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Hi, I'm Cliff Aliperti and this is the new VintageMeld, now a part of things-and-other-stuff.com, est. 2002. This part of the site is for discussing general collecting and collectibles, the objects and pursuits which don't fit under any specific heading already found on the site.

A complete reproduction of the original article “What Sank the Lusitania?” from the May 29, 1915 issue of The Scientific American magazine, May 29, 1915.

Collectibles Corner TV is an exciting new show hosted by Tammy Kahn Fennell of Bakertowne Collectables. In a recent episode, Lou Kahn interviewed Rich West of Periodyssey.

Paging through the March 20, 1961 issue of Newsweek Magazine for reports on a successful toy maker, Joe DiMaggio, Willy Brandt, Vivien Leigh, and much more.

A Happy New Year to you and a Happy 90th Birthday to J.D. Salinger today.  Salinger, of course, is the famously reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye.”  There is plenty of available information out there on Salinger himself (here’s the Wikipedia page on him if you need it), so I’m going to do [...]