HOW TO FIND TREASURE ON YOUR HOMESTEAD

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November/December 1972
 
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Scenic checks, so popular with banks today, have spawned a new group of collectors. If your hunting turns up any old checks, you can learn their value by contacting the Check Collectors Round Table, P.O. Box 27112, Cincinnati, Ohio 45227.

editor's note

When I first read this piece I thought it was a nice little idea but that no one could really expect to make more than pin money dealing in old bottles. Then I remembered a genial young con man who—when I met him a couple years back—was making almost his entire living with these collectables.

What this guy had done, see, was move into a tumbledown garage in a little town in upstate New York. And that garage—which had closed as a business probably 30 or 40 years before—had a back room stacked full of canisters and jugs and vials and jars and bottles of ancient polish, wax, liniment, carb cleaner and Lord knows what all. About once every two months our hero put three or four bushel baskets of his booty in the trunk of his car, drove to Dayton, Ohio to visit his folks . . . and unloaded the old glassware for enough to cover living expenses until the next trip.

And where did the "con man" part come in? Well, as I recall, the young man in question seemed to grease his sales by visiting a different antique shop on every journey . . . and then sort of letting on to the owner that he had spent years collecting the bottles in question and that there weren't really any more where they had come from. I can't say that I endorse this mild deception, though . . . and, the way old bottles are selling nowadays, it isn't necessary anyway.—J.S.

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