Category: Second Hand Books and Paper Items
Vintage Valentines Day Cards
My Box of Vintage Valentine Cards In one corner of my game room I’ve got a box filled with someone’s memories. Vintage Valentines Cards, heart felt greetings signed with love from someone long since gone to their reward. Bundled up in that plain old box are hundreds of long kept tender messages and well wishes [...]
Vintage Matchbooks|Matchcover Lots
Don’t Throw Away That Old Box of Matchbooks! It’s funny how seeing one little thing can bring back a really old memory of something you completely forgot about. I was doing my usual skimming and scanning of eBay auctions when I came upon some auctions for vintage matchbooks. I looked at the old matchbook covers [...]
Leather Bound Books
Leather bound books are a wonderful collectible that celebrate an art that is quickly disappearing.
Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor by Seth Klarman
Let me start this entry by saying that if you might have a copy of the investing book titled Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor by Seth Klarman, you should go find it NOW. This is one of the most valuable second hand books you could possibly own. If you [...]
Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey 1887 Antique Book
Among the many very old books I acquired when I purchased one particular estate lot, was this very nice 1887 edition of Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey by Samuel S. Cox. Mr. Cox was a United States Minister to Turkey who wrote not so much about his political work, but the diversions he found [...]
1920?s Fayette County Teachers’ Institute Program Book
Second Hand Sale Online presents… This is a program distributed to professional teachers who attended the 1929 Fayette County Teachers’ Institute. This is definitely a niche item, so we’ll have to see if anyone out there is collecting old materials related to teachers and/or education. This might also interest people who collect prgrams from various [...]
Vintage McKeesport High School Yearbook
Second Hand Sale presents… A very nice 1945 Vintage McKeesport High School Yearbook. One of the things I enjoy finding at estate sales is old yearbooks. Looking at them is like looking back at life during another generation’s glory days. All of the young faces filled with dreams of the future! I generally could have [...]
Old Sears Catalogs Online and the Popularity of Vintage Catalogs
Have you seen these vintage catalogs? Many people know that old Sears catalogs are collectible, but there are a lot of other vintage catalogs growing in popularity every day.
The Playgoer Theater Magazine
There are many people who are still quite taken by the idea of a visit to the theater (theatre). I guess I’ve just never really been exposed to it very much. I imagine this 1933 edition of The Playgoer might be of interest to someone. It was published in Pittsburgh, PA and has quite a [...]
Vintage PA Fishing Laws Summary 1939
One of the things I come across on a semi-regular basis is old hunting and fishing memorabilia. This is a Summary of Laws Relating to Fish and Fishing in the Inland Waters of Pennsylvania from 1939. Earlier editions I’ve found have included laws pertaining to both hunting and fishing. This particular booklet is fishing only. [...]
Vintage Playing Cards
I’ve got a lot of vintage playing cards sitting around in one box or another. For some reason, if I see an interesting vintage card deck when I go out to estate sales, I end up snagging it. Sometimes, I pick them up by the box full. Since I am on a bit of a [...]
Vintage Railroad Maps|Railroad History
When I came across some vintage railroad maps, I was surprised at how huge they were (at least the ones I had). I guess they’d make a pretty neat framed display in a train room. One buyer told me that he is actually using them to build true to life scale models of steel mills [...]
1926 McKeesport High School Yearbook
Second Hand Sale presents… 1926 McKeesport High School Yearbook This is a very nice old find that I came across at an estate sale. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I run across old yearbooks on a fairly regular basis. This example however is in exceptional shape for such an old book. It also [...]
