I brought in a couple of Diaries from Albert John thali who was the second engineer on the supply ship for Admiral Bird's expedition to Antarctica in 1928 plus he also received a gift from Mrs bird Christmas of 1928 and then this is his Congressional Medal that he was gifted at the end of the Expedition I found these Diaries during Co and I started reading them and they were a little spicy and this gentleman is an ancestor of yours so that is my husband's grandfather the Expedition leaves in October of 1928 he is on the supply ship that is sort of making runs back and forth right from Antarctica to New Zealand yes and he keeps two journals while on board and what's the difference in these two journals well it's my opinion that this journal is actually the one that he would show his mother okay and and I thought this one is is a little more graphic and a little more spicy and and longer and more detailed right more detailed so yes maybe this is the official one and then this is the dirt the one with the real dirt can you remember what some of the stories are that you uncovered a a couple of stories one was a story where he had actually saved somebody who had fallen off the ice and he had to kind of crawl out to the ledge as it was crumbling and pull this guy back up so that was actually in National Geographic other stories were about people getting drunk and jumping off the boat and boats running around and just Mayhem one of my favorite pieces is this one it reads Mrs re bird Christmas 1928 denan New Zealand and on the other side it's personalized to Elbert tholly member bird Antarctic expedition and then the last one is the Congressional Medal that was given to all the members of the Expedition there only about 65 of those out in the world polar exploration is really hot now Admiral bird is one of the top yes people that you would pursue however we also want other voices you said there's information in here that doesn't appear in the history if we can Shine the light on a story that hasn't been told yet that's really terrific we'll start in the middle this one the more mundane Journal it also isn't fully complete I would say a th000 to 2,000 auction value but for the real one with the dirt I would estimate this at $5,000 to $77,000 for this one okay the going down to the Congressional Medal those have sold at auction recently and I would put an estimate on that one at $5,000 to $77,000 as well that's a great piece wow the the lighter I think is maybe your wild card piece it's the kind of thing I don't know that I would put a very expensive price on but it's such a fun quirky piece I would expect it might fly so I would probably estimate made it in the range of like $800 to $1,200 wow that's amazing I had no idea