A sharp-eyed Koloist visitor spotted the cloth-hinged archival pages, unmistakably Kolo, on the American PBS TV show, Antiques Roadshow recently. The pages (top photo) were used to display these valuable 1935 photographs and autographs of humorist Will Rogers and pioneer aviator Wiley Post, obtained just a few hours before both died tragically in an Alaskan plane crash.

No kidding, the collection of items shown in this top photo was appraised at $18,000-$20,000.

Tip: If you have ephemera that could someday be worth this kind of dough, do yourself the favor of storing and preserving it with archival materials – not merely “acid-free.” That goes for not only the scrapbook or album pages, but also the adhesives you use for mounting the items to the pages.

Coincidentally, around the same time this Antiques Roadshow find was reported, Kelli Taylor (whose camera is never far from her side) was greeted at the entrance of an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago with this Kolo Newport album, used by the museum as a guest book. Once again, the telltale Kolo signs here are those archival sheets' cloth hinges, which allow the pages to lie flat when the Kolo Newport album is opened.