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Discover the amazing, peculiar, and often fraudulent collectibles you can find at a post office! Rediscover the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Pop-culture historian Kirk Demarais shares his astonishing collection of 100 toy soldiers, GRIT, Hypno-Coin, Life-Size Monsters, Mystic Smoke, Sea Monkeys, Soil From Dracula's Castle, U-Control Ghost, Ventrilo Voice Thrower, and many, many more!
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Arts & Culture/Photography
Authors: Kirk Demarais
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