HK, do not give up on your hunt.

Estate Sale season is kicking into high gear again, and all the enthusiasts will be waiting outside the major spots [[many in Dearborn & Dearborn Heights-they have their own caravan culture, trading information, following popular estate sale companies, the works) in a line hours before they open every weekend day morning. The ones in Dearborn [[and Heights) are usually by older folks who collected lots of things [[many of them Catholic)-so you see a lot of tourist ephemera, old magazines, old stuff on Detroit, and things from department stores long vanished.

I've seen lots of ties. Many of these sales are hastily put together, and they might not know some of the value put on some of the items they sell. Even of not, some of these sales have garages packed with every kind of tool or part imaginable [[bought a pair of old 60w GE bulbs for 50 cents, and they worked. Sure beats paying $5 for a box of 4 from Kroger and finding out much later that half of them don't work).