In The News

A worker at a yardstick factory in Riobamba, Ecuador discovered in the pocket of a coat he bought at the Saturday flea market, what appeared to be a ticket stub from a shoe repair shop in Manhattan.

 

Researchers determined it to be from 1904.

It was preserved in acid-free plastic and mailed to a curator at the New York Museum of Art.

 

The curator was able to locate the shoe repair shop and presented the stub to the current owners, thinking they might put it on display, however, upon briefly glancing at the stub the owner replied;

 

 

“They’ll be ready Tuesday.”