Garage-sale find

[Rob D.]

My title isn't completely accurate, because I didn't buy the stock certificate below at a garage sale. I got it about 20 years ago at an antique show at a mall in Louisville, Ky. But after four moves covering three states during the past two decades, I had misplaced it, and until last week wasn't even sure that I still had it or whether I possibly might have sold or traded it away. Then, while going through boxes to get ready for our garage sale, I came across the certificate, still in the frame I put it in sometime in the early '90s.

Even though it's not a big-ticket item -- not to mention it doesn't even fit my collecting interests -- I still was thrilled to find it. Kind of like seeing an old friend again. I still remember how excited I was to find an old piece of baseball memorabilia at a show that consisted mainly of furniture, glassware and Churchill Downs postcards.

Anyway, just felt like sharing.