Russ Altamore Collection Memorabilia
Many of you may remember our dear friend and toenail collector, Mr. Russ Atlamore. Russ passed away on Sept. 17th, 2005. He was singularly the most enthusiastic toenail collector I have known. He took the significant time and energy to write a book on sunfish/elephant toenails about the same time I was finishing ET.com. You may get lucky and find one listed on eBay. He only had a few dozen printed at that time.
Got a message from Russ’ friend and the estate executor yesterday giving me a heads up. He is selling Russ’ knife related books, knife boxes and other memorabilia. Save the seller under your favorites as there are sure to be some goodies listed. Russ had an extensive library of reference books.
Russ' TESTED XX knife box
Right now he has two items up on eBay with more to come.
The items are: 120314038970 and 120310486023
Let’s support the memory of our fellow toenail collector by helping out with the sale of these items.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Scott,
I have The Toenail book by Russ, but also have a CD he sent me of his original book before he had it printed. He hand printed the CD label “Antique Sunfish” 2003 by R. Altamore. Still have the CD cardboard envelope with his name and Forest Hills address. Pretty nice piece to go with the knives………..Barry Stephenson
October 10th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Yes, I know there are folks who have been looking for a copy of the book and I think there will be the last one he had coming on to eBay shortly by this sale seller.