Article: The one that got away antiques and collecting antiques and collecting.(Flavor/Gracious Living)

By Terry Kovel

"If you like it, buy it" is the motto of many successful collectors, but sometimes you can't afford to. We saw an unusual cigarette box about 20 years ago at a small antiques show. It was made of triangular pieces of silver-plated metal stacked one on top of the other like a deck of cards. The stack was twisted into a spiral. There was a cover over the hole inside that held cigarettes. We didn't need the box, but it was fascinating, and we really wanted to buy it. But it was $100 - too much money for our budget - so we passed it by. No one, including the dealers, seemed to know more than we did about the unusual, well-designed box, even though it ...

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