What's the Story? If you're a regular reader of our blog, you know that we love the stories behind the collection that we find – whether we purchase them or not. While we love to share the stories about the collections that we buy, we also have to filter through a bunch of "stories" about collections that people contact us trying to sell. From cards that were found in the attic that end up being obvious reprints to great-grandfathers leaving their
What exit? For readers old enough to remember, "What exit?" was a catchphrase from a Saturday Night Live skit with Joe Piscopo playing a character named Paulie Herman who hailed from Piscataway. The joke has some root of truth in many in New Jersey identify by their proximity to the exit number on the New Jersey Turnpike or the Garden State Parkway. A New Jersey collector recently contacted us and mentioned that he lived just off the Garden State Parkway. All
It's been a busy few weeks for us here at Just Collect. We've been getting ready for The National (which is next week!), we just came back from a buying trip out in California, we're in the process of completely re-designing our website, and we still have our weekly eBay auctions to attend to! It’s been so busy, we even had to hire two new employees! While all that was going on though, we still found the time to meet with a few locals who wanted their collections appraised. We ended up buying a really neat collection, which we're happy