 Value — Beyond Price is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company . The film focuses on a family beset by tragedy when the father is presumed dead after his ship is lost at sea . The mother struggles to support her child and sells her possessions to a pawnbroker . When she has nothing left , save her wedding ring , the pawnbroker asks to take care of the child and the mother consents . The pawn broker gives her a pawn ticket for the girl stating " a precious jewel , a value beyond price " and tells her she can redeem it at any time . Before her death , she entrusts the ticket to a friend . Ten years pass , the shipwrecked father has discovered a great fortune on the island and is rescued by a passing steamship . The father soon realizes his wife is dead and his child is missing , but he receives the pawn ticket and decides to claim this jewel his wife had left for him . He redeems it at the pawn shop and finds it is his lost daughter . The film was released on November 29 , 1910 and it was met with positive reviews . The film survives in the Library of Congress archives . 
