ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Great Eastern U.S. Antique Advertising, Book and Paper Show is featuring vintage collectibles from Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and other areas of the Lehigh Valley at the site of the Great Allentown Fair, Oct. 2-3.

Author Harold Zosel, a 48-year resident of St. Cloud and an active member of the Stearns History Museum, shares his personal historic photograph and postcard collection in “St. Cloud,” a recent addition to the Postcard History Series from Arcadia Publishing, a leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.

Imagine walking across a field with a metal detector and finding $5 million worth of Roman coins. Dave Crisp of Wiltshire, England, did just that, amazing himself and the world with his find. Maybe there’s a little treasure hunter in all of us, especially those who pursue antiques and collectibles.

RENO, Nev. — Holabird-Kagin Americana is hosting a grand-scale, world-class auction at the Atlantis Casino Resort Oct 29-30, 2010, featuring a spectacular offering of rare photographs, Nevada postcards and Western American ephemera.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa – Jackson’s International Auctioneers and Appraisers of Fine Art and Antiques is offering the Ken Oden collection of African American and African postcards and ephemera Aug. 24-25. The collection consists of more than 40,000 individual pieces.

Native American art was introduced to mainstream collectors through Indian trading posts, such as Indian Plaza in Gallup, N.M., which opened to take advantage of tourist traffic on Highway 66.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Collectors looking for postcards, photographs, books, music, calendars, documents, magazines, prints, and more ephemera will find much to choose from at the Great Eastern U.S. Antique Advertising, Book and Paper Show at the Allentown, Pa., Fairgrounds July 17.

Do you remember when oil was called “black gold” or “Texas tea” in the “Beverly Hillbillies’” theme song? Striking oil was the ultimate source of wealth, more desirable than gold or diamonds. It flowed out of the ground, and no one gave much thought to running out of it.

In times like these, books dealing with the military are especially treasured, but a book that also will appeal to a large number of deltiologists is doubly important. This book, “The U.S. Naval Academy in Postcards, 1900-1930,” includes 476 postcards from Annapolis.

The latest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s Postcard History Series is Seattle, by Mark Sundquist. Filled from cover to cover with images of historic postcards selected from the author’s collection and the Pacific Northwest Postcard Club (pnpcc.com) collection, Seattle offers distinct views into the “queen city” from well over a century ago