Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Category: Ephemera/Paper/Documents
The stuffed cardboard box was trying mightily to stay folded shut, but the papers inside were not cooperating. Ever curious, I wanted to see what was preventing it from lying flat and closing. Pulling back the…
Reader asks ‘What to do with Kennedy assassination newspapers?’
Posted in collectibles, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Old and sometimes faded and folded copies of newspapers from the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy keep turning up, and I always get questions from readers about how much they are worth. I’ve…
When the auctioneer mentioned that he had years’ worth of driver’s licenses, I couldn’t wrap my mind around it. How do you accumulate more than 30 years of licenses belonging to so many different people?…
Are papers of Harvard’s 1st black graduate worth $60,000?
Posted in Black history, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
A Chicago construction worker recently threatened to burn some historical documents belonging to the first African American graduate of Harvard University. He was angry because college officials refused to pay him the $60,000 that he…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
A Gideons Bible in my hotel nightstand
Posted in Books, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, history, Religion, and travel
I was searching the drawers for a notepad to write something when I pulled opened the drawer to the nightstand in the room at the Charlotte, NC, hotel. There, placed neatly and squarely next to the…
Readers ask about Club Plantation fan & Apollo 11 mags
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Reader asks about ‘Wings over Jordan’ choir pamphlet
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
I’m a magnet for old papers. At one auction house, I head straight to the glass cases after I walk through the door, hoping that some fascinating ephemera is waiting for me. I’ve asked to see…