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The FBI defaced forged signatures on the equipment and memorabilia they confiscated during the investigation, and donated them to children's organizations and other groups. [ 16 ] The operation was finally ended in 2005, after shutting down 18 forgery rings and confiscating $15 million worth of fake memorabilia. [ 6 ]
Arthur "Smokestack" Hardy (April 2, 1901 – December 4, 1995) was a volunteer fire fighter, photographer, black fire historian and collector of fire memorabilia (). [1] He was the first African-American firefighter in Baltimore, Maryland.
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This makes them extraordinarily appealing to collectors, who want to own the very first copies of a work, says Vasilis Terpsopoulos, manager of the rare book department at New York City's Strand ...
The American Philatelic Association was formed in 1886. [1] Other national, regional, and local clubs followed during the late nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries. Most of these societies were dominated by white men of financial means, and some actively excluded women and persons of color, though newer and more local clubs formed in the ...
Apr. 23—Local fire departments are warning of scams targeting their supporters. Plymouth Fire Chief Bill Strubbe said multiple people reached out to him about messages claiming to have shirts ...
The company's repeated attempts to profit from the 9/11 attacks led Senator Charles Schumer to refer to the company as a "despicable scam." [2] The company was penalized for fraud in 2004, when State Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. McNamara fined the National Collector's Mint for engaging in false advertising and deceptive business practices when issuing their Freedom Tower Silver Dollar coins.
Since the first wildfire ignited Tuesday morning, GoFundMe campaigns created by and on behalf of fire victims began to pop up, requesting any kind of monetary support to cover disaster relief ...