Veteran’s Day Honors: World War I Collectibles  

This week, veterans are being honored on Veterans Day, November 11. The special day started after World War I, which was known as “The Great War.” The war officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, signed in the Palace of Versailles in France, but fighting had ended seven months earlier when […]

World War I Carrier Pigeon Message Survives More Than 100 Years in a Field 

The recent find of a more than 100-year-old, undelivered carrier pigeon message from World War I, encased in a thimble-sized aluminum container, wasn’t just a rare find. Its discovery by a retired couple on a walk through a field in eastern France near the German border is being called a “super rare” find. The message […]