Weekly collectors collection

I've found a lot of great and fun (and interesting) blogs on collecting, and I thought instead of blogging about them individually every time they post something I like, I'd do a weekly update of my... I don't know, say top 5 blog posts of the week. So here they are:

1. Do What Now has a very funny picture of an old magazine ad, where the actors are... well, awful!




2. Ephemera interviews a futuristic advertisement collector, where he notes that research is your best friend when it comes to buying collectibles




3. Kitschy Kitschy Coo offers up 13 ways to know that you are obsessed with collecting




4. AKPhilately mentions that stamps in the late 1800s were given out to postal workers, so they knew what each stamp looked like (and from there work out the fakes from the real ones!)



5. About Postcards has a nice little intro to silhouette postcards; what they are, the history behind them, etc.

Robbers foiled by coins!

This piece of news has been floating around my group of friends for a couple of days now, and I've finally been able to hunt down the article.

The NY Daily News reported a little while ago on some robbers who were pretty stupid. Three guys broke into an elderly man's home, shot the man in the leg, then stole his safe. The safe had $120 000 in coins, baseball cards and stamps - which was so heavy, the robber carrying it dropped it in a backyard. The really stupid move was when that robber came back later to get the safe!

Unbelievable! This made me and Sandy laugh for ages! :)