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The article discusses the movie poster collections of Morris Everett.

This article features a collection of banana-related items owned by realtor Ken Bannister.

The article profiles U.S. collector Herb Hornung. According to Hornung, the first wooden money was not a nickel at all. It was scrip money produced on pieces of wood, called slicewood. Hence, the Chamber of Commerce decided to issue scrip, or substitute, money to use until the shortage was over. In 1933, wooden coins are issued in Blaine, Washington when their bank failed. These were the first issues of wooden money in the U.S.