that are consistent with a WW2 model, but it seems to be in way too good of condition to be an original.  If it is a repro (likely) I can't figure out the maker.  Any ideas based on the images from eBay?

Kathy, I reviewed the forum rules on the what’s it worth topic. I don’t see anything preventing you from taking a photos of the entire group and asking for opinions on what the group is worth. Other members have listed groupings in that topic. Just remember, opinions you receive are just that-options and will likely vary. Good luck to you. 

Those medals are scarce. They are solid 14K Gold.  I would never suggest melting one of these, but the minimum value is the gold value since gold is high right now. I have not seen one sell recently so I am not sure what the "medal" value is right now.    Kurt