A Fortune Hiding In Your Attic?
12.23.07By Deanna Dahlsad
Found in a 1965 Fawcett Publication, the ad struck me as too-familiar — who hasn’t seen those ads that ask: “Is there a fortune hiding in your attic?” They are so familiar that I almost didn’t scan it. But I’m glad I did.
The ad hawks a book, A Fortune in the Junkpile by Dorothy Jenkins –
However, as shown below, the jacket states A Fortune in the Junk Pile by Dorothy H. Jenkins.
I turned to Google and found little about the book or author other than a few places selling a copy or two — and the fact that The Mountain State Collector’s writers quote from it often.
I don’t know if you’d call two articles quoting Dorothy’s book (one on glass hats and another on “friggers”) often, but when we’re quoting an author or book from 1963 as an expert, it sort of seems like a rather high frequency to me.
Or maybe old Dot Jenkins was a fountain of knowledge. I don’t know; I haven’t read the book.
But I do know there’s no fortune in my attic. I’m a smart collector who knows such temperature extremes are horrible for, well, anything. Plus, in this old house it’s heck to get in & out of the attic. So it remains empty.
But the rest of the house… Well, Dorothy was probably right.
Not that I’m going to quote her or anything. Oops… I think I just may have. Sort of. Well, perhaps just this once. If I do it again, then that would be quoting her often. Too often.
You know, if I ever run into this book I won’t know what to do. On one hand, I’d like to know what all the fuss is about; on the other, if I never read it, I can’t quote from it.
But then I have this ad, you see. And it would be pretty nifty to go full circle with it.
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