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It all started at the age of five years old. As a little girl, Cathy Campbell recalls coming home from a birthday party with an unused napkin. “My mother asked me why I didn’t use it, and I told her it was too pretty to use,&rdquo...

Like many collectors, Keith Glenn caught the bug when he was just a kid. “I collected comics,” he shares. Whenever he could, he would add to his small collection with the allowance his parents gave him. “I’ve always been a...

When Paul Braswell first started purchasing art, he was buying posters and having them framed at a local Baltimore frame shop called Expressions. He was buying art for the fun of it, without much knowledge of the art world and without really...

Nicole Randall’s doll collection started as a relaxing hobby to help take her mind off the stress of medical school. She had always loved Barbie as a young girl, and she had been looking at collector’s dolls on websites and wondering...

Baseball has long been considered America's favorite pastime. This month, excitement and expectations are high as fans return to stadiums across the country for the first time since October 2019. After COVID-19 forced big changes to the 2020...

Al Sorenson’s collection started about 20 years ago. He and his wife – an antique collector – moved into a home with a finished basement, and he was looking for items to decorate the space with. The first piece he purchased was a...