Geoffrey Mogilner and colleague Joseph Gerstner.
In a Dickensian back room behind the tobacconists Racine & Laramie, in Old Town Plaza, Geoffrey Mogilner rifles through the contents of his high security safe. “It’s somewhere here. I would never put it on display. Ah!”
He hauls out a folded envelope, secured by two paper clips. He slides the clips off, and brings out a little plastic bag. He tips it up. Something heavy drops into his hand.
“The last one that sold fetched $32,000,” he says.
He’s holding an old Zippo lighter, the kind that was known as much for the