The eruption killed 30,000 people and is considered the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. Ross depicting evidence from a volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on the island of Martinique in May, 1902. Popek reveals the documents he found in a book by Walter G. But it turned out the notes were virtually worthless-devalued after WWII. Both father and son believed they might have discovered a small fortune. Michael, in second or third grade at the time, was fascinated to find the bills were in denominations of 200 million. Once in a while his father would find something curious inside the books he was pricing, such as the German paper money he discovered inside a few old volumes between every other page. for his delivery job, then returning home to sort books for hours in the evening. Popek remembers his father waking at three a.m. Slowly, though, the book collection muscled its way into the antique shop and took over much of the space. The Popeks also bought and sold antiques and owned a small shop in town, not far from their house. Within a few years, Michael’s father had filled a barn in the backyard with over 20,000 books. But we didn’t want to waste ‘em,” Peter Popek says.
According to the elder Popek, no one wanted these books, including him. His father, Peter Popek, a former UPS deliveryman, started a book business in the mid-eighties, but only after coming upon a too-good-to-be-true deal at a local auction. He grew up in an old farmhouse in Oneonta, a small town in upstate New York. It seems destined to happen, given that Popek comes from a family of collectors. Those visits happened long before Popek, now 35, started gathering his own assortment of collectibles: things left between the pages of books, or as he calls them, Forgotten Bookmarks. As far as his grandfather knew, these were still live and active. “There was a standing order not to touch any of the WWI grenades,” Popek says. Michael Popek remembers visiting his grandfather’s four-story home in New Jersey, where anything that could be collected, was-stamps, toy train cars, cap guns, autographs, baseball cards.
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