A collection a day – Superman, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. I seem to have a lot of Superman items laying around. I didn’t set out to collect Superman items, it just seemed to happen. I’d see something in a yard sale box and think it looked pretty cool, and before I knew it, […]
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A Collection a Day #1: Antique fishing lures
A collection a day – Antique fishing lures, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. I have this collection of antique fishing lures stored in a large jar. Most of these lures came from my grandfather’s and great grandfather’s tackle boxes. They tend to smell pretty ripe, so the lid stays on the jar most of […]
Rare Charlie Chaplin film found on ebay for a few bucks
Stories like this make my heart go all a flutter. This guy buys some crappy old tin on eBay for a few bucks, and it turns out to have inside an extremely rare Charlie Chaplin propaganda film from 1916 called Charlie Chaplin in Zepped. The film is worth an estimated £1 million. I don’t know […]
American Pickers season 2 starts June 7
Great news! My favorite show (now that LOST and 24 are over) is coming back with its second season next month… NEW YORK – Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz are once again searching the back roads, junkyards, and filled-to-the-brim barns in America for “rusty gold.” With an average of 3.8 million total viewers per episode in its […]
Yard Sale Score: LOTR, Godzilla, Turtles, etc.
They say gamblers get on a hot streak, well I am on a yard sale hot streak. I love this time of year. Every neighborhood in the DC suburbs is holding community yard sales every Saturday, and I have been finding some really great stuff. This past weekend I struck action figure gold. It’s not […]