This beautiful monument in Wilmot salutes the brave soldiers who fought in the Civil War. This appears on a postcard dated 1908. Picture postcards record history and are very collectible - buy ‘em when you find them!

Recent auction prices: glass butter churn, $65; small milk can, $25; brown crock, $15; foot warmer, $15; buck saw, $15; apple peeler, $25; nice reflector oil lamp, $35; egg scale, $60; egg basket, $17.50; Burkhart beer tray, $125; Pepsi crate, $15; sad iron, $5; Motes half-pint milk bottle, $50; white granite tub, $35; five-gallon brown crock, $75; Adlake R.R. lantern, $225; R.R. hammer, $30; beaded purse, $4.

Happy hunting, Brooks.