5. TIAS.com is on Twitter! Click here and be sure to follow us!
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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{at}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
newsletter{at}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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