Collecting For Tomorrow

March, 1978

Trash or Treasure?The best thing about collecting is that anyone can do it. Just start saving bottle caps, fountain pens, old magazines or whatever turns you on and--voilà!--you're a collector. But 10 to 15 years ago, people who were clever didn't invest their time and money in worthless trinkets. Instead, they stashed away such things as stained-glass windows and Tiffany lamps when perfect windows could be had for under $25 and people practically gave away their old, ornate art-glass lamps. Tod...