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To me, a tattoo is the ultimate collectible. This is not just because a tattoo is an expression of the wearer’s identity but also because it becomes part of a person’s life story: a visible milestone marking who that person was when he or she got “inked.”

Thanks to you, AmeriCollector.com now has a loyal readership, and it's growing daily: We had over 18,000 visitors last week, which is hugely gratifying. At a juncture like this, I can’t help but think it’s the ideal time to reaffirm our mission: to provide a fun, interesting, informative venue of interest to collectors in a [...]

Interview with Washington State History Museum curator Gwen Perkins. Sasquatch exhibit comes to WSHM in Tacoma WA

If you’re not already on the “Antiques Roadshow” e-mail list – or have never checked out Antiques Roadshow Online on the PBS Web site (www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow) – you’re missing out on lots of great information: profiles of the appraisers and their past appraisals; recommended reading by subject; even a teacher’s guide with featured objects to get [...]

 Poster art, like album cover art and T-shirt art, has been part of the iconography of American music since the 1960s – that decade of so many great, misguided and/or lost causes – when music really started to make a statement. You can trace some of the evolutionary branches of rock and roll through its [...]

Freddy Krueger, get a day job! The REAL nightmare isn’t on Elm Street but on East “D” Street in Tacoma, where the Black Lake Haunted Asylum will scare the giblets out of “patients” three more evenings of this week, through Sat., Oct. 31 (Halloween). I voluntarily “committed” myself to the Asylum last night, and glad [...]