7. Share your story about collecting and be eligible for a free gift!

Do you have an interesting story to tell? Send your story to new
letter@tias.com and we may publish it here.  If we use your story, we'll send
you a handy-dandy TIAS pocket tape measure & magnifier.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TIASAntiques/videos/?ref=page_internal

Please be sure to include your name and postal mailing address when sending in
your story.  (Valid for US addresses only)

Here is a reprint from a previous edition of The Collectors Newsletter:

For many years I "collected" old books. At one time in had become quite an
addiction.  I answered an ad in our local newspaper for a set of books which I
had been looking for. When I went to purchase the book set I learned that the
entire contents of the house were going to be sold by way of an estate sale. 
There was a whole wall of shelves filled with books!  I asked the woman in
charge if she would give me a price on buying all of the books.  She declined
to do so saying that the estate sale was going to be for a full week and they
would probably do well with the books.  She had even had an appraiser come in
to price each book.  I did purchase a small table while I was there and made
arrangements to return on the last day of the sale to pick it up.  When I
returned to pick up the table, the lady asked if I was still interested in the
"wall of books".  I told her I did not think so as they had been picked over
for a week and most of the better ones were probably gone.  However, she made
me an offer I could not refuse, everything on the wall of shelves for fifty
dollars.  It took me two trips in a small pick-up to bring the boxes home. 
The were left in a spare room for about six months before I took the time to
sort through them.  Box by box, book by book, some old newspapers, a small box
of dress patterns, etc.  I opened the box of dress patterns and pulled some
out to see if they might be real old, they were not so I sat them aside to
take to the goodwill store along with some of the books.  About ten minutes
later something flashed through my mind, I remembered the lady from the estate
sale had told me the estate had belonged to a single man who had never been
married.  Why, I wondered would a single man have had a box of dress patterns
mixed in with his books and newspapers?  I retrieved the patterns and started
looking a little closer.  The dress patterns in the bottom of the box were
shaped a little different from all the others.  Upon unfolding the last four
or five patterns I found odd twenty and ten dollar bills totaling over
2,400.00 dollars!  This box had been overlooked by an appraiser, hundreds of
people looking at the books for a week and now, almost thrown out.  What made
me take a second look?  I thing the old gentleman wanted me to find his hidden
treasure before it was lost forever!

8. Identification assistance and Facebook updates

If you need help identifying an object, send in-focus images to 
upport@tias.com (no appraisals) Please include description including size,
material and any markings and we'll post it to our Facebook page for help.

Remember that you can check out our Facebook page for some interesting
updates.  Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/TIASAntiques

You don't need a Facebook account to visit our page. If you do have a Facebook
account please "Like" us!

Also, everyday we post a "This Date In History" story on our Facebook page,
along with an item for sale on http://www.tias.com that relates to the event. 
We're also highlighting one item each day that we find particularly
interesting - something that's very unusual!  Check it out!

9. Newly listed items for your online shopping pleasure. Stop by and check out
today's fresh inventory at: TIAS.com - http://www.tias.com/showcase
CollectorOnline - http://cgi.tias.com/showcase/?groupKey=7 AntiqueArts -
http://cgi.tias.com/showcase/?groupKey=3 Earthling - http://cgi.
ias.com/showcase/?groupKey=6
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