As a history teacher, I hate the over use of the term "Historically significant". People bump the value of things based upon association, and claim "Historical significance". Very little is actually significant. Lee Harvey Oswald had a historically significant rifle, but his boxer shorts werent. We confuse curiousities with actual items of importance. People are getting paid this way, but I am not participating. I have sold things that were pretty close to garbage for good money but a fool and his money are soon parted. (I sold a box of 1940's girly magazines that I took out of the Lake George town dump recycling pile, and I got over 400 bucks on ebay for them.)