The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 38, September 23, 2007, Article 8

NEW MAGAZINE FOR RELIC HUNTERS: AMERICAN DIGGER

"'It's not their little Greybird Relics shop in the Big Shanty
Antique Market in Kennesaw that pays their bills, or the Victorian
jewelry, 19th-century dominoes, ancient coins or Civil War bullets
they sell on their Web site. It's the slick-covered American Digger
magazine they started 'on a wing and a prayer' in January 2005.

"They felt publishing might produce a more predictable income than
selling relics.

"So far, she says, 'the magazine has struck a chord out there,
with 1,600 subscribers around the world already.'

"Bigger and thicker than the average Newsweek, the magazine is
filled with pictures of artifacts, such as patent medicine 'miracle
cure' bottles, 15th-century coins from Eastern Europe, Victorian
jewelry and all sorts of relics dating from the War of 1812 to
the Civil War.

"It's also full of advertisements from companies that sell metal
detectors and books for history buffs.

"'We're not getting rich, but we're doing well,' Butch says.
'We've tapped into something out there.'

"'We have unearthed rare saloon tokens, gold nuggets and solid
gold $1 pieces worth thousands of dollars,' he says.

"'There are magazines out there for all sorts of things,' Butch
Holcombe says. 'Ours concentrates on things that are newly dug
up. The real interest is in seeing what's just been found because
it says a lot about what's still out there. And there's an
awful lot.'"

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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