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Message:: [QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9562357, member: 10944"]I collect ephemera from the town I was born, which is where most of my family has lived for generations. Also from the town we moved to and I spent my formative years in. Such a neat look into the past. Especially the latter town which is very small and has so little associated with it in the way of historical artifacts. I have sold a handful of things or more to the descendants of the people that made the things. Once a beautiful hawk decoy to the son of the carver. He was buying up all of his dads work he could find. Recently I sold a piece of silver to a guy whose grandfather or great grandfather had started the firm. His relation was the financial backer and half the company name rather than the silversmith. The family were prominent in the city of manufacture and are still quite well off it seems. They have a large family collection of the silver output but this guy wanted to start a personal collection. I’m struggling to remember other scenarios off the top of my head but I know there’s been a few. Always neat to reunite a piece with a family. A home near me recently put out two big boxes of military uniforms on the sidewalk. I scooped them and found the dog tags in a pocket. I keep hoping I’ll see them outside so I can stop and ask them if they want them. It’s a multi family and I’m not sure what unit they are otherwise I’d probably just drop them off. Leaflets, catalogs, manuals they are virtually all good once you go back far enough. Many you don’t even have to go back too far for. Most of the stuff I take would get trashed if I don’t take it. Of course once you get into 19th century and earlier historical documents most people know they have value and they stop being dirt cheap usually but the printed materials are nearly always overlooked.[/QUOTE]

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