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Brian Kathenes, co-author of the book Betcha You Didn't Know That, says furniture, costume jewelry and pottery are all collectible and potentially worth money. And what about old bottles?

Collecting bottles is a very, very popular and sometimes lucrative field. Even mason jars that we remember people making jams and jellies in are now becoming a little more collectible because everybody threw them out. They weren't collectible for the longest time.

Brian says if you think something's valuable check on EBay and see what that item is selling for. Most old records are not really worth much money, however…

There are a couple of good vinyl records. And we're looking for the butcher Beatle album and then we're looking specifically for Bob Dylan's rare issue of the one that has Talkin' John Birch Blues on it. The early, early rock in roll, certainly early Elvis is very collectible.

And Brian says old autographs can be worth a lot of money.

Whether it be historical documents like the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The rarest being a guy named Button Gwinnett, who died shortly after signing the Declaration of Independence. He died in a duel and all of his papers were burned up in a fire. So if you want Button Gwinnett's signature you're probably going to have to pay about a hundred thousand dollars for it.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.