to sell a collection of antique books that belonged to DH's dad?
To clarify, the house we own used to belong to DH's nanny, DH's dad bought it off her so she could move into her new flat fast in this time we arranged our own first-time-buyers mortgage, so he only owned the house for about 3 months. In that time he did a few bits of work, mostly was labour time than paying for materials sort of jobs... DH helped with all the work as we were buying it. Anyway when we came to get the paperwork for the deeds etc DH's dad had left the paperwork from his mortgage on the house in it and we found out he'd conned us out of about £25 in selling it onto us. (ie he told us we'd just pay him back what he'd spent but charged us an extra 25K for it )
So when he'd bought it, he helped his mum move out, then him and his brother (DH's uncle) cleared it out, keeping anything they wanted for memories/selling etc. Never mentioned anything about anything that was left.
One thing that was left was a set of very old childrens encyclopedia's. They've been kept on top of the DC's wardrobe for the 5 years we've lived here. Just looked them up online and they are worth a small fortune (selling for over £500 on amazon)... DH wants to sell them and pocket the cash to help pay for the flooring being replaced which has needed doing since we bought it... I also feel that if DH's dad had wanted them he'd have taken them when he cleared the house...
We know that if we said 'they are worth X amount, we wondered if it was ok to sell them or do you want them?' he'd take them and only sell them himself as thats the sort of man he is...
So my question is: are we wrong to sell them and keep the money?