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Ask Babe: New 'discoveries' diminish vintage S.I. values

Last updated Monday, April 9, 2012 - 11:27pm

Dear Babe: I have a copy of the first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine, Aug. 16, 1954, in the mailing envelope with the uncut sheet of baseball cards inside. -- Steve Dooley, Las Vegas

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Ask Babe: Football posters ... 1998 Ken Griffey Jr. card ... More

Babe Waxpak Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 4:17pm

Dear Babe: I was approached by a friend with items he found tucked away in a ceiling while remodeling. He has two football prints of paintings done by artist Lou Feck. They are about 12-3/4 inches wide by 16-1/2 inches long. They were issued by White Owl Cigar Co., with the White Owl logo on the label on the cardboard mailing tube.

Based on the helmet style, it seems to be mid- to late 1950s or so. The canvas prints were rolled up in a cardboard tube that came from the General Cigar Co. in New York City and were shipped to a variety store in Massachusetts. They look like they had never even been opened. I can't even find any info on these. Please help! -- Greg Robinson, Springfield, Mass.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) THR & Associates visits the Courtyard by Marriott in Layton on Tuesday to buy valuables, such as coins, jewelry and antiques.

Appraisers seek unknown treasures at Layton roadshow event

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 10:46pm

LAYTON — Jack Taylor is still waiting to see that “one cool thing” as he travels around the mountain states.

Taylor, an event manager with Treasure Hunters Roadshow, is at the Courtyard by Marriot in Layton this week. He travels through Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado appraising various items brought to him by hopeful owners. Before being assigned the mountain states, Taylor traveled through the northeastern part of the county.

“The coolest thing I saw there was a propeller off the Wright brothers’ plane,” Taylor said. “They had the paperwork to prove it was authentic.”

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Paul Turley stands among his collection of Pez dispensers at his home in Ogden.

Proud PEZ papa

Becky Cairns Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 9:00am

SOUTH OGDEN -- Wow, get a load of who's hanging out in Paul Turley's basement.

Hello, Mr. Presley, and you, too, Thomas Jefferson. Pleased to make your acquaintance Princess Jasmine, Captain Jack Sparrow and Dino the dinosaur.

Celebrities, cartoon characters and historical figures alike have taken up residence in one room of this South Ogden house -- and they're PEZ dispensers, every one.

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