If you’ve been a ready for any length of time and have looked up at my blog name you’d figure out pretty quickly that this site is about selling books.  Not rocket science, right?  However, as booksellers, we’ve been through it all; old, dusty thrift stores, yard sales during the sweltering heat of summer and digging through boxes that haven’t been touched since Jesus was alive.  Of all the places we go to look for books is it possible that we’ve had such a one-track mind that we’ve passed up many, many treasures in the process?  I know it!

We all can’t be experts on everything and spot every diamond that needs to be polished, but we can be open minded and to get our heads out of the bookshelf and look around a little bit.  If we’re going to travel to places in search for book treasures anyway we might as well take notice of what passes us by on the way to the boxes of books.

This short story is from a reader of mine that wanted to share a find that was out of this world and to convey not to put the blinders on when we’re out and about.  Treasures are everywhere and if we can educate ourselves (we’ve surely got enough books to do that) a little on a broad range of collectible memorabilia then items such as what I’m about to share won’t be shunned just because we’re not “experts”.

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