Robert, Unfortunityly some people value things only for the money and it sounds like the case here. The best advice I can give you is to ask them what they want for it without letting them know the true feelings you have for this chair. If they realize it is very i,portant to you they will up the price. I relate this after having faced the same problem after the death of my grandfather. I hope you have more success than I did. His new wife and children think money is life and don't realize that the small thing I wanted (a picture of him in his Bears football uniform) meant more to me then all the money in the world. But if it is that important to them to have the all mighty dollar, they can keep it. Cuz like you I still have the memory of it in my heart. good Luck Toni