Today, online auction services, like eBay, offer a market for buying and selling all sorts of collectibles - even Bucknell memorabilia. On any given day, collectors might find vintage postcards, L'Agendas, prints and early publications from Bucknell listed for auction. Tobacco leathers or silks may be available. They quickly became collectible items. Mahon attends flea markets looking for collectibles and began to buy and sell on eBay in 1999.
Online auctions are the world's biggest flea markets.
They give people sitting in Lewisburg access to items they wouldn't normally find. What will excite a collector. In addition to art prints, Mahon's gallery displays framed vintage pennants and collages of other memorabilia. On a recent day, Mahon had assembled a wide array of items including an ink blotter, sorority and fraternity memorabilia, Bucknell University bul-letins from the early 1900s, postcards, tobacco silks and leathers, pins and badges. Although most items he acquires are eventually sold, some items are destined to remain in his personal collection.