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   6. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help We try to post stories and   
   comments from our readers each week. Send your story to newsletter@tias.com   
   and we'll publish it in an upcoming newsletter.  Please share your story about   
   what you collect and what got you started collecting.  We *love* to hear your   
   stories!  If you have a story you'd like to share, tell us about it and if you   
   have any photos, we'd love to see them! Send us an email to news   
   etter@tias.com so we can share your story with the rest of our readers.   
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   We haven't had any stories submitted in quite some time. We sure would love to   
   hear yours!  Here's one submitted and published in our very first Collectors   
   Newsletter on December 1, 2001:   
      
   A collection of sand.  One reader submitted her husbands unusual collection   
   this week.  My husband, Marcel, has a sand collection which includes some from   
   several different countries, as well as the USA.  He collected rocks when he   
   was 12 years old, and decided sand was a part of rocks, so he got his first   
   sample at Old Orchard Beach, Maine.  He is now nearly 58 and has 114 USA   
   samples and 45 foreign samples.  Some he collected himself and some were   
   collected by other people who brought samples back to him.  Most are either   
   desert or beach sand, some are dull and some are beautiful.  One looks like   
   garnet.  They are displayed in clear plastic bottles in a homemade rack, which   
   he made specifically to fit the bottles.  They are all labeled as to where   
   they came from.--Beryl B   
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   Last week Andrew sent in a picture of a large collection of old tools, and he   
   was having trouble finding info about them.  Most of our readers agreed that   
   they appear to be stone cutter / sculpture tools.  To view the image, visit:   
   https://www.facebook.com/TIASAntiques/photos/pb.331482348655.-   
   2207520000.1458577851./10154047992913656/?type=3&theater [wraps]   
      
   Quite a few helpful comments made by our readers. Thank you!   
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   One of our readers sent in this request for help to identify an item she has   
   had for years :   
      
   "This is a metal plaque-picture ICÇÖve had for years and I canCÇÖt find   
   anything about it.  It weighs 3 3/4 lbs and the size is 7&11/16CÇØ X 12&1/4CÇØ   
   There is nothing written on the back.  I can read most of the front which is:   
   BREAKING HOME TIES IN '61 "GOODBYE-GOD SPARE YOU"   
   Thank You!  Linda"   
   View the images here:   
   https://www.facebook.com/TIASAntiques/posts/10154092803773656   
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