bring good home. >> announcer: now back to "strange inheritance." >> it's january 2011, and art crego's an online auction. the pressure is on, big-time, after heir nancy crego-powers and auctioneer brian witherwell turn down a $200,000 offer for the whole catalog. when bidding gets off to a slow start, it looks like it could be a disaster. on the final day, february 4th, everything changes. >> seeing what the final bid price was on these items just amazed me. i think it took all of us by surprise. >> the biggest-selling item is that confederate carbine art bought for a couple hundred dollars. a collector pays $48,000 for it. belt buckles, purchased for a few bucks decades earlier -- they pull in just over $6,000. this group of insignias -- over $8,000. these shell jackets -- $7,000. a presentation sword -- $6,500. a sharps civil war rifle -- $5,500. these campaign hats -- $5,000. cartridge boxes -- $2,500. and guess who pays $3,000 for that union army cap which art bought as a kid. it's auctioneer brian witherell. >> i felt close to the cregos, and i wanted a memento to remember that by