Strange Inheritance Season 3, Episode 12: Civil War Model Ships

1

Lincoln Rail Splitter

The Season 3 premiere features a log-splitting mallet believed to have been owned by a young Abe Lincoln.

2

Fantasy Feud

A family feud erupts over ownership of "Conan the Barbarian" illustrator Frank Frazetta's art.

3

Pretty Penny

A U.S. Mint worker bequeaths a bag of change to his son, which includes a one-of-a-kind aluminum penny that rocks the coin-collecting world.

4

Bead Dazzled

A Pan Am stewardess from the airlines' golden age leaves her niece a valuable collection of ancient beads she gathered in her travels.

5

Basketball's Magna Carta

Descendants of James Naismith inherit the two pages upon which he first typed up the rules of basketball.

6

Dino Park

Family members ponder what to do with a 1950s "Jurassic Park" the family patriarch built in Oregon.

7

Hatchet Man

A world-class blade maker (and one-time Unabomber suspect) leaves his brother thousands of hatchets, axes, swords and knives.

8

Missing Masterpiece

The great-great grandson of a legendary Texas painter discovers a long-forgotten mural in the rafters of the family's attic.

9

Ancient Cliff Paintings

A rancher discovers she has inherited one of the world's largest sites of ancient Indian rock drawings.

10

Autograph Addicts

A man inherits a collection of 80,000 autographs that his obsessive father and aunt had collected since they were children.

11

Jane Austen's Ring

Jane Austen's five-times great grandniece auctions off the legendary romantic writer's ring to an American pop star.

12

Civil War Model Ships

A Louisiana man inherits an armada of scale-model warships his father painstakingly built from original blueprints.

13

Puppet Opera

Brothers inherit their boss's 60-year-old puppet opera, a Chicago institution, and agree to destroy it if the opera goes out of business.

14

Toy Soldier Story 2

A grieving widow watches a previous Strange Inheritance toy soldier episode, then invites Jamie to assess her late husband's huge collection.

15

Nazi Looted Art

Shocked brothers learn they are heirs to an art fortune stolen by Hitler during World War II and vow to get it back.

16

Gorillas in Their Midst

An old vaudeville performer in a traveling chimp act leaves her granddaughter dozens of captive primates.

17

Beauty and the Babes

The daughter of a world-famous baby photographer inherits 100,000 dazzling portraits from the 40s, 50s and 60s.

18

Industrial Scale Hoarder

A cell tower mogul hoards three million pounds of scrap, leaving his heirs to deal with a forty-acre heap.

19

Library of Magic

A father leaves his son stacks of ancient magic texts, some containing secrets magicians have guarded for centuries.

20

Million Dollar Beggar

A homeless man dies mysteriously and leaves his cousins several storage units with contents reportedly worth $1 million.

21

Celebrity Art

A Pennsylvania man inherits hundreds of paintings by celebrities, from Ringo Starr and Bob Dylan to John Gotti and Adolf Hitler.

22

Century-Old Blue Jeans

A pioneer's descendent inherits his never-worn 1893 Levis, called a denim collector's "Holy Grail."

23

Roller Derby Queen

A life-long roller derby fan inherits a massive stash of memorabilia from one of the sport's legendary skaters.

24

Desert Treasure

A man cleaning out his basement finds a forgotten masterpiece left behind by a distant uncle.

25

Jesse James & His Killer

High-tech forensics suggest a family heirloom is the only photo of the outlaw Jesse James with the man who killed him.

26

Eight Tons of Art

A renowned tile artist leaves his sons 160 autobiographical murals, weighing 16 thousand pounds.

27

Winging It

Children inherit a massive B17 Bomber their father bought after WWII, flew to Oregon and placed atop his 48-pump gas station.

28

First Fashion Cop

Designer famous for his best- and worst-dressed lists leaves his agent a rack of gowns he created for Hollywood's biggest stars.