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

These have been reprinted from the May 2004 Edition of The Collectors
Newsletter:

After you read these stories, tell us if you have had any experiences with
vintage items that were found in unusual places.  Send them to
newsletter@tias.com and we may publish it here .  We also want to hear any
other interesting or unusual stories you would like to share with us that are
related to collecting or anything vintage.

In the last issue a reader sent us a story about their "Outhouse finds" another
 reader responded with this note...

Concerning the items found in the outhouse, but the owner didn't want to dig in
 the hole.  An archaeologist friend of mine says that an old outhouse hole is a
 great place to search for historical artifacts.  When outhouses were of no
longer use they became the perfect dumping place for garbage and trash.  This
creates a timeline (from the bottom up) of what was used during that period of
history.  The items found can be wonderful for the historian as well as us
collectors.  He also said that after 50 years the "waste" HAS TURNED TO dirt
and you have "clean" digging all the way down...Dale in Franklin, KY

Another story --

I work at an antique mall and found a portrait plate/bowl which at first glance
 I just thought was pretty.  After examining it closer it was an advertising
plate for a grocery store with my grandfather's name printed on it.  My
grandfather passed away before I was born but I knew he owned a grocery/butcher
 store from my mother's stories about her childhood.  I was so excited to have
found this treasure and couldn't wait to present it to my Mother for her
birthday two months away.  It was hard to keep the secret for two months but I
managed.  My Mother and everyone in our family was shocked and very happy to
have this treasure and memory of my grandfather.  It is now displayed in my
Mother's curio cabinet for all to see and admire.  Someone up there must have
guided me to this.  I am still amazed!!!

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